After the battle ended, Benjamin did not immediately throw himself into a new round of research.
Back in the laboratory of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, he sat quietly by the window for a moment before closing his eyes and sinking his consciousness back into the Spirit Sea. Every detail of his battle with Augusta just now had been completely replayed by the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil, transforming into slowly flowing images within the Spirit Sea.
From the first collision of fists, to the Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand reversing the state of existence, and finally to forcibly reversing his own state through "Electric Meter Reversal," everything had been dissected down to the finest detail.
After a long while, Benjamin slowly opened his eyes and muttered, "...As expected, it's still not enough."
The Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand had performed even better in actual combat than he had originally estimated.
It could not only send an enemy's attack back into the state of existence in which it had "not yet happened"; when used on himself, it could directly reverse his own temporal coordinates, restoring his Spiritual Power, mental strength, and even injuries to their peak condition.
Yet the better it performed, the more clearly he realized that this spell was still far from reaching its limit.
When he fought Augusta, his Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand had lagged half a beat several times while facing her continuous compound attacks. It was not because his Spiritual Power was insufficient, nor because his computational ability could not keep up. Rather, his understanding of the Time Law was too shallow, leaving the Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand stuck at the stage of merely "being usable."
Whenever the spell responded, each reversal of an existence state required him to actively analyze the target's temporal anchor before rewriting its