The Truth World.
Endless darkness shrouded the land.
The ground was barren and desolate, with almost no sign of human habitation.
But beneath the earth-
A dense network of tunnels extended in every direction.
They were brightly lit.
Humans dug day and night, burrowing toward the deepest reaches underground.
Things buried deep in the soil were often unearthed.
Each one possessed an independent consciousness.
They would converse with the Spirit-Capturing Net.
-In a human body, the Spirit-Capturing Net communicated with the various constructs, helping them become familiar with the current situation.
This was necessary.
Because the Destruction Calamity could launch a war at any moment.
And the Truth World still lacked the strength to fight back!
That day.
Inside a large underground cavern.
The woman who represented the Spirit-Capturing Net's will hovered in midair, letting the threads emanating from her body pass through the soil and extend into the endless underground tunnels.
Each thread controlled the humans at an underground excavation site.
The entire excavation proceeded in an orderly fashion.
"Hm?"
She suddenly opened her eyes and looked in one direction.
In the direction she was watching.
A thread trembled incessantly, as though conveying some message.
An interested expression gradually appeared on the woman's face.
"This is the first time we've dug up something like this... it's worth taking a look..."
She vanished on the spot.
At the same moment.
In the darkness deep underground.
The crowd held up torches, illuminating the object at the bottom of the pit.
-It was a gigantic humanoid statue dozens of meters tall.
It gleamed with a black metallic luster, its surface carved with strange patterns.
Anyone who kept staring would discover that those patterns seemed to come alive, forming strangely shaped black characters before their eyes.
Every human gazing at the gigantic humanoid