A person did not die when they ought to die, but when they could die. Things that were truly impossible had been destined to be impossible from the very beginning.
You were willing to gamble—or rather, willing to believe in that fleeting instant of miracle.
In the 86th year of Amber Era 1367, you began assembling a fleet, one capable of crossing the star sea along the routes pioneered by Aki-Vehri. As the leader of "Entropy Ash," you announced to the public, "This fleet will carry the 'Molten Knights' on a journey across the universe, exterminating vermin, bringing the fruits of civilization to every wild frontier, allowing them to witness the Empire's mercy and return to unity."
That was merely your public explanation. Your true purpose was to search the universe for the Lord of Abundance. This would be the first step of the plan.
In the 96th year of Amber Era 1367, the fleet was completed, and the civilization it carried came to be known as "Celestial Empire Gram."
The ecological megaship slowly descended into the stars, like a silent moon sinking into the night. During this time, Erudition's calculations also allowed you to determine His location, and you began drawing closer to Him.
Over the following decades, the silver-white armored knights traveled back and forth through the various starfields of the universe, crossing lands scarred beyond recognition and resisting calamities that could annihilate entire star systems. They seemed like warriors born to fight the insect swarms. No one knew the true faces beneath those iron masks, but their arrival was like divine grace descending, bringing the dawn of the heavens back to the mortal world.
In the 152nd year of Amber Era 1367, fifty-six years had passed. Birth, aging, sickness, and death—two generations had continued aboard this ecological