As the garbled text before Iver's eyes gradually faded, the constantly flickering entry finally settled down and became fixed once more:
Amber Mother (Golden): Amber once died in a dream of the past and was born in the future.
After flickering a few more times, that "future" became the "present," and finally changed into the "near future."
Iver clearly felt a vigorous pulse coming from his right eye—like a throbbing blood vessel. His eyeball suddenly jolted violently, accompanied by the fatigue of overusing his eyes.
He instinctively covered his right eye.
The instant his right eye closed, the stagnant world began moving again.
In the blink of an eye, Adil turned to ash and scattered.
The fire raining down from the sky, the burning houses, the enormous dark-red fireball hanging in the air like a Second Sun, and the vortex of flames surrounding it all vanished in an instant.
As if a Divine Miracle had descended... the cloudless sky became clear and Deep Blue once more.
At that moment, Iver felt that the pain in his right eye had vanished, along with its abnormal throbbing.
He turned to look at the colored glass walls on the outer layer of the Holy Temple and slowly moved his hand away from his right eye.
Iver's left eye remained its usual Deep Blue—the color of his eyes when he had not activated Path Resonance. His right eye, however, had turned a murky yellow without a pupil. It was like a bright amber placed beneath the sunlight, shining with a golden radiance.
—This was the Amber Egg's true form.
Iver seemed to realize something, and a point in time surfaced in his mind... Just as a dying person could sense the time of his own death, he could now clearly feel the moment of