"You're Miles Zero from the future!"
Miles did not need to explain himself. Conqueror Kang had already seen through his origins.
Every Kang was a master of Temporal Manipulation, and Conqueror Kang was one of the strongest among them. To him, every unexpected incident could be answered somewhere along the timeline.
The Miles before him was clearly different from the one he had seen before, yet he could not have come from the past. That meant he could only be from the future.
"So you figured it out already? You didn't disappoint me after all." Miles continued, "Then can you guess why I came back to find you?"
Conqueror Kang did not respond immediately. He scrutinized Miles for several seconds before slowly speaking. "There is only one reason. You ran into trouble."
"Ordinary difficulties would never have made you think of me... but since you've appeared here, it can only mean you encountered..."
Conqueror Kang paused, then sneered. "Immortus, right?"
"Ha, that's right!" Miles snapped his fingers. "You guessed correctly!"
"...Hmph." Seeing his guess confirmed, Conqueror Kang merely scoffed. "It wasn't difficult to guess. The reason you appeared in the Quantum Realm was also Immortus's scheme. He needed to exile you from reality before carrying out his plan."
"So now, he has succeeded." Miles spread his hands, a trace of helplessness in his voice. "The Earth reality we came from has been 'overwritten' at the historical level. So I went to the source of the historical anomaly and defeated Rama-Tut there, but that still wasn't enough. The past had been anchored by Immortus..."
"Immortus possesses the Eternal Crystal," Conqueror Kang stated calmly. "It is an incredible cosmic artifact, powerful enough to rewrite time and fate. To break an anchored history, you need at least one cosmic-level power capable of contending