As far back as the previous era, when countless powers rose to contend for supremacy in the Sea of Stars, humanity had already been the dominant species of a hegemonic empire.
And the Time Worm had watched humanity silently from within a black hole, witnessing with its own eyes their rise from humble beginnings into a hegemonic empire of the Sea of Stars.
Until one day, they deciphered the horizon signal.
That had been an era of extraordinary prosperity and advancement. Nations had even possessed the ability to alter the rules of the universe, forcing nature itself to bow to intelligent life.
The gravity surrounding the Time Worm had been so powerful that it constantly warped time and space themselves. Humanity had wielded the power of time to release the Time Worm from the gravity that dragged it ever deeper, allowing it to poke its head out of the black hole and see the universe for itself.
That had been humanity's first encounter with the Time Worm. From that moment onward, their fates had been tightly entwined.
The Time Worm had watched over the Human Empire, observing every human day after day and gradually coming to understand human emotions. Its love connected all of humanity. Humans protected the fragile Time Worm, while the Time Worm embraced human consciousness with its powerful gravity.
But even the mightiest empire would one day decline.
Within the Human Empire, the most powerful Psionics Users had glimpsed a fragment of the future under the Time Worm's blessing and seen the disaster that was approaching.
The entire empire had been shaken.
"What disaster?" Xi Yan interrupted the Time Worm.
"That happened long after the prophecy was delivered. It began with a great machine rebellion." Sorrow colored the Time Worm's voice. "They called themselves the [Contingency] and