"I heard everything you said earlier, but let's try this from a different approach. You kept stressing how impossible it is to break the laws of the apocalyptic trials, but as you saw there, the machines already found a way to do it.
So why don't you squeeze your mind hard and try to find any clue or a rumour you heard before that can help us explain this? In my world, we call this a bug in the system. I want to know where the bug is."
John's words left Lanmar deep in thought. The giant had spent the last hour telling John's friends that it was impossible to traverse between different pocket trials and that the machines' presence here was a violation of the trials' rules.
John had already jumped over the point that the machines might have just crossed a border. The number they came in, thousands, didn't match a small group detached from the ten thousand sent into a different pocket trial.
