Chapter 541 Machines Reveal Rinoa’s History
After Null Crown was defeated by the Sword of Voidlight, and the crown that once denied existence transformed into fertile land where meaning sprouts, the world began to breathe again.
However, beneath the new foundation built from embraced wounds, there remains one truth yet to be revealed.
Rinoa.
Her name has been mentioned, prayed for, and even longed for. Yet it has never been fully remembered.
Fitran stood before the last Deus terminal, a machine more akin to a weeping steel tree of data, rather than just a computer or altar. From the sprawling roots, a fragment of memory emerged.
Initial Recording: Rinoa Origin Protocol
"Subject: Rinoa Lir Seraphin." "Species: Homo Eternum." "Chronological Age: ±9,230,000 years." "Status: Last of the genetic line type ∇-R." "Threat: Targeted by external entities categorized as Alien God." "Status: Sealed by the Deus Ex Machina system through Void Isolation procedures."
Fitran was frozen, powerless against this reality.
He did not understand those terms, but within him, his heart stirred. It was as if the name "Rinoa Lir Seraphin" had inhabited his soul long before he understood what love was. In his darkness, a window seemed to open, offering light that called to him, creating a pain that seeped deep into his bones.
"Why... has no one ever mentioned this?"
The Deus tree answered not with words, but with images: