The immediate crisis had passed, and word of the disputes among the major factions spread far and wide with the fleeing Calamities.
What everyone talked about with relish was Judgment's premeditated massacre, the Salvation Hall of Fame's intervention, and a name the vast majority of Calamities had never heard.
The End of the World-Hold Up the Heavens.
Then, the Withered Glory Theatre's playbills fluttered down like snowflakes, thoroughly engraving the name Hold Up the Heavens in the eyes of most Calamities.
"Play one: A blade tempered through the ages.
Leading actors: Hold Up the Heavens, [Life Sustenance], an unnamed dead star.
Guest appearances: the Primordial Beginning Tower, Judgment, the Rift, and others.
Synopsis: Concealed beneath the ancient Thousand Winds, slumbering within a mysterious Divine Miracle of life, it used its own death to forge the world's most magnificent furnace. Hammered by time, it tempered an edge sharp enough to sever calamity.
No one knew this planet's true name. No one understood why this planet had made such a choice at the very beginning, when Calamity was brewing. But plainly, this keen blade had already found where it belonged.
Play two: The death of [Life Sustenance].
Synopsis: When warriors' blood fell from the sky, when the rain of blood became your homeland's final swan song, sole surviving child, did you still remember those hands that lifted you out of disaster? When you asked what you lived for, perhaps you already had your answer.
When the threads of life drew tight, Obsession and blade light were released together. The Civilizations of two planets completed their final and also their first collision in this world, leaving a vivid stroke upon the dark universe and posing a question to everyone in this world.
Surviving children of Civilization, Calamities born into this world, did you