"So, what did you plan to do?" Richard asked tentatively.
A flicker of surprise crossed the Titan King's face as he looked at Richard, who remained unmoved upon hearing his name.
How much time had passed for the creatures outside to have even forgotten his name?
He was the first Titan, the Titan King, the Creator God of who knew how many worlds. Even in the territories of the Supreme Being and the Furnace People, his name was sung by the natives as that of a god.
Yet Richard seemed as though he had never heard that name before.
"How much time has passed outside?"
"About a million years. It's difficult to estimate the exact time."
"...Has so much time already passed?"
The Titan King fell silent for a moment, his voice steeped in profound loneliness.
Suddenly, he looked at Richard with scrutiny in his eyes.
"Little one, you should understand the mission you bear. Though I dislike those crystals, I truly cannot compare to their research into fate.
According to their design, since you became an Abyss Titan, you must possess the little dwarves' Furnace."
Crystals? Little dwarves?
Hearing the Titan King's terms, Richard immediately matched them to the corresponding civilizations in his mind.
According to the information in the Furnace scroll, the crystals should be the Supreme Beings, while the dwarves naturally referred to the Furnace People.
"I know. I chose this path," Richard replied calmly.
"That is good." The Titan King nodded slightly. "It means those crystals have not made an error, and the plan remains within a controllable range.
If nothing unexpected happened, that monster should have already broken free from its seal by now."
Richard nodded slightly. "That's right. Several rulers who study fate and Mysterious Power are tracking its whereabouts."
"Tracking it?" A trace