[The End]Ian whispered: [The end that all things can reach—I have reached the second Dao, the universe of heat and nihility, the home of Glorious Light and the Void]
"Then why did you come back? You could have directly transcended the end and ascended!"
[Panloss, you ask this question because you don't understand me. I want to go further, not to an end that has been thoroughly explored, where nothing remains but Glorious Light]
Ian calmly raised his head, reaching out with one hand, through space-time, directly to the New Moon—where a house-sized 'Cradle' prepared long ago by the Duke of Steep Ridge was dragged by Ian, arriving before the Deep Space Shuttler.
[I want to head to the farthest reaches—and there's no end to the farthest reaches]
