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"This is the site of the War of the Gods, a remnant of the Great Cataclysm."
Just as Klein was surveying the surrounding illusions, Hermes suddenly spoke. "Back then, the participating gods chose the sea as their battlefield. But as soon as they reached the continent's edge, the situation began deteriorating rapidly. In the end, the gods had no choice but to fight along the Eastern Continent's coast."
"Ultimately, the disaster's fallout destroyed the entire Eastern Continent. Fortunately, neither the Southern nor the Northern Continent suffered particularly heavy losses."
Hermes sighed and said quietly:
"This clearly wasn't a good thing, but it wasn't the worst possible outcome, either."
Not the worst...
Klein fell silent. He remembered that the original owner of his body had also been a student deeply interested in Fourth Epoch history. But later generations had repackaged that history, changing far too much. When buildings from that period were discovered, what awaited them was not archaeological investigation and excavation, but destruction and burial.
However, the Aurora Order still preserved a considerable amount of Fourth Epoch history, artifacts, texts, and Sealed Artifacts. After all, the True Creator had been the sole True God then. Klein had been granted fairly high clearance, so naturally, he could consult almost all their materials and books to help him act as a Scholar of Yore and digest the potion. Thus, he knew that, in the Beyonder world, that era had been dazzlingly spectacular, downright breathtaking.
"I know what the Eastern Continent is like. Dark, dangerous, terrifying-not a place humans should live at all."
Hermes walked ahead, his back straight, looking nothing like an old man.
"The Angel of the Holy Word, who walked those lands on the True Creator's behalf, is my junior. But he had already gone mad in the Fourth