“This is the world,” Zach said, pointing at the gently spinning green-and-blue sphere. He then shifted his hand to point at a green blob that looked vaguely like Altazia. “And this is roughly where Cyoria is. Beneath the city there is a time magic research facility studying a powerful ancient artifact, likely of divine origin. The researchers think it’s an advanced time dilation chamber, and in a way, they are right. When activated, it takes a detailed record of everything in existence… and copies it.”
Zach waved his hands again, and the ghostly planet forked into two identical spheres, one floating to the left of the original and the other to the right. The difference was that the left copy was no longer spinning, standing still as if frozen in time, while the right one was rotating madl
