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Chapter 269 The Shattered Moon Incident
"This is the realm of the God Lord, which we call the Starfield of the End."

Matilda spoke in an extremely devout tone.

"It's that sea of ​​flowers..."

Caesar looked up and saw the enormous celestial body that seemed to hover almost overhead. The planet, with its blue-gray and dark green hues, was Eli, the planet upon which humanity depended for survival.

This was exactly the same scene I saw during the divination that day.

Except for the absence of that figure.

"Before His Holiness left, He entrusted me with the power to govern the divine kingdom. It's just a pity that I don't yet have the ability to control this territory. For now, I am merely a custodian acting on his behalf," Matilda said.

Caesar could clearly sense that this place was similar to his own Realm of No Form, but it possessed a more complete divinity than the Realm of No Form, and could be considered a true divine realm.

In addition, he seemed to sense that this place maintained some kind of connection with him.

“You should have already noticed that the star system has a certain connection with you.” Matilda looked at him.

"The Lord God specifically instructed me to entrust this divine kingdom to you. He said that you will eventually need it."

Caesar gazed at the sea of ​​flowers, which rippled in concentric circles in the still air.

What was her purpose in leaving this place to me?

“The Lord God did not tell me, but He once said that even if He has become eternal, the Starfield will protect you to the very end,” Matilda said.

"This is the final resting place she gave you."

"We are also the Aldaria Alliance, an alliance she established for you, so that you would have a force to rely on after you awaken, and so that we could become your support."

The fluttering petals brushed against Caesar's fingers, just as Greta had once held his hand.

"Tell me, what exactly happened to her?"

Matilda clasped her hands together in front of her and walked forward.

"You should already know the cause of all this. In order to be able to see you again in the future, the God sealed his soul in the Sea Harp Box, which floated in the spirit world and stayed with you in the heart of the palace. Originally, according to the characteristics of the Sea Harp Box, as long as you did not wake up, she would remain there forever, her soul in the juncture of life and death, waiting for you who could never return."

"But all of this changed in the 50th year of the Empire, when a divine descent occurred in the palace of Eldaria."

"A divine intervention?" Caesar looked at Matilda.

"You mean, the Shattered Moon incident?"

“That’s right.” Matilda nodded.

"In an instant, the true god descended, and the entire palace was completely destroyed, with no one surviving."

"All of this was caused by your successor, Rean II. The information we have now suggests that he seems to want to emulate your method, using divine relics to crown himself and thereby attempt to ascend to godhood,"

"Back then, a meteorite fell and revealed a divine site within the Arctic Circle. The divine relic he obtained must have come from there. According to the information we have now, that relic is called the Eye of the Abyss, and its divinity even surpasses that of your Uncrowned Heart."

"The theoretical knowledge of magic at that time was developing rapidly and was far ahead of your time. He made very thorough preparations for this and took into account all possible situations. Therefore, he had plenty of confidence that he could accomplish what you could not."

"As it turns out, he did indeed accomplish what you couldn't; it was humanity truly touching the realm of the divine. But because of this, he suffered a blow from a higher dimension." She let out a long sigh of relief.

"It has now been proven that humanity is incapable of reaching that realm; even merely glimpsing it will lead to destruction."

Caesar's eyes were downcast.

Was my initial idea ultimately wrong?
He looked at Matilda:
"Do you have any information about the god who descended from the heavens?" Caesar asked.

“The Abyss, we will now call Him the Abyss, because He was summoned by the Eye of the Abyss, which is possessed by Rean II.”

"And then what happened after He descended? He destroyed the palace and then left?" Caesar asked.

“No, it didn’t leave; it died there. The Abyss was killed not long after it descended,” Matilda said calmly.

"Kill a god?"

Matilda nodded.
"The one who killed Him was God."

Caesar stood there in shock for a long time.

You mean...Gracesa?

"Yes, your wife, Grace."

Seeing Caesar's astonished expression, Matilda continued to explain:
"Based on our current intelligence, in addition to the Abyss, a god also descended at that time. He was hostile to the Abyss. We have no way of knowing about their struggle, but we do know that the spirit world was their main battleground."

"The abyss won the final battle. The fierce battle almost destroyed the boundary between the spirit world and reality, but as that god was dying, He encountered Greta."

“As you know, the Heine Box allows a person’s soul to exist in the spirit world, so the Gods witnessed their battle.”

"You...you mean to say that Grace inherited the power of that dying god and ultimately killed the Abyss?" Caesar said incredulously.

Matilda shook her head: "I'm sorry, the situation happened in the spirit world, and we have no way of knowing the specifics. The God Lord has never mentioned it to us, but we are certain that it was not an inheritance, but a rebirth. The God Lord possessed his own divinity."

She glanced at Caesar and sighed: "Indeed, it's hard to understand, but we guess that perhaps gods are not controlled by the dimension of time. What seems like an instant to us may have taken thousands of years to achieve godhood from the perspective of the gods."

"In short, the Abyss died, and the God devoured its corpse, gaining His power and ultimately achieving transcendence,"

"But the impact of the divine descent was too great, and it still left behind things that shouldn't exist in the world."

Caesar seemed to have thought of something and asked, "Then, was the Great Destruction also caused by this divine descent?"

Matilda shook her head: "The Great Destruction is inevitable. This divine descent has only brought it forward. In fact, it has weakened the power of the Great Destruction to some extent. Otherwise, we would have been destroyed even more thoroughly."

"Is the Great Destruction Inevitable?"

"Yes." Matilda's eyes were calm as she gazed at the endless starry sky ahead.
"This is the curse of civilization. Every powerful civilization in the past has gone through a similar event of destruction: it sprouts, develops, becomes powerful, is wiped out, and then a new civilization continues to be built on the ruins, and the cycle continues."

“According to the archaeological survey by the General Alliance, the last civilization to be destroyed was called the Sang Civilization, which came from 160,000 years ago. Before that, there were countless other civilizations whose names we do not even know that were destroyed here, and we cannot escape their fate,” Matilda said in a low voice.

"The fact that humanity was not completely wiped out 600 years ago was merely an accident. No, perhaps it could be said that it was just a harbinger. The real catastrophe will come thirteen years later, in 640 AD. At that time, humanity will truly face extinction."

(End of this chapter)