Xi Yan finished reviewing the memories, utterly dumbfounded.
The sheer scale of this ascension plan went beyond anything he had imagined. How had those Heavenly People scientists come up with it?
What do you mean, leave nothing in the universe but huge black holes, then activate the Throne on Azilash and collapse it back into a singularity? What kind of poet could dream up a plan this insane?
As far as he could tell, almost every calamity was connected to this plan.
The demons go without saying. These Extradimensional Invaders were the culprits behind all of this. Once I reach the higher-dimensional universe, I will slay them!
The Contingency might or might not have been created by the Extradimensional Demons, but it was a hunting tool they had brought in. After the calamities of the previous era ended, the Heavenly People had taken it and used it to purge civilizations in other galaxies.
The Soryn Parasites were a genetically contaminated hive-mind empire. After fleeing into Extragalactic Space, they had been hunted across the universe by the Heavenly People's fleets, eventually becoming vile creatures that guided the Heavenly People Grand Marshal.
The Hunters were the Heavenly People themselves. To advance their insane ascension plan, they had followed the Swarm, deploying the Contingency along the way and building engines throughout the universe to blow up galaxies.
By the looks of it, the Hunters had already gone off the deep end. They had even kept the Edge-of-the-Galaxy Sentinel as a contingency to monitor the Milky Way. After the Starfish Lord broke it through his meddling, the enraged Hunters had released the current Weakened Contingency Protocol...
Better not let the other civilizations find out about that.
Even the Synthetic Queen was actually part of the plan. She was a pawn put in place to