"Understood. Full computing power activated. Breaking through the firewall around the broken historical records!"

Zoey’s holographic projection instantly became solid. Countless streams of blue, high-dimensional data poured down like heavy rain and flowed into the web of cause and effect.

With the full cooperation of two divine-rank powers, their ability to trace cause and effect now seemed almost miraculous.

Inside the quiet chamber, the void began to fold in unstable layers. These were the aftershocks caused by forcefully peering into the laws of time.

Aiden stood with his hands behind his back. The terrifying pressure of a lesser god appeared and disappeared around him, forcefully suppressing the violent waves of space into a small area.

"Found it!"

Jade suddenly let out a muffled groan. A thin stream of golden divine blood flowed from the corner of her mouth, but the divine light in her eyes grew brighter than ever.

An old and decayed golden scroll was forcefully formed in the void by the threads of cause and effect.

It was a top-secret record that had been deliberately forgotten by history, and even erased by some kind of high-dimensional power.

"The origin records of Dawn Society..."

Zoey’s mechanical eyes flashed wildly, and her voice trembled slightly.

"No, this is impossible! Dawn Society was not founded one hundred years ago at all!"

Aiden’s gaze was sharp as lightning as he stared at the words appearing on the golden scroll.

"It was about five hundred years before the Great Destruction."

Jade wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. Her voice was filled with disbelief and shock.

"At that time, Earth had not yet merged with the game, and the Abyss had not yet descended."

"But the first founders of Dawn Society already existed."

"He left a name behind in the dust of history: Lucian."

"Lucian means ’one who has seen the light.’"

Aiden raised an eyebrow. "One who has seen the light?"

"Yes. The broken scroll recorded the only statement he ever left behind."

Jade pointed with trembling fingers at the twisted golden words in the air.

The words began to take form, carrying a suffocating pressure from the very beginning of all things.

"I once entered the core of Earth and saw a golden light. My body was reshaped by a primal Strength. When I returned... I was no longer the person I used to be."

Boom!

It was only one simple sentence, but it set off an invisible storm of laws inside the quiet chamber.

Aiden’s double-pupiled eyes suddenly shrank to the size of needle points.

"He entered Earth’s core, saw a golden light, and his body was reshaped by a primal Strength..."

Aiden read the words slowly, one by one. The killing intent and shock in his eyes mixed together into a terrifying thunder.

"This is almost exactly the same as what Leon, the current leader of Dawn Society, said."

"Leon said he had seen the upper universe with his own eyes, and had seen the Primal Pillar."

"Lucian from five hundred years ago and Leon today are the same person!"

Zoey’s mechanical body made a harsh grinding sound. "A human who has lived for more than five hundred years?"

"No. He can no longer be called simply human."

Jade’s voice turned cold.

"Five hundred years ago, his body was reshaped by the primal Strength inside Earth’s core. He broke free from the normal rules of lifespan."

The quiet chamber fell into a deathly silence.

This truth was too heavy.

So heavy that it was enough to overturn everything humanity thought it knew about Dawn Society, the Abyss, and even this world.

Aiden slowly let out a breath. Then a cold, mocking smile suddenly appeared on his lips.

"I understand now."

"So that’s how it is."

"Leon was never using the Heavenly Demon, and he was never truly fighting against it either."

Aiden’s voice was low, but it carried the wisdom and authority of someone who had seen through everything.

"He is a ’new human’ who has already completed his evolution."

"In his eyes, struggling Reclassers like us are nothing more than uncivilized ants."

"Everything he has done, even working with the Heavenly Demon, was meant to force Earth to make everyone complete the same kind of ’evolution’ he went through."

"Madman..."

Zoey murmured.

"No. He is a pioneer, and also the most terrifying kind of obsessed believer."

Jade tightened her grip on her sword.

Just then.

"Wait!"

A cold and urgent voice suddenly rang out from the doorway of the quiet chamber.

No one knew when Bella had arrived, dressed in white and as cold and graceful as an immortal. She pushed the door open and walked in.

Her face was as pale as paper, but her eyes were filled with a shock they had never seen before.

"Do you still remember that detail in Yves’s last words?"

Bella stared fixedly at Aiden, her chest rising and falling sharply.

Aiden frowned slightly. "What detail?"

"Yves said in his last words..."

Bella took a deep breath. Her voice was shaking badly.

"’I saw the Lord of the Primordial in Earth’s core... It told me the condition for the evolution jump... I chose not to make that decision.’"

"But Leon had already entered Earth’s core five hundred years ago!"

Bella’s words struck everyone like a world-ending bolt of thunder.

"If Leon was already inside back then..."

"Then what Yves saw in Earth’s core..."

"Was not the Lord of the Primordial at all!"

"Or rather..."

Bella clenched her teeth and spoke each word clearly.

"The Lord of the Primordial that Yves saw was Leon!"

The moment Bella finished speaking, the temperature in the quiet chamber seemed to drop to freezing point.

Jade’s star-like eyes widened. The threads of cause and effect at her fingertips snapped one after another because of her violent emotions.

This theory sounded completely absurd, yet its logic fit together so perfectly that it was terrifying.

"Five hundred years before the Great Destruction, Lucian was reshaped in Earth’s core."

Zoey’s data-filled eyes flashed wildly. Countless streams of light drew thousands of timelines in the air.

"And Yves was active about three hundred years before the Great Destruction, all the way until the Great Destruction fully broke out."

"On the timeline, they had a full two hundred years of overlap!"

Bella’s cold, beautiful face was filled with seriousness.

"If Leon had already completed the reshaping of his body five hundred years ago and gained part of the primal Strength..."

"Then three hundred years later, when Yves went deep into Earth’s core, what he saw was very likely Leon after he had already been ’deified.’"

Aiden said nothing.

He stood in the center of the quiet chamber with his hands behind his back. In his double-pupiled eyes, purple-gold thunder and the silver-white Law of Space twisted together into a storm of destruction.

Buzz!

The next moment, Aiden closed his eyes.

His Inner Spirit instantly sank deep into his mind and rushed straight toward the core of the mysterious "10,000x critical hit system."

Since the system had been left behind by Yves, then Yves’s last words could not be only what they seemed on the surface.

"Open for me!"

Aiden shouted in his heart. The terrifying divine power of a lesser god turned into a golden war hammer and smashed hard into the law chains at the deepest part of the system.

Boom!

A blinding purple-gold divine light suddenly burst from Aiden’s body. The violent pressure shook the space inside the quiet chamber until spiderweb-like cracks appeared.

Jade and Bella both gave muffled groans and were forced half a step back by the terrifying shockwave.

In the endless darkness at the core of the system, Aiden’s double-pupiled eyes locked onto a law fluctuation so faint it was almost impossible to notice.

It was the base-level data left behind by Yves. Because of the system’s "devouring ripple," this piece of data had always been hidden in the deepest place.

Aiden’s Inner Spirit formed a hand and forcefully pulled that law fluctuation out.

Buzz-

An ancient scene suddenly appeared in Aiden’s mind and was also projected into the air of the quiet chamber.

It was Yves’s phantom.

His white clothes were stained with blood, and his aura was somewhat unstable. But his eyes still carried an unyielding determination.

He was describing how he had sealed the Seven Pillars.

"...I intend to seal the Seven Pillars in order to slow Earth’s collapse."

In the scene, Yves’s voice sounded tired. But when he reached a certain point, he suddenly paused.

"On the eve of the sealing, someone came to me."

"He urged me to give up the seal. He said the seal would only delay the day of destruction. He said the only path to survival was to accept the Primordial and force open evolution."

"I refused and called him a madman."

"He was silent for a long time. Then he said, ’We walk different paths, so we cannot work together.’ After that, he left quietly."

"From then on, I never saw him again."

The scene ended there.

Inside the quiet chamber, there was a deathly silence.

Aiden slowly opened his eyes. The thunder in his double-pupiled eyes gradually calmed, but the shock deep in his eyes could not be hidden.

"The person who tried to stop Yves..."

Jade’s voice was a little hoarse.

"It was Leon!"

Bella stared at the fading image in the air, her chest rising and falling heavily.

"Two paths..."

"Ten thousand years ago, they had already stood at the crossroads of Earth’s fate and argued over the future of humanity!"

Aiden took a deep breath and connected all the clues in his mind.

"Yves chose the seal. He placed his hope in the future, created the system, and left behind the Reclasser structure, letting us survive for ten thousand years."

"But Leon chose evolution. He entered Earth’s core, embraced the Primordial, hid in the shadows for ten thousand years, and founded Dawn Society, all to force his ’jump’ onto the world."

Two paths had continued for ten thousand years, all the way to this day!

"No wonder..."

Aiden’s lips curved into a cold and complicated smile.

"No wonder Leon knew my system was ’eating’ me."

"Because this system was a tool Yves created to fight the Primordial and maintain the seal."

"While using the system’s Strength, we are also being changed by that Strength."

Zoey’s holographic projection trembled slightly. "Aiden, what should we do now? Leon is not our ally, but it seems... he is not just a simple enemy either."

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