Li Aoz looked at the teacup. It was his favorite fragrant tea, and he usually spent at least two hours each day savoring it.
But today seemed a little different.
Whenever Fettis came over carrying the kettle to refill it with hot water, she found that the tea in his cup had not changed in the slightest.
Li Aoz quietly watched the tea leaves settle at the bottom, his thoughts already drifting far beyond the clouds.
The path before me has finally become clear. The appearance of the destiny system can, for now, be taken as proof that I have finally reached a level where beings like the Ruiners would take notice of me.
In other words, I have finally proven that I have value in Star Abyss.
He had spent nearly forty years reaching this point. Including Lioz, that made hundreds of billions of years—too many to count.
A hundred billion years of effort, all for an ending like this.
Entropy Lord's interference had certainly played a part, but if he had followed the rules and remained blindly loyal to Origin Abyss, working for them to the very end, he would never even have had the chance to meet Entropy Lord.
Astra had spun out a whole heap of theories and facts, but Li Aoz was poorly educated. As far as he was concerned, the other party had said only two things:
1. Wait to die.
Origin Abyss had no way out. Its destruction was a foregone conclusion. While that did not mean the universe itself would meet its end, for the ordinary masses of Star Abyss, this was already the end.
The good news was that Earth was in the same boat.
There was more than one Ruiner, and their existence and operation were, in truth, the essence