Guda spoke like a machine without emotions.
Matthew silently watched the scenes that flashed before him like slides.
He saw Giza leave the capital of the Empire's core alone, piloting the spaceship he initially used, and return to the origin of the Empire—
which was the tal planet of the abandoned Universe.
He secluded himself there for a long, long ti.
When Matthew happened to catch a glimpse of his face, he found it filled with loneliness and desolation.
"What's wrong with him?"
Matthew couldn't help but ask.
Guda replied indifferently,
"Because he gradually realized that he might never be able to return to his original dinsion again..."
Upon hearing this,
Matthew felt a stir in his heart.
But then Guda explained,
"When he first t the Space Essences, Giza actually lied."
"He wasn't an explorer from a higher dinsion, but a castaway from an accident!"
"Originally, there were two people who fell from a higher dinsion to our dinsion; one was Giza, and the other was his companion."
"Their spaceship was demoted in dinsion during a bizarre accident, and despite their efforts to salvage it later, they could not return to their own dinsion through the spaceship."
"Then the problem arose—"
"At that ti, there was another airship in the spaceship capable of supporting a single person to ascend in dinsion, which ant only one person could use it to return, and the other had to wait for rescue."
"After a brief discussion and exchange,"
"Giza ultimately decided to give the opportunity to return to his companion, and they agreed that once the latter successfully returned to his holand, he would co to this world to rescue Giza."
"However, even after more than five hundred years, when the spaceship's backup energy was about to run out, the Giza who sent away his companion still hadn't received any rescue."
"Subsequently, he decided to take action and started wandering in the Universe with the spaceship, where he then encountered that group of newly civilized Space Essences..."
Matthew looked at the lonely figure of Giza in the picture.
Suddenly turning to face Guda:
"How do you know all these?"
"There are no records or presentations of this information in your mory."
Guda offered no explanation.
Instead, he continued on his own,
"Giza deliberately subjugated those Space Essences and imparted to them knowledge and psionic power, to help them establish a splendid civilization in the Universe—"
"It was actually to set up a beacon of civilization in the Universe to attract attention from higher dinsions."
"Up until now, he never doubted whether his companion had abandoned him; he feared that the rescue teams had lost the coordinates of this Universe, thus he went all out to do all this."
"At that ti, the Antu Empire's civilization had already spread across multiple universes, capable of extending its tentacles into higher dinsions. If there were Dinsioners of the sa level as Giza observing that piece of the universe, he was highly likely to obtain rescue."
"Unfortunately,"
"He never again received a signal from a higher dinsion."
"He..."
"Giza."
"Seems to have truly been abandoned."
As he said this,
Guda's tone carried a deep sense of desolation,
as if he were Giza, abandoned by his companion and race.
Matthew also had mixed feelings.
His situation and the story of Giza actually had similarities, but compared to Giza, Matthew more readily accepted the fact that he had traveled to a foreign land.
"What happened after that?"
"What happened to the Antu Empire after Giza left?"
Matthew pursued the question.
Guda chuckled:
"Is there anything else?"
"Nothing but the endless pursuit and desire of mortals for power and resources!"
"After the Giza retired, there were several coups in the Empire, and ultimately the military took full control. Since then, the Antu Empire has headed down an irreversible path of complete militarization."
"So war-torn epochs followed thereafter."
"In endless wars, the Antu Empire reached its zenith in expansion, but the initial batch, supposed to be immortal Imprinted Essence, gradually perished in various civilization conflicts, barely leaving any control of the Empire's power echelons to Giza."
"At the sa ti, unbeknownst to anyone, from that day on, the Empire's military began clandestinely investigating the psionic powers of Giza's descendants."
"At first, they invited Giza's descendants under the guise of collaborative research but soon shifted to undisguised coercion and Plunder."
"By then, the Empire's army had completely forgotten about Giza, losing their reverence for this civilizational ntor. Driven by their desire to unravel the mystery of psionic power, they began wide-scale persecution of Giza's descendants."
"Giza was furious when he learned of this."
"Then one day he piloted a Spaceship back to the capital star system, only to be t with military threats from the Empire."
"The first batch of followers of Giza, all Imprinted Essences, had vanished, and now those in control of imperial power were forr severely oppressed Derived Essences."
"Bearing a grudge against Giza, he ordered the latter's arrest and subjected him to relentless tornt."
"The Empire was desperate to uncover all the secrets of psionic power, the secrets of dinsional ascension—they wanted to excavate all knowledge from Giza's brain!"
"No one knows exactly what happened in the interrogation room of the highest prison in the capital star system during that ti."
"But a few things are certain—"
"First, seven days after Giza was imprisoned, all his descendants were released, and they quickly took a fleet and left several universes under Antu Empire control."
"Second, around the sa ti, an army loyal to the Empire secretly traveled to the Origin Planet, Giza's hideaway."
"It was said that this army was tasked with searching for an item related to psionic power."
"But before the army could return to the capital star system, the third event occurred—an unexpectedly fierce civil war broke out within the Empire."
"No one knew the exact cause of the civil war."
"But eventually, all parties were blinded by rage, and various horrific taboo-level weapons were brought onto the battlefield—"
"In the end, after key planets in the capital star system and several surrounding universes faced Destructive annihilation, the Antu Empire finally, and abruptly, collapsed amid this strange civil war!"
"Thereafter,"
"The army sent to the Origin Planet was forced to wander other universes and eventually beca the well-known Storluk Industries."
"anwhile, Giza's descendants claid themselves as the Giza Race, wandering through various universes, longing to return to a holand that never existed."
"Giza himself had completely disappeared..."
"So say he died in the massive explosion in the capital star system, others say the civil war was his doing, and he surely knew how to escape unhard."
"Both of these theories are actually correct."
"The civil war was indeed triggered by Giza, and the original Giza did die in that indiscriminate massive explosion..."
At this point,
A strange, lancholic smile gradually surfaced on Guda's face:
"Do you know why the Giza Race always longs to return to a holand that never existed?"
"That's because after Giza's death, his powerful Soul Mark contaminated the ntal consciousness of the Giza people through their bloodline."
"The longing of the Giza people for a nonexistent holand is actually Giza's nostalgia for his own holand."
"This, not even the Giza people themselves realize."
"They still naively believe that there really is a holand for the Giza Race to return to!"
Matthew blinked:
"So, how do you know all this?"
Guda's smile grew more sinister:
"Evolution thod."
"Everything is hidden in the Evolution thod."
"I obtained all the puzzle pieces of the Evolution thod from the Giza Race and finally pieced together the correct answer, thus I obtained Giza's true legacy."
"In the process of gaining this legacy, my soul was contaminated by Giza..."
"So, the one standing before you now is actually not the Ancient leader Guda."
"I..."
"Am Giza!"
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