Saint Carthanas, residential area, night.
The night wind was slightly cool. Tilan sat on the water tank on the rooftop, overlooking the city's nightscape below, and took a moment to clear her mind.
No wonder the Federation sealed the history of the Fifth Epoch, only depicting the brutality of those years in sparse words within education. Seeing too much of these things indeed makes one physically uncomfortable.
The Fifth Epoch lasted for over 4,600 years, during which the slaughter and destruction were countless, to the extent that life in that era became numb to death. The excessively chaotic environment also caused technology to nearly stagnate and even regress. After all, the scientists you might imagine were perhaps just those who crawled out of cultivation tanks after three months. Expecting them to be different from the previous batch of deceased researchers is akin to wishful thinking.
