Although Xu Zhi could "see" the rules, she could not understand them. It was like facing an Olympiad-level math problem without having learned anything at all, not even recognizing numbers.
Forget solving it—she could not even understand what the question was asking.
It was the same when facing these profound rules.
But rules were more troublesome than math problems. If you could not understand a math problem, then you simply could not understand it. But peeking at rules without the "qualification" to do so came at a price.
Only, Xu Zhi was clearly no longer someone "without qualification."
Xu Zhi did not know that she had acquired some special qualification, but she could feel the difference from before.
That fleeting glimpse at Midnight had brought her immense pressure before. It had felt as though she were merely an ant overstepping its bounds; one more glance, and the nameless pressure would crush her outright. Now, however, she no longer felt that sense of "being unable to look directly."
But... what she could not understand was still incomprehensible.
It seemed she had merely received an entry ticket allowing her to "look directly" at rules. She was still far from being able to understand [Rules].
Much less touch or master them.
But... what if they were rules so damaged that they had already lost their effect?
The Narrator had told her to open her eyes. Surely it had not truly been just to let her look?
Xu Zhi was not some exceptionally brilliant genius, but neither was she foolish. She quickly realized why the Narrator had told her to open her eyes now. Aside from now possessing the ability to look directly at rules, it was also because [Authority] had undergone certain changes after merging with the fragment.
[Authority] had once only been