Darkness and deathly silence surrounded him. That was Zhou Heng's first impression when he came to his senses. He was just about to open his personal panel to check his various attributes after completing his Fourth Turn, but just then, a majestic, lingering voice came from the darkness and deathly silence.
"The ancient... years... then... what exactly are the ancient years..."
Zhou Heng looked toward the voice and found a golden silhouette standing in the distance, at the end of the darkness and deathly silence, so tall that words could not describe him. His back was to Zhou Heng as he gazed into the deeper darkness and deathly silence. Suddenly, he turned around, and the Sakast Imperial Throne, which Zhou Heng could not have been more familiar with, appeared beneath him. He slowly sat down and looked with solemn majesty at Zhou Heng, who stood an unknown number of light-years away.
"Having seen your emperor, why do you not bow?" A grand, resounding voice came from the golden silhouette seated upon the Sakast Imperial Throne.
Zhou Heng did not move an inch. His gaze blazed as he met the golden silhouette's eyes without a word.
After a long while, the golden silhouette chuckled. "Recalling those varied expressions you Blue Star players wore when you first logged into my Sakast Region brings back endless memories. Your Xia Kingdom's players, in particular, were very different. That is good, too. Perhaps it is precisely because the Xia Kingdom leads the Blue Star Federation that you have been able to resist the encroachment of the Longevity-Cursed Species upon this region."
Zhou Heng still said nothing, but he respectfully cupped his hands to express his respect for this emperor. If Zhou Heng's guess was correct, this should be Naren Sakaste, the emperor of the Sakaste