The information Daniel had obtained was, as always, a mixture of truth and falsehood.
Sorting through it all required an immense amount of time and mental effort.
Yet, even so, he didn't consider this operation a waste of time.
On the contrary — though the gains weren't immediately tangible, he could feel that the hidden insights and subtle patterns he had gathered would, in the long run, prove valuable.
Night had fallen.
At the center of the experimental field, Kartora was performing the final test on the temporal portal.
Although the portal's cooldown period had ended long ago, Kartora insisted on performing a thorough inspection before reactivation.
After all, each use of a portal carried inherent risks — distortions, misalignments, or worse, a complete failure that could lead to being lost between timelines.
Kartora's portal wasn't the same as the ones Milla had once used.
