"When the old laws are frozen by ice and snow, only blazing fire can ignite new hope."
"Are you ready to welcome your... first 'ascension' in this game?"
As Lu Yuan's bewitching words fell, everyone in the internet cafe fixed their eyes on the screen.
On-screen, the Trailblazer, having fallen into the abyss, did not die. Instead, they entered a mysterious space enveloped by endless stars and some amber-colored substance.
[Trailblazer: Is this... space? Wasn't I fighting Cocolia? Why am I here...]
[Trailblazer: ...The last time I came here, Nanook, the Destruction Aeon, glanced at me. Could it be...]
"Aeon Space?!" Gu Yuena's amethyst-like eyes lit up.
"At the brink of life and death, the consciousness leaves the body and reaches the source of all laws. It seems the Stellaron within this Trailblazer is like a coordinate connected to a higher dimension. Last time it was Destruction; this time, could it be..."
In the story, the Trailblazer saw four fragments of Cocolia's past memories within that amber-colored space.
They saw how Cocolia gradually collapsed beneath the Stellaron's whispers, how she expelled her former best friend Serval from the Architects, and how she regarded the Lower District as a disposable pawn.
[Voice of the Stellaron: ...But there is no place for her in the promised new world.]
[Cocolia: Take foolish wills as nourishment... absolve them of their stupidity and fear...]
"She's gone mad. Completely mad." Mu En sighed and shook his head.
"When a leader no longer sees her people as human beings, but as nourishment and foolish wills to be erased, then the new world she seeks is nothing more than an Asura realm built from piled-up bones."
After the four memories ended, a voice carrying what seemed like seven hundred years of crushing despair echoed through the space.
[Will