Svarog's words made Clara turn excitedly toward Chu Mu and cry out:
"Thank you, Uncle-ah, no, thank you, big brother!"
Chu Mu smiled and nodded.
He hoped his dear friend Svarog could have a family, just as he did.
Life with family by your side really was wonderful.
Chu Mu and Svarog did not spend too long catching up. After all, Natasha, Seele, and the others were also present, and they had accompanied him here for something more important.
So Chu Mu asked the question on his mind, the same question Natasha and the others had long wanted to ask but had never gotten an answer to.
"Why did you seal off the Core Furnace Hub and obstruct Wildfire's plans?"
The Core Furnace Hub had a spiral stone staircase leading to the Upper District. A section had been blown apart when the two districts were sealed off over a decade ago, but its main structure remained intact. Wildfire could cross by building a bridge out of steel plates.
But now Svarog had sealed the place off, forbidding any human from entering the Core Furnace Hub.
Wildfire wanted to know why, but Svarog had always refused to communicate with them.
Now that Chu Mu was here, Svarog had no reason to remain silent.
He spoke slowly:
"This is the result of my calculations. The Upper District will soon be destroyed. Humans can only survive longer by remaining in the Underworld."
"The Upper District will be destroyed?" Natasha found that rather absurd. "They live far more comfortably than we do. What threat of destruction could they possibly be facing?"
"Over the years, the Supreme Guardian has committed too many troops to the Fragmentum," Svarog said calmly. "And she has done so in an almost self-destructive manner. I have intercepted correspondence from the