Different timelines produced different futures based on the influence of the time traveler.
Lan Mu was not the first, but he might have been the luckiest one so far.
There might not have been many Lan Mus who had lived to this day.
And there might never have been a Lan Mu who had survived Viktor's trial...
He should have been grateful that Blood of Years was on this timeline, allowing him to learn such things...
But that only left him even more confused.
The more he knew, the more lost he became. Should Blood of Years be used or not? Which possibility was the right one?
Would he become one of the countless Lan Mus who had died because of it? Then pass Blood of Years on to another timeline...
"No... Don't think so much..."
At that moment, Lan Mu recalled his struggle over the Destiny Reversal Mission when he had fought Inverse Light.
He decided not to overthink it just because he knew the meaning behind Blood of Years. There would never be an answer to that question anyway.
"I'll only do what I believe is right!"
Casting aside his distracting thoughts, Lan Mu continued reading Bai Ze's research report.
In order to probe more of the rules, the Blue White Society later conducted a fourth experiment.
Time Traveler Number Four was sent to the year 1453, tasked with preventing the fall of Constantinople.
This was a battle that had changed the balance of the world in human history, directly determining the destruction of the Byzantine Empire.
The Blue White Society gathered leading historians and military experts to devise an entire cover identity for him, as well as a detailed strategy for saving the Byzantine Empire and severely crippling the Ottoman Turks within three years.
He was also