The Empire's upper echelons!!
The meeting of the Seven Divine Pillars began.
"Have you found the identity of that Scarlet Old One?" the First Divine Pillar asked solemnly.
Naturally, they had watched the livestream. It was precisely because they had watched it that they were so grave.
"There is still no news. It is an existence that belongs to no era. Some people left in past eras as well, but they were all different from him. There are no records whatsoever. Most likely, he came from the era before the temporal discontinuity," the Second Divine Pillar said softly.
He had searched through ancient history, yet he had ultimately failed to find any trace of the Scarlet Old One. It was highly likely that he had existed before the time of the discontinuity.
But that was far too ancient—ancient to an almost unbelievable degree.
Especially since an existence from before the discontinuity of time had somehow crossed that gap.
How had he returned? This was not something a simple sacrifice could bring back. If it truly were that easy—
That would have been wonderful.
For The Empire, it would have been an enormous boon. But reality made that impossible.
In that case, there was only one explanation: the Scarlet Old One had not been cut off by the years after the temporal discontinuity.
Of course, there was another possibility. The Scarlet Old One who had returned now might merely be an incarnation from before the temporal discontinuity.
If that was the case, there were far too many possibilities. Everything remained too vague.
"For now, that Old One's attitude toward The Empire is ambiguous. He said that he came from the Empire's people—not The Empire itself, but its people. As for why he left, and for what reasons, we still do not