Symptoms of 048 Spread

"...So that was how it was."

Reunited with old friends, they sat down over tea and talked. Li Aoz briefly recounted what had happened over the years.

This included the internal turmoil of the Crystal Tower Civilization, his difficult rise through the ranks, buying back White Candle Star, and the bloody battle at the Galaxy Eye Meat Grinder.

Naturally, he did not reveal a single thing about the Void.

Even though Lucite and Hobbes had once been his close friends, comrades who had fought and studied alongside him, Li Aoz still had no intention of letting anyone know about matters involving the secrets of the Star Abyss and Seeds.

In truth, aside from himself, only Mirrid and N4 knew about this.

Li Aoz did not hide his connection to Azure Planet, though he worded it somewhat vaguely. Neither of them paid much attention to it. After all, as people from an Interstellar Civilization, they were quite accepting of population mobility and benefiting from policy incentives.

"Lioz, it really hasn't been easy for you all these years. Compared to you, I practically lived the life from an animated show or novel."

Lucite took a sip of tea. Though his aura was only at Zeta-rank (6), his presence was no less imposing than that of those monarchs and rulers. "Back then, I was attacked and abducted by the terrorist Crescent Moon, then exiled into a two-dimensional space. When I woke up, I never expected everything around me to be so peaceful. Before long, I found the local natives in that world—and guess what? Their civilization was still in a very primitive age of cold weapons. With nothing but my own abilities, I conquered that plane in three months. Then I threw myself into production and construction. In less than twenty years, the