"Rules?"
Xu Zhi asked curiously.
[Yes.]
Though she could only see words, Xu Zhi felt that the Narrator's "tone" had become more serious.
[That is the most fundamental and powerful force, one that all Transcendentals and extraordinary creatures flock toward.]
[However, it requires you to have sufficient understanding of knowledge and mystery. You are not ready yet.]
[Little Aberration isn't ready either. It has no brain at all. Its path toward touching the Rules is far more distant than yours, and it is acting entirely on instinct for now.]
[If it were not an Archbishop, and if the Rules themselves did not favor it, it could never have Sealed this Rift.]
"Why do you say that?"
Xu Zhi did not really understand how Little Aberration had managed it either. When she opened her eyes and saw it, she had been deeply surprised as well.
[Because of the Rules.]
[Those who follow the rules will have an easier time. The rules dictate that Midnight cannot enter the real world. The things within Midnight are trying to break that rule, while Little Aberration is following it. Naturally, it has a better chance of succeeding.]
[Besides, there's you, this troublemak—]
Xu Zhi immediately became alert. "Troublemak—? Making trouble with what?"
[A genius at ruining other people's good things.]
"You'd better mean it that way."
[Cough.]
[In any case, it definitely cannot leave this place right now. Releasing those things from Midnight would not be a good choice. Although you now possess the ability to contend with them, you do not know how to use it. You would get beaten up.]
[What's more, their goal is far more than simply getting out.]
"Explain in detail."
[I can't explain even a little.]
Heh heh.
Xu Zhi had guessed it!
"You can't talk about this, so