The war that had erupted so abruptly due to an accident came to an end.
In an equally abrupt manner.
That pitch-black "wall" stretched across the center of the Information Plane, splitting the entire world in two.
On this side of the wall stood the Outpost Camp the wizards had just established, along with a blue ocean floating with countless Entropy Brains.
On the other side lay the core region of the Information Beings—the homeland they depended on for survival.
No one could cross that void-like barrier.
At least, not for now.
Over the following days, the wizards exhausted every possible method to study the bizarre barrier.
Elemental impacts—ineffective.
Law erosion—ineffective.
Information contamination—ineffective.
Spatial jumps—there was simply no way to lock onto the other side of the wall.
After finishing the construction of the frontline outpost, Benjamin joined the research team as well.
He stood before the wall, not daring to get too close.
A pale golden light flickered in his eyes.
The All-Purpose Eye operated at full capacity, while the Fate System provided an endless stream of computational power.
His gaze pierced the pitch-black surface and delved deep inside, slowly analyzing the essence of the barrier bit by bit.
Then, he could not help becoming engrossed in it.
"This is..."
The microscopic particles around it had all stopped.
Not moving slowly, nor nearly motionless, nor was this some exaggerated description. They were completely, utterly, absolutely still.
Every atom, every electron, every quantum, every element had been fixed in place. There were no fluctuations, no movement, no changes.
That was right. Not long after coming into contact with the wall, the wizards had already detected its true nature: absolute zero.
Here, all change was forbidden.
There was no energy transfer, no information exchange, no flow of causality.
There was only