Chapter 787: Mikoto: You Still Have Me!

"Then, what do you think is going on with this world?" Aleister asked again.

"Our world has no such thing as parallel worlds—there is only one world. Magic Gods create phases, then embed them into the world, altering its settings, governing all the laws that rule it, reversing physical laws, manipulating life and death, events, the past and future, even the destruction of the universe. Our world is formed by phases created by different Magic Gods nesting and overlapping one another. The phases of the Magic Gods encompass everything that exists in the world," Aiwass said. "Our world has long since become unrecognizable. The rule of the Magic Gods has changed everything about it."

"I see. So that is how you see it," Aleister said.

"Is there something wrong with that? Or rather, is there anything in your understanding that is completely different from mine?" Aiwass asked.

"Then, if the universe were destroyed, why would the Magic Gods still not disappear?" Aleister answered her own question. "Because the world has merely been destroyed, yet still exists. It has not been completely annihilated. True annihilation means that even annihilation itself disappears along with it."

"I see." Aiwass sounded thoughtful.

[Do these powerhouses all know they're copies?]

[Probably not.]

[Aleister said before that although it's Mirroring, they're actually the originals.]

[It's probably just a sense of incongruity. Mirroring is meant to fill things in, while things that already existed in the original world wouldn't change.]

[Didn't they already save the world?]

[I think there must be an explanation, otherwise there'd be no point in having a world identical to the original.]

[It would be nice if the two worlds were completely separated.]

[Not necessarily. Maybe the Magic Gods in this world were burned away, so the phases remained relatively primitive and the