The Tree of Terra.
Having converted all energy conversion points to mental energy, Nan Tian sat on a protruding tree root, propping his head up with his hands and waiting.
Even with his usually composed demeanor, he felt as if each day was an eternity.
He repeatedly confirmed the location of [Ultimate] with his wishes, his excitement barely contained.
Perhaps sitting and waiting was too boring, so he slowly stood up and began to wander around the space where the Tree of Terra was stored, his legs dangling in the air.
The entire space is enormous, nearly the size of a basketball court, with the Tree of Terra Light taking up half of it.
Suddenly, Nan Tian paused slightly, his brows furrowing.
" Wang Canxin..." he muttered softly.
Just now, he sensed through his wish that a man named Wang Canxin was around him.
The other party's location was actually just one kilometer directly below him.
"A basement, huh? That's quite a secluded spot."
Nan Tian narrowed his eyes slightly, his body began to flicker, and the next second he vanished from the spot.
When he reappeared, he found himself in a vast space completely covered in steel, resembling an air-raid shelter.
Smooth, silvery-white steel plates covered every inch of the area within sight, reflecting a blinding light that made it difficult to open one's eyes for a moment.
When he took in his surroundings, a look of seriousness flashed across his eyes.
In this vast space, the dazzling lights overhead illuminated countless objects below, some ancient and some brand new.
The Nihon Nation's surrender document, a revolver, a swastika flag, a helmet from the US military during World War II, and various firearms, ammunition, airplanes, and tanks from the last century.
Countless items, testaments to the brutal history of the past, appeared before Nan Tian.
There are even various extinct animal specimens around.
The most eye-catching and the one that caused Nan Tian's expression to change drastically was the huge oval-shaped nuclear bomb.
"Vomit..."
Directly in front of the nuclear bomb, a man in a suit was kneeling, his hands on the ground, vomiting incessantly.
He was trembling uncontrollably, like a patient who had suffered a severe mental trauma.
" Wang Canxin." Nan Tian recognized the man as Wang Canxin and spoke coldly from a distance of more than ten meters.
The latter seemed to have heard him, wiped his mouth, stood up with difficulty, and turned to look.
Wang Canxin's eyes were bloodshot, his hair was disheveled, his fists and the spaces between his fingers were full of blood, and his once dignified suit was wrinkled and crumpled.
He steadied himself by holding onto a tank next to him, and managed a weak smile as he looked at Nan Tian.
"If I'm not mistaken... you must be the leader of the Light God Society... the most deserving man of humanity... Nan Tian."
"That's right," Nan Tian replied calmly, a hint of coldness in his eyes.
"If I'm not mistaken, you must be the current supreme leader of the Night Star."
"Heh, I've only been in office for less than two days..." Wang Canxin chuckled self-deprecatingly.
"I really didn't expect that the man who should have been my equal in our game would now be so pathetic, like a stray dog."
Seeing the other person's homeless appearance, Nan Tian couldn't help but mock him.
"Yes... I really look quite disheveled..."
He looked at his blood-stained hands, as if recalling something, and collapsed to his knees again with a thud.
His whole body began to convulse, accompanied by heavy breathing.
"I... I personally killed 15,239 people... and 5,239 of them were my most trusted subordinates..."
He covered his mouth, but couldn't hold it in and vomited again.
Nan Tian, still looking down at the other person, said, "It seems you really are a hypocrite."
"Cough, cough... yes..."
He stood up again, trembling. "I am an extremely hypocritical person..."
"Pretending to be a cold-blooded, ruthless saint who can command the whole situation..."
He tilted his head back and laughed self-deprecatingly.
"But in reality, I'm just an ordinary person—cowardly, timid, neither kind nor evil..."
"I just learned the true history by chance..."
Nan Tian glanced around at everything. "Then you should know the persecution humanity has inflicted on this world, and on its own kind."
"That's why I said I'm just an ordinary person, without your lofty ideals..."
"What you see are the villains of war and the damage it inflicts on the world... but what I see are civilians torn apart by war and brave warriors rising up in resistance."
Nan Tian didn't say anything, he just quietly looked at the other person.
Do you know how the Five Nations and the Night Star International Organization came about?
"These things are too complicated; my wishes cannot be fulfilled."
Nan Tian shook his head and then waited earnestly for the other party to continue.
The other person looked up, gazing across the distance at the International Night Star Organization.
"The appearance of these Variant plunged people into despair, and the five most powerful nations rallied all those with supernatural abilities to fight against them."
"But at that time, people with superpowers were the scarcest resource in society. Countless countries, for their own national security and out of distrust of each other, were unwilling to hand over their own people with superpowers and resources."
"Because in a chaotic world, you can't be sure whether the other party can truly change the world; you can only do your best to protect yourself."
"These five countries used the most radical method; they united and used all available force to annihilate all other countries except themselves."
"Finally, resources were allocated, resulting in the current five nations. The International Night Star were established and their members were placed in all five nations."
"It was precisely because of these resources that the nightmare of humanity being dominated by Variant ended in less than a few years."
"A balance has been achieved between humans and Variant."
"These five chairs of the International Night Star Organization... are composed of nearly a hundred other countries."
Nan Tian's eyes widened slightly; this was a history even he was unaware of.
"Later... perhaps they felt that the process of ruling was too brutal and unbearable, so they mobilized almost every means at their disposal to hide everything or anyone that could prove the previous history."
As he spoke, he touched the tank beside him. "But in the end, they heeded the advice of a high-ranking official and left behind many items that represent various historical periods, as well as a notebook."
After saying that, Wang Canxing reached into his pocket and took out an old leather notebook.
"That high-ranking official who kept everything secret... was my grandfather. He's the one who let me know everything when I was 12 years old."
"Is that so? But it seems that knowing all this hasn't really helped you at all."
"No..." Wang Canxing shook his head, "Everything has changed, because I successfully showed humanity once again how insignificant we are in the face of [Ultimate]..."
After saying that, a smug smile suddenly appeared on his face.
"What do you mean?"