Lily's departure had been inevitable. It made Hao Ren understand more clearly than ever that, in the end, he would have to complete this journey alone.
After passing through the twilight battle of the Age of Gods in 44 BC, this journey into the past had delved ever deeper into the depths of history. In Hao Ren's eyes, the world before Christ increasingly took on a bizarre and fantastical appearance. His original knowledge of history had been overturned time and again during this long journey. Human historical records could hardly be guaranteed accurate, and this was even more true of records involving the ancient Age of Gods. Too many supernatural traces had become interwoven with reality, causing later, more materialistic historians to habitually strip all the mythical legends from ancient texts and leave them for scholars of religion and mythology to discuss. But to Hao Ren, those things discarded by historians...
were things he had personally experienced.
He had witnessed one ancient kingdom after another that had left no record in the history books. Those kingdoms were filled with dark Magic Power and indescribable Otherworldly Being auras. Some had been built on land floating in the sky and operated on the power of sunlight, while others had been buried deep underground, drawing energy from magma and rock. Strange and bizarre Alien Creatures ruled these fantastical city-states. They practiced all kinds of peculiar laws and established countless rituals that modern humans would find utterly incomprehensible. And humans—as the servants of these city-states, worshiping their monstrous masters from generation to generation—waged endless wars against other "Cities of Divine Miracle."
He had also seen the real versions of many myths. During his second trip through the Mediterranean region, he had found Jason under Hesperis's guidance. In exchange for helping the legendary hero search