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[Ancient Council]
"Welcome, welcome~ Welcome, our lord of the Heavenly Realm~ to this place~ Hehe, it truly has been a long time."
Beneath the starry sky stood a long table.
The table stood in the center of a sea of flowers.
Most of the chairs, each different in shape and even size, were empty.
Only the seat at the head was occupied. Wearing a magician's top hat and holding a white rabbit in his arms, Magician smiled at the figure across the table.
A man holding a long scythe, his entire body hidden beneath a black robe, a smiling mask covering his face.
Smiley, Forgotten.
"All this time, I've felt something was wrong."
Forgotten lowered the scythe from his shoulder and pointed it straight at Magician.
"Ever since the Heavenly Realm was destroyed, I've felt something was off. And the more I look at what happened this time, the more it seems like..."
"Oh? Like what?"
Magician stroked the rabbit, the smile in his eyes growing brighter.
"Like your handiwork. Everything that happened in Order Heaven this time, whether it was Mo Wen, Lu Jiayun, or that Hero Race member and the Transcender-the beginning of it all was never Lu Jiayun or the City of a Thousand Stars.
It was you."
It was not a question, but a statement of certainty.
"Hehe, why do you say that?"
Magician set the rabbit down.
"Because that's how the Heavenly Realm was destroyed back then, wasn't it? Lu Jiayun again, the City of a Thousand Stars again. The difference was that the Homecomers who appeared then were still at the height of their power.
Magician.
I know this feeling far too well. There's no mistake.
An almost identical course of events.
The only difference is that Order Heaven isn't the