"There was never any Olympia... We were merely synthetic lifeforms created in the World Forge."
"We have no past, and no real future."
Ajak pointed to her head.
"Every time an Emergence ended and a planet was destroyed, we were taken back to the Forge and had our memories reset."
"Then, with false memories implanted in us, we were sent to the next planet to repeat this endless cycle."
"And Thena's Mahd Wy'ry was caused by having her memories reset too many times, until the fragments broke through her mental defenses!"
Ajak looked at Gilgamesh, her eyes filled with guilt.
"Thena... is already considered defective." Ajak struggled to voice Arishem's judgment. "After this mission ends, she will not be retrieved and reset like the others... She will be destroyed directly."
"Bang!"
Gilgamesh smashed a nearby load-bearing pillar with one punch, sending chunks of concrete raining down.
"Whoever dares touch her!" the strongest Eternal warrior roared. "No one can! Not even Arishem!!"
The atmosphere instantly froze, and the Eternals' faith began to crumble.
The faith they had upheld for seven thousand years, their homeland that had seemed like heaven, was all nothing more than a cold lie.
Makkari furiously signed.
[We were deceived! We became accomplices to slaughter!]
"You should not have told them this. It will only shake their resolve to carry out the mission," Ikaris said coldly to Ajak.
"No, Ikaris. This is the truth they deserve to know." Ajak met Ikaris's gaze, her eyes exceptionally resolute. "And we still have a chance to make things right."
"Arishem sent us to search for the Infinity Stones because even the Celestials fear the power contained within them."
Everyone's eyes turned toward Ajak.
"The Infinity Stones are the power of singularities born at the beginning of the universe. They possess limitless