Liquid metal resembling pure gold flowed and shifted shape across Brando's palm. Within it was a substance akin to light, and milky-white rays spilled out as the liquid moved, like a magnificent gem of light.
Brando stared intently at this beautiful object—this was the complete form of a Rule Fragment after being activated. It was a collection of Vonder's laws, a part—or rather, a fragment—of the Tiamat Codex, and the product closest to the origin of the world, a supreme divine creation. In his previous life, he had never come into contact with anything like this. Even now, he couldn't help but feel full of admiration. Setting aside its significance, its perfection alone made it one of Vonder's most beautiful creations.
The instant Brando infused the Rule Fragment with magic and activated it, he understood how to use it. The primary function of a Rule Fragment was to construct laws. This was also the function of its true form—the Tiamat Codex itself. Everyone knew that the world of Vonder had once been a chaotic void. There was neither the alternation of day and night nor the cycle of the seasons. Rain, snow, thunder, and lightning might still have existed, but they had no pattern of their own. They were merely manifestations of chaos and disorder.
The laws established by Marsha had granted the world its most basic rules—the rising sun, the setting stars, the wind, rain, and dew, as well as thunder and lightning. Only then could intelligent life multiply, thrive, and develop on the land blessed by the goddess.
And when Brando obtained the Rule Fragment, he naturally understood a fact. The goddess Marsha's blessing—the laws of Tiamat—no longer existed in this world. The meteor shower mortals had witnessed before the Eternal Night was the scene of that enormous