Zarek didn't react very much to these words. His mind had already put it together before the Hero got to that point in his words.
It seemed that the system messing around with time had allowed this to happen. Maybe this was a version of Zarek from his other lives, or maybe it was this one, or maybe it was exactly how it felt… becoming a pillar that fused them all together.
The Hero had specifically mentioned Pillars, actually. It was a bit complicated to describe, but from what Zarek understood, a Pillar was a person or thing that warped the timeline around them.
For example, when he killed that freshman back in the Temp Duplicate Godsfall Tear, he had been seamlessly plucked out of the timeline as though nothing at all had happened. Logically speaking, from a layman's understanding of time, that one disappearance should have changed everything that happened.
