"Dean."
With a strained voice, Vidon took a deep breath. "Yes, I've obtained absolutely reliable information about the Zero Silver Lamp Master. Its name is... the T-Gene Engineering Blueprint!"
"Huh?"
"The T-Gene Engineering Blueprint?"
"Wasn't it Oule?"
The Three Giants, who had been silent and tense for a long time, were stunned by the intelligence Vidon had rushed back with at all costs.
What was this so-called T-Gene Engineering Blueprint?
Confusion spread among them. Their earlier anxiety and tension had now turned into bewilderment and curiosity. How could the two reports differ so much?
When he heard Oule's name, [Gravedigger] Vidon understood.
He knew someone else had obtained information before him, but it was clearly only superficial. She knew nothing about the deeper truth.
"Oule was merely the next victim of the T-Gene Engineering Blueprint!"
As Vidon recounted the story in a low voice, an unbelievable tale, filled with dread and unease, gradually unfolded before them.
It had happened roughly twenty thousand years ago.
On this peninsula of the Storm Continent, after enduring thousands of years of major and minor glacial disasters caused by some unknown, mysterious ice civilization, Starveil Land fell into a brief void between species and civilizations. Meanwhile, a civilization called the Creators arose in Night's Veil Land.
The Creators were a species that had crawled out of the ocean and mastered precision machinery.
Gene optimization was the Creators' ark of evolution.
Because of their unusual bodily structure, the Creators had no skin-fat layer, and their minds and souls were not stored in their brains as flames of the soul. Instead, they were distributed throughout their highly developed nervous systems. Their souls, attached to every nerve carrying electrical signals, could reach every capillary. They knew every aspect of their own bodies inside and out.
With this bodily