Cosmic Superiority
"This is troublesome…"
Arthur muttered with a sigh, then suddenly his left eye lit up with a dull glow.
The room grew heavy as the ambient energy concentration rapidly spiked to a level that made Danger Sense go off, but it only lasted an instant before receding.
Everyone else felt an invisible pressure that made them feel as if their body weights had been doubled, but surprisingly, Evan was unaffected.
Whatever Arthur had just done, it allowed him to bypass the interference and stabilize the time law projections.
He rewound by nearly three hours, only stopping when the figure of the culprit they had been chasing appeared.
"You finally took off your mask…"
As Arthur said, the culprit had removed their gas mask, likely as this was a 'safe location' and they had taken measures to prevent being tracked by psychometrics.
Unfortunately, Arthur was no psychometric, he was even better.