One year later.
The Dimension Gap was the deepest known illusory world that wizards opened by using memory to pry open imagination.
Without a Dimension Gap talent like Grimm's, even powerful and learned wizards had to rely on their own strength to open one. Aside from the strain of using themselves as the fulcrum, they also had to expend memories measured in millennia, adhering to the fundamental source of a wizard's power: using a necessary price to lever open rules on a higher level.
Any wizard who opened a Dimension Gap and sought to study the illusory spacetime of this level was an immensely powerful existence, supported by incomparable strength and a long life.
Even for someone like Grimm, born with the innate ability to command the Dimension Gap, the price of awakening that talent had been a blank darkness in his childhood memories. He had lost every memory of his origins and background, as if, like Little Eight, he had appeared in this world out of thin air.
The difference was that Grimm integrated himself into the real world through his faith in the Wizard's Will, while Little Eight integrated himself into it with the attitude of one who looked down upon the passage of time and history, as though reading a fairy-tale book.
Thus!
For Grimm, the significance of studying the illusory world of the Dimension Gap lay not only in the practical need for the Dimension Gap Spacetime Sealing Art, nor only in following in the footsteps of the ancient true-spirit wizard Antonio to explore the end of the Endless World and glimpse the essence of truth's mysteries. Deep within his heart, there was also a private wish hidden away.
It concerned his own origins.
Looking back on his experiences, Grimm had considered that he might simply