This place was no longer empty.
A Chaos bubble now remained here permanently.
As long as Leon touched it with his consciousness, he could understand that the bubble represented the Resident Evil world.
Moreover, that world had been permanently opened to him, granting unconditional entry.
However, when he chose to travel back to the moment he had left Resident Evil—
The energy requirement fed back by his traversal ability was as high as thirty percent of his stamina.
It was a full thirty times what his first traversal had cost!
Leon tried moving the destination time forward.
He discovered that each additional day reduced the cost by one percent of his stamina.
It was not until he pushed it to the thirtieth day after his departure—
That the required stamina returned to the original one percent.
When he pushed it further—to the thirty-first day, the thirty-second day...—the energy requirement did not change at all, remaining at one percent of his stamina.
"Tony was right!" Leon said thoughtfully.
"Traveling to a point in a world's past requires extra energy."
"Traveling to the future doesn't change the energy cost."
"Which means that although I've only been back for six hours, thirty days have already passed in the Resident Evil world?"
He tried selecting a point in time when he had still been in the Resident Evil world, the night of September 28.
He found that period could not be selected.
Even earlier points, including times before he had ever arrived in Resident Evil, were likewise unavailable.
"So, using the point when I appeared in that world as the baseline, I can't travel into its past, but I can choose any point in its future?"
Leon pondered this.
He then used his traversal ability to target Tony, marking him as another life-form to