The earth hummed and resonated, while a long streak of lightning formed a distant scene in the dark sky.
"...After the wars of the Fifth Era, the Gods began to leave our world. The last to depart was Martha. This was the Sleep of the Gods—the twilight the Gods had prophesied. They handed this world over to the descendants of the Godfolk. As the Godfolk's blood flowing through the earth gradually thinned from generation to generation, the Golden and Silver Generation would eventually replace them. After the Silver Age, the Black Iron Age would arrive..."
"...The Truth Council. In order to recreate the glory of the past age, the descendants of the Godfolk found a child with a pure bloodline deep underground, where Gaia's Will resided. When that child was chosen by Twilight's Will, Twilight hoped to use her to steal the Ancients' authority, equal to Martha's. It projected part of its own will into our world and fused it with that child's soul..."
"...But when it descended, it was discovered by that Will. Our plan began to take shape from that era onward. The child survived and was passed down from generation to generation, until something happened to my parents. My father made arrangements with the Four Sages for everything that would happen a thousand years later, but deliberately concealed the child's existence. Then, a thousand years later, your grandfather found her again on the final battlefield..."
"...You already know what happened afterward. After the Dragon Queen's plan failed, the will of the Twilight Dragon awakened in our world. Relying on the Ancients' bloodline, it seized our world's authority..."
"...It found the place where the Gods had perished and brought them back from the void. But what it brought back was no longer the great will that had favored