Ruins · Space
Diffuse red radiance scattered through the empty cosmos, while whispers like the dense buzz of mosquitoes echoed in He Ao's mind.
At the very bottom layer of the world, amid those scattered lines, He Ao's arm had already touched the gradually fading red radiance.
Twisted contamination, accompanied by dim whispers, flowed into his mind.
He raised his head and looked at the red radiance that had faded until it was almost invisible in the void.
This "radiance" came from a Transcendent Item he had encountered before: the 001 Fragment, which had once served in the Underground Palace as the core of the sealing array that formed the seals of "009-1" and "009-2."
Sealed Item 001 was the term used by the Original Federation—or rather, the ruins civilization. They seemed to have imposed some kind of "ranking" upon powerful Sealed Items and assigned them numbers in sequence.
For example, the 009-1 and 009-2 He Ao had once encountered had been given the same number. One of these Transcendent Items was suspected to be a remnant of an Angel, while the other was suspected to be a remnant of something Above Angel.
The Angel Rank of He Ao's Maid Puppet had now evolved from the remnants of 009-1.
And only when those two items were combined did they receive the number 009.
The pattern behind those numbers seemed to be that the smaller the number, the more terrifying the power.
For instance, the Fate Spinning Wheel that had now Tampered with the memories of countless people in the Main World was only numbered 005.
And according to the records on 005, it was suppressed by 003. Part of the "seal" that contained 005 came from the power of 003.
He Ao did not know whether the ruins civilization had