Shadows slowly unfurled and spread like wisps of smoke, drifting back and forth;
Fluorescence flickered in broken strands, like spider silk in a forest, faintly forming a web.
Ronan had no desire to force some so-called "visual metaphor" onto these phenomena, because there was simply nothing comparable to them.
If he switched back to his original perspective, then no matter how he segmented things, flesh would still be flesh, organs would still be organs. There would merely be a few more angles of observation and some connections invisible to the naked eye, all explainable through Configuration Theory.
It would never become like this, almost completely stripped of every familiar conceptual form, as though he had entered a world in another dimension.
Yet this was hardly surprising. After all, Mica's existential structure was fundamentally worlds apart from humanity's innate perceptual structure. Humanity's usual methods of decoding external information were entirely incompatible with Mica's as well.
Thus, when Ronan focused his consciousness on Mica, it was not merely a matter of shifting his attention. It was the mutual conversion and translation of two cognitive systems, as well as the deep coupling of two systems.
Fortunately, the two still possessed a certain commonality: Configuration. For now, only Configuration.
Configuration could serve as a translator between them. Through this intermediary, Ronan could roughly infer some things:
The "shadows" he saw should have been the aura energy and even Soul Power radiated by countless marine creatures, yachts, the ocean, the atmosphere, and more.
Everything at the material and Mental Layer that ordinary people and even Ability Users could see was no more than those smoke-like shadows that resembled a backdrop. There were naturally some detailed distinctions within them, but those were no longer the important part.
As for the "fluorescence" that faintly formed a web,