Within the Past Land, bolt after bolt of lightning struck its deepest reaches. Locke saw an enormous bronze planet stretched across the place. At first, he had thought this bronze planet was merely the size of an ordinary world, but when he witnessed massive worlds passing around it, he used an ordinary medium-sized world as a rough measure to estimate the bronze planet's scale.
This was a bronze planet even larger than an ordinary Greater World, and it should have been the creation of some civilization.
Yet the bronze planet's surface was charred black. Countless desolate palaces stood across it, along with giant cauldrons and many statues destroyed by lightning and flame.
A terrifying war had clearly taken place here.
What had happened here?
Was this the past Witch Catherine had once experienced?
Upon an incomparably massive bronze chariot sat a woman who seemed to have existed since time immemorial. Stars drifted behind her, and rivers of stars hung upside down like the ribbons of her soft silk garments. Eight stellar-river ribbons fluttered in the air, extending into the distance and plunging straight into the Infinite Void. If Witch Macedon saw this scene, she would surely be overjoyed.
For these stellar-river ribbons were not like the superficial cabbage-like stars in her Heavenly River. What astonished Locke was that the stars within these ribbon rivers seemed to be real. Yet he did not know whether living beings inhabited them, because destructive power suffused the ribbons. It was not merely the ribbons; the entire bronze planet was filled with destructive energy.
A war beyond even his current imagination must have occurred here, causing the civilization in this place to perish and the planet to shatter.
Locke sensed a powerful suction force coming from within the bronze planet. A crack appeared across its