The one most shocked that Naga had noticed the "save-loading" was not Lu Mingfei, but Lu Mingze.
Because although his "save-loading" and Odin's "restart" looked similar, their underlying mechanisms were worlds apart. Odin's "restart" relied on "Time Reversal"—like rewinding a tape, turning the entire world back. His "save-loading," meanwhile, relied on a more secretive ability: "Concept Armament."
What "Concept Armament" could create was not limited to imagined weapons like Futsu-no-Mitama and Ame-no-Habakiri.
It could even imagine an entire world!
Lu Mingfei's repeated "save-loads" were, in truth, Lu Mingze using his authority to imagine a fictional world, allowing Lu Mingfei to make mistake after mistake within it, simulation after simulation.
Only once the simulation achieved the result Lu Mingfei wanted would he lock it in place and turn it into reality. This process could be summed up as "using the false to cultivate the real."
That was why Odin's "restart" could not affect the other Dragon Kings. If certain Dragon Kings had already glimpsed the truth of the world and seen what happened in other cycles, then Odin's attempt to repeatedly make mistakes and defeat such opponents through "restart" would not work—because those opponents would retain the corresponding memories as well.
But Lu Mingze's "save-loading" was different.
His authority was "illusion and reality." The essence of "save-loading" was using the false to cultivate the real—as long as the result had not been fixed, everything remained virtual. Even if his opponent became a "page-turner," they could not see the books Lu Mingze himself had written but had yet to place upon the shelf.
This was his deepest trump card, a secret he believed no one could see through.
Yet Naga's gaze had pierced through his authority and seen what had happened within the illusory world.
How could Lu Mingze not be shocked?