Obtaining "Mirror Appraisal" did not mean Ronan had solved the problem troubling him.
It had been nearly a year since Ronan discovered the Fog Maze, and he knew it had never been an easy place to deal with.
The Fog Maze was a lawless Chaotic Land formed by countless Rule Fragments tangled together. Under the influence of Local Time-Space, fragments in some areas clung tightly together, circulating and piling up into banks of fog, some meaningful but most not. Elsewhere, they retained a granular quality, like sandstorms that roared back and forth.
Ordinary notions of space and time meant nothing here. Up, down, left, right—those only became relevant after you built a domain of your own and secured a place to exist.
But how could one person's chosen directions have anything to do with the structure of the entire Fog Maze?
Besides, the Fog Maze had no "structure" in any real sense.
That was how it used to be. Now, with the nebular outline formed by the Lens and the observational perspectives of Great Comprehension and the Void-Gnawing Fungus, Ronan could just about impose one.
He took the Sun Wheel Absolute Prison's Complex Halo Construct as the origin and established an intuitive three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, dividing it into eight octants. He then used the Core Radiation Zone and Periphery Safe Zone to separate inner from outer: eight inner octants and eight outer ones, sixteen regions in all.
The Sun Wheel Absolute Prison occupied the center. The other star clusters, stars, and even those Black Tides moved around it in complex patterns—so complex that, even after drawing his boundaries, Ronan could not pin down the positions of those Active Stars and star clusters once and for all. Their "fixed" quality lay in the light they emitted steadily, not in their