"What... is this?"
Brilliant starlight slowly spilled from his eyes. Without realizing it, Chiba gradually released the hand he had pressed against the World Core Light Orb, gently drawing out a fine, pure-white thread wreathed in flames. His gaze swept around, and after turning around, he cried out in undisguised astonishment.
At this moment, the originally chaotic and indistinct space within his field of vision had suddenly opened up. Countless Light Orbs were scattered throughout this boundless black expanse, like a night sky filled with stars.
It was like outer space from his previous life, except the planets had been replaced by these countless Light Orbs.
So this was... a world's perspective? This was... the layout of this universe? As the objects in his field of vision changed, Chiba could also feel his perception constantly evolving. Sight, touch, hearing, smell, even taste—all five senses were undergoing an unprecedented transformation. And after this qualitative leap in his five senses, a perception known as "dimension" joined his senses.
At this moment, aside from seeing the densely scattered Light Orbs around him—World Cores—he could sense the boundary of this universe. It was like a membrane enveloping them within.
Likewise, beyond this starfield formed by countless Light Orbs, he could sense another cluster of countless World Cores belonging to worlds of the same kind. However, those worlds were no longer Naruto Worlds.
Of course, he could only sense them. His vision could not reach that far. Or rather, while his vision had evolved enough to see the cores of these worlds, the distance he could see was still no different from when he had been an ordinary person. His field of vision was only so wide. He could not even make out the nearest Naruto World, only see the Light Orbs themselves.
The dimensional