Parker felt his head spinning as he tried to work through the implications. "And here's what's making this even more insane. Right now, changing her frozen mindset would be more difficult than killing all the Olympians. They've convinced her so completely that I'm the villain that breaking through that programming... it's like trying to rewrite the fundamental laws of reality while those laws actively fight back."
"Which is exactly what someone did to create this situation," Zhang Ruoyun said quietly.
"The strings being pulled here go so deep they make my head spin," Parker continued, his voice carrying growing horror. "We're talking about manipulation that spans lifetimes, realities, the very fabric of existence itself. Every god, every champion, every divine blessing—all of it dancing on strings pulled by someone who can see the cosmic chessboard from angles that shouldn't exist."
