From the perspective of the real universe, this world had never been reshaped, nor would it ever be reshaped by any kind of Magic Tide in the future.
Even Gawain, who had lived through so many bizarre and surreal experiences, witnessed countless unimaginable miracles, and was himself an "anomaly," could not help losing the rhythm of his breathing at that moment. A feeling of having his entire worldview utterly overturned enveloped him. His eyes widened as thoughts churned through his mind, and his long-held understanding of this world began to waver, making him doubt every judgment and conjecture he had ever made about it.
Yet the mentality forged through endless years of experience ultimately came into play. This brief shock did not impair his ability to think rationally. He quickly gathered his scattered thoughts and summarized the key information Enya had revealed so far regarding the Magic Tide and the laws governing this universe:
From the perspective of the real universe, this world would not be reshaped by the Magic Tide. The existence of all things was indeed stable and orderly. Yet from the perspective of observers—rational Sentient Beings—the reshaping of all things truly did occur, and it was an inevitable result of the Magic Tide. Furthermore, the "observer effect" in this universe manifested in a chaotic, macroscopic form. Observers' understanding of the universe would genuinely act upon "their own world." The observer universe and the real universe reflected one another like a shadow and its source. Under normal circumstances, they overlapped perfectly, leaving the observers themselves stable. But under a Magic Tide, the two shifted apart, and the observers would be swallowed by the mad false images they saw...
There truly was a distinction between "major" and "minor" Magic Tides, but according to Enya, the so-called Minor Magic Tide