Chapter 214: An oppressive, heavy tale
About thirty seconds into the silence, the dozens of people in the conference room noticed the man in the middle of the mysterious group slowly stand up.
"Curiosity was the first source of human progress. I can understand your thirst for knowledge."
"And fear is both an obstacle in the hearts of all living beings and a force that drives them to grow stronger."
Magic power drifted over the conference table, gradually turning from something invisible into visible light. At the same moment, every light in the conference room went out.
Only the glow of magic power above the table remained, bathing everyone's faces in shifting colors.
Like a three-dimensional projection, the colors formed images that played out humanity's progression from eating raw flesh and drinking blood to using fire, then gradually developing civilization.
"This is what today's textbooks record. But as you've begun to suspect, there is hidden history beyond all this."
The image changed into the entire Earth, and the view gradually pulled back. But what appeared was not the universe. Instead, it ultimately became a patch of light-or rather, a sphere of light.
The view gradually drew closer to the sphere again, revealing colors that shifted constantly like multicolored glass.
"This is the world we inhabit. And this is the endless Void."
As soon as he finished speaking, the darkness surrounding the sphere that represented Earth's world turned into a gray expanse filled with flowing matter, occupying almost the entire conference room.
"We are like a lone boat in the Void. Even with Dawn's current strength, we still struggle to glimpse what lies beyond our world."
"But as you suspected, we are not alone."
Drifting spheres of light appeared in the Void, rising and falling, fading in and out, even constantly