"The cave the Ancient God left within the mountain was like this."
As she spoke, the Ice Maid extended a finger and drew an ice blue "Ouroboros Holy Emblem" in the air. Then, with a gentle swipe, she began simplifying the emblem until it finally became a circular ring with its head and tail joined:
"This is how most people understand the Holy Emblem of Fate, but that understanding is wrong."
She cut the ring apart again, twisted one end, and reconnected it to the other, forming what was called a "Möbius Strip" in the Outlander's homeland—a so-called "Infinite Ring":
"This is the true understanding of 'Destiny.' The inside and outside connect, yet the self continually iterates as it spirals upward. Because of destiny, finite lives may touch eternity amid infinite entanglement—when you believe you are walking toward the reverse side of fate, you are actually writing new patterns upon its front."
Shade more or less understood. The Snow Mountain had originally possessed no inner or outer layers. It was only because the Ancient Snake God had once moved within the mountain during Its final descent that the Snow Mountain had become divided into inner and outer strata. But this was not a spatial phenomenon, because the inner and outer Snow Mountains had not been separated. That was evident from the fact that "descending from any region of the Snow Mountain would return one to the normal island."
"Then the divine miracle you mentioned just now was the god dividing the Snow Mountain into inner and outer parts?"
"Not exactly. Even mortals could accomplish something similar. The exploration team His Majesty sent once unearthed some stone slabs on the Snow Mountain that recorded the Ancient God's divine miracles. From those, they not only deduced that a temple existed on this