Ian's breathing paused slightly. He was startled, but quickly calmed himself and sensed the psionic key emerging within his body.
This psionic key was, in essence, an encrypted stream of information... Theoretically, nothing from a simulation should be able to truly appear in Ian's hands.
After all, this was a simulation, not a way to alter the past, twist the causal future, or create something from nothing—it merely drew information from the Void Realm and, combined with the Tree Sea Spirit's powers of simulation, provided Ian with a virtual possibility.
Yet most of the information within this virtual possibility had truly existed. They were merely things that had failed to happen because of various coincidences and circumstances.
For example, the research Hilliard had conducted on the Extreme Domain that Ian had seen before.
His teacher must originally have intended to teach it to him, perhaps even having drafted it out in his mind long ago.
But because the real Hilliard was in better health and could hold on for another two years, he had not rushed to organize and summarize his experience and lessons. He had wanted to teach Ian slowly, bit by bit.
Then he encountered Weges, that deranged senior brother, and so was one step too late. All he could do was leave Ian with the initial version of the Extreme Domain to study on his own.
It was like branching paths in a game's storyline: choose one side, and you could not choose the other; go in one direction, and the other direction vanished. That was the regret of the real world.
But through the power of simulation, Ian learned the knowledge from this other possibility—he had practically activated cheats, able to have this side and that side both!
And the final Son of Ryan, Alos Ryan,