The Great Success of the Scientific Expedition
Laws. Statutes.
The Witch had also said that the reason the star laws Lairding had brought back were distorted beyond comprehension wasn't that there was anything wrong with their structure, but with their very essence.
They were still supreme and precise, but had lost the foundation of their existence.
So could it be that this foundation had ended up somewhere else?
Somewhere like this world, which had been reduced to nothing but scraps?
This trip to the Western Plains had started with a promise to the Witch.
And after all the hardship, what lay before him made the journey feel more than worthwhile.
Were the two worlds more closely connected than he'd imagined?
As a professional with a vivid imagination, Fu Qian had almost instantly pieced together a possible explanation—
In some ancient age, something that could be called the core essence of law had been taken from this world...
Then, after being brought to the world where the Witch had yet to be born, it had been used to forge the starry sky of laws, a barrier protecting the place where humanity lived...
The barrier had been so sturdy, but in the end it hadn't withstood the covetousness of so many Higher Beings. After a long, long time, it had been broken...
And after being born into the apocalypse that followed, the Witch had come to the World Within the Painting sanctuary...
Yet not long after, some sort of upheaval had led to Yesterday Once More...
It seemed that law had returned and the whole world had come back to life, but in reality, even the order of the apocalypse had collapsed outright. History became reality, and reality turned into a nightmare...
Around that same time, a group in this world that