Existence Replacement

Along with the information came personality data belonging to Aleister.

Memories, emotions, even a century of loneliness and schemes that did not belong to him dragged at his consciousness like heavy iron anchors, trying to pull him into the abyss known as "Aleister Crowley."

But unfortunately, Zhang Qi's will did not waver in the slightest—

As the aftershocks faded—

Zhang Qi looked toward the enormous empty incubation chamber. The existence known as Aleister had completely vanished.

Only then did Zhang Qi truly understand the real purpose behind the self-erasure spell Aleister had activated.

This was not the madness of mutual destruction, nor was it a final counterattack before death.

The beginning of it all could be traced back to the large-scale spell known as "Angel Fall."

The principle behind that spell was to forcibly "demote" the angels dwelling high in Tenkai into mortals, making them descend into the World of the Living.

This process caused a massive worldwide displacement and exchange between the "inner" and "outer" aspects of things.

A simpler analogy would be a game of musical chairs on a cosmic scale.

Originally, every life in the world had its corresponding chair, and every chair had its corresponding serial number, all arranged in perfect order.

But the Angel Fall ritual was equivalent to adding one more person who randomly took a seat, throwing everyone's seat assignments into chaos.

His situation, however, was rather special. After connecting with his counterparts in other worlds, his inner self simultaneously belonged both within and outside the world.

Because of that, when the chaos occurred, he was like an outsider assigned no seat at all. He was easily "squeezed" out by the repulsive force and directly thrown into the Tenkai phase.

And Aleister had seized precisely that fleeting opportunity.

At the very instant Zhang