Chapter 960 (2/2)

Vivian then asked. “Is the Denizens of the Stars close with the Goddess?”

“I suppose not.” Heve shook her head. “The Denizens of the Stars seemed to be dormant, at least after our birth, their appearance were few and far between. While they may pop up once in a while in the holy kingdom, there is no possiblity of a deep conversation with Mother.”

“When were you guardians born?” Hao Ren asked, his curiosity tingled. “I mean how long did it take for the Goddess to create you guys after her birth?”

“Very long,” Lemendusa answered. “Mother used many years to research on how to create life, and researching the lifeblood on the Star of Creation itself took her almost a million years. She then had created some failed ‘seeds’, and that too took another hundred thounsand years. Only after that did she start creating matured giants and the Seed of Origins.”

“Before that, were the Denizens of the Stars active?”

“Yes, much more.” Lemendusa nodded slightly. “I heard from other Eternals about them, they were very active before but once the guardians were born, they simply just vanished. You seem to think that these ‘Denizens of the Stars’ have something to do with Mother?”

“Did you know how the third gilded disc came about?” Hao Ren asked, with Lemendusa shaking his head.

“The Denizens of the Stars gave this holy relic to a mortal race as a protective ward.” Hao Ren pointed towards the third disc. “That race had eluded the pursuit of the guardians for ten thousand years thanks to that.”

The three giants were immediately stunned.

“So the Denizens of the Stars must have some sort of connection with the Goddess, but that’s probaby long before you guardians were born.” Hao Ren rubbed his chin in thought. “And after a period they simply just vanished, and only to reappear after the fall of the Goddess, and were running about trying to salvage things… Don’t you find this weird? Also, did no one actually gotten around finding their homeworld? Even as secretive as they are, they should have a place to call home right?”

The three guardians looked at each other, and Muru had an awkward expression on his face. “We had never paid attention to them. They were a race whose existance was almost indistinct, they never colonise nor expand their territory neither were they hostile to anyone.. so…”

“Alright, alright. I get it. You lot pretty much took them as somesort of natural phenomenon and completely ignored them,” Hao Ren shrugged.

“Actually, beside us there were other race who had tried to search for the homeworld of the Denizens of the Stars.” Lemendusa suddenly brought up something not know before. “There was a race whose psychic powers were highly developed. They lived by the holy kingdom and worshipped a mysterious ‘Truth of the Stars’, they think that the resonance of the soul and the universe is the path to the ultimate truth, and worshipped energy beings as gods sent by the will of the universe. They had tried to track down the homeworld of the Denizens of the Stars, but every expedition that they sent out ended up lost mysteriously, and they gave up after a while.”

“Lost mysteriously?” Hao Ren immediately pounced with a question. “Have they found anything? Any fortunate survivors?”

“Those that were lost were never heard from again. No one knew of their fate, and those who came back only left a word: The edge of the stars is covered with the sound of darkness.” Lemendusa then shook his head. “I was not an investigator that was in touch with the mortal races, so that’s about the extent I know.”

“The edge of the stars is covered with the sound of darkness….” Hao Ren pondered the particularly odd sentence. “Don’t tell me the Denizens of the Stars lived in a blackhole… Heh, I think that race that tried to search for them probably ran into a catastrophe of sorts and there’s no one alive to tell any tales.”