The beautiful boy who was reborn in the dark world of women

"…Legend has it that the Aslan Empire fell due to a war for a beloved. When the Dragonblood King Geniat failed to marry Sleeping Beauty, he led his army to attack the powerful Aslan Empire."

"Because the gap between the two sides was so huge, no one thought that Geniat could succeed. People at that time even ridiculed her for not knowing herself and would lead the kingdom to its own destruction."

"The subsequent story is the same as what the general public knows. Geniat was invincible and finally reached the imperial capital."

"King Everly VII was forced to agree to her request and spent a huge amount of money to hold a wedding for her and Sleeping Beauty."

"That wedding of the century was also regarded by later scholars as a landmark event in the fall of the Aslan Empire."

"Since then, the empire's territory has continued to shrink, the Cynthia Plains have been filled with smoke, and natural and man-made disasters have continued. Of course, how the royal city finally sank into the abyss is still a matter of debate..."

"Some say it was an unprecedented natural disaster. Some say it was an evil god that shouldn't have been summoned. Some even say it was a curse from the dead soul of Geniat..."

Nelliel was explaining the legend about the fall of the Aslan Empire to Lor, Frey and the Void Fish who was eavesdropping in the mirror.

The boy listened quietly, then raised his hand, indicating that his mind was full of doubts.

"Wait, I understand the reasoning, but how did Geniat defeat these things in the first place?"

As he walked, Lor pointed to a bulge on the ice ahead.

After being sealed in ice and snow for countless years, these ancient metal creations still retain the hideous appearance they once had when they were destroyed.

The part exposed on the ice surface is already very large, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. This ancient mechanical creation is buried by the glacier, and its huge body can be seen through the clean ice surface under your feet.

Of course, the seamless mechanical structure did not continue to spread and soon broke deep in the ice.

It was just an ancient wreck, and it was impossible to tell what its purpose or effect was.

Lor was shocked. He had imagined what ancient human civilization would look like, but he never expected it to be like this.

The boy looked carefully, trying to see if there were any electrical wires or other devices transmitting electricity. After a while, he blinked uncertainly.

"It seems to be... a steam engine?"

"Steam? What is that?"

Nellie asked curiously, and the boy shook his head, he was just guessing.

The scale of these machines was beyond their imagination. Frey had never seen them in the Theocracy, and Neriel had never encountered them in the hundreds of years she had lived in the Rose Continent.

"We are like those barbaric mountain people in the Jiulun Mountains, walking on the streets of the town of Buro... oh no, on the ruins of the town of Buro."

We can only rely on our inner imagination to guess the purpose of these things that are completely beyond the times.

The evil fox Toumos was right. In the abyss, you can see those lost civilizations of the past and see their former splendor and glory.

Even if it is a dead world, you can still see traces of its existence here.

This is the abyss.

A desperate... Amber?

Lor's breathing choked slightly and he fell into a brief trance.

He looked at these mechanical creations sealed in ice, as if he was witnessing an unprecedented destruction.

The sky shook, and a terrible wound appeared across the night sky. All the light disappeared, leaving only the gray and dead silence that made people extremely panic.

The starry sky is like a turbulent sea, or a folded blanket. Above this distorted splendor, God casts a glance of destruction at the world.

It was a giant dragon of unimaginable size, with a seven-layer crown on its head. The moment the boy saw it, his body and soul were captivated by it.

A world-freezing sadness and a frantic despair overwhelmed everything he could still see.

Then Luo Er could not see anything. All he could see was the dragon flapping its wings in the sky. It flapped its wings, and everything was heading towards destruction...

At this moment, a deep, dim yellow light, like dusk, came from the sky and was everywhere.

In this light, the ripples that destroyed everything were smoothed out, or rather, frozen, and the world solidified, turning into an exquisite and delicate...

egg.

The god of the end, Dusk.

What he brought was not destruction, but solidification. The world solidified into an amber egg and then sank into the abyss.

It's like preserving a fine specimen.

"…Lor? Lor!"

"what?"

When the boy came to his senses, he was surprised to find that he was leaning over a protrusion of ice, staring intently at the mechanical creation sealed in it, so close that he seemed to want to put his forehead against the cold ice.

Lor subconsciously took a step back, and then looked at the giant creature in the ice with a complicated expression. The machine had no heart and could not respond to his gaze.

Beneath the ice, there were gears and engines that had long since stopped turning. The further one went, the more such remains there were.

This seemed to be an army, and their controllers were also sleeping inside. Lor could barely see some flesh and blood wrapped in steel, but of course, it was all shriveled beyond recognition.

Did people in the past fight wars in mechas?

This looks like...

Pretty punk?

Lor tilted his head, finding it hard to imagine the scene.

"Is this another hallucination?"

Frey said vigilantly that the illusion of [Mirage] was everywhere and they had triggered it countless times along the way, but Lor was the one who saw through the illusion most of the time.

He is rarely seen trapped in some illusion.

"No, this one is different."

The young man shook his head, the golden fire in his eyes flickering, as if he was recalling a shadow he had caught a glimpse of.

“I Saw Him…”

"Amor."

"What? Where is He?"

Frey and Nellie immediately felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy and looked around vigilantly, but Lor just said softly: "I saw Him use that dragon incarnation to cause the destruction here."

"...So, the strange fall of King Aslan was indeed caused by Amor. This is a mystery that has troubled Minina for hundreds of years."

Nellie said thoughtfully.

Luo Er was curious: "Don't the followers of the God of Wisdom know about this?"

"She, she had some guesses, but they were contrary to the current understanding of wizard scholars. Lor, you may not know that the god of love Amor has a very high status in the Aslan Empire."

Nellie explained.

"The church that believes in Him is the orthodox church recognized by the Aslan nation. It can almost be said to be the state religion of the empire."

"After the fall of the Aslan Empire, Amor fell into silence and was no longer active in the world, so many scholars believe that the fall of Aslan led to Amor's weakness."

The church that believes in Amor was once the state religion of the Aslan Empire?

Lor blinked. He really didn't know this. They just walked and talked like this. There was crystal clear ice everywhere. Under the light emitted from the boy, things under the ice surface became clear.

They were like walking in a dusty specimen museum, where each specimen represented a lost history.

After seeing so many of them, Lor began to distinguish their functions and his mind began to become distracted.

"This... looks just like the Giant God Soldier."

"What is that? A weapon?"

"Well... it's hard to describe."

Lor was in mixed emotions. This was a true prehistoric civilization. Was Ouroboros already God at that time?

Human beings once had such a glorious civilization. Even just looking at these preserved remains, one can’t help but imagine what the former empire looked like.

But no matter how glorious it was, all that is left for future generations is this desolate grave.

Both civilization and glory are equally preserved and become eternal like amber.