- Prison Star Prison.

Ian's heart tightened when he heard this.

He bowed his head.

In an instant, Ian thought of many ...... I thought of the star map that he crossed out one by one in his private laboratory on the second floor of the White Room in Port Harrison, and thought of the endless and brilliant sea of stars in the Great Labyrinth of the South China Sea.

Ian thought of the stars that had been fading since before the Fall of the Sky, and now the dim night sky of the Terra Dome...... Whether it was the second prince's sentence of 'standing on the top of the mountain', or the reality that no one looked up at the sky, it made his heart tremble.

I felt an inexplicable sadness.

[Yes, you really know it...... So, heir of Hilliard, the only heir of the city of Immovable Fortification—how can you not understand me, my anxiety and urgency? 】

Grand Duke Thorin sensed Ian's momentary gaffe, and although the boy controlled it well, he was also keenly aware of the mood swings.

He didn't laugh at this, but also explained to Ian in the same voice containing complex emotions, and also said to himself: "We all know that the time is almost up, and there are almost no stars in the sky...... The final moment is coming]

[If the Heavenly Hell is completed, our last chance, the last chance we got at the cost of the destruction of the civilization of the previous era and the collapse of the Moon, will be completely gone! 】

[However, now I am the only one left...... In the face of the Prison Star Prison that wants to seal everything into darkness, with my ability, I can no longer resist, and I can only try to perfect the Dead King...... Perfect the 'Spirit Flame' to fight for the last chance to survive]

【Grand Duke! 】

At this moment, Adbert plucked up his courage, and he asked loudly, confusedly, and urgently, "What are you talking about?!" What is the Prison Star Prison and what does it have to do with the Falling Disaster?! 】

[Why, in the face of this disaster, we have to do such a cruel and terrible deed?! 】

After becoming a dead king, even the former Adalbert, who regarded the Grand Duke as his only hope in life, had the courage to question for his own 'people'.

Grand Duke Thorin was not angry, he just looked at Adbert with a hint of undetectable sadness in his eyes: "If you want to know, then I will tell you]

[Just Adbert, you have to promise me - you'll think carefully about everything I say next]

[Every sentence]

【I will, Grand Duke】The Dead King took a deep breath, and his face became resolute: [Please just tell me]

- Well done, Adalbert.

And Ian said to himself: "You have asked all the questions that I don't want to ask!" ”

With Ian's current position, and to ask about these comparative basics, theoretically what Inaga II's gang knew back then was not normal, and Adbert perfectly helped Ian play an assist.

Grand Duke Thorin didn't know Ian's inner thoughts, he just raised his hand, and many balls of light floating around him rose into the sky in the box, and then formed a star map that may be a little incomprehensible to the Terra, but for Ian, the details are a little unfamiliar, and the overall structure is familiar as if he has returned home.

Star map of the Terra Solar System.

A huge silver sun shines in the center of the sky, and balls the size of ping-pong balls revolve around it from extremely long distances, and these small silver balls cannot be seen in the sky unless you pay special attention

[This is the world we live in—you and I both live in this vast and narrow starry sky...... From the point of view of the void, all of us live on this little ball that is not much bigger than my two fingers.]

Grand Duke Thorin floated in mid-air, and under his will, the Dead River Armament was an ordinary set of armor that could not affect his will at all, and could only be used as a physical body that descended as a projection of him.

The Dead River Armament itself is an artificial catalytic armament that merges the pilot and all reserve souls through constant fighting and death to form an artificial catalytic armament that super-replenishes the individual, which will inevitably affect the human mind and soul.

If all of humanity were to be integrated into the Dead River Armament, it would be possible to manifest a 'virtual entity' that represents the collective will of humanity in the real world.

But in the face of the fourth energy level, the wailing of million-level souls is like a breeze.

He raised his hand, his hideous claws gently lifting a fourth planet representing 'Terra', and the Grand Duke's voice was gentle and incredulous: "This is our hometown...... The tiny dust of the void, the vast land of life, our home, our cradle]

He threw the planetary orb of light, and when it landed, it began to grow rapidly - almost instantly, the giant planetary phantom appeared in front of Adbert and Ian.

This is a blue planet, almost the entire planet is a blue ocean, and the familiar continent of Terra is located in the northern part of the planet's equator...... It is a complete continent with the Mediterranean, mountains, grasslands and forests and snowfields, and the whole continent comes to life, with real bumps and depressions.

In addition, to the west of the continent of Terra, almost at the equator, there is another continent, which is the new 'new continent' that has been newly discovered or developed in recent years.

But the continent is very strange, and there is very little green on it except for the edges, and if there is, it is only a dot and not a patch.

The whole continent is like a charred but revived stake, although it has begun to regain its vitality and pull out some green shoots, but on the whole, it is still scorched black.

Two moons revolve around the planet, one intact but the other shattered.

[Even, the earth we live in is still insignificant to the planet as a whole - those who have carefully studied the history of the pre-epoch should know that in the pre-epoch civilization, there were as many as five continents, and if you count the polar glacial continents, there are seven]

[But after the catastrophe of the fall from the sky, the heavens and the earth changed drastically, and we, the post-borns, have no way of knowing the reason, but in any case, the fact that there are only two continents and the southern frost soil on the entire planet is true]

Thorin was fair, and he stared at the planet in front of him: [So, you can understand, right? Adalbert, we humans are so small. 】

Adalbert was stunned for a moment, he was obviously still thinking about all that the Grand Duke had shown him.

For a young man who has never been a Grand Duke in his life, and who has once been to the imperial capital in order to get an alchemy degree, it is obviously a very troublesome thing to understand how big the planet is and how small his hometown is.

Summer insects can't talk about ice, that's the reason.

But he still understood—by virtue of having seen the map of the Empire, Aldbert, who knew which area the Empire was located and which area the Grand Duke of Thorin was located, looked at a corner of the continent of Terra.

That was the position of the Viscount of Avak, and he could barely find such a small viscounty, it was like ......

[Simply ...... It's like dust.]

He muttered to himself, his eyes darkening slightly, as if he remembered how insignificant humans were compared to such an astral body—but soon, Adalbert became angry again, and he raised his head and glared at Archduke Thorin: "But no matter how small, it should not be regarded as a sacrificial tool! Grand Duke, you're not such a person, are you?! 】

[I want to know...... Know the real reason why you're already moving forward with AVAK Labs and its plans! 】

【Don't worry】Grand Duke Thorin smiled, this smile had no warmth: [This is just a precondition for me to tell you]

[Now] he said word by word: "Adbert, start imagining]

[Imagine that in the outer layer of the planet Terra, there is an invisible and intangible cage that shields all foreign things, even the light]

Thorin said: "Can you do it? 】

Adbert froze in place.

If it was before, he couldn't. But if it was now, with the Phantom of the huge planet on the side of Grand Duke Thorin as a basis, he could certainly imagine it.

He looked up at the planet.

Grand Duke Thorin clapped his hands, and a layer of dull dust covered the entire planet.

Upon landing, the entire planet of Terra dimmed, falling into a dull silence.

Not to mention that there are no stars, even the light of the sun and other planets, as well as the moon, has disappeared.

The whole world is in the final ruin and decay, the grass and trees are rotting, the sea is frozen, and everything is falling into silence.

[This, what is this......]

This scene made Adalbert creepy: [This is the Prison Star Prison? A cage that obscures the planet? But how is this possible...... Don't we still have the sun now...... How could there be such a big cage......]

Even Ian frowned. He thought of something, but wasn't sure.

And the voice of the Grand Duke of Thorin helped him to determine.

[Are you starting to get scared?] Adbert, don't stop, this is the beginning – now, you continue to imagine]

Thorin was fair, and his tone carried a strange coldness: [Imagine this cage ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times bigger - until you think of it! 】

[Thinking that this cage is enough to cover the entire star field, including the sun and all the planets in this planetary system, and even the outer nebula]

[Limit the gravitational pull of this star and imprison all the territory of the sun!] 】

[Imagine! Adbert! If such a cage envelops us, does that explain the fact that all the stars disappeared almost simultaneously!? 】

He shouted, almost angrily, "If such a Prison Star Prison envelops us, not even just us, but the stars, all the stars—"

[So is it possible to understand the anomalies observed by the pre-era civilization!?] 】