In short, the turning point that changed the fate of Great Khan Tomitelli and the marauders had been that legendary Enlightener ruin. It was anyone's guess where that Eroan queen had found support she hadn't had in her previous life, how she had unearthed a ruin she hadn't opened before, or how she had obtained a gift she hadn't received in her previous life. And so she had accomplished feats far more glorious than anything she'd achieved before.
Of course, a rise could be swift, and a fall just as sudden. The marauders were now on the verge of annihilation, their predicament far more dire than it had been in the previous life.
Yu Lian was sure that this whole chain of butterfly effects had to be his fault, but he couldn't find the connection for now. Besides, that wasn't the point.
The point was, hadn't the Eroan queen's haul been a little too rich?
She'd found information about the New World in the ruin, then organized a grand expedition spanning two million light-years. That could be explained as careful planning, diligence being rewarded, or "the Spirit of the Universe only saves those who save themselves." But if the haul also included information about the Abyss Nebula and the ghost dreadnought, it all felt a bit too convenient.
And if a usable Enlightener ship just happened to be hidden near the Dawn Nebula, and could seamlessly merge with the ghost dreadnought, wouldn't that really be a gift from the Spirit of the Universe?
Take Yu Lian, for example. The biggest Enlightener ruin he'd ever explored had only yielded Xiao Hui. He'd never heard of anyone finding a Xiao Hong, Xiao Lü, or Xiao Bai somewhere else.
"There's definitely something fishy going on, isn't there?" Yu Lian casually said over the