"Was this the beginning of Jiang Yang ordering the Devil Ghost Race to guard the Holy Grail forever and dwell hidden in the Abyss?"
Odin grew interested and continued looking.
He saw the Devil Ghost Race flourish, and he also saw them split when the Winter Calamity descended.
After that, they guarded the Abyss year after year, but Odin carefully noticed that parts of their forms slowly changed.
Their eyes turned the purest black, their skin grew pale from long years without sunlight, and they liked to tilt their heads upward to express their longing for the world of light.
After that, no matter how chaotic the outside world became, the Devil Ghost Race of the Abyss paid it no heed.
In the final scene, there was an image that had been rubbed out, making it impossible to see what had been depicted.
But Odin keenly sensed that this might hold the secret to their disappearance.
"Hmph, you thought rubbing it out would keep me from knowing? Let me show you the image restoration technology of the Fifth Epoch!"
Odin scoffed, took out his communicator, and contacted the Norse Refuge.
A few hours later.
A Divine Clan researcher in a white lab coat flew over carrying a piece of equipment.
"Odin, is this the place?"
"Yes, Tiemor. Restore it. I have a feeling there's a great secret in this!"
Odin nodded as he spoke.
"No problem. Watch me."
Tiemor set down the equipment, and beams of light scanned the damaged image.
Soon.
An image appeared on the equipment's light screen.
It depicted a crowned member of the Devil Ghost Race prostrating himself before an Eerie Gate!
And the surroundings were unmistakably within the Abyss!
The enormous stone gate was rendered so vividly in the image, covered in signs of artificial