In the Abyss, a new realm was being established, but unlike Laine, Cronus neither needed to create life nor to forge new laws.
He was simply using pure power that had gathered when new deities were being nurtured with the help of the Abyss to carve out nine new layers of space.
Even so, because the force of Order and the power bestowed by Laine were not energies he had controlled for long, Cronus's world-building was slower compared to the initial Spirit Realm.
While he was shaping this new domain, progress in the outside world did not stop.
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At this moment, in the outer world.
The world in the Abyss and the present world were different, just as the early Spirit Realm had been, where chaos caused a disruption in the flow of time. With Laine, who had once been exposed to the Chaotic Source Force, meddling, this disturbance was directed to elongate rather than to shorten.
