Lemendusa and Heve were the last guardians of Solenne, but the treacherous children that they had killed before were not necessarily the last enemy on the planet. Considering that there might still be a small group of rebels who had not evacuated from here, Hao Ren let the Petrachelys drop a group of surveillance satellites in the planet's orbit to search for any energy reaction on the surface. At the same time, he also issued a call to the nearby drone cluster, ordering some armed drones to rush to the Solenne Gateway.
But so far, all search channels have not found the reaction of the rest of the rebels, perhaps they have really left this place.
"This is already an abandoned position," Lemendusa was not surprised after hearing the search results of Hao Ren. "After the interstellar barrier was broken, almost all the troops were flocking to the Star of Creation — including the guardians and the rebels. And I heard that the guardians on other planets had activated the planetary self-destruct or solar eruption device before they left, there could not be more survivors. In fact, if you came a little later, there would inevitably be a big explosion here. "
"You don't seem to know about the Umbral Realm?" Hao Ren asked.
Lemendusa shook his head. "According to Muru, we were the ones who were caught in the explosion, and for me, the big explosion only happened ten hours ago. Of course, I don't know what the people who stayed outside call the battlefield ruins."
Lily was sitting on the stone platform where the Gilded Disc was once stored (it had now risen to the surface and returned to its original appearance). She was swinging her legs as she looked up at Muru. "I've heard you talk about the Umbral Realm a few times. What does that place look like?"
"In fact, we don't know either," Muru sighed slightly. "When the last big explosion happened, I and the other guardians had already left the divine realm under the orders of my mother. We only saw a burst of strong light coming from the direction of the Star of Creation, and the background radiation of the entire universe was shaking. Then the stars around the divine realm began to shake, and the galaxy twisted like a vortex and collapsed in the direction of the divine realm. This only lasted for a very short time, and then all the light disappeared. The starlight of the divine realm and the surrounding millions of light-years had all disappeared, and the space was as clean as if a piece of space had been dug out. I have returned to the battlefield to search for clues, but there is not a speck of dust in space, only endless darkness. There were no remains, no relics, not even the slightest temperature or magnetic field. It was as if the Divine Kingdom had never existed, so we called this phenomenon the 'Umbral Realm'. "
Lemendusa became more and more surprised as he listened. Although he was on the battlefield himself, he did not see the vision in Muru's eyes. Y 'zaks asked curiously, "What did you see at that time? When the Star of Creation exploded. "
"Nothing special, just a strong light and an energy shock that shook the entire galaxy," Heve said slowly before Lemendusa could speak. "I saw the Star of Creation expand countless times in an instant, and its light almost occupied one-third of the night sky on the planet. Then within a few seconds, the light began to fade, and I found that the starlight in the sky became very sparse, and the stars in the distance disappeared. That was probably the moment it fell into the Umbral Realm?"
"I'm afraid that's the case. If you can't see the starry sky in the distance, it means that you've fallen into a different dimension." Muru frowned. "But you can't feel anything when you fall into the Umbral Realm? I thought the situation on this planet would be more … earth-shattering. "
"In fact, we don't even know what happened." Lemendusa's expression was strange. "In my time, I just fought for less than a day after the explosion, and then you suddenly appeared and told me that it was already ten thousand years later, and Solenne had just come out of a place called the Umbral Realm."
Lemendusa thought that it had only been ten hours after the explosion of the Star of Creation, but Hao Ren, like a professional detective, did not let go of any details. "In the ten hours that you experienced, did you see any unusual phenomenon or scene?"
Lemendusa pressed his hand on his forehead and thought hard. "Except for the disappearance of a large number of starlight and the loss of spiritual contact with other guardians, nothing changed. Oh, the moment before you came, I saw a flash in the eastern sky, as if the whole universe was divided into two, and then the stars suddenly appeared. If I'm not wrong, that should be the moment when we returned to the main universe. "
"A flash in the eastern sky?" Hao Ren suddenly became concerned. He quickly jumped off the platform. "Show us!"
Apart from Heve, who still needed to rest, everyone else hurried out of the temple. They came to a platform outside the temple. At this time, the long night had just passed, and the sky was still dark. The smoke and clouds brought by the war covered most of the sky, but there were still many stars and some lavender bands behind the clouds. The latter was the color of the Solenne cloud cluster. Lemendusa pointed to one side of the sky. "That's it."
Hao Ren looked up and found that there was a crack that ran through the entire sky. The color of the night sky was divided into two distinct parts on both sides of the crack as if it was cut by a knife. He was stunned for a moment before he realized what it was: it was the fault zone at the edge of the skewed nebula, where all the nebula matter abruptly broke off. As Solenne was just at the edge of the skewed nebula, the image of the fault zone could be seen from the surface here.
"Only a part of the Gate of Solenne returned to the main universe," Muru told Lemendusa what he knew. "The flash you saw was like a blade that cut a piece of the galaxy. Are you sure you really saw a flash? "
"Yes," Lemendusa nodded vigorously. "It ran through the entire sky, very magnificent, I can't be wrong, and it just happened."
Lily then asked, "What's the source of the flash?"
"I didn't see this," Lemendusa shook his head a little regretfully. "It's too grand. It's probably from tens of thousands of light-years away, enough to affect a galaxy. It's impossible to see the whole flash from the surface of Solenne. But according to the shape of the moment it appeared … I guess it may have come from the direction of the Star of Creation. "
Everyone suddenly looked at each other, and after a long time, Hao Ren was the first to react. "The Star of Creation has exploded, but a flash came from its original location, cut a piece of the Gate of Solenne and threw it into the main universe?"
Lily's eyes flashed. "That means there must be something active on the Star of Creation, right? And it's a very powerful one! "
Y 'zaks and Hao Ren said in unison, "Could it be the Creation's Engine?"
They both had the same idea this time.
Near the Star of Creation, there was — or maybe there was — an unprecedentedly powerful force, enough to change the rules of the universe or throw a galaxy out of a different dimension. The only thing with these attributes seemed to be the mysterious Creation's Engine. Although Hao Ren and Y 'zaks did not know what the thing was used for, they could not help but associate the two things together. Lemendusa obviously did not have time to think about this, and he also had a different opinion. "I don't think so. The assembly of the Creation's Engine has not been completed. Mother said it herself, it's only three-quarters complete."
Hao Ren waved his hand carelessly. "But maybe it can be used."
Lemendusa looked at Hao Ren with a strange look. "Can this kind of thing be used?"
"Anyway, no matter what the reason is, we can now assume that there is really something left around the Star of Creation." Hao Ren rubbed his hands a little excitedly. "And with the flash that Lemendusa saw as evidence, the possibility that the Goddess of Creation is still alive is higher. I even suspect that the flash was made by her."
The others nodded in agreement. This unexpected development made them extremely excited. But now the biggest problem was still in front of them:
What was the current situation of the Umbral Realm?
Lemendusa only knew the situation of Solenne. The space around the planet was distorted, and time was chaotic. But according to Nolan's observation, this distortion was not uniform, and it was decreasing with Solenne as the center. So it could be speculated that other places in the Umbral Realm would not be in a state of stagnation like this planet, so no one knew what kind of earth-shaking changes had taken place around the Star of Creation.
Only one thing was certain: there was really something still active there.
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