The speed of image playback gradually slowed down, until finally it stopped.
At this moment, Hikaru, amidst endless dizziness, clearly saw the last image that stopped before him.
This was an appearance he knew. It seemed he would begin to experience his own past.
He didn't dare to be careless in the slightest. He knew that he came here surely not to spend his life like watching a movie.
He always remembered that the gateway to certain level enhancement was surely hidden within.
So, initially, he wasn't too serious about watching his past.
Strangely, the more you don't want to see something, it seemed space and time increasingly wanted to show it to you.
The previous primitive forest was actually quite interesting for Hikaru, but as soon as he stepped, it immediately disappeared.
Now, he didn't want to know too much about what he experienced as a child, but these images were played increasingly slowly.
This was as if time truly existed again, passing second by second.
Time travel like this felt as if he had to be beside himself, experiencing it through his childhood, adulthood, until old age.
There was also no closed time concept, like one day in heaven equals one year on earth.
It felt like in a parallel universe.
All time felt exactly as long as outside.
Watching each day pass like this would surely make people feel bored.
Not everyone lived every minute and second of their life magnificently, like a novel.
More was ordinary life. This boredom and uninteresting minute by minute was what formed each person's simple yet free time.
But now, Hikaru wasn't experiencing it directly, but watching himself like watching a movie.
Who could finish a boring, long, and unoriginal movie in a theater without feeling restless?
This was what Hikaru was doing now.
Endless and ordinary minute by minute.
Hikaru witnessed himself within time, from birth to kindergarten to elementary school.
He was a patient person. If it were others, they surely would have lost patience long ago.
Hikaru adjusted his mentality, considering it like watching a documentary about himself.
When he thought like that, his perspective seemed to change.
He no longer felt like watching a boring and long movie, but felt honored that someone had documented every moment in his life since childhood.
After all, every ordinary person didn't deserve for others to spend so much time and energy documenting long and boring trivial things since childhood.
His thoughts slowly began to change, and the images before him also underwent subtle changes.
If previously what was played was a boring documentary recorded with a camera mounted in front of him, then after his thought change, now it felt like God's eye view.
The scenes he saw were no longer just centered on himself.
This was like experiencing all previous trivial things once again.
The images now transformed into alternating playback.
Hikaru remembered clearly when he was accused of stealing the neighbor's candy as a child. Now, the image immediately switched to his mother laughing and saying to the neighbor's mother: "Just say Hikaru took it, so his little sister won't fuss anymore. Later when her tooth heals, we'll buy her another one!"
Viewed from his current age, this was just a meaningless small matter, but in little Hikaru's eyes, it felt like the world collapsed.
Although he had long stopped caring about the truth of this matter, this God's eye view gave him strong inner comfort.
Hikaru seemed to begin understanding what the true meaning of this journey crossing space and time was, future and past.
Not everyone had this God's eye view opportunity in their life.
Also not everyone could receive comfort like this without making an issue of it.
More often, it was just small emotions no one paid attention to, slowly arranged in their own small world.
These God's eye view scenes became increasingly numerous. Hikaru gradually began to shed tears.
It turned out behind so much happiness, sadness, and confusion, there was truth that was unknown.
Hikaru seemingly gradually found meaning behind all this. His level enhancement was none other than making peace with himself first!
He who realized this began trying to control the images before him.
It turned out it could be done!
He sped up the traces of his life. He now clearly knew that time surely wanted to tell him about things he hadn't made peace with himself about until now.
He began searching frantically within the images, and kept remembering in his mind.
However, there were no results.
As the strong one under heaven, the Shin Emperor identity was enough to make him calm. There was nothing he couldn't accept.
He also wouldn't be childish to make an issue of childhood misunderstandings with his parents.
"Where exactly is it?"
The clue that was difficult for him to find seemed to be cut off again at this step.