Perhaps it was an instant, perhaps it was billions of years—
His Perception suddenly felt as if it had sunk into a bottomless quagmire, like a pit without end, and as if it had been seized by gravity, falling endlessly downward.
This is it! This is the beginning of this IF line!
A vague understanding stirred in the Magician's heart; at once he made his Perception stop its backward tracing… In truth, there was no way to trace any further back—he seemed to have arrived at the region before the birth of the universe.
What entered his vision was no longer that shattered, tragic battlefield.
No longer that scene of densely packed colossal corpses, of torn flesh and broken limbs strewn across the firmament and the void; instead, what replaced it was a hollow, or rather…
A Great Chaos Pit.
