I told you to plant peas, and you summon Mordekaiser?

Edgar and Isabella both stared at Chen Yang in disbelief.

Soren, however, burst into loud laughter, which sounded particularly jarring atop the hundred-meter-high wall.

"Excellent! Brother Yang, you understand me perfectly!"

He simply sat on the edge of the city wall, just like Chen Yang, his gaze fixed on the world being consumed by black flames, his tone filled with a sense of relief and exhilaration: "Actually, after all these years, haven't I been waiting for this kind of ending?"

The firelight cast a crimson reflection in his pupils, and a cold smile curled at the corner of his lips: "My wish is for all the Yuan people to die!"

"I was just a little hesitant, wondering if I should try to fight for my own survival."

He reached up and rubbed his temples, as if recalling something. After a moment, he chuckled and said, "Now that I think about it, I was indeed narrow-minded."

"I don't care about anyone anymore. What's the point of a world where I'm the only one living in?"

On the city wall, the silence of the group stretched out amidst the churning firelight.

Surprisingly, Edgar showed no further anger or shock.

His expression gradually calmed down, as if he had seen through everything.

He stood atop the city wall, his gaze piercing through the crumbling city and reaching the distant battlefield.

Amidst the ruins of the royal city, the black flame dragon and Mordekaiser are locked in a fierce struggle.

The dragon swooped down, roaring as it spewed out a burst of scorching black flames that burned Mordekaiser's iron armor, producing a piercing metallic sizzle.

The armor was charred black, but Mordekaiser simply raised his arm slowly and pounded his chest.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

An eerie fluctuation spread out, as if erasing the mark of death.

The next moment, the charred armor was restored to its original state.

Immortal and indestructible.

The two lingered in the royal city, probing each other, but neither ever truly clashed.

Edgar stood atop the city wall, gazing silently at Mordekaiser and the Black Flame Dragon still locked in battle in the distance.

"TCD310, activate autonomous combat mode."

Under Edgar's command, the colossal zombie titan began to move, charging towards the center of the royal city.

This zombie titan is the culmination of Edgar's life's work.

That was also the source of his confidence in defeating that black flame dragon.

Although Chen Yang and Soren had given up, he didn't want the world to just disappear like that.

Looking towards the center of the battlefield, Edgar silently prayed that the combined power of TCD310 and the giant iron armored figure could defeat the dragon.

Then, he withdrew his gaze, sighed softly, and slowly said, "The Tower of Ascension is a sin that the people of the Origin cannot wash away."

“You deserve to know the truth.”

"The truth?" Soren tilted his head slightly, his gaze indifferent. "What truth?"

Edgar spoke slowly, his voice heavy: "About the origin of the zombies, about the truth of the plague."

The firelight illuminated his face, and those memories buried under the dust of time were reviving from the depths of his mind.

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“A thousand years ago today, an outstanding scientist, whom you call ‘Crazy Dave,’ was born.”

"My teacher, Dave, was a rare genius in the world and was once the most promising young scientist in the world."

"He completed his independent research at the age of seventeen and proposed the 'plant energy matrix' theory, which was later widely applied to the cultivation of various plants."

"At the age of 27, he developed the first generation of 'bionic intelligent core,' which greatly enhanced the plant's autonomous learning ability and directly promoted the epoch-making development of heterogeneous plant technology."

Edgar paused, his gaze deep.

"Dave's talent led him further and further down the path of science and technology until he was forty years old, when he began to explore the mysteries of space technology."

"During one of his experiments, he accidentally discovered a strange power."

"It exists in quantum superposition, seemingly transcending the physical laws known to humankind, and is not even bound by time and space."

"Dave was deeply attracted to this power."

"Through countless experiments and deductions, he finally found the shadow of that power in the world."

"It is some kind of existence that exists within infinite space and time."

Edgar squinted, as if recalling something, then slowly said:

“Teacher Dave didn’t tell me the name of that power, but according to Chen Yang, it might be more appropriate to call it ‘spatial rune’.”

"After glimpsing the power of the spatial runes, my teacher Dave began to try to actively invoke this power."

"He used this power to create many groundbreaking products, including the space ring that is now widely used."

"Even the plant cards in your hands originated from Dave's spatial technology. Otherwise, how do you think such large plants could fit into such small cards?"

"But as his research deepened, he became fascinated by this power."

"He continued to delve into spatial dimensions, attempting to thoroughly unravel the secrets of spatial runes."

"In the end, he successfully materialized the spatial runes into reality and sealed them in the 'Tower of Eternity'."

Edgar's tone turned somber, carrying an indescribable heaviness: "People cheered and rejoiced, regarding the spatial runes as miracles, and began to use their power without restraint."

"They use runic power to create new spatial devices, expand urban boundaries, and even attempt to alter the nature of matter."

"They don't realize that every gift comes with a hidden price."

"Until—the birth of the first zombie."

The air seemed to freeze at this moment.

"He was an employee at a space ring manufacturing factory."

"Because the factory is closest to the Tower of Eternity, it is constantly under the radiation of the spatial runes and is being quietly transformed by that power."

"In the end, he became the first zombie."

"And people finally realized that this great runic power was making them pay a price in some incomprehensible way."

"From that moment on, 'spatial runes' had a new name—'corpse plague'."

Edgar's fist slowly clenched.

"The zombie plague is spreading like an unstoppable epidemic. Anyone who comes into contact with the power of the runes for a long time is likely to be infected and eventually turn into a zombie."

"This is the price humanity pays for its unrestrained use of spatial runes."

"Dave realized the seriousness of the situation and immediately sealed the Tower of Eternity in an attempt to stop people from continuing to use the power of runes."

"However, it was all too late."

"The number of zombies is increasing day by day, swallowing up civilization like a tide, and the human world is in grave danger."

Ultimately, Dave decided to launch a project that was still in the experimental stage—the 'Ascension Project'.

Edgar turned to look at Chen Yang, his gaze complex: "This is the origin of you 'Ascensioners'."

"The original intention of the Ascension Project was to explore the unknown world and allow people from this world to go to other planes."

"But at that time, Dave discovered that existing technology could not accurately teleport humans out of this world, but it could teleport humans from other worlds to this world."

"Therefore, he initiated the Ascension Plan, summoning beings from other planes to this place in order to give humanity a chance to survive."

Edgar sighed deeply and looked at the royal city that had been engulfed by black flames.

"This is the truth behind the Ascension Plan."

"In the end, humanity won a sliver of hope and lingered on under the shadow of the zombie plague."

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