Lan Mu transcended the box with emotions of shock and even anger.
Because he knew all too well that the final proxy's perfunctory words had still been another scheme, still giving him a choice.
If Lan Mu had not offered his own answer and demanded to see 001 immediately without the slightest delay,
then he would now be one of the Lan Mus frozen across infinite timelines, trapped in endless stagnation, forever halted at the second he thought he had won, never reaching the day of true victory.
From the moment the proxy admitted defeat, every action Lan Mu took had created countless more "victorious Lan Mus" across endless timelines.
Those victorious Lan Mus were originally meant to attain the supreme existence of TOAA after their next transformation.
But that was not actually the case. It was not merely as the proxy had perfunctorily claimed: that he could only speak directly with 001 upon becoming the Interface Administrator.
Without question, one Lan Mu would be the first to trigger the condition and meet 001 ahead of time, rendering all the other Lan Mus meaningless.
Put bluntly, this was the final step: choosing the first and only existence from among all Lan Mus.
Lan Mu was furious. He believed that even after he had won, 001 was still toying with him.
He had won, yet countless other victorious Lan Mus remained forever within their timelines.
At that moment, Lan Mu broke free from the 3D dimension and arrived in a spacetime where direction held no meaning.
The sensation here was indescribable. The only thing that could be described was light.
There was light here as well, and its speed was infinite.
The infinite speed of light made this place seem boundless, leaving everything pure white.
At the same time, because light