Vitaly Sbelovsky, Pelagia Mosvina...
They had once stood at the pinnacle of the Path of Change, Ascenders who inherited the Black God Chernobog and White God Belobog—the incarnations of the world's utmost evil and all pure good.
Had they survived to this day, they would probably have outranked Russell by several generations.
They had even entered Utopia as part of its second batch of members during its earliest days.
It was because of them that the Silver Sea, in its most fragile infancy, had been able to completely isolate the demonic corruption of Bo Xun and the Piper's petrifying transformation.
And precisely because their existence had been so important, they had been the first to suffer Golden Dawn's attack during Heavenly Kingdom Fall.
Half of the Path of Change's Ascenders had been swept into the shattered Heaven and dissolved into Event Fragments. The other half of the survivors had been divided by the rescue teams that arrived afterward, only to receive an unforeseen stab in the back.
In the end, all that remained was the final fragment left behind after the Black God and White God had abandoned everything—the Mirror of Day and Night.
After Pelagia had completely burned through the White God's authority, what remained was this Philosopher's Stone filled with hatred and madness toward everything.
The surviving Vitaly had also paid an enormous price to protect the students dissolved within the Living Event Record. In the end, his mind regressed and his consciousness became incomplete.
Like that of a child.
That tiny village within the mirror image was the last sanctuary left by the White God, the final resting place of those shattered souls.
To Vitaly, every one of them was the most precious treasure in the world.
For Huai Shi to pass the trial, be permitted to