Because of his adventure with the Time Key, Shade knew that in the Fifth Epoch, there had been at least five continents—east, west, south, north, and central—with numerous overseas islands such as the Shattered Islands. This was also confirmed by other available documents.
As for why the Sixth Epoch had only the Old Continent and the newly discovered New Continent, opinions differed throughout the Ring Arcanist community. But one thing was certain: the present-day "Old Continent" shared the most similarities with the Fifth Epoch's "Central Continent," though it also possessed some characteristics of other regions.
If "Space Folding" was used to explain this phenomenon, then it finally made sense.
"World folding. Will there be signs before the cities north and south of Green Lake overlap?"
"Of course. Everything happening now is a sign. The clearest sign should be the emergence of large numbers of Spatial Anomaly zones within the cities, followed by people crossing from the South Shore to the North Shore, or from the North Shore to the South Shore, out of thin air without using any power at all. Starting from there, more and more people will experience this 'North-South Transformation.' Then the southern city will see the scenery of the northern city, and the northern city will see the scenery of the southern city. Walk out from a street in Green Lake City and arrive in a shop in Mikella Blast Furnace City; walk out of that shop in Mikella Blast Furnace City and enter Green Lake City Hall. The order of space will collapse step by step, until everything finally merges into one."
Iluna did not know what had happened to Dorothy yesterday, but Shade did.
"Someone has already crossed from the northern city to the southern city."
Iluna nodded.
"I'm not surprised at all. Also,