Chapter 410

Chapter 415: Do You Even Know What Sustainable Development Is? (Please Subscribe!)

The sunlight faded.

The sun in the sky was obscured by a mass of clouds that had appeared.

Everyone who had experienced the sudden attack just moments ago was filled with fear.

And to make matters worse… they still had to continue their salvage operation.

Dozens of salvage team members split into two groups; half set up tents around the airship while the other half helped transport supplies and clean up the battlefield.

Finally, a few experienced salvage members were sent out to investigate the condition of this large ruin.

Although they had just been attacked by the Fourth Beast and the Sixth Beast one after another.

But now that all the beasts had been dealt with by someone, the environment was temporarily safe. Thus, the salvage operation that almost made the commander give up was naturally resumed.

After all, it hadn’t even been half a day since the airship “Tiger Ear Grass” descended to the ground.

The pre-planned salvage plan hadn’t even begun to be implemented.

The order to retreat given earlier by the commander of the “Tiger Ear Grass” was, at its core, merely an act of helplessness in the face of an enemy they couldn’t defeat.

“Hey, Izay, you said before that you’re a hero, which means you don’t deny my guess that you’re human?”

Inside the airship, in a relatively secluded room, Nafude sat cross-legged on the bed, swaying her body from side to side as she asked.

“First, let me correct one point. I already said when we met that I’m not a hero, just someone with the potential to become one.”

Sitting on another bed opposite her, Izay smirked slightly as he corrected her.

This place, as a room, was really too small.

Apart from the two single beds used for resting, there were only two small cabinets for storage and a rack hanging on the wall. The entire room was barely over ten square meters.

Izay sat facing the two newly acquainted girls and then shrugged his shoulders.

“Then let me ask again, is there anything about me that doesn’t seem human?”

“It can’t be completely ruled out based on your claim, after all, there are also creatures resembling humans without distinctive features.”

After his words ended, Laentoluca, sitting beside Nafude, quietly questioned.

Though she only said it on the surface.

In reality, after witnessing Izay’s devastating slaughter of the beasts, the girl had already believed this assumption to be true for the most part.

“Not those hairy and horned ugly ghosts being called ‘non-distinctive species’!? To be honest, I feel somewhat offended.” Izay stroked his chin and clicked his tongue.

After some basic exchanges, he had already understood which world he had ended up in.

—The world commonly known as the “Apocalypse Three Questions,” with an incredibly long name and way too many knives.

The main characters in this world are humans and golden fairies.

Both can be summarized in eight words: created by star gods, destroyed by star gods.

The birth of both humans and golden fairies is closely related to the deities of this world—the star gods.

Including the other races with fur and horns, they are also creations of the star gods.

Countless years ago, there was no intelligent life on this planet; there were only the mindless beasts.

However, travelers from outside the planet, the star gods, were forced to leave their homeland due to some disaster in the distant past and began wandering through the universe.

But because of the excessively long journey and the loneliness, the elders of the star gods gradually grew weary, even nihilistic.

When they finally decided to return to their homeland, they discovered they had lost their way among the stars and forgotten how to get home.

At this time, the wandering star gods drifted to the planet inhabited by the beasts.

Finally, the elders of the star gods abandoned the idea of continuing their wanderings.

Since they could no longer find the way back to their homeland, they would create a new one!

As their name suggests, the star gods were indeed the true deities of this world, and reshaping a planet was as easy as pie for them.

To recreate the environment of their former homeland, they virtually remade this harsh planet.

The surface was entirely replaced, countless remembered races were conjured into existence, and for the original inhabitants of this planet—the primitive beasts.

The adult star gods sacrificed their vast souls as catalysts, using their own powers to curse these initial eternal lives.

Using their soul exteriors as “exteriors” and the primitive beasts themselves as “cores,” they created the “human race,” similar in form to the star gods.

Thus, the memory of their homeland was almost recreated by the star gods.

But reality always differs from imagination.

The “human race” lacked the ability to self-reproduce. They were merely covered externally by fragments of the star gods’ souls, appearing as “humans.”

Their core, their very essence, was still “beasts.”

Every time a newborn was born in the human race, it consumed a tiny fragment of the star gods’ souls, repeatedly depleting them.

Initially, the star gods didn’t care, but later, as the human race grew, the quantity finally reached a level even the star gods couldn’t bear.

Over the long ages, some star gods began to be gradually consumed until they disappeared. Sensing this crisis, the remaining deities negotiated with the human race.

They hoped the human race would slow down their reproduction rate and not entertain any notions regarding the newborns of the star gods.

In exchange, the surviving star gods would provide all their soul fragments for the humans’ reproductive consumption.

The flourishing kings of the human race “joyfully agreed” to this negotiation.

However, after the elder star gods fulfilled their promise, the human race remained peaceful for only a short period.

When the human kings had exhausted the last of the star gods’ souls, they turned their eyes to the final newborn of the star gods—Eluko.

Thus, the star god extermination campaign that has been passed down for over five hundred years in this world began.

With the power obtained from the star gods and various powerful holy swords, the heroes of the human race fought against the servants created by the star gods, eventually bringing back the “dormant” body of the star god Eluko cursed by the holy swords at the cost of all the heroes’ lives.

Afterward, the human race attempted to extract Eluko’s soul to allow them to continue developing.

But they clearly overestimated themselves.

Even the soul of a young star god was beyond their reach.

Day by day, research in this area made absolutely no progress.

Meanwhile, after the victory of the star god extermination campaign, the curse maintaining the existence of the “human race” lost the power of the star gods.

The curse began to fail.

The primitive beast clusters, serving as the “core,” were finally liberated after countless years.

Next came the history of the floating continent clusters known even to teenagers like Laentoluca and Nafude.

One could say that everything was the result of the human race’s own actions.

(Do you even know what sustainable development is?)

Izay stared ahead, mentally criticizing with scattered thoughts.

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