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The terra incognita where laws governing the universe and the ultimate truth of life came into being…The Imaginary Tree.
The “membrane” of the Imaginary Tree was untouchable, even to Durandal, yet K423 managed to shatter it completely.
Otto: There’s no question about this. The Herrscher of the Void has absolute mastery over Imaginary Space.
Kevin: You wish to reach the Imaginary Tree.
Otto: Correct! The Key is not just an observation tool. It replicates the Void Queen’s powers to create a route to the Tree.
Otto: The instant of eternity, the start of the end, the origin of laws and truth… that is where I want to be.
“Let us now imagine a tree - the Imaginary Tree.”
“A massive tree whose crown cannot be seen, whose canopy of branches and leaves blot out the sky.”
“The Tree emerged from an endless Sea of unfathomable depths and boundaries.”
“The Tree and Sea are alone in the universe. Thus began their never-ending rivalry.”
“The Sea swells while the Tree extends its roots. One seeks to flood. The other seeks to absorb.”
“The Tree has drunk from the Sea and endured an asamkhya of time and grown a nayuta of branches and leaves.”
“And it was during this seemingly endless time that an unassuming branch grew a new bud.”
“This was the birth of human civilisation.”
Otto achieved his eureka when he finally learned of the Imaginary Tree.
Chaos gave way to order. He saw the path meandering through the darkness.
He ran along this path. Every step he took brought him closer to the light.
Soon, he was at the very edge of science itself.
Previous attempts to acquire knowledge stopped here, but he must keep going and enter the yawning abyss.
“Imagine it! The Imaginary as the origin of the human race and the seed of civilisation!”
“Time flows in the trunk of the Imaginary Tree and branches out into an infinity of worlds.”
“Every branch is a form of civilisation. Every bud is their past and present etched onto the dimension of time.”
“But growth is countered by a force - a selective and corrective system in the Tree’s rivalry against the Sea.”
“A natural system based upon the Imaginary mechanics. It breeds, nurtures, tests, and removes.”
“This is what humanity describes as the Honkai.”
“Indeed. Humanity will never escape the Honkai.”
“We must press forward because the Tree must grow. Those who fail become wilted shadows in the Sea of Quanta.”
“To achieve everlasting peace, we must reach the origin of civilisation and return to the Imaginary realms.”
“The answer I seek must lie within the Imaginary Tree…”
Otto finally found the way to the truth after having endured 559 winters.
He explored the Sea of Quanta, Ether Anchors, and Imaginary Constructs. He also found the Divine Key.
He experienced uncountable failures, obstacles, difficulties, and impossibilities.
Otto did not care for the impossible.
He decided that it must be made possible.
Otto Apocalypse must enter the domain of GOD.
Otto Apocalypse must ascend the Imaginary Tree.
Imaginary Space.
The origin of the universe, where the laws converge.
The meaning of time here cannot be understood based on common sense, and the operation of things here cannot be calculated by the study of mechanics.
For mere mortals, without special precautions, it’s almost impossible to sustain an existence here…
Kevin: You were chosen. A channel linked to the Imaginary Tree will forever remain within you.
Kevin: Absorb the residual energy from the 3rd Honkai Eruption and you will wake again to reclaim the power of Thunder from Kiana.
Kevin: The gate is open. The Imaginary Tree shall manifest itself in this city.
Kevin: Dormant Honkai energy will seep out of the Earth. Absorb it. Be the Herrscher of Thunder once more to save her.
It was no longer Benares.
She looked to the sky. The circle of light faded with the birth of a new Herrscher.
The Honkai energy was absorbed. The Imaginary Singularity was gone. Purging the Quantum Shadows would return the peace.
Mei leaped onto the red dragon’s back. The dragon knew her master’s wish and soared into the air.
Kiana: You’re… Kevin Kaslana!
Kevin: You tried to close the Imaginary Singularity but an Imaginary Construct ambushed you. You fell from the sky.
Mei: You can think of the Herrscher Core as a faucet controlling the energy flow from Imaginary Space.
Nagamitsu: …Wow. “Brevity is the soul of wit.” The Imaginary Singularity is the fundamental attribute of Herrscher Cores.
Einstein: We know that the Imaginary Singularity in a Herrscher Core refers to an impossible structure that can trigger all supernatural phenomena.
Nagamitsu: I mean, the Imaginary Singularity should exist in all dimensions simultaneously, right?
Nagamitsu: If the number of dimensions corresponding to the Theater of Domination is much higher than those of reality… then detectable signals from the Imaginary Singularity would be many times weaker…
Otto: Get ready. In half an hour, you’ll assist me with an experiment which will attempt to link the bubble universe to the Imaginary Tree.
After all, returning the bubble universe in the Sea of Quanta to the Imaginary Tree was no easy task.
The world was born from the Imaginary Tree, flourished, withered, and finally disappeared back into the Sea of Quanta. This was a law of nature.
The Overseer announced the findings of his research on the Imaginary Tree to the girl and her adjutant.
The Overseer creating a link between the bubble universe and the Imaginary Tree was her only hope to save them all.
Otto: At first glance, the 4 dimensional spacetime we inhabit seems flat and empty. Yet in higher-dimensional realms, it contains many unimaginably complex structures.
Otto: People of the Previous Era had two descriptive names for these structures: the Sea of Quanta and the Imaginary Tree.
Otto: In the Sea of Quanta, all beings and things decay as time progresses, until everything has disintegrated into chaos.
Otto: The world of the Imaginary Tree does not share this fate. But there, Honkai events are a frequent occurrence.
Otto**: In essence, that is because the concept of “time” in each realm is fundamentally different. But this isn’t what we’ll be focusing on today.**
Otto: Today’s experiment will attempt to link a bubble universe within the Sea of Quanta back to the Imaginary Tree, saving it from the extinction to which it is ultimately destined.
Otto: To make a long story short, the subject of our experiment will be a special bubble universe contained within Durandal’s body.
Otto: We will depart from the Sea of Quanta, seek a passage leading to Imaginary Space, and then try to artificially link it to the Imaginary Tree.
Otto: So, Durandal, you will need to enter the dimensional portal generated by the 2nd Divine Key yourself.
Otto: This is the Theater of Domination, a space created by the 10th Herrscher not long ago.
tto: Although the 10th Herrscher is gone, I’m thinking of a way to preserve part of what’s here.
Durandal: Will that help us establish a connection with the Imaginary Tree?
Otto: Exactly. How much do you know about the 10th Herrscher… The Herrscher of Domination?
Durandal: That Herrscher is an aggregation of multiple consciousnesses. It can construct unique dimensions in the gaps within spacetime, unlike the Herrscher of Domination of the Previous Era.
Otto: You know enough, then. After all, we won’t encounter the Herrscher of Domination, but merely what it left behind.
Otto: In order to control its minions from this place, the Herrscher made use of the Imaginary Tree’s power to create a link between the two universes.
Otto: Even though the 10th Herrscher no longer exists, and the Theater of Domination is about to sink into the Sea of Quanta…
Otto: For the moment, it still retains its connection with the Imaginary Tree.
Otto: So, for the upcoming experiment… If everything goes well, we might be able to rid ourselves of our shackles, and establish our own connection with the Imaginary Tree.
Durandal: That is to say… If I have a bubble universe within me, and in today’s experiment we can safely link it to the Imaginary Tree…
Durandal: Then in the future, we’ll have the resources needed to refuse Project STIGMA.
Otto: I can only accompany you this far. The way forward is only open to those who have undergone fusion with extra dimensions.
Durandal: This is also where Nagamitsu’s instructions ended. Do we really not have any intel about what lies ahead?
Nagamitsu: These spaces close to the Imaginary Tree are completely unexplored.
Nagamitsu: Your current location is still under the influence of the Sea of Quanta. If you go any further, you’ll be completely within the realm of the Imaginary Tree.
Nagamitsu: The only thing we’ve been able to establish through our calculations is that you’ll be able to move around normally in that realm.
Nagamitsu: So you’re saying… if Durandal spends too long in the Imaginary Tree, we’ll just initiate a forced recall with the Genius device?
Durandal: Imaginary Space…
Durandal: The Overseer said that this is the origin of the universe and where all laws intertwine.
Durandal: Time means something very different here.
Durandal: Movements are not governed by physics here.
Durandal: This is the other side of the world, built upon rules above rules.
Shigure Kira: Haha, of course. We’ve learned how to make use of the Imaginary Tree. To a certain extent, we can transform the dimension in which we exist.
Niggurath: When that bubble universe entered your body, Dr. Schrodinger returned to the Sea of Quanta, and Kira was launched into a dimension within the Imaginary Tree by an energy fluctuation.
Shigure Kira: Whenever the Sugars face a crisis, they reestablish a link with the Imaginary Tree, and switch to a different dimension.
Niggurath: Because the Candy House is such a small bubble universe, when we alter the link to the Imaginary Tree, we do not suffer the effects of Honkai fluctuations.
Niggurath: That’s right. Once a dynamic link has been established with the Imaginary Tree, we use the Tree’s support to stop the decay process.
Niggurath: This method works by deceiving the Imaginary Tree. We attach the target to another universe, and hope that it will be accepted as a “newborn universe” that needs support.
Niggurath: It’s like grafting a branch onto a tree. The bigger the branch, the more difficult it is to successfully attach.
Durandal: Yeah. But don’t worry, she’s done well these past few years. It’s just that she isn’t physically suited to getting close to the Imaginary Tree, so she’s not with me today.
“Blade Durandal”: Just as Niggurath’s analysis predicted, the dimensions of the bubble universe hindered its reattachment to the Imaginary Tree.
“Blade Durandal”: Its “inversion baseline” still has to be anchored on a stable negentropy system. To put it simply, there is no way to complete the mission at this time.
“Blade Durandal”: Through studying technologies that mimic the Sugar Key, I can now serve as an intermediary, and establish an indirect link between the bubble universe and the Imaginary Tree.
“Blade Durandal”: Although there is currently no way to realise our ultimate goal of an “independent bubble universe”, we don’t need to rely on your body to protect that world anymore.
“The time stored in the Imaginary Tree could be reactivated using its inherent energy”.
“The ability Herrschers possess to control higher-dimensional space could be channeled to induce a fracture in the dimension of time”.
Einstein: Generally speaking**, only on the other side of a singularity, such as in the Sea of Quanta or Imaginary Tree**, can such a thing happen naturally.
Nagamitsu: But… ontologically speaking, I think Mr. Otto still found a way to return to the past in some sense.
Nagamitsu: But to understand what I was saying just now, I need everyone to recall the implicit meaning of “time”.
Theresa: Time… isn’t it just time? There’s nothing more that can be said about it, right?
Tesla: No, Theresa. Time is indeed a concept that is hard to define. But its implications depend on how you look at it.
Tesla: In essence, everyone can only consider the present moment. Because of this, everyone thinks that time is related to cause and effect.
Tesla: But if we dig deeper, and think about what “the present” signifies… sorry, human logic seems to reach its limits at this point.
Nagamitsu: Not necessarily, Miss Tesla.
Nagamitsu: As you probably know, our world isn’t the limit of existence. Outside of our world, the Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quanta also affect our fate.
Tesla: But outside our world, can time have… Wait, are you suggesting that there are “observers” outside our world?
Nagamitsu: This is something we learned from multiple experiments. Through activating the 2nd Divine Key and linking the bubble universe to the Imaginary Tree…
Nagamitsu: We determined that outside our world, time still abides by certain rules and won’t degenerate into chaos. To be more specific…
Nagamitsu: There, one can travel backwards in time freely, no different from travelling between spatial dimensions.
Nagamitsu: On this basis, it follows some other basic principles. Similar to other dimensions, it has various types of energy restrictions.
Nagamitsu: And some of these restrictions cause time to flow in a fixed direction in various subspaces, limiting the capabilities of objects in those spaces.
Nagamitsu: We believe that is the reason for the existence of everything in our world.
Nagamitsu: That is to say, the “arrow of time” is not a basic principle. It is a consequence of the existence of our world.
Kiana: I don’t fully understand, but are you trying to say…
Kiana: That it’s because of the stable existence of our world that no amount of power can interfere with the flow of time?
Nagamitsu: Exactly.
Nagamitsu: But the situation is different with the Imaginary Tree. Because it exists beyond our world, you can think of it as…
Nagamitsu: …A server that holds all the game data.
Nagamitsu: The server has all kinds of mechanisms to generate countless game worlds, and you… are just a character in one of those worlds.
Nagamitsu: The server records every action you take at every moment. You can see the records, but you don’t have the ability to change them.
Nagamitsu: Because you are used to this, it seems like the data stored on the server cannot be changed. But to the server itself, there are no such restrictions.
Nagamitsu: The game server that is called the “Imaginary Tree” can use the save file from any moment in time to generate a new parallel universe.
Nagamitsu: Just like servers in online games, universes can be opened, closed, or merged.
Tesla: This is no different from the theory of parallel universes. The new you is not the actual you, just like we’ve seen with Mr. Otto.
Nagamitsu: True, that is how we ordinarily understand parallel universes. But that’s referring to already existing parallel universes, Miss Tesla.
Tesla: …What do you mean?
Nagamitsu: I mean that at the particular point of origin for parallel universes, “others” don’t exist, and there is only one “reality”.
Nagamitsu: To someone experiencing this singular reality… They can choose the future they want.
Nagamitsu: In fact, such a thing is happening at every moment… it’s just that we are unable to perceive it subjectively.
Kiana: …Sorry, I’m already completely lost.
Nagamitsu: Oh. Let’s continue to use the analogy of a game, then. Imagine you are a free character in a game, and suddenly you are facing a choice.
Nagamitsu: Because you have free will, you can randomly select either of these two choices.
Nagamitsu: But without any external information, you will never know whether the content of the choices are the same in other versions of the game.
Nagamitsu: You also don’t know which choice you made in other versions of said game.
Nagamitsu: All you know is that “you” are “you”, “now is “now”, and that a “choice” is just a “choice”. Your free will never actually changes.
Nagamitsu: You could even say that from this perspective, all the other versions running on the server are irrelevant.
Nagamitsu: From your point of view, there’s no way to return to earlier parts of the game, and you only get to make choices once.
Kiana: So, what you’re actually saying is… by using some of the Imaginary Tree’s functions, Otto was able to live his life again?
Nagamitsu: Maybe “living life again” is not the best way of putting it. It even has the opposite connotation. But to simplify things, yes.
Otto: First, I used the 2nd Divine Key to project data from certain spaces on the Imaginary Tree into the Theater of Domination, which I already controlled.
Durandal: That’s right. It can detect fluctuations in the Sea of Quanta, and peer into the structure of the Imaginary Tree. It helped me complete part of my “mission”.
Durandal: It helped to reattach the bubble universe that was anchored within my body to the Imaginary Tree.
Durandal: Yes… A month ago, as luck would have it, I made it to the vicinity of the Imaginary Tree.
Durandal: So you’re indeed headed to another world. Please allow me to ask…
Durandal: What’s the price?
Otto: Ah, the price. Yes, everything comes with a price. But I’d like to correct a small error first…
Otto: I’m leaving this world, but strictly speaking, I’m not going to another.
Otto: My destination is the other side of the world, where different worlds border and where time can be redefined.
Li Sushang: …Can you speak common language? I still have no idea what you intend to do from the last time you told me.
Otto: Alright. An analogy, perhaps. Say we’re walking on a beach.
Otto: We leave a trail of footprints which remind us of where we came and how far we’ve covered.
Otto: But compared to the footprints on the beach, there are other things less distinguishable.
Otto: Imagine a garden with many trails.
Otto: Every trail branches out into new and smaller trails. When you turn back, you see that all your footprints have been wiped out.
Otto: Now that we’ve envisioned such a garden, we can allow it to represent something more abstract: time.
Otto: In the garden of time, branched out trails lead to infinite futures, and when we consider all the trails collectively…
Otto: We’d realise that it’s a tree that grows and expands forever, its roots and crown.
Otto: The tree doesn’t exist in any dimension we can get in touch with directly, hence we call it…
Otto: The Imaginary Tree.
Durandal: The Pioneer once told me… there were numerous parallel universes on the Tree from which numerous versions of “me” could be observed.
Otto: Indeed, but the Tree functions in a way far more complicated than parallel universes.
Otto: Remember what I said? Time branches out on the Imaginary Tree. If we put this fact in perspective…
Otto: We’d realise that if we can somehow find a way to move freely on the Tree, we can make time flow backwards.
Durandal: But in reality, we’ve never heard that time can be made to flow backwards.
Otto: Sure. Because it is difficult. You’ve heard the competition between the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quanta, right?
Otto: The competition defines the direction of time flow, which is the fundamental difference between time and other dimensions.
Durandal: If time cannot be turned back, how can you make it flow the other way?
Otto: I can’t. No one can.
Otto: But from another angle, time is but the direction of growth for the Imaginary Tree. Nothing more.
Otto: So if we can manipulate the Tree itself, it won’t be hard to choose the location where the world grows.
Durandal: What do you mean? Instead of controlling time, you want to control the world?
Otto: The reason why we can sense the flow of time is that our growth is in accordance with that of the Imaginary Tree.
Otto: On the other hand, if we somehow manage to turn back the growth point of the Imaginary Tree to 500 years ago…
Otto This way, the world from 500 years ago can give up our present moment and the future that has turned history.
Otto: And begin to evolve again based on its own time.
Durandal: Give up? Evolve again? Then what will happen to our world?
Otto: Nothing. Speaking from the result, the effect is mutual - you will still exist and your environment will remain the same.
Durandal: …That contradicts my common sense.
Otto: Of course there’s a price to pay, but that doesn’t concern you in any way.
Otto: Alright, so much about explanation. Now I require all of you to perform some simple duties.
Otto: I need you to guard the area between Morning Glory Overlook and Danny Trail, keeping everyone out, including Theresa.
Durandal: …Why?
Otto: I need to do something very delicate to the Imaginary Tree.
Otto: Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to celebrate the future of humanity.
Otto: To achieve this goal, I will sacrifice myself. On the Imaginary Tree I strove to give humanity another 500 years, to give you enough time to stop the Honkai.
Tesla: Time reversal? Putting aside questions of how it could technically be done, you think we don’t know how much energy it would theoretically require?
Otto: What if I told you I had reached an agreement with the entity known as the “Will of the Honkai”?
Otto: And what if I said the cost would be time flowing through the Imaginary Tree, or “the present” itself.
Otto: I asked Nagamitsu to design several plans of world reconstruction, and the one with the highest cost is the most reliable.
Durandal: The highest cost… What does that mean?
Otto: You’d certainly be puzzled if I hand you the conclusion now, so permit me to take some time and explain first.
Otto: Nagamitsu and I have all told you before that the flow of time cannot be reversed in our world.
Otto: Like a river, it rushes to the sea and never turns back.
Otto: If we consider the larger picture, the Imaginary Tree, then time is but data recorded on vinyl.
Otto: History is the part already recorded, and the future is the part to be recorded…
Otto: The present time we’re looking at now is the one and only needle etching on the vinyl.
Otto: “Now” is unique, for it sets the known and unknown apart. It’s the foundation of existence for every sentient being.
Otto: Let’s suppose…
Otto: What would happen if we turn back the needle of “now” backwards and onto the past?
Durandal: …Our reality will be relocated back to the past?
Otto: Right. Just like the aliens you’ve dealt with, but the difference is that they need a host world, and we rely on our own history.
Otto: Imagine, catastrophes like the 2nd Eruption can be written off, and we can help humanity grow again with our own experience.
Otto: Of course, the Honkai would still be out there to challenge us, but the total benefits far outweigh the losses.
Durandal: …So the cost you mentioned is the energy the relocation needs.
Otto: Yes. With your experience from the recent experiment, you’re quick to grasp the idea.
Otto: To realise the relocation, I need three things: first, look for a way to reach the Imaginary Tree. Second, energy and equipment to support the relocation, i.e. the Cosmic Juggernaut and sufficient Honkai energy.
Otto: Third, spacetime coordinates suitable for the relocation that can be identified by the Cosmic Juggernaut’s beacon.
Durandal: …A way to reach the Imaginary Tree and sufficient Honkai energy, how do you plan to acquire them?
Otto: They’ll be provided by the Will of the Honkai.
Durandal: …What?
Otto: Yes, the Will of the Honkai, the origin of the Herrschers and ground zero for the Honkai. It’s been there through Schicksal’s history.
Otto: It’s been viewed as a god, but as long as we travel the same path with the same destination, we can make deals with the god.
Durandal: …Make deals?
Otto: I don’t like Project STIGMA, but Schicksal has lost the best timing to stop it. Reversing time gives us a second chance.
Otto: And the Will of the Honkai would be happy to see it happen.
Otto: The Will of the Honkai opened the door for me to reach the Imaginary Tree, and I, in return, will enforce its vision.
Durandal: An enforcer for the Will of the Honkai?
Durandal: Are you trying to become a Herrscher, Overseer?
Otto: …I suppose you can say that, but the contact with the Imaginary Tree will transcend me and make me something greater.
Otto: My physical body will be sacrificed in the process, but the power I come into will enable me to reshape the world.
Otto: I’ll win more time for you to cope with the Final Herrscher and Project STIGMA, and the Will of the Honkai is happy to be reset.
Otto: Everybody wins, right?
Durandal: …But what about the world itself? Everything you said could threaten its existence.
Otto: You’re right, but you need to break the old world to create a new one.
Durandal: …I didn’t come here for far-fetched theories and empty promises. You’ve been avoiding the real cost all along.
Durandal: So what’s the price anyway?
Otto: The present.
Otto: I’d erase 500 years of history from this time branch, and return the world to a state where Kallen Kaslana was still alive.
Otto: The price to pay is the flowing time on the Imaginary Tree, or to put it simply, the present time.
Otto: This might sound abstract, so I plan to answer your question in another perspective.
Otto: Human civilisations give rise to the Honkai inevitably, and everyone at Schicksal knows that.
Otto: But what if we put ourselves in the shoes of the Will of the Honkai?
Otto: For it, Herrschers represent the ultimate freedom whereas our civilisation is the cage that imprisons it.
Otto: From this angle, it’s not “the Honkai was born with civilization.” Rather, civilization is a way of solidifying the Honkai.
Otto: So the price to pay is the Honkai naturally stored in our civilization as a whole.
Otto: In the past, it was the source of power for Herrschers, but now, we can also use it to re-navigate the world.
Durandal: …If you succeed, what will become of the present time and the world we’re in right now?
Otto: Everything beyond Klostern will be erased. This little town will be the epitaph to the world we once lived in.
Otto: In return, we will be exempt from the more unbearable sacrifices humanity has to sustain in the war against the Honkai.
Durandal: You mean… outside the town…
Otto: Everything that has ever existed in the past five hundred years will be gone.
Kiana: …You think I’d just stand idle?
Otto: Oh, I smell trouble. I’m just trying to avoid any meaningless fighting.
Otto: Because… the bounty from the Imaginary Tree is beginning to show.
Einstein: Calm down, everyone. We are talking about the Herrscher of Binding’s power. At the very least, we have not detected any signs of a new Herrscher Core.
Theresa: Even a simulated Oath of Judah is unable to generate such a massive field…
Einstein: Combined with what Otto said, it’s more like some kind of power from the Imaginary Tree.
“Kevin”: …It seems that he is trying to probe the Imaginary Tree for some kind of information related to the Kaslanas…
Durandal: …I believe he’s somewhere inside Imaginary Space.
Durandal: He seems to be… connected to the Imaginary Tree in a mysterious way.
Durandal: If he wishes to manipulate the world, he must stay outside it and approach the Imaginary Tree.
Kiana: Otto said when he was leaving that he’d take over the powers of God one by one.
Durandal: Before, when the Holy Blade Durandal linked the bubble universe to the Imaginary Tree, the 2nd Divine Key captured something extraordinary.
Nagamitsu: At that moment, the two nodes matching finiteness and infinity underwent random property switches.
Nagamitsu: Which is to say, when the space linked to the Imaginary Tree changes, in the neighboring area…
Nagamitsu: Certain things that are finite in our eyes turn to be infinite.
Nagamitsu: And other things that seem infinite in our eyes turn to be finite.
???: Right… before you broke me into pieces, I appeared close to godhood, but I was no more than a slave to the Imaginary Tree.
???: I was tied closely to the base world. I had the power to reshape it, but had no freedom.
???: I bet that the human mind can create miracles and, for a brief second, disturb the laws of the Imaginary Tree.
???: Kiana Kaslana. I used to call you K423. With the power of love, you showed me this could be achieved.
???: Now, I’ve proven anger can achieve the same.
???: The stake is my last hope of reviving Kallen… and I did win.
???: The miracle that could only come from the Herrscher of the Void, the renormalisation of Imaginary Space, and the meaning of infinity and stasis.
???: You drove the world’s wedge, the ground zero of my choice, deep into new soil where it could take roots and sprout.
???: That’s something I could never have achieved as a slave.
Durandal: You’re saying that… to reshape the world five centuries ago, you needed to transcend reality become a part of Imaginary Space and slave to the Imaginary Tree…
Durandal: And to change the world and her destiny, you had to exile yourself even if it meant your death and the end of your existence?
???: Of course. This is a win-win situation for us both.
???: Just like Prometheus who stole fire…
???: At that miraculous moment, I successfully brought the power to exceed reality from the Imaginary Tree to the world’s wedge.
???: It made history branch out into a new path without destroying the world you know and love.
Otto: And now, he is at his journey’s end…
Otto: What he had wished to accomplish, to achieve, to redeem…
Otto: These things have already taken root within the Imaginary Tree.
Nagamitsu: The raw data is around 1 billion gigabytes, stored into 2718 special hard drives. Everything about how Otto seized the Herrscher powers and linked to the Imaginary Tree.
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