Chapter 309: Why Is My Time the Only One That’s Messed Up (4) (Teaser)
… Tick, tock. … Tick, tock.
Epherene's eyes opened at a ticking sound as she looked around and found herself in a strange place—a cabin or log house with a wooden ceiling and floor—and then she pushed herself upright.
"Are you awake?" Quay said.
Epherene flinched and turned to Quay.
"This is interesting," Quay muttered, reading Caasi's science. "Photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, theory of relativity, gravitational waves, quantum mechanics, black holes... These books expressed the principles of nature and the universe through human scholarship."
Whip—
"... Where are we?" Epherene asked, snatching the manuscripts with telekinesis and stuffing them all into her robes.
"It's a temple," Quay replied.
“Temple?”
"Yes, the temple where I served God for ten thousand years," Quay said, a smile gracing his lips.
"Then, was it you who brought me here?" Epherene asked in a curt tone.
"You could say that. Why, don’t you like it? Deculein wanted to come here, you know."
“… Professor?”
“Yes.”
This place is too modest and peaceful for Deculein to want to come here, Epherene thought.
Anyway, Epherene glared at Quay in silence.
"Are you asking where we are?" Quay said, raising his eyebrows.
“… Yes.”
“It is the outer edge of the world.”
The outer edge of the world was, by its very definition, outside the human world.
“It is not the afterlife. The place where souls reside is distinctly within the world. This is neither the afterlife nor the living world and it is a space outside of the world—a place where I always exist.”
“... Why only by yourself?”
Epherene found Quay suspicious because, though he now wore a kind and gentle face, he was after all a being with the insane ambition of resetting the continent.
"I have resided...
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