That was it?
Even after glimpsing many of the secrets inside the Black Box through the Tattered Divine Cloak and making considerable progress with Phantom Nightmare, Ronan had not expected this: an assassination had taken out his "severely nearsighted eye" in the Central Star Zone, yet somehow carried the rules of the Altar Spider Web across.
After all, this was not just the work of Phantom Nightmare. It also involved the Demon Rune and Format Theory—a classic intersection of different fields.
For now, that "spider" was fragile and clumsy. It felt as though it might fall apart at any moment, and the information it gathered was even hazier than before. Yet it was a direct reflection of Ronan's own abilities, fundamentally different from an indirect "infectee" like Isejia.
On second thought, though, the conditions for that reflection were already in place.
The Forbidden Bloodline carried by Isejia and his kin was itself the result of a bargain with the Six Heavens God Calamity or the False Gods beneath him. They had built the Bloodline Landscape together, making it easy for the Demon Rune's power to seep in. Had they all been in Earth Spacetime, they would have been dragged into the Altar Spider Web long ago.
The basic components were already there, and Ronan had been watching from across the distant stars, applying a measure of "internal pressure." Thus, through an assassination—the interaction between two people and a tangible connection between the Material Layer and the Transition Layer—the rules had struck a spark.
Of course, Phantom Nightmare's power had also played its part. That uncanny force, which had permeated the Central Star Zone, blurred a vast spacetime distance of hundreds of billions of light-years...
Hm. The Six Heavens God Calamity seems rather good at that too.
The two were a