Besides the Rainbow Crystal Ball, Merlin had also created something meant to turn the entire multiverse into a joke.
That thing was the Charyou Tree.
Su Ming had been thinking all along: why a mirror? If he wanted to twist the world through some conceptual artifact, turning normal things dark and absurd, he could have manifested that concept as something else entirely.
For example, a game console, a computer, even a pinball machine—those would have fit games better and been more fun.
But Merlin had not. He chose to forge the concept of twisted darkness into a mirror, then shattered it and scattered the pieces throughout every Single Universe.
And after sitting on the throne, Su Ming got the answer to that question. The fragments of the Charyou Tree were those Doors that had only been "born" later.
Creator God Gan was the first light in this multiverse, and the four Light Rivers could be seen as his extensions. The Doorways Merlin created afterward, those "mirror fragments," existed to reflect that "light" toward other useless places.
The more Doors there were, the more complicated the reflections became. Scatter a few hundred mirrors at random and let them refract a laser beam—who the hell knew where that light would end up?
Adjusting a Door in one Single Universe meant adjusting a fragment of the mirror. The path the light traveled could change drastically. That amusement-loving Merlin was like a brat playing with a laser pointer, tirelessly watching where the light landed each time.
He was done playing Dominoes, and now he was playing with a little laser flashlight.
One childish game after another, yet they had nearly played an entire multiverse to pieces.
"Open the second Door. Touch that skull." Su Ming gave Strangle the order, while he pulled out a