Finding a Way Out

Compared to Squad Leader Jefferies, Tom was even more unlucky--

--Due to the urgency of the situation, the mistress of the farm didn't have time to change the pressing packet when she took the second photo for Jefferies, causing the first photo belonging to Tom to be delayed in fully developing.

The moment Mobius sent the two to the strange Spirit Realm, Tom·Kraid had to endure even more brutal mental torment.

For Squad Leader Jefferies, this endless time loop was merely twenty-odd minutes spent on a mission.

But for Tom·Kraid, this Finnish young man had practically lived in the local Aizong Mausoleum for over a decade.

The defensive grenades on him didn't take his life, nor could they trigger the time loop of [A Way Out·Life Path]--every time Jefferies died, [A Way Out·Life Path] would automatically loop, taking this walking corpse with partial memory loss back to the moment the mission began, a second before Jefferies fell from the pole.

The situation Tom encountered was the same as when Squad Leader Megaloceros first suffered [A Way Out·Life Path]; he was only gravely injured, not completely dead--according to Mobius's loop logic, he had to follow the timeline's guidance, spending a long life in this infinite spiral geometry until Mobius naturally closed the loop.

The concept of "loop" was described in detail in the Magic Academy and the Great Rift of All Things.

With countless Soul Power abilities, even the most experienced Lapis Lazuli Guards wouldn't dare claim they could immediately discern an enemy's Soul Power attribute.

Supernatural abilities related to time all exhibited looping behavior, whether it was single-line time perturbation or multi-line parallel spacetime distortion. As long as events existed in the material plane, observable and recognizable, they were interconnected, with intricate causal relationships, and also required the completion of