Without a doubt, Otto's plan had succeeded. Through all his arrangements, and Kiana's final blow with the Herrscher of Void's power, he had successfully been "killed."
However, the experience of death had also freed Otto from the Imaginary Tree's control, turning him into a ghost like drifting duckweed without roots. Only the remaining power of a false god allowed him to continue existing for a while longer.
Given some time to prepare, Otto could even return to life in his current state.
But what Otto had always pursued was never survival, nor invincible power and authority. All of it had only been for the sake of saving the love of his life, his eternal faith—Kallen Kaslana.
Having told them everything and revealed all his actions and plans, Otto's soul finally departed from this world under Kiana and Durandal's complicated gazes, heading toward where the Imaginary Tree lay.
When the darkened Light Screen lit up again, what they saw was Otto crossing a strange, blood-red land toward a radiant tree in the distance.
The ruined buildings around him and the emptiness of the sky both proclaimed the peculiar nature of this space.
Without question, this was a domain close to the Imaginary Tree. The Imaginary Tree itself was unobservable, and everything they saw now was merely this space taking shape in a form Otto could comprehend.
What he used was the remaining power of a false god.
This man, who had already lost everything, was unimaginably weak at this moment. He staggered even as he walked, yet his steps remained firm and without hesitation as he continued toward the Imaginary Tree ahead.
This scene felt very familiar to the people of the real world. On reflection, wasn't this precisely the place where Otto had been when the Light Screen's footage about