Following the incident in the city of Bretan, where enemy attacks had summoned a millennia-old demon—a creature whose allegiance was unknown, even to Adam, who had traveled back in time.
That detail shattered any attempt to reconcile the events with what he remembered, leaving an unsettling gap in his understanding of the present.
And that was something that troubled him… but not too much, because from the very beginning he never used his memories as an all-powerful weapon, and events—both past and present—are a clear example of that.
He had learned early on that relying completely on something like that only led to mistakes when reality didn't follow the same path.
However, that doesn't change the fact that some events didn't change much; for example, the monster tide unfolded exactly as it had in his first life, albeit with slight variations; the essence remained the same.
That meant the world hadn't been completely altered… just diverted.
