Those words made Lynn's pupils abruptly contract, and his hand instinctively clenched beneath his sleeve.
"Are you sure he left this for me?"
Shiliye met his gaze without looking away and nodded.
A darkness as thick as an impenetrable night shrouded Lynn's eyes. Beneath his mask, where no one could see, his brow furrowed deeply.
But soon, a faint smile appeared on his face, and his gaze grew resolute.
So.
Was this a word of advice from his future self to the person he was now?
This really was interesting.
But compared with that advice, he was still more concerned about the first thing his future self had said.
Destined to step outside time...
Him?
For some reason, at that moment, he suddenly recalled the figure he had dimly glimpsed when he entered that other world in the Sea of Mists-a world that seemed to be another timeline. The figure had seemed to stand at the very end of time.
For an instant, he even had the strange impression that Aivier's appearance, the last words left by his "self" in that other world, and this message were all deliberately guiding him down the path of "time," rather than letting him follow the greatest power he currently possessed and become a Firstborn.
Then there was a question before him now.
Had a Lynn first become the Controller of time, stationed himself at its end, then reached back to adjust the past in an attempt to change certain things?
Or had his future self truly stepped outside time, then repeatedly returned to the past to correct history and make certain alterations to his own past, all to resist that calamity's pollution of the past?
Lynn narrowed his eyes.
Without a doubt.
Both were possible.
But the same fact remained: he was caught