Tracing the Missing Fragments of an Ancient Tale

Inside Yuan An Company's branch office, where Mo Lan Company's tower had once stood, Liao Donghai and Chen Chuan took an elevator to the top. The space had been transformed into a vast domed glass structure.

Chen Chuan walked to the edge of the top floor and looked out. All of Yangzhi City lay beneath him. It was the first time he had seen the city where he had grown up from such a height.

Some buildings gave him an entirely new impression simply because he was seeing them from another angle.

Liao Donghai brought over a World Token and handed it to Chen Chuan. Chen Chuan put it on and tapped it. A Domain Field screen opened before them, displaying images and text.

"Director Chen, our laboratory analyzed tissue and clothing samples from the two of them," Liao Donghai said. "We can confirm that they lived between three hundred and fifty and four hundred years ago. They likely lived in what is now the Norros Theocracy before moving to Haixi Province, where they stayed for quite some time."

As he spoke, a map of the East Continent and its neighboring countries from that period appeared on the Domain Field screen.

"We searched the records from that time. Quite a few tribes migrated from the Western Continent to Haixi Province during that period. A widely celebrated poem was passed down among them."

Liao Donghai tapped his World Token. Images of murals and writing on parchment fragments appeared.

"The poem goes roughly like this: an ancient tribal hero returned from a hunt to find that the Agala Great Demon had devoured his entire tribe. Following the guidance of an ancient god, he traveled toward the sun until he reached the sea, where he found the demon.

"In the words of the