(ps: Today's update had a few more words. Not bad.)
After learning of the Heaven's Grail Project from this future magus who was vanishing before his eyes, Wu Pifu's thoughts began to race.
This was clearly a derivative outcome of the Contamination Source.
The entire Dream World had been affected by the Contamination Source ever since 0.9 Dream World. The most tangible manifestation of that influence was the emergence of the supernatural. The supernatural was contamination. That was the truth.
At the same time, the more powerful the supernatural and the more it was used, the greater the consumption of reality. And the greater the consumption of reality, the more illusion, distortion, contamination, and all manner of chaos would follow. Many consequences that seemed man-made had, in truth, long been fated beneath the Contamination Source.
Ever since Wu Pifu learned that this world belonged to the Scattered Heavenly Dao, he had assumed that a similar contamination-derived outcome was unlikely to appear here. After all, Transcendent-tier great worlds were unaffected by the Contamination Source and would not be dragged downward by it. But now, it seemed this world could still be contaminated?
Or perhaps the world governed by the Scattered Heavenly Dao was no longer a so-called Transcendent-tier Dream World because it had once been shattered?
Wu Pifu could not figure it out for the moment, nor did he dwell on it. He merely said, "So if we wipe out the Clock Tower, the future of Heaven's Grail can be ended, right?"
The dozen or so magi from Silence all rolled their eyes. So after they had said all that, this lord before them had not listened to a single word?
A female magus beside them muttered, "Bragging... Is the Clock Tower really something that can be casually destroyed just because