A long-forgotten pain was washing over Ed's consciousness.
He hadn't had this experience in ages since he woke up in this world.
Since he had gained initial control over this body, he had been able to adjust his various senses. However, the sudden and uncontrollable pain he was experiencing still left him somewhat astonished for a short time.
In his extreme pain, Ed finally remembered why he was in this state.
He drank Adelaide's True Blood and used his Authority to analyze its power, thereby breaking through the barrier between the Middle Tier and High Tier.
Just like in many fantasy novels, in order to achieve a breakthrough in one fell swoop, he sealed his consciousness inside his body, isolated himself from the outside world, and entered a state similar to sleep.
Therefore, the source of this pain can only be Ed's consciousness itself.
As he realized this, the nothingness before him began to slowly solidify, transforming into images in his consciousness that began to scroll.
A revolving lantern.
A word flashed into Ed's mind: No wonder these scenes felt so familiar; it was because he had entered a near-death state?
But then Ed realized something was wrong—
In the traditional sense, a revolving lantern should be a compilation of important moments from a person's life, which are then played slowly in front of them.
Although we don't know who the world's number one editor truly is, the point is that when the footage ends, a person's life also comes to an end.
But the slideshow Ed is currently seeing is not like that.
If a typical slideshow is like editing, then what Ed is seeing now is the master tape. His memories are unfolding completely in his consciousness like a film reel, and then they begin to run wildly...
Play it upside down.
Yes, Ed's carousel was played backwards, and it wasn't cut at all.
The first thing he saw was himself draining Adelaide dry, and then his entire body began to rapidly Tree Transformation, becoming the new pillar supporting the vast city of Klaf City.
Of course, if we follow the logic of reversing the order, then it should be said that Ed transformed back into a human from his tree form, and in the process, he even donated blood to the old woman Adelaide, which was like a timely rain in World of Disorder.
The following scenes are all played in reverse. Ed gives a large number of Aberration plants to Cuiske, Ed dismantles the Soul Returner from their fused state, Ed mediates the battle between the Twin Kings and Adelaide, and after doing all this, Ed enters the Teleportation Tree, achieving the accomplishment of "leaving without a trace".
What seemed like ordinary scenes became incredibly abstract when played in reverse; Ed wanted to laugh but was also confused.
This scene didn't appear in his consciousness because he had a premonition; rather, it seemed like someone wanted him to see it.
But who can access their own consciousness and seize the opportunity to ascend to High Tier to specifically rewind their own memories?
Ed couldn't figure out the trick, so he could only continue to experience the constantly rewinding images.
The exploration of Klaf City, the plan to retake Fitz Province, and the battles against the resurgence of the Blood Corpse...
Noya, Duma, Nuolun, Seraphina, Duolin...
Even though Ed's consciousness had sped up the rewind as much as possible, how could he possibly fast-forward through nearly a year's worth of memories?
Finally, after seeing the original four players lying peacefully with their eyes closed on the floor of the castle's main hall, Ed's curiosity was piqued.
This videotape, played backwards, is almost over.
Summoning players was something I did a few days after arriving in this other world, so I only need to rewind a few days to get back to the moment I first opened my eyes.
Ed's arrival in this world was almost like having hyperthymesia; with just a little recollection, he could recall the famous scene of his arrival in the World of Disorder, where he ended up hanging on a living tree.
At this moment, all he wanted to know was whether he could still see any fragments of memories before that point.
If so, what would you see?
Is it seeing the past of an experimental subject, the life of a soul from another world before its death, or perhaps the perspective of a sapling—a world of darkness?
With this question in mind, Ed saw the familiar stream that now had three or four bridges of different styles built over it by the civil engineers.
Although compared to the current size of Valhalla, this river is indeed a small one.
However, when Ed first came into this world, it took him several hours to successfully cross this river.
Watching the juggler slowly back across the river on stilts, Ed almost lost his composure again.
In other words, he didn't have a mouth in his conscious state, which is why he didn't laugh out loud in his own consciousness space.
The scene then returned to Ed's "Promised Land," with the young man panting as he strode backward into the depths of a dense forest.
Ed watched as he pulled off his lower body as if taking off his pants, and then ripped off his arms. He couldn't help but feel a sense of shame, as if his dark past had been publicly exposed.
But as the playback progressed in reverse, Ed's attention became increasingly focused—
His question is about to be answered.
Following his past actions of throwing his lower body into a tree and tossing his arms into the distance, Ed's reversed scenes finally reached a historic turning point—
He closed his eyes!
If Ed's prediction is correct, the next step should be to end this tedious rewinding segment, or perhaps choose a different perspective to continue the rewinding.
Sure enough, after a brief blackout, Ed felt his consciousness split into three parts, like a tightly twisted rope suddenly being loosened.
Sensing the three largely similar yet subtly distinct streams of consciousness, Ed randomly selected one of them...
What came into view was a gray sky and a forest full of Aberration plants. Ed quickly realized that this was the scene before he traveled through time, a memory belonging to " Number Three ".
Because of his Shattered memory, Ed had never seen these scenes before. At most, he would occasionally recall some scattered fragments, but they could not be pieced together into a complete picture.
Upon seeing that the reversed playback had taken him to an unknown territory, Ed immediately began to watch intently.
By replaying the reversed scene in his mind, Ed finally understood for the first time how the original owner of this body had created his thunderous form.
As one of the first Gungnir members to be rescued recounted, a Base Body known as " Number Three " did something shocking on an otherwise unremarkable day.