The King of Mountains and Rivers' words finally answered many of Hao Ren's long-standing questions:
Why did the Kolo World in reality have only five floating continents and some scattered floating islands that, all put together, were not even enough to make up a single continent? Even if all that land were pieced together, it would still fall far short of forming a complete planet!
Why, despite the Kolo World being a creation personally overseen by the Creation Goddess, were there almost no true temples or relics imbued with divine significance? Instead, there were only imitations built by mortals. The many temples in the Kasuan Sacred Hall and the holy domain, for example, clearly followed the Creation Goddess's style, but were obviously still mortal creations!
Why were the historical records of the various secular nations in the Kolo World so chaotic, all divided at the point ten thousand years ago? Even taking the interruption of the legacy caused by Lockmadon into account, the division was far too abrupt and "neat," as though heaven and earth had been overturned and every civilized nation had been rebuilt from scratch!
The truth was that the Kolo World had truly undergone a cataclysmic rebirth. In the destruction wrought by the Chaos Tyrant Lockmadon, this tiny world, two light-years in diameter, had been split in two across space and time. The original Kolo had been pushed to the Nightmare side by the ancient Wardens through the power of the God Engine, becoming an old world forgotten by everyone. The so-called real world was actually only a copy used to control the prison system and house the survivors! In the new world, mortal nations passed their legacies down through the generations, while all the divine relics remained in the old world, suppressing that eternal nightmare...
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