In the fifty years since the Deformation Era began, the first fifteen had been a storm of chaos brought on by the Third World War and aberration.
Yet during those fifteen years, the name Li Wei had steadily gained weight. After 2059, he had gradually become the axis around which the entire world turned.
Then, two years ago, Ronan had burst onto the scene. More precisely, it had been mid-2097. Through a string of events involving the Emerald Light, the Great Golden Triangle, and the Dream World, he had changed the global order, forcing a towering Boundary between the Deep Blue World and Inner Earth.
For a time, the struggle between the Ronan System and the Li System had seemed poised to become the defining theme of the world.
But then came news of Inner and Outer Earth, the Reclamation Corps, and the Central Star Zone, along with the very real pressures behind them. People were caught off guard.
So was this the Worldline of Earth Spacetime?
Clearly not.
For on a level most people had never seen, the fundamental force driving change in this world had never been aberration or some Visitor From Outer Space.
It had been the Sun Wheel Absolute Prison and the Fog Maze, stripped of their concealment; the Deep Blue World, with its strange effects; and, later, the Tattered Divine Cloak drifting and billowing unseen.
From a broad perspective, the Fog Maze surrounding the Sun Wheel Absolute Prison had always existed. If Ronan's deductions were right, it had appeared around the beginning of the Calamity Era. That meant it had lain deep within Earth Spacetime for twenty-three thousand years without causing any obvious change.
Until the Deformation Era began.
Why had it lain dormant for so many years, only for things to change a little