With his spiritual perception, Angel had walked through the Consciousness Void for several minutes. Yet when they descended from it, only two seconds had actually passed in the outside world.
The sense of time in reality and the sense of time within the Consciousness Void were entirely different matters.
That strange feeling of the times not adding up left Angel slightly dazed.
However, Angel had already experienced such a shift in his sense of time when he had gone to see Laplace's true body. Having experience, this time his daze lasted only an instant before he quickly returned to normal.
When Angel opened his eyes again, he found that he had already left the Consciousness Void.
They were floating in midair.
Crisscrossing aerial streets surrounded them, and extraordinary lifeforms of every shape moved back and forth through them.
About two meters beneath their feet, a stone man was running a stall from a flying carpet.
Five or six meters above them, a gathered crowd was watching a Cuphead eloquently introduce Teluga City's specialties.
Angel and Laplace had appeared right at the center of such a three-dimensional aerial street.
Busy visitors continuously passed around them, yet strangely, not a single person cast their gaze upon them.
It was as though they did not exist.
Nor did anyone see the large, silver-glinting mirror behind Angel and Laplace.
The two of them were like ghosts outside this time and space, ignored by everyone.
"They cannot see us. We may appear to have left the Consciousness Void, but in truth, there is still one layer between us and the real outside world." Perhaps seeing the confusion in Angel's eyes, Laplace explained.
To use an analogy, if those outside existed in the dimension of "1," then they were in the dimension of "1.1."
They looked