(Meanwhile, Within the Time Stilled World, Leo's POV)
As the months passed since his declaration, Leo remained focused on refining the ultimate move he envisioned, as every passing day brought him closer to turning that theory into something tangible.
Over the course of six months, he managed to solve the most complex portion of the problem, which was learning how to perceive and induce divergence within the time stream at will.
Through repeated trials, he began to understand how the continuous flow of time could split momentarily into two distinct paths before merging back into a single outcome.
From start to end, the entire process lasted only a tenth of a second, and yet within that narrow window, two simultaneous realities could exist at once.
In one stream, he was struck.
In the other, he was never there to be hit at all.
