Chapter 49

A moment later, she said faintly.

Lynn looked at her, “What do you mean?”

“Those people should still be alive in your time.” The Sorceress said calmly, “But they’re about to die.” With that, Lynn took a deep breath.

He certainly wouldn’t doubt the truth of the Sorceress’s words.

Because there isn’t much description about the antagonist princess in the original work, and even less about those around her.

At least, Lynn didn’t remember the original mentioning them.

That left only one possibility.

They had all died long before the plot progressed.

Or perhaps, these people never existed; they were merely narrative additions to meet basic logic due to the World Will’s adjustments after his crossing over.

Of course, for Lynn now, those weren’t the key points.

He kept that information tucked away in his mind, turning his attention back to his previous doubt.

For the Sorceress of the End, she had forgotten Lynn’s existence but still remembered those former subordinates.

So what made him and Afia different? A realization began to form in Lynn’s mind.

Perhaps, it was because he didn’t belong to this world from the start.

To the indigenous people here, he was like an incompatible anomaly in any plot.

A . impurity.

With that thought, Lynn suddenly turned to the Sorceress of the End: “Your Highness, there’s one more question.”

“In your long life, have you ever heard of the name ‘Lynn Bartleon’ anywhere else?”

The Sorceress replied flatly, “No.”

Lynn let out a complete sigh of relief: “That’s good.”

Upon hearing this, the Sorceress glanced at him and said softly, “What do you mean?”

“It means to you, my era is history.” Lynn looked at her intently, “But only I know, if I truly existed in the past, I would never have stayed unnoticed.”

“The name Lynn Bartleon is destined to echo through the world.”

The earlier theory about the poor person could now be dismissed.

Perhaps everything in this world develops by fate.

But for Lynn, that wasn’t the case.

Based on the phrase “degree of plot deviation” and combining it with his memories of dying in his past life, he was most likely thrown into this world to change the original plot.

There was no parallel world here or any additional timelines.

Only a fixed timeline.

Princess Ivyst and the Sorceress of the End were, in essence, the same person.

Only one existed in the past, and the other in the future.

Of course, saying it this way might be a bit obscure.

Suddenly, Lynn thought of another vivid example.

Right now, he was like standing by a lake, while the Sorceress of the End existed on a distant shore; neither could directly affect the other.

The only way to truly influence the other side was to throw stones into the lake, creating ripples and waves.

The act of throwing stones represents altering the plot.

And the lake water separating Lynn from the Sorceress was the world’s will to mend the plot, along with a hundred thousand years of time.

Though he had stirred some ripples of fate, they would merely be diminished by the lake’s resistance and unable to reach the opposite shore.

So she completely forgot about Lynn, and the plot deviation was reset to zero.

Because to everyone in this world, Lynn didn’t exist in the past or the future, only in the present.

But that didn’t mean all his previous efforts were in vain.

After all, he had only tossed a small stone into the lake.

What if one day, he decided to carry a mountain?

As long as the ripples produced could evolve into waves, one day, he would eventually cross that hundred thousand years of time and reach the other side.