"Creation? Evolution? Perhaps you find it hard to understand, but humanity's birth truly was a one-in-a-hundred-million coincidence."
The smooth stone walls were covered in illustrations and text, along with a series of prerecorded moving images. They made Evan and the others feel as though they were there in person, witnessing the ancient civilization known as Zero, where every individual possessed towering intellect.
The brightly lit, magnificent city was nothing the ruins now swallowed by the jungle could compare to.
Numerous humanoid beings resembling Magistrate Xing Wei piloted aircraft through its streets. Giant engineering machines roared as they hollowed out mountains and diverted rivers, while demigods flew through the air in the flesh, blooming with brilliant divine light.
Perhaps aided by that transcendent intelligence, its level of development was beyond the reach of any of the five subsequent epochs.
But if it had a flaw, it was that this civilization's population seemed far too small.
Looking over the civilization as a whole, all the big-headed humans of "Zero Civilization" combined might not have numbered as many as the population of a single small modern city.
Yet vast numbers of "Servant Species" were active within it, filling every aspect of the civilization. This was also what drew the greatest attention from Evan and Angie, the two wizards of the Tree of Life School.
Although these "servants" basically had human forms, they retained far too many ape-like traits. Some had low, flat foreheads; some had narrow brow ridges; some had protruding mouths; some had not even shed all their body hair.
They looked like transitional products evolving from apes into humans, and defective products headed in entirely different evolutionary directions at that.
From an aesthetic perspective alone, they were vastly inferior to the people of "Zero."
However.
Among the displayed materials, the most