Thirteen Messengers—the Divine Power Chapter

All life is trapped in the "24-hour" cycle, and the trajectory of the world is like a predetermined script cut by a toothed clock. The combination of power and matter gives birth to "objects" (embodied as artifacts/natural phenomena), which have self-awareness and the ability to control time. If a human being is close to death and has a strong obsession, he can sign a contract with an envoy to become a "messenger" and use the "power" in the form of the second heart to drive the law of time. The price is that the memory is gradually assimilated by the time world. When the world restarts, the messenger becomes the nourishment that maintains the new world, and the object causes the memory to be formatted, and only power can prove its existence. When the world reaches time 24 or the entropy increase is excessive (the proportion of entropy increase exceeds the maximum limit), a "return" will be triggered, causing time and space to collapse into a chaotic "entropy sea". The messenger can predict the future but cannot change the trajectory. The consciousness of the symbiosis between the messenger and human beings is forcibly stripped away during the cycle. Civilization is like dust between the teeth of a heavy wheel. The more brilliant it struggles, the faster it will be destroyed. The bonds that cross the world eventually become a thing of the past, and all the struggles are just footnotes written into history. "We think we are resisting fate, but in fact we are just adding a more poignant rhyme to the poetry of time." ——Thoughts on "Time Cycle Theory" Endert (Keywords: closed loop of time/tragedy of contract/reincarnation of civilization)