Fang Zheng was not surprised by the three girls' reactions. In fact, through Ratziel, he had already more or less investigated this world's background.
Long ago, there had been no humans in this world. Then, beings known as Star Gods descended from the heavens. Using their own Soul Fragments, the Star Gods wrapped the species known as "beasts" on this planet and transformed them into humans. After that, humanity developed and prospered, becoming the masters of the planet. Their numbers continued to grow, until the Star Gods' Soul Fragments could no longer keep up with the rate of human reproduction. And so, conflict gradually began to arise.
Under those circumstances, in order to prevent the Star Gods from dying, the Three Earth Gods who followed them began fighting humanity, attempting to destroy them. Naturally, humanity would not simply surrender. They created Holy Swords and heroes capable of wielding them to oppose the Three Earth Gods. They successfully defeated the Three Earth Gods and killed the last Star God as well.
But it had all been meaningless.
In the end, humanity was still cursed and reverted to the form of beasts, destroying everything. At the final moment, the remaining inhabitants boarded the Floating Islands, left the land behind, and began living in the sky, all the way until now.
Of course, most people did not know what had happened. They only knew that humanity had destroyed the world and then gone extinct along with it. As for what exactly had happened, many probably knew nothing of the truth.
However, in Fang Zheng's view, the situation was clearly not that simple.
If his guess was correct, then the last Star God from this world's legends should have been the node the Goddess of Order had left behind in this world. And the