Locke ultimately chose not to interfere. For someone like him, with such overwhelming Magic Pressure and vast reserves of Psionic Energy, avoiding detection by the two natives before him—whose civilization had nearly regressed to cave-dwelling—was simplicity itself.
He followed behind the two of them, watching as they entered an area filled with natural karst caves. The surviving Dune People were eking out an existence here.
According to the information Locke had read before, at the height of the Dune Civilization, its population had been approximately sixteen billion. After all, the original area of the Dune Plane had been more than three times its current size.
It was only because the plane had once been too close to the Sun Plane that many regions along its edges had already been devoured by the Sun Plane.
In fact, this situation was quite similar to what Locke had seen during the Age of Stars. It was merely a smaller-scale version of the Wizarding World at the time. The Wizarding World of old seemed to have suffered severe damage as well, apparently because of certain events that had taken place during the [Imperial Era].
However, the foundations and heritage of the Wizarding World were beyond comparison with the Dune Plane.
Thus, the Wizarding World still had a chance to start over, while the Dune Plane's life bar had been completely drained after being captured by the plane gravity of the Sun Plane. Over the years, solar storms had evaporated at least two-thirds of its area.
In essence, the current Dune Plane was merely the core region of the original Dune Plane. The demiplanes, small-scale planar worlds, and marginal regions that had originally depended on the Dune Plane's Crystal Wall System had all been sucked into the Sun Plane.
The current Dune Plane was the