"The High-Dimensional Overseer has many symbols, including dimensions, fantasy, reality, observation, and projection. Thus, this entity is one of the Great Old Ones most capable of crossing the barrier to influence and descend into reality."
"And all I need to do is make a small sacrifice in exchange for a certain hope!"
Cyril's figure coalesced amid the overlapping, mingled whispers of the Star Worms. In his eyes, the countless glittering stars reflected there drew closer and grew brighter...
Until the brightest "star" filled his entire eyes, turned from brilliant light to pitch-black darkness, and silently flowed out.
It resembled a pitch-black shadow that had no fixed form yet existed everywhere, roaming the gaps between dimensions.
When it manifested, the mysterious space created by the Secrets Sorcerer potion seemed to experience a "big bang," expanding rapidly and uncontrollably.
Then streams of color flowed out of nothingness like mighty rivers, painting mountains, rivers, the sun, the moon, the stars, and even life and civilization within the ever-expanding space...
"The Painting World!"
In the time it took for just a few thoughts to flash by, a wondrous, entirely independent miniature world, utterly different from reality, took shape.
This was a special "painting scroll" personally painted by the High-Dimensional Overseer, imbued with that entity's authority-a direct extension of its will and concepts.
Immediately afterward, Cyril sensed something and looked up.
Outside the Painting World, in an unreachable, supreme dimension, a pair of indifferent, pure eyes slowly opened and turned their gaze upon him. Deep within their pupils, the workings of the entire universe seemed to be reflected. They held no trace of emotion, merely surveying everything with cold detachment.
At the same time, thoughts flashed uncontrollably through Cyril's mind like lightning:
This entity was the absolute incarnation of the very concept of "dimensions."
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