Jeming was silent for a moment, digesting all the information.
The Star Forger's layout was never a simple reinforcement from the start but a pressure test targeting the space-time weapon.
And these Wizards, struggling, researching, and fighting in the time loop, were indispensable variables in this test—including himself.
A hypothesis naturally emerged.
Jeming looked up, facing the projection of the Eighth Level Wizard before him, his tone no longer simply inquiring but with a sense of near-confirmation:
"So, the reason you came to see me specifically this time is because... my actions—or the impact they've created—have pushed the 'variables' accumulated inside this Plane to the brink of overload?"
He no longer generalized the term "variable" to refer to the support troops, but directed it toward himself.
