First, the system had identified the "anomaly" as the Fallen Star of the Firmament, not some sealed ancient existence. That was quite interesting.
"Fallen" meant the "anomaly" was not a local, not something that had always been sealed within the Copy World, but something that had fallen from the heavens.
Second, "the dead" meant the anomaly had once been alive.
Then an alive Pseudo-God, living perfectly well, probably would not suddenly drop dead and fall from the sky.
Judging from the fact that it did not even have consciousness, it was thoroughly dead.
Based on He Ao's experience with High-Level Existences, these Old Men were all extremely tenacious. Even after dying, they desperately tried to come back to life.
Not to mention the God of War—inside the Deep Sea Glimmer character card, that Great Whale hidden in the Sea of Consciousness was still struggling desperately, trying to do sit-ups.
For the anomaly to be so completely dead, it had most likely been killed. And whoever had killed it had struck ruthlessly, possessed a rank far beyond its own, erased all its consciousness, and severed every possibility of its resurrection.
Then the culprit was most likely a god.
At this point, the murderer seemed ready to reveal itself.
—Mysterious Shadow.
Before the Desire Witch discovered the anomaly, it seemed that only Mysterious Shadow had known about the anomaly's seal and location.
Even the seal itself had been created under Mysterious Shadow's guidance of Astra.
And the seal came with a cognitive distortion effect that induced forgetting, making everyone "forget" the anomaly in the northeastern region of the Federation.
Throughout the entire process, Mysterious Shadow had not acted personally. It seemed to be deliberately erasing its own presence, merely hiding behind the scenes and manipulating things remotely. It might even have prepared