Furnace People, the Three Great Civilizations

The Eternal City of Truth was as busy as ever. Groups of Wizards hurried through the city, and the entire Floating City looked like a cool-toned metal beehive.

After entering, guided by a fairy summoned by a working Wizard, Richard smoothly found the Furnace People archives hidden among countless rooms.

In a place as precious as the Eternal City of Truth, archives concerning the Furnace People and other earlier civilizations filled an entire small Library.

Within this archive room were displayed many relics of earlier civilizations.

From the Precursors' Crystal Floating Cannons, to Broken Sword fragments a full person's length long, to Furnaces that, though damaged, still revealed their exquisite craftsmanship.

Most of these relics had no practical value, but their very existence was valuable enough.

Wandering between the shelves, Richard found a book introducing earlier civilizations.

According to Wizards' archaeological discoveries, there had been many earlier civilizations. Judging from archaeological discoveries across various worlds, before humanity became Wizards, this World Cluster had already undergone several cycles of life.

Wizards collectively referred to these civilizations as earlier civilizations.

However, since overly ancient earlier civilizations held little research value, Wizards had always focused their research on the civilization preceding Wizard civilization—the collective body known as the previous-era civilizations.

According to archaeological records, the previous era had been an exceptionally prosperous age.

Among Wizards' archaeological discoveries alone, there were seven or eight previous-era civilizations.

Of these, the ruins of the Lost Ones Civilization had been excavated most extensively by Wizards, followed by the civilization known as the Furnace People, as well as the Titans.

The ruins of the remaining civilizations were exceedingly scarce, and what little remained was basically of little research value.

But just as stated earlier, their existence itself was their greatest value.

The appearance of these ruins had raised