Chapter 86: Whispers Of The Unknown
As members of the Junior Blood Legion, Ryuzen and Venus were granted residence in a modest, single-storey house located in Sector 15. It wasn’t luxurious by any means, but it was safe, quiet, and comfortably distanced from the chaos they had grown too used to. Compared to survival tents and crumbling bunkers, this place felt like a palace.
Safe Zone -09, also known as Atlas Skycity, was an awe-inspiring marvel. Sprawled across floating platforms anchored by gravity-locking spires, it shimmered with sleek structures, glowing mana grids, and bustling airship docks. From what Ryuzen had gathered, it housed nearly twenty million survivors, making it one of the largest known havens on Earth 2.0.
There were only ten such Safe Zones in the entire world, each crafted by the combined genius of Horizon Alliance engineers and their mysterious Crafting Systems. According to old broadcasts and declassified records, Atlas had once withstood a Titan-class Hollow Wave, an onslaught so devastating that even nearby zones were annihilated. Yet Atlas stood tall.
That made it, without question, one of the most secure fortresses in existence.
But what truly unsettled Ryuzen wasn’t the towering defenses or the strange technology. It was the name of the world itself: Earth.
The same name as the planet he came from.
Driven by a gnawing curiosity, Ryuzen sought answers. Disguising his search as innocent reading, he slipped into one of Atlas’ oldest libraries, tucked within the Scholar District. The building itself was relic-like—quiet, shadowed by towering glass structures, its entrance guarded by ancient automaton statues.
Inside, he poured over texts. Some were half-burned, others yellowed with age.
And what he found chilled him more than any Hollow.
The Dragons had once ruled the world.
The legendary Dragon Queen Tiamat and the Hero Valarox had indeed existed.
But names like Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Maya, Mesopotamia, and Indus Valley also appeared in the texts.