... Yeah. [It sounds a lot weirder to hear it put like that.]

He used the fourth god's power to build the network in the first place, and presumably kept Elias in a similar state: comatose in the real world, conscious only within the network. I don't know how their positions got switched around, exactly. Maybe it was revenge.

In any case, his body's nowhere to be found, so the fourth god probably moved it somewhere.