Tiandao's Origins

[One week later, New Federation · Star Envoy Association Headquarters]

Afternoon sunlight filtered through sycamore leaves, casting mottled patterns of light and shadow across the bluestone paving.

Valentina, the General President's secretary, walked expressionlessly along the corridor of the small courtyard. The leather document bag in her hand swayed gently, producing the faint rustle of paper.

Inside was the summary report on the Longevity Island trial that she had just finished organizing.

Although the New Federation had now entered a full-fledged era of Quantum Information, Enit still preferred physical documents.

In his own words, illusory Quantum Data had no sense of substance. Paper carrying the scent of ink simply felt better beneath one's fingers.

Elsewhere, Enit sat in a wicker chair beneath a grapevine trellis, holding an Old Era ceramic teacup.

"President, this is the summary report for this trial."

Valentina approached Enit and handed him the thickest file in the stack.

She had followed Enit for many years, yet she had never seen him take such an interest in any young trainee. He even wanted to review the report personally.

"Thank you for your trouble."

Enit accepted the file, a slight curve appearing at the corner of his lips.

On the photograph on the first page stood a silver-haired man atop a pyramid, Vector Light Blade cleaving through vines as golden light illuminated half the sky.

Beyond the photograph, the document also recorded his experiences on Longevity Island in detail.

For instance, his clash with Rose Gentleman Wilfred when he had first landed on the island.

And then his final battle atop the divine tree, where he used Vector Reversal to alter Libra Palace's Equivalent Exchange, even forcibly tearing open a breach within the time-space suspension field.

That pyramid-like structure was, in fact, Libra Palace's true body.

Or rather,