"Ahem! So... you said earlier that Gaia's birth was a miracle that couldn't be replicated. What did you mean by that?" Nie Yun brought the conversation back to Gaia himself.
Compared to how Gaia had died, Nie Yun was more interested in Gaia's nature as a Source of the Spark.
"Gaia was a miracle because... he was a ray of light!" The Duke of Dawn's gaze grew distant, as though he were reminiscing.
Hearing this mystical description, Nie Yun looked utterly bewildered.
You are light, you are lightning, you are the one and only legend?
I love only you. You are my superstar?
I know those lyrics, but I was asking a rigorous scientific question. Please don't give me an emotional description in lyrical prose, okay?
"According to Gaia, his original consciousness was merely a ray of light of unknown origin. That light fell upon a star, activating the entire star and turning it into a vessel for Gaia's consciousness."
Nie Yun was stunned.
A ray of light activated an entire star, then became the Gaia we knew?
No matter how I look at it, that sounds like a myth.
"You can imagine it as an animating light source with an extraordinary ability to propagate. But after giving birth to Gaia, it seemed to lose that animating property, so even Gaia couldn't create another version of himself.
"His unique form of existence also prevented Gaia from freely transferring his core consciousness. Like a soul acquiring a body, this star was both an elevation and a constraint for Gaia.
"At first, Gaia possessed only a sliver of consciousness. Though he was innately extraordinarily powerful, his mind and intelligence were still a blank slate.
"Only after thousands of years of continuous learning and self-discovery, particularly absorbing vast amounts of knowledge from nearby