As Lilandra spoke, everyone present gradually fell silent. They came to a different understanding of the M'Kraan Crystal, their faces occasionally showing surprise.
But just as Su Ming had said before, he originally knew far more about the Crystal than anyone else. Information he had seen in comics in his previous life could all be applied to an artifact unique across the multiverse like this.
The Shi'ar had only a very limited understanding of and ability to develop the Crystal, but that was precisely the correct approach.
After all, those civilizations that had perished in the past were examples. The more a group of people relied on it, the less reliable and comprehensible it became.
It was the core of everything that had ever existed. Its primary function was to serve as a "valve," closing the passages leading to all "realities." Once it was opened within a particular reality, any sentient creature who touched it could influence their own reality and world. If things went wrong, it could even trigger a chain reaction and erase the multiverse.
That was the essence of making wishes—altering the world.
The M'Kraan Crystal existed within all realities and outside all realities at once. Yet when someone tried to touch it, because of its nature as a passageway, they might be sucked into another reality before they even had time to alter the world.
It might throw someone into a Parallel Universe, a Magic Dimension, or someplace strange like Negative Matter space. It might send them millions or tens of millions of years into the past or future. Of course, it might also do nothing at all.
Nothing was predictable.
The odds of being transported were disorderly and entirely random. The Crystal itself was a product of the universe's Chaos Theory at the dawn of