A question came to Lucien while he was adjusting another accelerated region.
If Alanthuriel called tomorrow, what exactly would happen to everyone inside him?
Lucien stopped.
He had spent so much time preparing himself to enter the past that he had almost treated his inner universe as though it would simply remain unaffected.
That assumption was dangerous.
His inner universe had become increasingly independent, but it was still part of him.
The recovered small worlds were inside it.
The Monster Small World was inside it.
Researchers, soldiers, ancient beasts, spirits, Liberators, and countless others regularly entered its accelerated regions.
Even the permanent gates connecting several secured Lootwell territories to those regions depended on Lucien.
If his entire existence crossed into another era, there was no guarantee any of those connections would survive.
Lucien decided to find out how much distance they could tolerate first.
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