Chapter 23 - The Two Diagrams (1/2)

Not long after, when Jeremy had tried to search for his soul within the depth of his mind, he suddenly entered into his sea of consciousness.

It was quite an easy feat for him to access it because his sea of consciousness had already been formed ever since his breakthrough into an Apprentice Mage stage.

Concurrently, he was standing right in the middle of white space, an original shape, place, and structure of most people's sea of consciousness.

Its interior was completely white, with a seemingly infinite border distance away from him.

Jeremy could only see whiteness in every direction of his sight. The ceiling was white, his left side was white, his right side was also white, even the floor underneath his dashing eggs was white.

He couldn't even fathom that he was standing on a white floor or floating still in a white space.

It was just white...

Everything was white...

Seeing those sights, Jeremy suddenly closed his virtual eyes and imagined a scene from one of his countless memories. It was an explicit scene of a clear light blue sky with solid brown soil underneath. Then he thought about a pond of water in the middle of the land.

Afterward, he opened his eyes to see that everything was being depicted according to his imagination.

The sky was splendid blue...

The high-quality brown soil was astonishingly beautiful...

The moderate size pond was filled with transparent milky white water...

It was like he was in the middle of an unhot desert together with an oasis pond of water in the middle.

Except...

When he took a look around, he saw that the supposed unlimited white space, which should be able to generate an infinite area of land and sky, was changed with only a tiny circled enclosed part of around 10 acres into the said land and sky area.

As for the outside of the 10 acres area, they were still white, and it was clear that there was an invisible wall separating between the sea of consciousness area and the white space into a circle area.

That meant his sea of consciousness was only as big as this land and sky area, and the white space was still inaccessible to him at the moment.

But Jeremy never cared about that; he only took a look around briefly before focusing his sight on the center of the land, the 'pond'.

Right now, the pond of unknown water was situated around 20 meters away from him.

So, he strolled in the direction of the pond. Soon, he reached the edge of the pond. But he never stopped his footsteps at all, even after reaching the pond's edge, and without any hesitation, he took a step into the pond...

Step by step...

Until the unknown water submerged his entire body completely.

Then he closed his eyes and tried to recall every piece of information related to Enchantment.

Sometime later, a massive amount of information about Enchantment from his past life started resurfacing within his mind once again. It began with the knowledge from his acquaintances, books, then experiments, later ancient sites, and many more related knowledge came up, following after one another.

This information about Enchantment actually belonged to him since his past life. But because his current soul and mind were too weak to host all of the memory and information, it could only be sealed away within this murky white unknown water.

Why his mind and soul were weak, you asked?

Even though the former great sage had put forth one condition within the time-reversing spell, stating that his mind and soul must be unaffected by 'time' itself, still, they were eventually affected somehow by the laws imposed by the Universe.

As the side effects of casting a magic spell on the Universe's core forcefully, there tended to be some setbacks reflected back towards the caster himself. And the said setbacks were that his mind and soul were to be regressed back into their original ones within the said timeline.

Fortunately, his overall memory was unaffected by that in any way, but...

Unfortunately, his memory was too enormous for his own body, mind, and soul to bear. So, it could only be sealed within the deepest part of his soul, which could only be extracted by accessing his sea of consciousness via meditation.

Come back to the situation within his sea of consciousness...

As a matter of fact, the unknown water within the pond was acting as the inner layer of his sea of consciousness. Meanwhile, the land and sky were working as a middle layer, protecting his soul and mind. Lastly, the white space could be called by many names, but most people usually referred to it as an outer layer of soul and mind.

Right now, after drowning himself under the milky-white water...

One by one, the information and details about Enchantment reappeared within Jeremy's mind.

Following that, he discarded every other information unrelated to the second stage of Enchantment by simply willing it using his mind.