An Age of Change

Campani State Domain sometimes could not help recalling a starry night from one hundred and thirty years ago.

Back then, a problem had arisen in the energy system of Canaanmore's World Tree Capital. The artificial sun had gone out for three months, the god beneath the earth had begun to awaken, and all civilian residents of the great capital had been evacuated to the Gaia Plains. That was also the origin of the small cities on the plains surrounding the World Tree Capital.

At that time, as one of the Ten King Bloods who would live and die alongside the World Tree Capital, Campani was only at the Second Energy Level and had nothing particularly important to do. Every so often, he merely went into the city to clear out the "rootspawn" that would suddenly appear, dispelling the stray thoughts from that god's dreams. All in all, it was much like taking out the trash.

Those at the Third Energy Level and above, meanwhile, had to go to the "canopy" to repair the artificial sun, or descend to the roots and use their own power to sustain the "slumber" system.

It was also then that the artificial sun's radiance had dimmed, while a few stars still hung sparsely in strange formations across the sky, flickering with a faint glow.

After destroying the rootspawn, Campani liked to sit beside the outer windows and look at the stars for a while, then overlook the land around him and the lights of those cities.

Perhaps the sparks of the stars in the sky and the lights of mankind upon the earth were the same.

In those days, such thoughts would involuntarily flash through young Campani's mind. If every star in the heavens represented a great city of people beyond this world, then as