Chapter 1663 - The Other Part of the Truth (2/2)
The shipgirl’s question stumped Hao Ren. His mouth opened and closed but he could not find a plausible explanation for that. At that same moment, the lounging goddess of creation answered Nolan’s confusion. “That’s because your existence was beyond my comprehension.”
“Eh…” Nolan was taken aback,
“The dream has a limit, and even if there were much more margin of variables, I cannot describe something I cannot comprehend. You… part of you is totally beyond my knowledge, and thus exceeded L’Haronne’s world view. If I controlling the dream while awake, I could probably come up with a reasonable explanation of your existence, but L’Haronne was an automated one, and that prevented it from assimilating you…”
Hao Ren raised an eyebrow at the goddess’ explanation. He did not understand how such a civilian frigate like Nolan would confound the goddess of creation. Even if that goddess did not go through proper education she was still a sterling model of self-studied success. She should at the very least be able to understand most of the stuff in the universe, but he quickly realized that neither Nolan nor the Petrachelys had something really super high-tech…
The void engine.
The goddess of creation had slowly cultivated her research tree, and her highest achievement was just sending Vivian and the Ark of Yggdrasil to the Surface World just next door. Thus, she did not fully comprehend or understand cross-world navigation techniques and Nolan… she had the void engine that allows her to travel in the void, and freely across worlds!
Aside from the engine, everything on the Petrachelys or Hao Ren and his mates were easily understood and replicated objects, as such when they were able to be fully immersed in the dream, but the existence of the void engine meant the assimilation of Nolan into the dream got ‘stuck’ somewhere along the way…
As the questions regarding L’Haronne were getting answered one by one, Hao Ren felt glad. The goddess of creation then suddenly stretched her lazy bones, “I do wish to continue chatting, but we have been too long on this ruin. If you don’t mind, let’s leave this place and find a better place to talk? I have plenty to do…”
Hao Ren knew that the “plenty of things to do” that the goddess had just spoken off included her plans for self-destruction. Convincing the latter to abandon her plan and accept his new idea would not be that easy. So, he decided to slowly talk to this uneducated yet willful goddess on how to save the world once they got out of the place.
But before leaving the Umbral Realm, he still had one thing on his mind. “I have a question. It is about L’Haronne itself. Was it just created out of thin air? Or does it have an… origin?
As he had expected, the goddess of creation’s expression changed slightly at the question. She then looked up, beyond the floating temple ruins floating in the darkness to the dark beyond: There was a torn planet sitting quietly in the void, as a faintly glowing mist engulfed the surface of the torn-into-two planet.
Just like how the broken heaven could be seen from L’Haronne, L’Haronne could be seen above the broken heaven. There was a unique intersection between dream and reality here.
Due to the interference of the chaotic mist, even a demigod’s vision could now clearly see the details on the planet’s surface. But through the blurry silhouettes, one could still make out some of the objects of the planet.
Like that narrow plains sandwiched between two long mountain ranges…
“You see them right…” Only after a while did the goddess retract her gaze and sigh. “That’s right. That is L’Haronne… an actual place that once existed.”
“Was it caught by the explosion?” Hao Ren asked. “And you then took it as the basis of the dream?”
“No, it was here all along… outside the edge of the world.”
Hao Ren’s eyes widened as he heard that as he almost jumped at the revelation. “Wait a minute! You mean that L’Haronne… has been here all along? In this place beyond the worlds of order, teetering close to the void?!”
At this moment, a surge of information entered Hao Ren’s mind. All sorts of guesses and predictions ran through his mind. That led him to feel like his brain was about to boil, and one of these guesses was the most direct, and the most implausible took up at least half of his brain capacity:
Aside from the Plane of Dreams and the Surface World, there once existed a third universe?!
“Surprising, right? I was surprised myself,” the goddess of creation said blandly. “When the Star of Creation blew up, I thought I would have been sent alongside the debris of the kingdom out of the world, and get destroyed by the place you call the ‘void’. But unexpectedly I fell into this place, a narrow and dark universe. There was even a planet called L’Haronne here, and a group of peaceful mortals lived there. As I was dying then, and my will were still roaming around the ruins of the Star of Creation. I tried my best to bind the planet against the energy shock wave from the Star of Creation. I managed to delay it for two hundred years… but I failed in the end, and the shock wave from the ruins of the heavenly kingdom tore everything apart in this tiny universe, including L’Haronne.”
From that day, the heavily-wounded goddess of creation fell into a deep sleep, and L’Haronne became her dream.