The spectral figure was, naturally, Little Black.
The stream of information continued to unfold.
Lin Yuan saw the Artisan Academy grow increasingly prosperous, with more and more students, teachers, and visitors.
Ships he had never seen before, but which were clearly powerful from their appearance alone, were born in the Factory.
Then, suddenly, a gap appeared in the stream of information.
The entire scene in Lin Yuan's mind went dark.
When the scene lit up again, the Artisan Academy had become a field of ruins.
The bodies of the academy's students and teachers lay everywhere.
There were, however, a group of survivors.
They crawled out through gaps in the rubble, silently gathered the bodies of their peers, and transported them all to the center of the campus.
There, they dug an underground passage and went inside.
After an unknown amount of time, the survivors returned to the surface through the passage.
After that, Metal Golems began emerging from the passage.
With the help of these Metal Golems, the survivors began rebuilding the academy.
Through the efforts of the many Artisans, the academy's buildings were soon repaired.
Yet for some reason, after the entire academy was rebuilt, no new students or outsiders came here.
The survivors paid no heed, as though they had known all along that this would happen.
Rather than rebuilding the academy, they were constructing a monument.
They gave the Metal Golems fixed programs, making them imitate the way the academy had operated in its day, commemorating the academy as it once was.
Then this group of survivors began building the Ark.
"Didn't the system say ships couldn't be built from scratch?"
Watching this, Lin Yuan could not help questioning it.
In the earlier scenes, all the ships had been remodeled and upgraded from existing ships; there had