Divine Realm.
Here, the Magic Main God's Light Orb illuminated the Divine Realm's territory spanning 1,558 light-years—a vast, expansive realm equivalent to 500 Solar Systems, where the gods resided.
It was now New Krypton's research base for matters of the mystical side. Athena had established the Magic Academy here as its dean; the Olympian Gods trained the Divine Legion here, while Ciri's various armies of genetically engineered creatures raced across the ground and soared through the skies.
In the Extinct Land of the Divine Realm, once the region of Hades's underworld among the Olympian Gods, a massive cage-like prison had been constructed to hold sixteen Guardians of the Universe.
The sixteen Guardians of the Universe were spread-eagled, each little more than skin and bones, their faces like skulls. Their eyes were closed as they were tightly embedded and imprisoned within sixteen enormous crystalline energy pillars. The crystal energy pillars towered through the dark environment, periodically absorbing the strength recovered by the sixty Guardians of the Universe, using it to confine them and sustain the operation of the underworld prison.
Scarface entered the underworld prison, her footsteps scraping through the mist on the ground. She came to the base of the sixteen energy pillars and looked up at the sixteen Guardians of the Universe.
"Scarface...?" One Guardian of the Universe embedded in a crystal energy pillar opened his eyes and looked down. His expression remained blank when he saw Scarface.
"You won. Everything the Guardians of the Universe built has been destroyed." Sorrow filled the closed eyes of another Guardian of the Universe.
The results they had worked toward for countless ages had ended with the battle against New Krypton.
They had considered that there might come a day when it all ended.
But they had believed that day would be