Once Rudy had created a base, he slowly moved the ind down and ced it on the base. Then, he came out of the sea and grabbed Le B on the way.


    Theynded on the ind and looked upon the castle from afar.


    "There are still some things left in the sea, but I will take care of themter. For now, let''s focus on the castle itself," Rudy stated.


    Lu B nced around and asked, "Since you created a base bigger than this ind, the sea level must have risen. It would bring catastrophe to the ind andnd nearby inds and continents."


    "I already took care of that."


    "How?"


    "Just made a giant hole on the sea bed, so the amount of sea level that was supposed to rise is already settled at the level it was before."


    "You created a trench deep enough to the size of this ind?"


    "My bad. I created multiple holes at safe distances, so…" Rudy raised his fingers and quoted, "Trenches. Now, if you are done worrying about the world and the climate, care to worry about my new home?"


    Rudy asked with an annoyed sigh, seemingly he was in a hurry to deal with the matter so he could return to Maria before she got angry.


    Lu B hugged Rudy tightly and said, "Let''s go."


    Rudy jumped in the air and flew over the ind. They looked at the ruins of what was once known as the greatest and strongest Dynasty.


    "Orcelona Dynasty. It was ruled by many different Emperors over the generations, but one erasted long."


    "Zenith Empire?" Rudy guessed. "Since the seller said she was thest surviving descendant."


    "Yes. It ruled over this Dynasty for over twelve thousand years. It was also thest Empire to rule on it before it met its dismay. But until then, othernds were discovered, and everyone migrated to different continents."


    "Twelve thousand years? Surely, you mean seven thousand years, right? Since that''s what Kim said in the seller''s representation of the castle," Rudy asked with a confused and curious look on his face.


    "No, it''s twelve thousand years. And the Dynasty is a lot older."


    "Then why would you provide misinformation?"


    Lu B looked at Rudy and asked, "Would anyone believe if we had said the Dynasty was that old?"


    "Well…" Rudy pondered for two seconds and sighed, "Okay, you proved your point. They would probably say, ''There is no way they had the knowledge and equipment to create a castle in that era.'' or something along the lines."


    ? "Indeed. And even the seller didn''t know much about it. I don''t me her. She had no idea she carried the ancient blood. She is so valuable, yet living a miserable life."


    "Not anymore, though. I gave her sixty-nine billion dors. Surely, now she can live without worrying about anything else in the world."


    "Who knows. Money isn''t everything in this world."


    "Back to the topic, how long has this dynasty been submerged in the sea?"


    "Rough estimate, five thousand years ago. Back then, there used to be seven Dynasties in total. Until one day, one of them sank into the sea in one night with no survivors.


    From that day, the rulers gathered and decided to look for newnds in the world. No one knew the reason why the Dynasties were submerging, but they all thought that it was due to an increase in poption and buildings on thend.


    Mind you, everyone lived in harmony back then, so there were no wars and bloodshed. So all the humans did was wake up, farm, build, eat, sleep, explore, and breed. There was no drought whatsoever, and they had nothing to worry about.


    The kings and emperors of all the Dystanties gathered every year on an ind in between. Hundreds of thousands of them, and they all discussed how they could give back to mother earth.


    When onend invented something, they would share it with others. When they discovered something, they would share it with another. Everything they did, they did together.


    The rules andws of that time were simple too. Since everyone was satisfied with their lives, crimes rarely happened— but they did happen. Some psychos don''t need a reason to do evil.


    However, natural disasters such as gues, volcano eruptions, rising sea levels, food chain copse, cmities, and catastrophes wipe out 10% of the world''s poption each year. That continued until the world''s poption had halved. Dynasties changed their rulers, and the emperors changed their Empires.


    But they still lived on. Once they discovered newnds, they began to settle there. It wasn''t as though they had never tried to search for newnds or they weren''t advanced enough to inhabit a newnd, but after decades and centuries, the world''s structure changed.


    The desert that was stranger to water and trees became mellow and green. The frozennds where no one could survive became endless valleys once the ice had melted. The greennd turned into ashes.


    The sea becamend, and thend became mountains. Everything changed. Nothing is the same anymore. Not… a thing. So the current human civilization lives on was once resting at the bottom sea until the world''s structure changed and messed the sea level."


    Lu B asserted with a distant smile on her face.


    Rudy narrowed his gaze and asked, "You have seen it all, haven''t you?"


    "Yeah. I have witnessed the beginnings and ends of various human civilizations. Sometimes I pitied them, while the rest of the time, I was happy."


    "Happy? I didn''t see thating."


    "Most of the time, it was their fault, to begin with. Pointless bloodshed and never-ending wars, destroying natural resources, misusing the powers they were given…." Lu B sighed in disbelief and muttered, "They deserved to die."


    "Hmm~" Rudy hummed in amusement and uttered, "I don''t know how old you are, but you are from the era after the ''Great separation'', right?"


    "Yes." Lu B nodded in response. "I was created a few millennia after that."


    "In fact…" Lu B looked at the ind below and calmly uttered, "Here."


    "..."


    "This is my homnd."


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    Thanks, @Ayce_o_Spad, for the gift!