Above a bottomless abyss that stretched as far as the eye could see, a small island floated abruptly in midair. A great lake lay at the island's very center.
This was the result of Spheria extensively remodeling the original laboratory. He was now gazing at the bottom of the lake, where two round pearls drifted up and down.
"Tiamat, Apsu..."
These two pearls bearing divine names had been drawn from Spheria's memories using the Wish-Granting Ghost's abilities. Though the process had involved supernatural power, the objects themselves were genuine.
Adam had once regarded these two pearls as seafood spawn cages. Later, once he could freely create living beings himself, he no longer paid any attention to these former treasures.
The genuine pearls had remained in the Human Alliance headquarters' collection room all along. This was also the first time Adam had seen them again in a long while.
Things he had once failed to understand became much clearer upon revisiting them now. The functions and even the essence of the two pearls were immediately laid bare.
Whether Apsu or Tiamat, they were fundamentally the same thing: a kind of creation substance that had condensed into form through an extraordinary coincidence and could give birth to life.
So, if one were to give it a scientific name that made its function obvious, it should be called a Creation Orb.
Under normal circumstances, creation substance could not possibly maintain the form of a pearl like this.
Yet just as substances like Primordial Violet Qi and Primordial Chaos Origin Energy, which could likewise create all things, should have instantly transformed into one of the myriad things upon their birth but could still be preserved in their original form at a certain time and place—
This creation substance capable of giving birth to life