He opened his eyes in reality once more. He had returned from the time war, his consciousness back within the High Tower.
He tried several more times afterward, but never encountered the earlier situation again.
Under normal circumstances, if another timeline really had briefly touched and collided with his river of time at that point a few hours ago, he should have encountered it no matter when he traveled back into the past.
Yet it was gone.
He could only surmise that someone had noticed his observation and deliberately erased that contact.
Once again, he recalled the figure he had seen when he returned here before, a figure that seemed to stand at the end of the river of time, and the voice he had heard.
That voice had told him to go back.
And from what he had just observed, the other river of time had been frozen, then shattered.
This almost perfectly matched his experience in that world he suspected was an illusory realm.
At that moment.
An utterly terrifying conjecture arose unbidden in his mind.
Someone stood at the end of time, cutting off its further progression and working backward to derive countless timelines in search of some possibility.
"Could it be me?"
Lynn looked up and murmured blankly to himself.
Everything he had experienced had already shown that his future self possessed terrifying power.
His future self had returned to the past more than once, and had even severed a strand of the God King's hair during their confrontation, revealing some truth to him.
On top of that.
He had been told more than once that he was on the right path.
And if that was the case, didn't it mean... that the path the Lynn of that world had taken was the wrong one? That