Gray Wind felt uneasy.
Fortunately, as a nanobot, she could precisely control her facial expressions, which kept her from betraying anything under Zandar's scrutiny.
To be honest, she did not want Eric to die.
But she was powerless.
How many cycles had Gray Wind lived through?
At first, she had kept count, but as time passed, even she had lost track.
If Eric's seventy percent chance of cooperating with Nanook, the Aeon of Destruction, made that outcome the most common three-star weapon in a gacha game, then the Xianzhou was a five-star character.
Even Eric's years of employment on the Xianzhou... had to be measured in tens of thousands.
Gray Wind knew perfectly well that, as long as Eric wanted something, there was nothing he could not accomplish.
Someone like him was destined to succeed.
Dimensional ascension was the exception, of course. Eric always fell just a little short on luck, but fortunately, there was Zandar. The two had made different choices.
Eric preferred to use his identity as a "higher-dimensional invader" to rewrite humanity's fate and put an end to the wars unleashed by the Swarm Disaster and the Intellitrons.
As a result, he had not devoted his time and attention to research projects.
Throughout countless cycles, he had continued using the Aether-Phase Engine he had built with members of the Genius Society when he first descended into the low-dimensional world.
To describe it in terms of a computer's operating system, Eric was an old version that had never connected to the internet and still had not installed an update.
There were no higher-dimensional beings in this universe besides Eric. Thus, even the aftermath of activating an outdated Aether-Phase Engine would bring the universe to finality and reverse time.
Gray Wind had never looked into the precise mechanics, nor