"What are the School Wars? What kind of thing is that?"
Yan Huan asked in confusion:
"Is it some kind of spectacle where Pathwalkers of Erudition tear each other apart?"
"Heh." Laigushi replied:
"It seems, Mr. Yan Huan, that you know very little about this."
"In that magnificent yet brutal war fought in the name of Erudition, a genius's legacy was entirely discarded and scattered across the galaxy."
"They were macro-scale computational arrays known as 'Scepters,' beyond the imagination of mortals."
"They were born by simulating an Aeon's thoughts, and the moment they were born, became part of that Aeon's thoughts."
"They were spread throughout the universe, like the celestial neurons of the Erudition."
"But regrettably, 'Erudition' eventually abandoned them. Everyone knows this."
"What people don't know is that, even after being forgotten, they continued tirelessly seeking the answer to that god's question."
"That problem, which had exhausted the flames of war and catastrophe, and which countless geniuses—including two mechanical Emperors—had failed to prove..."
"Now, you are finally about to step into the truth of Amphoreus."
"If—just hypothetically—one Scepter completed its solution to the 'First Cause of Life'..."
"If, at the end of that empty, cold, and lonely calculation, the failure designated by the Aeon of Erudition used an immensely long span of time to complete the proof itself..."
"Then what would the result be? The answer may be surprisingly simple."
"It was elevated from a dying neuron into true life."
"And what granted it new life was the gaze of another Aeon."
"...This was an anecdote from the distant past, known to no one—not even the many geniuses who had never heard of it."
"For now, allow me to set aside the story of that Scepter. Let us return to the original topic. What exactly is the so-called 'First