"This aura..."
Within Frost Mechanical City, Eternal Krossa, seated on the third throne, raised its head and looked toward the Land of the Howling Gale. It could not say what kind of aura that was, but according to some sources in its database, it should have been an aura released by an ancient deity. Yet this region would sink into ruin in another thousand years. It should have been beneath the notice of those mighty deities, so why had a deity's power descended here?
Just then, the Old Woman at its feet abruptly stopped what she was doing and looked toward the center of the great hall. A radiant longsword hovered there, its entire body forged from brilliant light. A single glance was enough to make one want to kneel in submission. "Something has changed. The Sakas Emperor Sword seems to have... absorbed some unknown power!"
Eternal Krossa sprang up from the third throne and stared fixedly at the Sakas Emperor Sword before it. It sensed the fluctuations of that earlier power. That power had actually entered the Sakas Emperor Sword. What did this mean? Was it to carry out a god's will and accomplish the feat of Slay Longevity? Its guess had been right. A region that had failed to complete the First Expansion, The Ancient Years, in ten thousand years was, in the eyes of the ancient deities and even the Lords, an abandoned land doomed to ruin. There was no way deities or Lords would send their power down to such a place.
But Zhou Heng's appearance had changed the settled opinion of a certain powerful being, and that being was the lofty Lord of Lifespan. It felt that this region on the verge of ruin might make different waves because of Zhou Heng's arrival, so it