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Parallel universes.

Everyone present understood the concept, but they did not understand why Korizen had brought it up.

The universe had been born from a vast explosion, and the infinite spacetime we inhabited had thus come into being—but in truth, what had emerged alongside that explosion was not merely infinite spacetime, but infinite parallel spacetime as well.

After making sure that everyone present understood the concept of "parallel universes," Korizen did not waste words and began explaining directly: Infinite parallel spacetime represented infinite possibilities. Every minute change in the universe at the smallest instant would give birth to an entirely new parallel universe.

There could even be parallel universes whose "past" and "future" were completely identical to that of the universe we currently inhabited—no, not merely could. Since their number was infinite, there were inevitably parallel universes where the same events had occurred, with only the timing differing.

These parallel universes had originally had nothing to do with us. Even if our civilization developed to the point where it could cross the galaxy, we would be unable to interfere with or even observe parallel spacetime... But there was an ancient and powerful force in our universe.

Its name was aether, something that ran through spacetime and infinite parallel universes.

As he said this, Korizen turned his gaze toward Mahdi: Prophets may be people who, through aether—a power that transcends spacetime—glimpsed the developments of those parallel spacetime lines with differing timelines, and thus could "foretell the future."

To see was the first form of "interference." Through the power of aether, we could interact with parallel spacetime.

"Chief Archscholar, we already know these concepts."

The Dark Gold Dragon spoke in a deep voice, impatience evident in his tone. "Get to the point!"

You know jack shit—let him explain it properly!

At once,