As Purgatory Planet welcomed its first rays of sunlight after emerging from the depths of winter, and the people of the Solar Dynasty greeted the revival of civilization, another planet was also undergoing reconstruction beneath the light of a star in the new world: Planet Tanagrus, located in the Dream Plane.
A slanting ray of dawn spilled across the land, coating the Golden Capital, Alamanda, in an even more dazzling pale-golden halo. The giant Muru stood atop Alamanda's towering walls, gazing out over the garden he had only recently begun tending after taking up his guardian's duty once more. The vast wilderness outside the city had changed greatly. Among the hollows and ridges covering the ground, newly sprouted low-lying vegetation was flourishing, while more and more unfamiliar plants had appeared atop the enormous Firstborn tentacles in the distance. Originally, only a few kinds of tenacious Primitive Creatures had survived the catastrophe in this world, but now the number of life-forms was multiplying at a rate of doubling every day. Every day, when he came to these walls, he found that the world was no longer the same as it had been the day before. The changes could not help but remind him of the time ten thousand years ago. Although Mother was gone, the prosperous world she had created was finally blooming here once more.
Muru turned his gaze westward. He could sense a surging force of life from that direction. Taking one step, he crossed more than ten kilometers in an instant and arrived beside a scarlet lake.
This place was about fifteen kilometers from Alamanda and was the most important Fountain of Origin in the area. It had originally been a pit six kilometers wide, formed when the Firstborn's tentacles collapsed the ground after it lost control. Until