The sky and earth around Locke dissolved into white space. The holy aura faded on its own, as though he had been swept from a sacred realm back into the mortal world. Familiar Plane Principles came into view, and he immediately recognized this as Bitter Wood's Memory World. He was no longer in the Genesis Blue Lotus World.
Locke looked at his hand. A string of void coordinates lay in his right palm—clearly the coordinates of the Genesis Blue Lotus World. An image appeared behind his head, borne on the remnants of Holy Magic. It showed that world moving away through the Infinite Void. Time there, once halted by a Fourth-Ring Wizard, had begun to flow again.
As the one who had solved the Genesis Problem, he had earned the right to seek that world again in the Infinite Void. When he found it, he would come to know it anew.
Locke still knew neither the name nor the history of the Truth Witch who had served as the Problem-Setting Envoy. He suspected she was part of the true core of the vast White Wizard Association. Problem-Setting Envoys remained strictly neutral, roaming the void in search of worlds that could become Genesis Problems. They could help worlds on the brink of destruction while giving younger wizards of the Wizarding World places to hone their magic.
But Locke immediately recalled what the Problem-Setting Envoy had told him.
Was there really something wrong with the Grandmaster? Why had that Truth Wizard warned me not to believe him?
If I couldn't trust the Grandmaster, could I trust anything I'd learned from him?
I'd found two false tombs he'd left behind. Had I been lucky, or had I found them precisely because I was excavating ancient tombs?
*And those Abyssal Ruins—had the passage of