How Dare You Sleep Again

Facing Los's question, Korenaike and the other Dragon Priests shook their heads together. "This information was never passed down. We don't know what the Dragonborn saw in the Bi Yin Abyss after surpassing the world's limits."

"But the Sixteen Great Monarchs saw it. Then civil war broke out. Powerful figures among the other races, comparable to the Great Monarchs, fell one after another, and the other races completely vanished from history, leaving only us Diedra humans."

"The Dragonborn also died completely, but left behind this skeleton containing endless secrets."

Los looked thoughtfully at the Dragon Priests. "You... are descendants of the other races?"

The nine Dragon Priests shook their heads together. "No, we are all Diedra humans. In this world, other than Diedra, no other intelligent races remain."

"This old man knows what you mean," Korenaike said. "Since we are not the other races, why would we oppose the Diedra Empire?"

"Because after the Sixteen Great Monarchs exterminated the other races, they did one more thing."

Korenaike suddenly asked, "What do you think is different about Black Descent compared to the outside world?"

Los said, "There is no protection from the Great Monarchs here."

"And besides the Great Monarchs' protection?"

Los was momentarily at a loss for words, thinking, Other than the Great Monarchs' protection, this place really isn't all that different from the outside world. Although the LingNeng hubs and building materials are strange, there are automatic doors, display screens, elevators, escalators, and so on...

Korenaike said, "Other than the Great Monarchs' protection, the Diedra Empire's level of creation is not much different from Black Descent's... Yet Black Descent is at least a thousand-year-old ruin. Even now, we cannot fully understand Black Descent's technology and can only simply replicate and use it."

"It is normal that Black Descent cannot