Xi Yan had been pondering one question: what else lay within Azilash, the star system at the Galactic Core, besides the legendary replicant Jadiga?
More and more secrets were now tied to the Galactic Core, and Xi Yan was growing increasingly curious about the truth.
That old riddler, the Time Worm, seemed to have withheld the truth purely for its own amusement. Thinking back now, many parts of its explanation had felt off.
So what were the true origins of this universe-and of Xi Yan himself?
What lay at the end of the Crisis Carrier and Wuzha Fei paths?
What stood behind the calamity factions?
What exactly had happened in the previous era?
Apparently, every faction knew something except him.
You damn riddlers deserve to die!
The Prethoryn Queen had mentioned the "Hunters," a calamity capable of chasing down and beating the Swarm Calamity. They were bound to be another formidable enemy.
There was also the Synthetic Queen, and the Extradimensional Demons had yet to appear. On reflection, this Milky Way Galaxy really had it rough, with several great calamities taking turns having their way with it...
But after speaking with the Prethoryn Queen at length, Xi Yan discovered some discrepancies between his own memories and the Swarm's understanding.
The Time Worm had said his memories were a condensed version of the Heavenly People Empire of Faith's knowledge of the universe from the previous era. Now, even that claim seemed questionable.
Damn it, what was the truth?!
Deflated, Xi Yan could only wait for the wormhole generator to be completed, then head to the Galactic Core to investigate.
He hoped all his questions would find answers there.
After feasting to her heart's content, the captured Prethoryn Queen readily divulged all her intelligence.
Then she was injected with a dose