Chapter 922 The Wise Ones Part One (1/2)

As the Legends and deities mulled over the information bombshell that the Knowers had dropped upon them, the Elite Party who were forced to soak in everything discussed had complaints, but were not able to vocalize them.

Wait, Sir. Should you be telling such things to minor characters such as us? Do you really not have to keep secret the vital information you are defenselessly revealing to us now?!

Priest's premonitions were warning him wildly—would he not be aware that his team was here only to testify about the Knowers' unusually old history? They had existed over 770,000 years ago, and even taking into account Mycroft's time dilation, there would be merely a difference of tens of thousands of years between Lost Galaxy and the Multiverse. They were incredibly ancient, but that length of history had been precisely why the champions were able to deduce the truth of the information provided.

Still, not knowing if deliberate or if the champions had simply not been paying attention, the Elite Party who should have quietly left after providing their evidence remained in the conference hall, was forced to take in most of the information laid…would they really not be silenced eternally for it?

Though nonsensical, the thought itself was not impossible. Priest was fidgeting from anxiety filling his mind with the sense that he had forgotten something.

At that moment, his party members were also communicating.

”Won't our memories be wiped later?”

Clergy and Rider made an exchange with a shimmering gaze.

”You want me to hold my tongue? It goes without saying, and I also have to be bold enough to do it!”

Rider got the idea at once through past experiences, and replied with a flash of his gaze.

”It sounds like the Knowers are volunteering to exchange information about the Wise Ones… is that about the Sage? I've even heard the term 'Wise One of the Arcane Arts'—what does that mean?”

Mage was thoughtful as well, with a cool flash in his eyes. Being a spellcaster, he was naturally sharp about related jargon.

Beside them, Alchemist watched as his teammates' eyes flickered in all sort of gazes and thinking they were trying to indulge themselves in some sort of entertainment, he confidently smiled. His eyes which had been transformed suddenly emanated rainbow colors, leaving the others chagrined and feeling inferior.

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Meanwhile, as the Elite Party tried to entertain themselves despite their troubling situation, Joshua began using the simplest layman terms to analyze the information delivered to them by the Knowers, and to speculate on the origins of the Knowers.

Firstly, the prehistoric ruins in World 39958 was definitely an advanced warship from an alien civilization belonging to the Knowers—it had lost control, crashing down into the Devastator Crater in battle against Evil Gods and was preserved until then.

One could infer plenty from that brief information. Firstly, the Knowers and their allies were fighting Evil Gods 770,000 years ago, and suffered heavy losses—the Fleshists' homeworld was decimated, their civilization fallen. The Knowers' homeworld must not have survived either, which was why the civilization turned into its present fleet form.

There was no question that the scale of the war 770,000 years ago between Evil Gods and civilization had been profound—there were signs everywhere across the Galaxy of Beginnings. What remained of the battles made it clear that the Evil Gods had won—most of the Galaxy of Beginnings were wastelands, and it was only several hundreds of thousands of years later that the Elders were unexpectedly born into an insignificant world, even believing that they were the only intelligent life in that galaxy.

Despite that, the Knowers were not destroyed by their failure, and silently roamed the Void, gathering 'knowledge' or 'information' they wanted. They were a machine-like existence to the Great Khan and any other native civilizations, one which they kept a respectful distance away from while the Knowers harvested knowledge both discreetly and efficiently. Still, now that the Mycroft civilization knew about their purpose, they could see clearly that the Knowers were running around the reaches of the Multiverse for the sake of finding legacies similar to Mycroft's own, superior civilizations where the greatest of champions such as the Sage existed.