"I never expected things to get this complicated afterward."
In the large living room, Sandora frowned slightly after hearing the news Viska had brought back. "A race the God Realm's observations had declared extinct, whose world was also confirmed destroyed, has suddenly appeared—with a spaceship from the Old Empire era, no less. Something is definitely wrong here."
"The first thing that doesn't add up is how they fooled the God Realm's observers," Viska said indistinctly, sprawled across the sofa as she tossed puffed snacks she had bought on the way into her mouth. "Most Life Goddesses are unreliable, but they register every life-form they've created in a registry called the 'Evolution Ladder.' The ladder system was created by the Highest Life Goddess and has never made an error. It can ignore all interference and directly reflect the true condition of registered species. In other words, even if those people developed cross-world technology and spread to every corner of the Void, the Ladder could still monitor them. Under those circumstances, I really can't imagine why the Life Temple's records said they were all extinct, when now an entire shipload of survivors has suddenly appeared..."
Viska was explaining some basic facts about the God Realm. Smart girls like Older Sister and Sandora wore thoughtful expressions, while Qian Qian and Lin Xue played cat's cradle nearby—good heavens, those two were actually playing cat's cradle! While the Empire's leaders were gathered to discuss another race's survival and extinction, as well as the truth behind an entire world's destruction, in such a grave atmosphere, these two silly girls had actually gotten together to wrestle with a piece of string like they were six and a half years old. Was that really something an ordinarily scatterbrained person could do?
Unable to resist, I curled my fingers