Xiang Qian returned to Earth from the wasteland world without telling anyone what he had seen. As the days passed, the peak of the Convergence drew ever closer.
The Mirror Dimension created by the Kamar-Taj sorcerers was no longer enough to conceal the multiplying anomalies. Animals and intelligent humanoid beings from other worlds that had wandered onto Earth were manageable enough—they could be sent back through persuasion or force—but the various astronomical and climatic anomalies were far harder to eliminate.
Magma and flames from Muspelheim had burned through the observatory's foundations and caused the Old Royal Naval College's grounds and grand hall dome to collapse. The aura of death from Niflheim had been blocked by Xiang Qian's seals, but the natural freezing winds, devoid of magical properties, still slipped through the spells and froze half the academy's glass doors and windows until they cracked.
The anomalies could be concealed, but the physical destruction they caused could not be repaired.
With no other option, Xiang Qian had to act personally. He copied every damaged facility around the Greenwich Observatory into the Mirror Dimension, then inverted the mirror and reality.
The damage in reality could not be repaired, but the damage within the mirror could be restored to its original state with a single thought. From the moment Xiang Qian acted, no one outside realized that many of the objects and spaces around them had already been replaced by illusions.
Unaware ordinary people climbed real stairs and pushed open real doors, only to step into mirrored corridors. They read and rested in the hall, completely unaware that the dome above them was an illusion projected from another space. They could admire the shimmering surface of the Thames River through the windows, never realizing that the fixed grid windows before them were actually