Void Sea Abyss and Professionals (5300)

The Void Realm depended on the existence of life.

Without life, there would be no souls, no thoughts or dreams, no faith or obsessions, and still less delusions or resentments... Whether good or bad, righteous or wicked, one first had to exist in the world before anything else could follow.

If the material world shattered and all life perished, then even if the Void Realm lingered on its last breath, it would eventually scatter with the wind. Just as a corpse could remain for a long time after death, yet one day its flesh would rot into mud and its bones crumble into ash.

But...

Was that truly the essence of the Void Realm?

If the Void Realm as ordinary people understood it was the material world's reflection... then why did such a reflection exist at all?

And a reflection necessarily needed something to bear it.

If the material world was the person looking into a mirror, and the Void Realm was the phantom within it...

Then what, exactly, was the essence of the mirror that cast that image?

"That is the foundation of the endlessly deep Void Realm. The Pre-Epoch Civilization called it the 'Abyss' and the 'Void Sea.'"

Adalbert took a sheet of paper from the laboratory table and drew a diagram for Ian with a black fountain pen. He explained carefully, "The Void Realm we humans can perceive is, in essence, merely a bubble rising upon that boundless sea—a single spark lit within that infinitely deep Abyss."

"But the sea itself is utterly void, without any meaning at all. That is why it is called the Void Sea."

"How should I put it..." He thought for a moment, unable to find a more fitting description. Ian spoke up then. "It is like planets in the universe—planets may