Sky Curtain: The Darwin Incident at the outset, the Declaration of the People's League

In that future, if he gives up resistance and allows the Celestial to be resurrected, the end of the world will be postponed, and the world will enjoy a thousand years of peace.

The price to pay was simply that Klein Moretti disappeared completely.

Instead, there exists a vessel for the "Heavenly Venerable of Blessing and Prosperity".

Klein naturally refused.

The so-called "peace" is nothing but a lie.

Sacrificing one person may bring temporary peace.

But that's not what he wanted.

As the two sides remained locked in a stalemate, time continued to pass.

The end of the Fifth Age is drawing ever closer.

The threat from Outer Gods is growing increasingly severe, and the barriers protecting the world are weakening.

The ancient forces, lurking deep within the starry sky and coveting this land, are stirring.

[Fallen Mother Goddess, Mother Tree of Desire, Super Star Dominator, Everlasting Rumblings...]

Each Outer God is an ancient being, a terrifying force capable of rivaling a true god.

[And in this world, there are only a limited number of true gods.]

If I had to choose, the most plausible candidate would be the sleeping successor of the Celestial Venerable, the young man who merged with the Celestial Venerable's will while asleep and became the new Lord of Mysteries.

[Doomsday is Coming]

He doesn't have much time left; he must wake up as soon as possible.

Finally, at some unknown moment, a faint sigh echoed above the gray fog.

[A sigh belonging to Klein]

The shortcomings caused by the lack of a perfect promotion have finally been addressed.

The Celestial Venerable and he were evenly matched; neither could gain the upper hand.

Klein was able to return because he learned to coexist with it.

[An attempt to destroy the Celestial Venerable's will?]

【Disaster!】

This is too difficult!

That's practically impossible!

The will of the Celestial Venerable is of the same origin as that of the Source Castle, and coexists with the authority of the Mysterious Sovereign. It can be said that they share the same fate, and their fates are intertwined; neither can exist without the other.

Left with no other choice, Klein chose another path—fusion.

Integrate the will of the Celestial Venerable into your own spirituality.

[To seize the authority of the Lord of Mysteries for oneself]

He is no longer Klein Moretti.

But he is no longer the Heavenly Venerable of Blessing and Prosperity.

He is the new Lord of Mysteries.

He woke up.

This concludes the story of Klein Moretti—no, it should be called the "Lord of Mysteries"—.

From an ordinary time traveler, to a night watchman, to the "Fool," to the Lord of Mysteries

He has experienced too much, lost too much, and protected too much.

He is a guardian.

[A pitiful creature constantly facing danger and madness]

But he never gave up.

[Never betrayed our original aspirations]

[I've never forgotten that question—]

"Do you accept this ending?"

The story is far from over.

The bells of doom are about to toll.

The gaze of the Outer Gods is now focusing on this land.

[And those transmigrators who slumber in their cocoons, those remnants sealed atop the Source Castle, will eventually awaken.]

When they wake up, they will find that the world has changed.

The one who awakened them, the transmigrator who was once trapped in this world just like them, has become a god in this world.

He is their compatriot and their protector.

He is—the Lord of Mysteries

A fool who doesn't belong to this era.

The Mysterious Ruler Above the Gray Fog

The King of Yellow and Black, who holds the key to good fortune.

The world awakens, the fools return.

The story continues.

Chapter 103 Klein: Let the Starfleet handle this!

This time, the world that appeared in the sky was completely different from the previous ones, containing a large number of strange things.

Especially the various sequences, as well as sealed artifacts, the Great Old Ones, the Outer Gods...

To put it another way, internal conflicts, exploitation from above, SCPs, aliens, higher-dimensional beings...

All of this makes one realize that the world is indeed quite chaotic.

Although the technology is not very advanced, a closer look reveals that the people here are living in dire straits.

That's pretty tragic.

This continent, projected from the sky, lacks advanced mechanical civilization and convenient modern technology. Even the most basic needs for food, clothing, and safety are unattainable luxuries for ordinary people.

The whole world seemed to be shrouded in layers of invisible shadows, with light forever remaining only on the surface.

From birth, the lower classes are caught up in endless chaos and oppression, with very little chance to catch their breath.

Especially because of those invaders, the world has developed special rules.

Roselle's initial good intentions, which ushered the world into the steam age, ironically turned it into a breeding ground for evil gods.

Just like the damn Victorian era.

It is well known that the death toll during the Victorian era dwarfed the Soviet Great Purge.

The number of people killed back then was a full third of the Soviet Union's population.

It can only be described as a time when humankind is a constellation of stars.

Do you want to deny it?

If Great Britain could force five-year-old children into factories and make textile factory workers work 18 hours a day, causing them to die from exhaustion in just three years, would you dare?

At that time, 56% of children in the British Empire did not live past the age of five. Why was that?

Because those mothers had no time to care for their children, they fed them opium.

Even Japan, as the best apprentice to Britain's exploitation techniques, only dared to make its female workers work 16 hours a day; any more and it would cause unrest.

But that's not the point.

What is most alarming is the sequence of extraordinary systems that runs throughout the entire world.

This power is not available to everyone; instead, it has become a tool for the upper class to consolidate its rule and exploit the lower class.

The so-called extraordinary path is firmly controlled by major churches, noble families, and secret organizations. Ordinary people may never hear a shred of the truth about it in their entire lives.

They don't want more people to share the pie!

After all, the pie is only so big, and there are only a few spots in the Extraordinary Sequence.

Moreover, the materials for those promotions are increasingly difficult to find.

With more competitors, they get less to eat.

Those few who were fortunate enough to come into contact with extraordinary knowledge invariably met with tragic ends.

They either lose control and mutate in their pursuit of power, becoming irrational monsters that only know destruction, or they become pawns of those in power, arbitrarily driven and discarded.

Those who wield high-level sequence power never care about the lives of ordinary people.

In their struggle for sequence characteristics and sealed artifacts, and in their quest to reach higher realms, they frequently erupt into city-level battles.

Each of these extraordinary wars turns countless towns into ruins, burying tens of thousands of innocent people, leaving no trace of their remains.

Alas, whose young men are now just withered bones by the river?

Even more terrifying than the Sequence Conflicts are the sealed artifacts scattered throughout the world.

These items are either relics of fallen ancient gods, vessels infiltrated by the power of outer gods, or remains of out-of-control extraordinary beings. Each one possesses an inconceivable and bizarre power, but also comes with a fatal price.

Some sealed artifacts silently drain the lives of those around them, some distort spacetime, trapping people in an endless cycle of fear, while others spread madness and despair, corrupting minds and causing living beings to kill each other...

It's like that messy pile of stuff in the foundation.

If we had to discuss the differences between the two, it would probably be that the sealed artifacts in this world can be traced back to their source, while the Foundation's collection cannot.

Moreover, the forces here are not as self-aware as those in the Foundation world.

In this world, the forces that control the sealed artifacts always like to use their power to intimidate others.

This is a complete gamble!