Chapter 238 Formation

What exactly is an illusion?

Sharin's clone had many questions.

It initially felt like a 'time tunnel'.

Many civilized creatures have had similar ideas...or works or something.

A tunnel connecting different times.

The world where only vague illusions can be seen is the time tunnel. The clone thought at the time that it had found an entrance to the tunnel for some reason, and could not go back because the entrance disappeared for some reason.

This was just a guess made by the clone at the time.

After all, things like time travel... have some very interesting situations.

For example, some civilized creatures in a very primitive stage can imagine the concept of time travel, but even if the civilization has developed to a very powerful level, time travel has never been carried out.

It can also be said that the clone has never seen any civilization with this ability.

Although some civilizations have created effects like "time pause", they can also "rewind" some things within a very small range.

But none of them can truly go back to the past or go to the future.

The clone really wanted to find the exit of this illusory world at that time to confirm whether this was a real time tunnel.

Later, after much investigation, the clone found another exit.

This exit allows it to reach the real world, but not its original era, but another... era that it has never been to.

This made the clone at that time almost certain that the illusion world was a time tunnel.

It started exploring in this era and found that this place was long after its own era, and it could find some relics of past eras here.

But the clone also found some doubts after a long investigation here. This place... has no exit.

The clone discovered that this real world in the future was actually a space with a size range of hundreds of millions of kilometers.

After reaching the edge of this space, the clone will return to the 'illusion world'.

Later, the clone continued to explore the illusion world... It discovered that the illusion world had many entrances and exits.

Through these entrances and exits, the clone can reach the void space in different eras.

These spaces include normal void environments and collapsed void environments... They are all in different eras, and they are filled with creatures that live in that era.

What is more interesting is that if these creatures go to the edge of space, they will pass directly through or disappear at the edge of space.

When the clone itself approaches the edge of space, it will return to the illusion world.

This made the clone confused...it began to suspect that the illusion world might not be a time tunnel.

The place it arrives at through the entrance may just be a constructed space, although in the perception of the clone, these places are very real.

After that, the clone continued to explore the illusion world and discovered a situation.

That is, you will occasionally encounter creatures similar to it.

This kind of creature also wanders around in the illusion world and feels strange about everything here. Creatures that know something about the history of the void will also feel that they have entered a time tunnel.

After the clone communicated with these creatures, he found that they were all originally living normal lives, but at some point they accidentally entered this place and have been wandering here ever since.

At that time, the clone began to head towards... the place where it could see the farthest future.

The clone discovered something special during this journey. The further it went into the future, the more... vague the information about the future became.

Many visions of the future are not clear, but I know some things about the overlappers.

To be precise...it's the war between overlappers and small pipes, and the matter of investigators.

The clone learned some information about Midgard through them, but it had no idea of ​​the details.

If you understand Midgard, you should be able to understand everything about the illusion world... This was the idea that the clone had at that time.

So it conducted a lot of investigations in the illusion world and those 'real worlds' it could reach.

During the investigation, the clone slowly discovered that the 'real world' with limited size was also slowly turning into an illusion.

Simply put, these are not real, they are also part of the illusion world. When the clone begins to doubt them... these places begin to become complete illusions.

Finally, the clone can only move in a world that is completely an illusion.

Until...it met Lin and Sharin.

It can also be said that it has reached the end of the distant future, where it can no longer move forward into the future.

This farthest future era shows Lin and Sharin investigating space ruins.

The clone had an idea at that time, which was to try to see if he could communicate with Lin and Sharin.

And it was indeed successful. The clone communicated with Lin and Sharin through some means and learned the history of the overlappers.

Although Lin and Sharin haven't told him directly, he found out through some special methods.

It knew what happened in the relatively vague era regarding overlappers and investigators. By sorting out this information and combining it with past investigations, the clone learned a lot.

Finally, what the clone could confirm was that the illusion world... was actually a special place formed after Midgard's death.

Maybe it can be considered a place like the void.

However, unlike the Midgard Void that Lin knows now, the illusion world itself is not a void in the usual sense, but a special place that overlaps with the normal void and other voids.

The illusion is essentially the manifestation of this place.

The clone also believes that the illusion is actually Midgard's...memories.

Everything it has seen in history will appear in the illusion.

In the normal void outside, one can also see the illusions in the illusion world through the understanding of Midgard and the improvement of cognition.

At the same time, the clone can also communicate with creatures like Lin who can see illusions.

Overall, Midgard's 'eternal observer' state after death forms such a strange place.

There is a mixture of phenomena and creatures from various eras that actually belong to neither the past nor the future.

Or in other words, the world of illusion is the 'visualization' of Midgard's eternal observer state.

Originally, the state of the Eternal Observer could not be perceived, but this Midgard used some method to make it appear in the form of an illusion.

And the clones... and other phantom creatures can be said to be by-products of this wonderful state.

Maybe Midgard itself doesn't want them to appear.