The person who had spoken was, naturally, Bai Ling.
Ever since gaining a certain inspiration from Lilia just now, she had been tinkering with the things in her hands.
There were tortoise shells for divination, a crystal ball for stargazing, and some other strange tools.
Bai Ling had been so absorbed in her work that she had not even noticed what had happened around her earlier.
When she finished all her preparations, she happened to hear the Crawler's words.
And so she had said what she just did.
At those words, the Crawler's projection immediately paled.
"What did you say? He didn't use the power of time? But just now..."
Everyone else, including Research Institute 3154, turned to look at Bai Ling.
"That's right. We fell for his trap right from the start!"
"Those imprint projections we killed were all fakes, just ordinary illusions!"
"Those rituals and everything else were illusions too, meant to deceive us into thinking he really had some ability to control time and return to the past!"
"But that doesn't make sense," Research Institute 3154 said with a frown. "Although the Time-Void Prism has the Power of Space as well as the power of time, its primary power is still time."
"Apart from the Spatial Distortion we broke, its Power of Space mainly manifests as projections."
"But what you just described goes beyond projections. That's an 'illusory realm.' Even if the Time-Void Prism has the ability to create an illusory realm so indistinguishable from reality, how could the Crawler use it?"
"He can, because he is no longer a Crawler, but the Time-Void Prism's imprint." Bai Ling smoothed her hair, then continued:
"Of course, creating an illusory realm of this caliber requires another condition, which is that we're inside..."
"Shut up, woman!" The Crawler's projection lost