Cold sweat soaked through his black hoodie.
Chu Yunyi jolted upright on the pale-blue ground of the Void Gate, his heart still pounding from the weightlessness of interstellar travel.
The fading nebulae outside the porthole still clung to his retinas, and his fingertips seemed to retain the chill of the starship's control console.
The scene was unmistakably familiar.
The light of the Void Gate illuminated him, and a few unused ability crystals from the zombie world still lay in the space.
He raised a hand to his temple. His fingertips felt a faint sting.
The next second,
memories surged into his mind like a tide: the activation command for concept ability NO.69, Fool's Dream; the dizziness as his consciousness sank into the dream.
And that nearly century-long drift through space...
The escape from a homeworld overrun by the insectoid race, the so-called cosmic accords, the damn black hole singularity.
Every part of it had felt real as hell.
But now he was perfectly clearheaded. Those heart-pounding adventures had been nothing more than an elaborate dream he had woven.
The reason he had woven it went back three days.
He had just fully mastered NO.76, Six Paths. This ability did more than invite "himself" from other timelines to join him; it also let him glimpse other dimensions...
He had seen the Second Dimension...
It was a flat yet infinitely expansive plane, with countless transparent images and text floating within it.
Every strip of film clearly recorded his life, from killing the Gluttony patients and obtaining the Round Table, to Blue Star, the zombie world, the cyberpunk world, the ancient world, the cultivation world, Reincarnation Space...
Even the detailed descriptions of every concept ability were all there.
And above the Second Dimension, even more indistinct shapes writhed, their movements far more terrifying!