[Translation: In the foreseeable future... His Majesty the Emperor, ordained by heaven... shall sweep clean all lands and drive out humanity's natural enemies... the envoy of the circle and the children of the circle... communion between heaven and humanity, portraits drawn and likenesses carved, inscribed before the hall...]
"What... what is this?"
"A prophecy. A prophecy from a thousand years ago."
"Communion between heaven and humanity... perhaps the translation is inaccurate, but I'm certain this was the earliest form of psionics."
[God loves all people... moved by this, the Son of Heaven commissioned a temple for worship through the generations... and several volumes of the world's fundamental truths were preserved here...]
"That's impossible. How could people back then have built a temple in such a dangerous place?"
"There's no historical record of it whatsoever!"
"(Panting)... Quick! Get to the front of the Main Hall! There, there..."
"What happened?"
"A portrait of His Majesty the Emperor!!!"
"What?!!!"
The archaeologists had good luck with the "Unknown Language System."
This was a monk's manuscript, blurred by age but written in a very well-known script-not an alien language at all, but the clerical script of the Han Dynasty. The linguists accompanying the expedition had already deciphered it.
This temple had been used to serve the "Time Worm," also known as the Worm-in-Waiting. Most of the inscriptions were rhythmic and poetic, praying for the Time Worm's arrival-or, if read backward, its departure.
Some passages also described the "mechanics of the universe." The excited archaeologists swore that they cited advanced field equations. Those were nothing new to people of the present day, but their discovery in this ancient temple was impressive in itself.
Yet these were clearly not the most important findings. Every fragmentary scroll unearthed from the Han Dynasty mentioned