Laplace: "The first memory related to the Panic Realm that I saw was a memory reflected by a bloodlight."
Dox was taken aback: "A memory reflected by bloodlight?... Bloodlight?"
Laplace actually didn’t want to respond to Dox, but seeing the doubt in Angel’s eyes, she thought for a moment and decided to explain a little: "This involves the rules of the Sea of Void Mirror..."
The rules within the Sea of Void Mirror can be roughly divided into: Life and Extinction.
Life represents all the memories reflected by any "mirror." In the Pan-Dimensional Plane, in countless worlds, as long as a "mirror" exists, it can transmit the recorded scenes within as "memories" into the Sea of Void Mirror.
This mirror can be a water surface, a glazed surface, or even a distorted surface reflected by firelight, as long as it can reflect an image, it can be contained by the Sea of Void Mirror. Among these, the images reflected by water surfaces are the clearest and longest-lasting; those by light are the shortest-lived.
Bloodlight belongs to the latter; perhaps it’s the reflection of some weapon’s light in battle, just in a fleeting moment, yet it can still be recorded by the Sea of Void Mirror.
The above is Life.
Speaking only of "Life", it seems that as long as you’re near a "mirror", you have no privacy.
But that’s not actually the case, mainly for two reasons.
Firstly, the Sea of Void Mirror is immensely vast; although many parts of it are shattered, it still connects countless worlds with mirrors.
Your actions in front of a mirror might drift into the distant Sea of Void Mirror or directly into the broken part of it, disappearing as foam.
Secondly, besides "Life", don’t forget there’s also "Extinction" in the rules of the Sea of Void Mirror!
The so-called "Extinction" is fundamentally "eliminating" memories that flow into the Sea of Void Mirror from the external world.
It’s akin to the Quest World, where periodically, there’s a Soul Tide that takes lingering souls and undead from the living world into the world of the dead.
This is a rule, a rule under the Great Will.
The Sea of Void Mirror has such a rule too, but it’s more violent. The Soul Tide, at least, allows other souls with Spirit Intelligence aside from the undead some choice: to go to the Quest World or stay in the living world.
But the Sea of Void Mirror doesn’t; its rolling waves and tides will directly annihilate all memories within its range.
And the surges of the Sea of Void Mirror... are always present, omnipresent.
In other words, many memories flowing into the Sea of Void Mirror from the outside might not even last a second before they dissipate.
So, there’s basically no need to worry about "privacy."
Even if you act flagrantly in front of a mirror, to the Sea of Void Mirror, everyone is treated equally.
Moreover, when living beings enter the Sea of Void Mirror, they only turn into memoryless "Empty-hearted People"; even if they inadvertently see some memories, they’ll forget about them after a while.
There are only a few "mirror creatures" within the Sea of Void Mirror and not many are interested in human memories.
Laplace can be considered an exception.
But if you delve deeper, Laplace isn’t interested in human memories per se; she observes any memory she has, neither saddened nor pleased by them. The only thing she gives slight attention to is the shadow memories inside the dual faces of the Shepherd God.
But even if she is slightly concerned, she sends them away regardless. This shows she’s utterly indifferent to gain or loss.
To get back to the point, because the memories reflected by the Sea of Void Mirror aren’t confined only to what’s in front of the mirror, the "bloodlight" she mentioned can still record an image... even if just for a moment.
The image recorded by the bloodlight flowed into the Sea of Void Mirror and was captured by Laplace before it was washed away by the surge.
That is the entirety of the cause and effect.
After explaining it roughly, Laplace continued: "The image reflected within the bloodlight is of a girl kneeling at the top of a Corpse Mountain."
As Laplace spoke, she reached out with her fair fingers and tapped the mirror before her.
In an instant, the mirror seemed to transform into a light screen produced by Sky Mechanical City, displaying a panoramic light-image.
The upper part of the image is a crimson sky, with a massive vortex of blood clouds swirling continuously.
The lower part of the image has a dark forest as the background with distant undulating mountains. Nearby, there are countless corpses; some are humanoid, some are demon-like. They’re all fresh, and a stream of blood flows on the ground.
At the very center of these heaps of bodies, there is a "hill" made entirely of corpses. At the very top of this hill, a girl is kneeling on the corpses, staring blankly around her. Beside her, there’s a bloodstained greatsword thrust into a corpse.
The girl is weeping, her expression a mask of profound sorrow, as if she’s encountered the most painful thing in the world.
And above the girl’s head is that swirling blood cloud.
This is an image with a strong narrative, though it’s unclear what stories lie within, or who the deceased are, but the intense atmosphere of sorrow conveyed through the image can be sensed by all.
"Is she a... Demon Person? An Awakening Demon? Or a Bee-winged Person?" Dox voiced the question.
And this was the question in everyone’s mind.
Among the other deceased in the image, there are visible Butterfly-winged People, Bee-winged People, and Cicada-winged People, alongside Demon People and Awakening Demons. Yet this living girl is different.
She has evident features of a Bee-winged Person: thin, transparent bee wings beneath her arms.
But she also has traits of an Awakening Demon: a small unnoticed red flower amidst her disheveled black hair.
The small flower with five small red rounded petals, a golden-yellow stamen in the center, and a green stem connecting it to her skull.
This small red flower is the most obvious trait of an Awakening Demon.
Yet Awakening Demons almost never maintain human form; they’re savage, evil, bloodthirsty... and wouldn’t show such a sorrowful expression.
Thus, this girl carries a peculiar sense of contrast. Especially when the little red flower sways in the wind as she silently weeps, the contrast intensifies to the extreme.
"A rational Awakening Demon?" Angel pondered for a moment and said.
Dox: "Do Awakening Demons have reason? I’ve never heard of such a thing."