Liora blinked.
For a moment, there was nothing—no sound, no movement, not even breath. Only stillness.
She sat there frozen, holding the now-empty glass in her hand. Atlas's words still echoed in the space around them, sharp yet strangely calm.
"Do you know that this world is not the only planet in the universe?"
A normal person might have gasped. Might have laughed. Might have asked him if he was joking.
But not her.
Liora was quiet. Not because she didn't have anything to say——but because she didn't need to say anything.
She had already suspected it.
From the first time she accessed the system, something had always felt wrong.
A dying wasteland like this should never have had access to the kind of interface she'd been given.
A database filled with knowledge about things that didn't exist in this world.
Words like timeline fragments and origin tier tech and advanced technology.