*Fragmentary Diary 8/8
*Fragmentary Diary provides supplementary background, explaining why and how his ideals took shape, and can answer many questions. Reading is recommended.
He seemed to have been watching this planet for a very long time.
Vast stretches of time swept toward him. He saw that this planet had taken hundreds of millions of years to form its own body. And he seemed to have existed even before that, witnessing plates shift, the land split open to form oceans, then press together to form mountains. Peaks that towered into the clouds were battered into plains by wind and rain, while fathomless oceans evaporated with changes in the climate, becoming bitterly cold chasms.
After its birth, it took over a hundred thousand more years to nurture the first life under suitable conditions. At first, they were born at dawn and died at dusk, feeding on plants and morning dew, then gradually developed blood and heartbeats. One group stood out, developing limbs suited to running, and eyes and ears for finding prey. Meanwhile, the plants also developed intelligence of their own. They hunted consciously, learned the rudiments of farming and herding, wandered aimlessly, piled stones and wood into nests for themselves, and lived in symbiosis with birds and insects to obtain nourishment.
Tribes became cities, and cities gave birth to civilization.
Forests became an integrated whole of life, their cycles never ceasing.
This was the joy of prosperity, and also the prelude to decline.
He saw that one day, somewhere in the universe, the laws changed, and extraordinary powers descended upon this planet. These powers did not bring much change to the world that had yet to fully take shape, but a few hundred years after Beyonder Power appeared, something went wrong with the little planet itself. Its Stellar Core began