Alex's POV:

I head to the center of the whirlpool - the middle of oneself, where I can see some spacial discharges and a black hole appears just like when I use dimensional magic.

I shortly look right, where another, small part of a different essence floats closeby. The strong, pink color of Mist Sprinkled Rose's soul is easy to spot in the surrounding never-ending darkness even when she's dormant while she recharges her energy by sleeping. My essence is dark, deep purple so both kinda suit each other. But that's not important now. It's a very surreal feeling when you don't have a body and yet you feel like you're thrown around in every direction by the suction force of the chaotic vortex which I'm inside at the moment. I strongly suppress the instinct that tells me to fight the current and stabilize my non-existent body or else I'll 'drown'. The human mind has many limitations and it's surprisingly hard to control one's natural feelings of disorientation when put in a situation where your mind is violently shaking and spinning in every direction while you're trying to head to the black tear inside oneself. Finally, after a long effort, I somehow manage to get closer to my goal and in the right moment, I throw myself inside the half-stable, half-trembling and constantly changing its size and shape ripped apart space.

Someone might think: "Who the heck would try such a thing in the first place and why?!!!" but don't be fooled! I'm not an idiot, I properly read about this in an old book in 'The Reversed Mountain Library' before attempting it myself. I might have done many dangerous experiments in my life but throwing away my life on a baseless try to 'see what happens' is not my style. Usually. Well, I only wanted to confirm if something will really happen just like how it was written in the ancient tome! The books in 'The Tower' had some mistakes in them but I couldn't find too many in the second Library. So it was a safe bet to try this and see if it works. I was sure it would, so it did. But I almost went crazy because my mind's power wasn't as strong as today back then... and the world's pressure had a much bigger effect on me then, compared to now.

Finally, I reach the tear. This is the most dangerous part of the whole 'save my aunt' thingy - if I choose the wrong moment to go through, I might cease to exist. Since the hole is constantly changing and is sending spacial discharges that zigzag through the surroundings in a chaotic way, I can't lose focus. If I pick the wrong time to move inside, the ripped space could close on me, destroying my very being. The same with the dark 'lightning' that I have to dodge all the time - one hit and I'm a goner. It would fry my mind and leave my body a vegetable without a consciousness. No, actually I guess Mist Sprinkled Rose would take control and bring her essence back to her original body if such a thing did happen. No more fun for her either.

Why did I decide to do all this again? Right, for my unpredictable and exciting new toy I want to play with, Quiliana. Just like the pink essence inside of me, I also got interested in Q out of boredom. But if she's going to cry all the time, showing me that disgusting face along with it, I would rather take this risk and bring that aunt back for her. 'No pain, no gain', as they say. It's already a pain just being here with the world's pressure going crazy, trying to protect itself from its destruction. I'm risking my life too, ok? Stop being so overly dramatic, world! Just relax and watch me do this without your annoying interference! All you do is making it harder for me to concentrate and it could spell your doom!

But no, just ignore me. As always. Damn prideful planet. Go create a tsunami if you don't have anything better to do.

I move my mind up and down, dodging the spacial discharges while I closely observe the tear. It expands and then lengthens but the next moment it's only as big as a watermelon. That's when I suddenly charge in. I believe, I know this is the right moment. Right when I'm about to be torn apart by the small part of ripped space, without a warning it widens enough for me to squeeze through. And it becomes narrow the next second but I already passed so it doesn't matter anymore.

I'm in. The silent pressure was cut off as if by an invisible knife, so finally I can have some peace...

As if.

What I see in front of me is an endless river, made of an uncountable number of moving pictures showing moments in time. Present ones, where I am now. Behind me, those representing the past. In front, the future possible things that could happen. A normal person would be overwhelmed, since all I could see wherever I looked were trillions of pictures flying around in, at first sight, chaotic way but with a closer look, you could see there was some order to it. Well, it stopped being overwhelming to me a long time ago, since I fortified my consciousness and went through... a lot to become stronger, both physically and mentally.

Ok then... Sorting through all these pictures is going to be so annoying but I got no other choice. I turn around and look at all the past possibilities. Every circular panel with blurred edges shows a different scene, some are almost identical. I look closely and go beyond my limits. A body can only see everything through its eyes but a mind can look everywhere within 360 degrees at the same time. Same with looking up and down - I start analyzing everything around me at the same time. A typical mind wouldn't be able to handle all this but it's me we're talking about... It's no problem, even if it's a bother to use this much of the brain's operational ability at the same time. Yeah, even if I don't have my brain with me at the moment, it's just a part of the body after all and this me here is just the consciousness.