The true starry sky

Luther remembered, Luther remembered everything.

Actually, the truck didn't hit Li Ran that day; it swerved to avoid him and overturned on the road. It was a tanker truck, and the tank ruptured after hitting the road, spilling out a strange, black liquid.

The liquid flowed onto the road and stained Li Ran's clothes.

After coming into contact with the black liquid, Li Ran's condition became very strange. As if his soul had left his body, he was dazed and confused, only instinctively completing actions such as eating and washing up before lying down on the bed.

Not long after, a strange change occurred.

With a deafening roar, the entire world suddenly began to shake violently, and a terrible Catastrophe struck. The earth cracked, fire rained down from the sky, Storm gathered, and human civilization was utterly powerless against this catastrophe; roads collapsed, buildings crumbled...

Li Ran remained asleep, falling into a deep, unseen rift and being swallowed by endless darkness.

When he awoke, he found himself trapped inside a Sealing concrete building, along with a pale blond white man. The man identified himself as Adam Grisha, a scientist from a northern superpower, sent there to research some new substance.

The new substance was a strange, pitch-black liquid, which was now overflowing the entire base of the building.

According to Grisha, Li Ran appeared to have suddenly emerged from the liquid.

Their conversation didn't last long, as the rising Black Fluid eventually engulfed them completely, plunging them into a long slumber.

Many years later, Grisha awoke from the liquid before Li Ran, successfully leaving the concrete building and entering the outside world. Li Ran, however, remained asleep, only occasionally able to vaguely perceive what Grisha had experienced through the connection of the Tide.

He saw that Grisha had rapidly gained great power in a short period of time. Faced with the devastated land, the lost civilization, and the enslaved humanity, he declared that he would reclaim power from the Ancient God and bring glory back to mankind.

And Grisha did just that. In battle after battle, He defeated the mad Ancient God, restored light to the earth, and saved countless humans. Gradually, people began to call Him "the Creator" and offered Him devotion and praise.

As for the concrete buildings that Grisha awakened, they were also given a sacred meaning. It has an ancient name, Chernobyl.

"Chernobyl..."

At the other end of the "Forsaken Land of the Gods," Klein, held captive by Amon, gazed at the Abyssal ravine ahead.

He learned the name from Amon and his first Consciousness was to find it laughable, but he quickly realized something was wrong.

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"Boom!"

A streak of silver lightning ripped across the sky, illuminating the Abyssal ravine and allowing Klein to see once again the massive, gray-white buildings at the bottom.

This building is completely different from the current style, and from the styles of the Fourth Epoch, Third Epoch, and even the Second Epoch. Instead, it resembles the building he remembered with the name "Chernobyl"...

"Knock knock!"

"Knock knock!"

Klein heard his heart pounding, and a crazy, intense idea was brewing wildly in his mind.

Could it be that I... never actually traveled through time?

Meanwhile, at the edge of the continent, the mountain peaks rise high.

Luther awoke from his reverie, looking up blankly into the distance.

He saw the Hanged Man on the giant Cross suddenly fade, spreading into a shadowy expanse that connected the sky above and the earth below.

Behind the curtain of shadows, it seemed, lay a pair of Indifference eyes that watched over the entire world.

As this veil appeared, the entire mountain began to tremble. A heavy, sacred, and magnificent feeling spread out, enveloping everything around it. Rivers of blood flowed from the ground at the summit, and in the shadows, it seemed as if countless Degeneration souls were singing in unison the greatness of the Lord.

The Divine Kingdom of the True Creator has arrived.

Luther looked up, his eyes suddenly narrowing.

What shocked him was not the Divine Kingdom of the True Creator, but the sky above him.

In most parts of the "Forsaken Land of the Gods," the sky is completely shrouded in darkness, so dark that even lightning cannot illuminate it. But here, in the Divine Kingdom of the True Creator, that darkness is dispelled by divine power, allowing Luther to see everything above him.

The magnificent power of the gods reached the heavens, tearing through the darkness and connecting with the Astral World, revealing countless dazzling stars.

That Astral World... something's not right.

Like two transparent layers superimposed, Luther saw two intersecting Astral World at the same time.

The Astral World closer to the earth was no different from the Astral World he usually saw—but behind that familiar Astral World lay a more magnificent and vast sea of stars. Countless the Star were embedded in the dark sky, shining brightly.

"!!"

Luther's eyes trembled violently, for he saw a structure in the Astral World that was all too familiar to him.

Those were seven the Star very close together; if connected by a line, they would form the shape of a spoon. Elsewhere, three the Star were arranged at equal intervals, and if connected with the nearby the Star, they would resemble a leather coat with a belt.

Those are the Big Dipper... and Orion!!

Things that can only be seen on Earth!!

Luther felt a chill run down his spine like an electric shock.

A thunderous roar erupted in my mind, a series of common-sense facts about the current world flashing through my mind. "A year has twelve months, three hundred and sixty-five days, leap years... a day has twenty-four hours, an hour has sixty minutes, a minute has sixty seconds... there is only one Sun and one Moon in the sky..."

"At the easternmost point of the Sonia Sea, before entering the God War Ruins, there are decaying and collapsed steel structures around that deep-sea well, which seem to have been left by humans..."

"The Giant King's parents were human... and the origins of Sanguine and Elf are also suspected to be human..."

"That huge hole where all sorts of ancient things keep being unearthed is actually a landfill..."

Piecing together his geographical knowledge from his past life with the current world map, he Consciousness thought, "The overall topography of the Northern and Southern Continents is very similar to that of North and South America, except that a large area adjacent to them was directly erased by some force, forming Berserk Sea with complex and winding shipping lanes... Also, Sonia Island seems to have drifted southwards like that large island in the north... The Sonia Sea is like an expanded, connected version of the Great Lakes, as if it were struck by a giant meteorite..."

"On the Northern Continent, the mountains and rivers have changed considerably, but the overall outline hasn't changed much... And in this Elf, the Western Continent, the Homeland the elves, and the Eastern Continent, where the 'Forsaken Land of the Gods' is located, correspond to Chernobyl..."

In other words, he never traveled through time, but was resurrected from ancient times on present-day Earth?

It turns out that the Astral World I saw in the outside world was an illusion; the real Astral World was behind the barrier...

However, beyond that barrier, the Astral World contained not only familiar things but also countless terrifying and Distortion beings.

On the moon, which orbits the Earth, flows a crimson Sea that engulfs everything, as if embracing and digesting this enormous natural satellite. In the far reaches of the universe, brown, orange, red, Venus, and blue stars twinkle simultaneously.

It was as if they were winking quietly at Luther.