And if one looked more closely, they had once seen the backstories of those knights. Even if they had long forgotten them, the moment they saw them again, their memories would naturally fill in and correct themselves according to reality.
This was dimensional ascension.
What was called ascension was far more than a simple multiplication of strength. It was a true qualitative transformation. Even if it was not life itself that ascended, but merely a region of spacetime, the changes in that spacetime would still affect the whole.
Thus, when the battlefield was displayed before everyone and they witnessed all that lay within, countless people were dumbfounded.
The Empire's side was one thing, but on the Celestial Dynasty's side, many people had no idea that a war had already quietly begun.
More importantly, the supernatural actually existed!
The Celestial Dynasty's Empress and the Empire's Emperor were both beings as powerful as gods and devils. The Empire's knight orders and the gods worshipped by the Celestial Dynasty possessed divine power as well.
In everyone's eyes, the Empress, the Emperor, the Empire's knight orders, and those Divine Lords and Heavenly Kings were all relatively familiar. Their understanding contained plenty of information related to such things.
Only when Zhao Cheng came into view did the information displayed before many people seem astonishingly sparse.
At a glance, many could only make out that he was a youth of the Celestial Dynasty. Beyond that, there was nothing more.
Only a very small number of people who knew Zhao Cheng in reality could, in that instant, piece together enough information within their minds.
That was why Zhao Dong recognized at a glance that the future calamity, the Rat Buddha of the past, and the god of the present were all Zhao Cheng.
It was not because