Creed didn't answer the question right away. He just stood there with his arms crossed and his brow furrowed, eyes slowly narrowing as gears spun at lightning speed behind them.
"Where do you think the dimensional bracelets came from?" wasn't the kind of thing someone dropped into a conversation like asking about lunch.
No, this was one of those questions. The kind that turned stories inside out.
Creed had wondered it himself, actually. Those sleek wristbands everyone wore were everywhere now, used by almost every awakened, noble, merchant, and even students.
But if you looked closely, like really looked, you'd notice something weird. The technology inside them was way too advanced!
He'd tinkered with his own once and found mechanisms that made zero sense. Things that shouldn't work with how the world's magic or machinery currently operated.
It was like finding a smartphone in a caveman village and being told it was "just a rock with light."
