Destroying the Setting Sun

For Duncan, the "Great Annihilation" was finally no longer a completely unknown mystery. Deep within that endless, heavy veil of antiquity, the truth had finally lifted a corner before him—a crucial corner.

It was the "collision" between worlds that had caused the Great Annihilation, while the "incompatibility" between different worlds had twisted the ruins left behind by those collisions into the bizarre and dangerous Deep Sea Era of today. This scene preserved in the deepest part of Xilantis's nightmare was merely a microcosm of one such collision.

But it was only a microcosm—far more than these two worlds had collided.

Duncan could sense that, as he "understood" these truths, something was changing.

Those changes were happening within him.

For one brief instant, he had even felt that everything before his eyes had turned into chaotic, empty... colors. Within those colors, he saw the essence of worlds. He saw that they were all trembling starlight, every cluster of Faint Light composed of abstract informational descriptions;

He saw that all things stood at the threshold of slow collapse, their mutually contradictory essences continuously breaking down and reforming deep within the realm of information. He seemed to understand the true side of the entire world, and had nearly found the "sole solution" to every contradiction and imbalance...

But it had lasted only an instant.

He seemed to still lack something—a most crucial "parameter."

Duncan's sanity returned to the Real World. He blinked, feeling as though countless voices were roaring in his mind. Then the roaring gradually faded, and his ability to think slowly returned as well.

He had already understood the nature of the Great Annihilation, understood how the Deep Sea Era had come to be... but what was that missing "key parameter"? He had already understood the truth of the world, so