In the real world, when people learned that Atlas Institute had been reduced to ruins, they were all stunned. When they learned that nearly ten thousand years had passed, they were even more astonished.
After all, Atlas Institute's true history clearly could not have been that long. It had founded the Mage's Association alongside the Clock Tower and the Wandering Sea, and there had been no mention of its disappearance in modern society. All evidence proved that it still existed, which meant Atlas Institute ought to still be around.
Naturally, even if Atlas Institute existed within a Singularity because of the Incineration of Humanity, it should still have existed in this era.
In the thirteenth century AD, Atlas Institute must have been alive and well.
Yet here, according to Void Archives, ten thousand years had passed since Atlas Institute got wiped out.
That was terrifying.
The implications were simply too vast, enough to make goosebumps rise on people's skin.
At the same time, some clever people had already begun frantically analyzing the situation.
Yao Guang—Chaldea.
After pondering for a long while like a detective, Professor Waver offered his analysis. "Clearly, Atlas Institute should have existed all the way into modern society, with no signs of having vanished. As a hidden power in the magecraft world, Atlas Institute possessed its own foundations and strength."
"Even if it had been accidentally destroyed within a Singularity due to the Incineration of Humanity, the timing should not have been too far removed from when that Singularity appeared."
"Yet Void Archives said Atlas Institute had been destroyed for ten thousand years, and that Fujimaru Tachibana and the others had arrived too late."
"This so-called 'too late' is rather interesting."
"You must understand, the Incineration of Humanity only burned away three thousand years of human