La Rian, a world that had undergone countless cycles of destruction and countless cycles of reconstruction, was like a locked wheel of despair. Every gear meshed perfectly with the next, and once it started turning, nothing could stop it from sinking toward its ultimate doom. The people of this world had exhausted every effort to resist the machine's operation, yet with their strength, they could not stop any of it from happening from within.
Yet a powerful, even brutally violent external force had broken the wheel's operation, smashing enormous gaps into its perfectly meshed gears.
That was the uncontrolled divine power released thousands of years ago, when the Creation Goddess Lia had completely lost consciousness.
The uncontrolled divine power formed a shock wave that split Planet La Rian in two. It did not merely divide it in the material world—the divine power, which reached all the way to the origin, had even cleaved every dimension, every history, and every fragmented Worldline of this world in half. Although Lia's power had reconstructed the world afterward, the impact caused by that divine power had already been deeply imprinted here, and it had not faded even to this day.
The destruction and reconstruction of La Rian had become this world's daily routine, but the "accidental reconstruction" caused by an external force thousands of years ago had jammed this world like a defective component. And now, Hao Ren seemed to be holding a "lever" capable of prying that component loose.
Lia's Arm Ring—and let me emphasize that it was the children's model.
The shadows of the past, constantly emerging from the depths of the world, seemed to sense something. Under the continuous erosion of the power of Madness, they awakened one after another from the Timelines where they had been sleeping, condensed their former