The curiosity-filled conversation with the system stretched on far longer than William had expected.
Hours slipped by inside the domain of infinite without any clear marker of time.
William walked in the plains most of the time towards his hut.
sometimes he paced fast, sometimes slow, while staring at the sky, while the system talked to him.
They spoke of many things.
Some of the system's theories made William's skin prickle, some left him strangely smug, as though he had stumbled onto a hidden truth that most beings would never even consider.
But no matter how many angles they explored, no matter how deeply they tried to reason their way through it, everything circled back to a single conclusion.
They knew nothing.
They were ignorant of the true nature of reality itself.
William, for all his power and experience, found that realization heavier than any physical burden.
