The Distance of Understanding

"To bring about the birth of a Celestial, you have to sacrifice seven billion humans on Earth, along with even more lives?" Refining Heavenly Venerable demanded.

"Nidavellir, the end of one life is the beginning of another. Our universe is an endless cycle of energy exchange, creation, and destruction."

Arishem said, "The Celestials use the energy gathered by seed planets to create suns, producing gravity, heat, and light to form new galaxies."

"Without us, our universe will fall into darkness, and all life will die..."

While Refining Heavenly Venerable confronted Arishem, the Eternals and Avengers on Earth had already erupted into chaos.

Bast took the opportunity to explain the truth behind the Emergence and the Eternals' true mission to the Eternals, whom Arishem had kept in the dark.

"How could this be?"

"Ajak, is this true?"

Kingo, Phastos, and the others, who had already forged deep bonds on Earth, stared at Ajak with trembling pupils.

They had actually already believed Bast's words, but they wanted to hear the truth from Ajak herself, their leader.

If all this was true, then Ajak, whom Arishem had appointed as the Eternals' leader, surely knew the truth.

Facing the questioning and doubtful gazes of her many companions, Ajak's expression turned bitter. After a long silence, she finally nodded.

"Yes, she is right. Over millions of years, I have helped many Celestials emerge. Many chosen planets were destroyed because of it, and Earth is merely one of them."

"Why hide such important information from us? Are we really so untrustworthy in Arishem's eyes?"

Ikaris could not understand. Then his brow suddenly rose as he realized something. "Wait! Millions of years? Weren't we created by Arishem together on Olympia? How could there have been millions of years?"

"No, Ikaris."

Ajak looked at Ikaris and shook her