"Didn't I already tell you? Just barely," Medici said with a slightly reckless smile, clearly satisfied with his condition.
"Have you gained any memories regarding this aspect? Besides the events of your interaction with me in the Fourth Epoch, have you gained any additional memories?" Lynn asked curiously, looking at Medici as if observing a lab rat.
"For instance, in the Fourth Epoch, when I restored you to the strength of a Weather Warlock and took you back to the Solomon Empire, theoretically, you shouldn't have stayed in this place for another thousand years. Did you gain memories of this aspect? How did history correct this part?"
Lynn's questions came one after another. When he had confessed part of the truth to Medici, it was not only to use it as a bargaining chip to gain the other's trust but also to understand these things firsthand.
"The only real memories I've obtained are the ones related to you, up until you left the Solomon Empire." Medici glanced at someone with annoyance and added, "Of course, including the time someone cheated in a fight with me."
Lynn blinked but remained unflustered, merely asking, "Apart from that, have you gained any information similar to sudden knowledge or information in your memory?"
The reason Lynn asked was naturally based on the situation with Antigonus. Although that dumb wolf didn't explicitly say, his attitude had already provided Lynn with enough information.
Coupled with the behaviors of Solomon and Pallez, Lynn had some guesses about the past he indirectly influenced.
The past and history that he directly changed were apparently reflected directly in those involved, whether in memory or otherwise, and Medici was the best proof of this.
And the traces Lynn left in history, those he hadn't personally changed but had indirectly influenced, seemed to interfere with this world in the form of obscure information.
Moreover, this obscure information was difficult for the involved parties to notice—Lynn was quite sure that Antigonus, who had direct contact with him, probably sensed something was wrong, but Solomon did not.
The other party was clearly also influenced by him, thus knowing about the Angel of Secrets. Solomon obviously didn't realize that the Angel of Secrets suddenly appeared and originally didn't exist; otherwise, he should have been wary and more concerned about Lynn's existence.
The behavior of Solomon naturally reminded Lynn of Leonard's Grandpa Pallez. He seemed similar, also knowing about the existence of the Angel of Secrets but unaware of the strangeness of this information.
Honestly, it was quite terrifying, but thinking about it, it seemed reasonable.
The only thing Lynn was unsure of now was whether the indirect influences he caused could only be sensed as wrong by those who had direct contact with him or whether everyone could sense the discrepancy with a reminder.
Just as Lynn didn't know if he drastically changed history, would it reflect in this era as everyone's memories being altered, viewing the changed history as the original one, or would everyone, like those who had contact with him, gain a sudden memory?
Lynn was very curious, which was one of the reasons he returned to the Abraham family.
He planned to conduct an experiment with the Abraham family, such as leaving a diary as an ancestor to see if the descendants of the Abraham family in the Fifth Epoch would regard him and his diary as originally existing or be terrified that something was altering history.
Lynn was very interested in this.
Hearing Lynn's words, Medici first paused, then evidently began to check his memories. A few minutes later, his expression became subtle, and he said, "I indeed obtained some information."
"What kind of information?" Lynn asked hastily.
"Very chaotic information, somewhat like fragments based on the history you altered in the Fourth Epoch, but not complete, only some pieces." Medici thought for a moment and slightly frowned.
"In this information, I did not stay in this underground building for a thousand years, but there is no specific information on what I did during those thousand years. The few more detailed pieces of information are related to the Tudor descendants I killed."
"Those guys seemed to still have died by my hands. After the fall of Tudor, I seemed to have chosen to hunt down these Tudor descendants. In short, those who deserved to die basically died by my hands," Medici looked at Lynn and said.
"This information seemed to suddenly appear in my mind, but before you mentioned it, I didn't notice anything strange about this information and really felt like I didn't stay in this place for a thousand years and hunted down those Tudor descendants instead."
"If I'm not mistaken, if you now investigate the death of those Tudor descendants, it might now match the information I gained."
"It sounds pretty terrifying and somewhat subtle... It feels like a completion based on your situation in the Fourth Epoch but not fully completed," Lynn analyzed, pinching his chin. "It's like a script with only a few lines of the outline, waiting for the author to fill in the remaining gaps."
"But wouldn't history become very strange like this?" Lynn asked, his expression becoming subtle. "It feels like if a historian tried to study this period, they'd be driven crazy by all the inconsistencies and bugs in history!"
The mixed past he altered and the original history, the changing history and automatically completed history, now the history seemed like a flowing river and a stationary lake, presenting a state that normally wouldn't exist, one hard for mortals to understand.
Lynn was even sure that if anyone tried to explore this history during this period, they'd be driven to question their sanity.
"History already became strange when you appeared. I thought you had some self-awareness about this." Medici glanced at Lynn, his tone becoming sarcastic again.
"It was all to save you." Lynn lightly countered Medici's sarcasm, continuing to ponder, "But it seems no butterfly effect occurred. History was altered, yet not completely changed."
"Only the parts you personally changed were altered; the rest remained the same, at least the results did." Medici added to Lynn's words.
"I guess even if you now went to the Fourth Epoch and killed Tudor, the chaos caused would only affect the part of history you interfered with. The remaining parts would still be completed in another way, like another Sequence 0 appearing to take Tudor's place, continuing to confront the other emperors, until you personally intervened in that part of history."
"Then apart from those whose fate you directly changed, the rest would still appear as they originally did."
"That's so strange; it doesn't follow normal logic at all," Lynn couldn't help but complain.
"But it aligns well with the madness of this world," Medici seemed to accept it well, looking at Lynn and commenting, "It also fits your identity as a little monster."
(End of chapter)
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