Behind every Calamity lay the reality of many disasters.
Seeing Ye Buyu's grave expression, [History-Eater] thought for a moment before speaking.
"As for me, I was brought here toward the end of the Peak Epoch. I remember waking up in a lake, a lake that covered two-thirds of a planet, with buildings sunk beneath it.
"They were all full of books, and there were lots of stone tablets too, with so much written on them that I couldn't get out for a very long time, because that place had almost been filled in.
"I had a teacher. My teacher was a letter, a thick one, so thick it was like a book.
"But it was also very thin, so thin it seemed unable to hold the compassion in those people's eyes, unable to bear their elusive hopes.
"They said that if a Calamity could one day be born here, it should be called [History-Eater]. They wanted me to eat those things, so I could remember what was in them.
"And become very, very powerful. Then I started eating, crying as I ate. I didn't know why I was crying, but those things called tears just wouldn't stop.
"Later, I ate everything there, drank all the lake water with words floating in it, and gnawed through all the stone tablets with writing carved on them.
"After leaving that place, I ate lots of other things. Then someone called Ku Rong found me, and after learning what I'd been through, he brought me here.
"Oh, he also borrowed some things from me. Some dreams. The one called Note extracted them and put them in a tiny house."
The girl shook her head, thinking of nothing else, simply answering the question.
"That's how I was born. The Calamity called Wu Yan said I