"Just as expected—it was real to an excessive degree."
Drawing his gaze back from that brick, Jiu Ming said, "Creations of the Illusory Zone can affect real objects brought into it, but they're still illusory creations. The principle is probably like how certain powerful spirits can move physical objects."
People could move objects, and those spirits could as well, but they obviously were not human. That was the difference. The brick he had thrown in was the original, not one generated from the back of the Card Collection Book. If he threw in something generated from there, it would be like powdered sugar scattered into hot water...
"Forget it. If they can't overlap perfectly, perfectly fitting together will do."
Jiu Ming shook his head and waved a hand. The Illusory Zone beyond the Real Zone immediately shrank by a vast stretch. Mokou and Kaguya looked around in surprise. Just now, they had suddenly felt a strange... anomaly, as though something had swept over them. "What was that feeling?"
"Did you sense something unusual because the disturbance was too great?" Jiu Ming asked after noticing their reactions. "Put simply, I had the Illusory Zone cover this place."
"Overlap?" Kaguya raised a brow.
"No, overlapping isn't possible. It can only fit against it. Can you spot anything unusual?"
"Unusual? No." Mokou stared at the ground for a while, but found not the slightest trace of anything amiss.
"Then that's fine." Jiu Ming nodded. Even if it merely fit perfectly, it could still be seamless without a stitch... probably.
It was like two extremely thin sheets of film pressed together. So long as one did not look at the edges, it was easy to mistake them for a single sheet. The union of reality and illusion—this was perfect for constructing the environment Jiu