August 31, 2057.
Night.
Everything was as peaceful as usual.
Earth's outer space.
The stars glittered, and the vast universe was deeply mysterious. No one knew what it contained.
Whoosh!
A golden streak of light shot over from the distant starry sky, flying straight toward Earth at a terrifying speed nearly equal to Light Speed! The golden streak swiftly pierced through the atmosphere and plunged toward Earth!
As it entered the atmosphere, there were no burning flames and no surging air currents. It seemed completely silent; even those still awake in the dead of night failed to notice it.
Earth, Pacific Ocean, several hundred nautical miles from the many islands once known as the Hawaiian Islands before the Great Nirvana.
Whoosh!
The golden streak cut through the sky and fell directly into the sea. Just as before, despite descending at nearly Light Speed, it did not cause the slightest unusual change on the ocean's surface. The waves continued to ripple as they had before. Not only was there no change on the sea, but not a single satellite or monitoring device anywhere on Earth detected the golden streak!
In the depths of the ocean!
More than three thousand meters below the surface, the golden streak had already vanished, leaving behind only an oval Black Egg roughly twelve meters in diameter. Strange golden markings covered its black shell. One had to know that the so-called Dragon Eggs on Earth were only about a meter across.
At that moment—
All was silent!
Satellites from every nation on Earth, even the special monitoring equipment within ancient civilization ruins, continued operating normally as they always had. Not one detected its arrival!
At exactly two in the afternoon on September 1, 2057, the Inspector succession ceremony officially began in the Large Conference Hall at