Naimus could not get a read on his opponent's condition. He wanted to seize him, but even that proved difficult.
Defeating an enemy, capturing an enemy, and finding an enemy all operated according to entirely different principles.
If Di Nai had been standing before him, Naimus likely would not even have needed to take things seriously to deal with him with ease.
But now that he was hiding, things became troublesome.
That portion of the Time Divinity had granted him the ability to hide within history.
If Naimus wanted to find him, he would need to search through all of history.
And history... was nearly infinite.
Every stretch of time could branch into different historical possibilities.
Di Nai was now hiding among those historical possibilities.
Even if the world possibilities were in a state of destruction, those historical possibilities still retained a relatively "sound" state.
The Sun God's actions in shaking the spacetime of the entire world were indeed degrading those things.
But the historical possibilities remained as numerous as mountains and seas. Finding someone determined to hide among them, someone who also possessed mythic-level alchemy, was simply too difficult.
Using alchemy, his opponent had equated his own existence with other changes. Through that indirect synchronization, he himself underwent no changes at all.
Under such manipulation, even if Naimus used the laws of change to sense the slightest fluctuations, it would be difficult for him to catch his opponent.
Moreover, Di Nai had once possessed a True Spirit. He had once liberated his True Spirit as well.
Though the traits he had gained were nowhere near as powerful as Naimus's, using them to conceal his existence was not difficult.
"As time passes, the spacetime structure of the entire world will continue to deteriorate. Although those historical possibilities are fate's reserved