After reading Martha's notes, Schiller found another section detailing how she had used the evil god's power to alter two locations.
These two locations had not been chosen at random. Both were connected to the mysterious underground ancient city. The midpoint of the line between Wayne Manor and Wayne Hotel was where the ancient city lay underground. In other words, the two buildings stood equally far from the underground city.
As for why she had done this, Schiller found the answer in the latter half of her plan—Martha wanted to swap time.
Martha's ambition was even greater than he had imagined. She did not intend to delay matters for twenty years and solve them afterward. She intended to delay them for twenty years, then have someone who found the solution twenty years later come back and directly erase all the losses from twenty years ago.
After becoming an evil god's follower, she had found a way to affect the temporal nodes of a certain region within this isolated universe. But it was not direct control. It was a sleight of hand, replacing one thing with another.
The current timeline could be regarded as 0, the past timeline as -1, and the future timeline as +1.
The sum of all time across all spaces on the current timeline had to equal 0. In other words, it had to remain in the present forever. It could neither be anchored in the past nor fixed in the future.
That was perfectly normal. For all creatures living in linear time, every minute and second they experienced was the present. The past and future were not tangible to them; they could not touch them. Therefore, bringing space from the past or future into the present would seriously violate the laws of the universe and cause