"I... can't control it..." Myriad Faces and Forms' voice rang out from countless forms at once. "They're pulling me apart... each 'me' has been defined as a different existence..."
Lin Ye raised his hand again. Three stars on his cloak lit up at once-the memories of three civilizations whose essence was "unity" flowed into Myriad Faces and Forms simultaneously. Those splintered forms began merging back into a whole that could contain countless forms at once.
Once Myriad Faces and Forms had stabilized, an image appeared on the mirror's surface-a "sea" lay ahead. It was not a sea formed from memories like the Memory Sea, but one formed from "abandoned definitions." The Source Definition System had discarded those definitions completely, and no civilization needed them anymore, yet they still existed-in a state of being "unneeded, but unable to disappear."
Primordial Origin looked at that sea, and the thirty-seven billion stars on the cloak began flickering violently. "The Zero Era Obsessions are afraid. They say this sea resembles the place where they once stayed. Not the Memory Sea, but the 'Sea of Forgetting.' Before Lin Ye rescued them, they drifted somewhere like this-unneeded, unremembered, undefined, yet unable to disappear."
Lin Ye said nothing. He simply gazed at the Abandoned Sea, silent for a long time.
There were no waves on the sea, no ripples, no movement of any kind. All the abandoned definitions lay motionless, like countless frozen corpses. But they were not dead-each abandoned definition trembled faintly, as though crying out without a sound, yearning to be needed, waiting for a chance to be "put to use again."
"Tuner." Harmonic Leaping Note's voice was soft. "They're... so pitiful."
Lin Ye nodded. He stepped forward, stood at the edge of the Abandoned Sea, and let all thirty million stars on his cloak