In truth, Kindling like Long Night, after gaining immense power and a long lifespan, had almost all pondered one question.
Why did this world exist, and why did it burn?
Every Touching Kindling or Kindling likely had their own understanding of this.
Long Night's own interpretation was that this world had been set with a fundamental set of operating rules from the very beginning.
As for the meaning of Kindling's existence, it was to make this world richer and keep it moving forward.
Yes, just as the complete burning of the Eight Great Epochs had given the world a strong start.
Kindling burned, wielding absolute power over the world while sharing their Flame with it, merging completely and thoroughly into this world.
Thus, before Long Night, regardless of whether those eras had been beloved by the people, the Kindling had earnestly tried to accomplish this.
Under such fundamental logic,
this world should have possessed twenty-eight Kindling.
They inherited the power of the eight primordial epochs and created era after era, radiating their own light and heat as they burned, making the world ever more complete.
And according to the sequence of the primordial epochs,
the power they left behind after Extinguishing naturally followed an order as well.
Those who touched Kindling would naturally come into contact with those powers first.
Thus, to a certain extent, the order in which eras emerged represented step-by-step stability.
But it was not absolute.
For example, Long Night's own Brother, Redrolta, had failed to burn and ascend to his own era in time due to certain "accidents." Or perhaps no new Touching Kindling had appeared in the world yet, and so on—
Therefore, if the sequence of eras followed the established order, it represented stability and predetermined laws to a certain extent.
If only the