Inside the hotel suite, He Ao gazed at the text in his field of view. Gazing at the description of ’The Forgotten Wheel of Stars’. It seemed to be the reason and process behind the creation of this ’The Forgotten Wheel of Stars’. Looking at the story’s description, it appears to be about a power foretold to face destruction. Some kind of ’Prophet’ capable of peeking into fate, told the methods to avoid destruction to the power’s leader. Then the leader summoned his wizards, and together they created the Wheel of Stars, according to the Prophet’s prophecy. Gathering Starlight, capturing Stars, this should be ’absorbing’ the power of the starry sky; does the starry sky correspond to the Mysterious Shadow? ’Endless Deep Dredging the Void’ seems to refer to the Abyss? The Abyss is filled with nothingness, so did they ’dredge’ the void of the Abyss out? ’Capturing the traces of Truth’, Truth should be a good friend, so does this sentence mean they were stealing the power of a good friend? Then they sought power from ’Life’. In this brief description, the wizards stole the power of three Divine Beings and the Abyss. And then, they combined these four powers to forge this ’Wheel of Stars’. Attempting to change their fated destruction according to the Prophet’s prophecy. But from the system’s description of the outcome, their purpose was not achieved. The action of creating the Wheel of Stars drew the attention of the Divine Beings, and in the end, ’endless void poured from between the stars, and the world became a wasteland’—from this description, it seems their power was destroyed. The Wheel of Stars was not completed either. Destroyed by the endless void, was it the power of the Abyss? He Ao shook his head, gazing at the text in his field of view. To avoid predetermined destruction, they created an item that could change fate, yet it was this very item that ultimately brought about their doom. From the system’s descriptive text, He Ao faintly sensed some kind of eerie ’sense of destiny’. Did the system specifically present this narrative as a warning, or is it just routine? The Forgotten Wheel of Stars, judging by the effect of ’Epoch Scriber’, should be an artifact forgotten by history. So what does this forgetfulness actually entail? Suppressing the tumultuous thoughts in his mind, He Ao’s gaze continued to move across the text below. After the background of its creation was explained, the precautions followed. The system used seven consecutive ’Please Be Advisories,’ which suggests that this thing is indeed dangerous. But the last ’Please Be Advisory,’ ’The Wheel of Stars harbors a hidden aspect,’ seems to be both a reminder and a caution. The ’Advanced Player’ achievement makes it easier for He Ao to obtain items with hidden powers. From this reminder, it looks like the achievement has taken effect, and ’The Wheel of Stars’ is an item with hidden powers. However, this ’hidden power’ that has been unearthed may not necessarily be good; otherwise, the system wouldn’t have included it in the ’Please Be Advisory’ section. As He Ao finished reading all the text, the subtitles in his view began to gradually disappear. A large living room, decorated with luxurious furniture and items, about one to two hundred square meters in size, appeared before his eyes. This is the President Suite specially prepared for him by the World Tree. This top floor of the hotel building had only this one suite. However, this suite still seemed a bit too small. He Ao lowered his head, looking at the palm of his right hand. He could vaguely feel some kind of indistinct power circulating in the palm of his hand. With just a slight intent, he could summon a certain ’something’. But he could still feel it, that the thing was filled with surging and powerful force, that even his mere perception of the thing’s presence caused indescribable ravings to echo in his mind. Clasping lightly in his palm, He Ao looked up at the moonlight outside the window, with the roaring sound of a steam whistle arising behind him. The fiery sunlight rose at the end of the sky, as the classical vintage train burst from the void, traversing the boundless desert. Soon, the train halted in the midst of a fiery desert and rocky mountains, followed by the doors opening and He Ao stepping down from the vehicle. At the undulating edge of the desert, where the sky met the earth, a crimson sun was slowly rising. The pervasive glow filled the firmament and the desert, as though both the heaven and the earth were ablaze at this moment. Here lay the uninhabited zone in the central part of the Tia Empire, a continuous expanse of desert. He Ao last created the Angel Doll here. Behind him, the Velora reentered the void, He Ao shifted his gaze and looked around. The vast desert sprawled boundlessly, dotted with bare mountains and sporadic wild grass. Standing amidst this majestic natural scene, He Ao was as diminutive as a grain of sand. The howling wind swept across the desert, past He Ao’s cheeks, stirring the wild grass on the ground. He Ao looked down at his palm and slowly opened his hand, invoking the nameless connected object. Like a violent bell toll exploding in He Ao’s mind, followed by a buzzing tremor, an immense invisible shadow spread rapidly across the cloudless fiery sky above. Almost instantaneously, this shadow obscured the space for hundreds of kilometers around, like a vast cloud covering everything above the firmament. The fiery daylight disappeared in this instant, and the warmth that illuminated both heaven and earth faded away. The biting wind hung over the desert, wailing as it blew. The antelopes around looked up at the sky, then without hesitation, fled towards the ends of the world, towards places still bathed in light. The earth began to tremble, and all sentient lives—lizards, sand rats, argali—started to flee. The shadow in the sky pressed down further, a colossal disc, seemingly constructed of stars, slowly emerged from the endless shadow. An immense and vast power spread down from beyond the firmament in an instant, pouring into He Ao’s body. The surge of corruption swept in at this moment too, and blood seeped from He Ao’s skin. In this instant, He Ao activated his Super Memory. The disc in the sky ’descended’ further, its shape becoming more distinct against the sky. Nine magnificent stars resided on the rim of the disc, with an even larger star at the center. The nine stars revolved slowly around the central star, a certain invisible white light connecting them, forming a colossal wheel. And if one looked closely, it was faintly visible that on the largest star at the center, there seemed to be a pattern resembling eyes. The great stellar wheel slowly rose from the shadow, bit by bit revealing its body. And at the moment when this thing was about to fully descend, crimson blood sprayed from He Ao’s mouth, and fine blood had completely covered his skin. Strings of twisted flesh wriggled beneath his skin, the blood-covered flesh trembling, cracking open twisted fissures as if eyes were about to open. And on the wall behind him, his shadow also began to twist, as though it was morphing into an indescribable monster. He leaned forward, almost losing control, nearly falling to the ground. The emerged star from the shadow trembled once, its descending process halted, about to disappear back into the shadow again. In that instant, He Ao looked up at the sky, where an orange-grey brilliance flashed through his eyes, and a huge eyeball phantom was sketched out above his head. His body once again shook violently, as if he had seen something indescribable, his brain cleansed by a wild contamination. At this time, ’summoning’ was finally completely interrupted, the giant wheel trembling as it once again vanished into the shadows, followed by the endless shadow receding. The fiery sunlight once again spilled onto the quiet Gobi desert. Feeling the sunlight-bathed wind brushing against his face, He Ao coughed while gasping for breath, glanced at the fresh blood in the palm of his hand, and then raised his head to look at the shadow above the sky that had already dissipated. He had been careless. The power of this thing was somewhat beyond his imagination, and it seemed to be extremely unstable, even his current physical condition could not sustain the energy and contamination that leaked from the Wheel of Stars. He Ao looked up at the sky, recalling the real appearance of the ’Wheel of Stars’ he had just seen. At the moment when the Wheel of Stars was about to fade away, he invoked the Power of Truth Eye, ’peering’ at a ’part’ of the Wheel of Stars’ composition in the field of view of Truth. The composition of the Wheel of Stars was of completely different kinds of powers. The largest star at the very center had a grey power that felt very familiar to He Ao, probably the power of a good friend. The nine stars on the outside, diffused with starlight, were most likely the power of the Mysterious Shadow. The white glow connecting those nine stars and the huge central star was the power of the Life Goddess. And among the rays, those seemingly hollow ’little fan-shaped’ areas within the Wheel of Stars, were permeated with void, that was the power of the Abyss. Honestly, the fact that these terrifying powers mixed together without exploding was almost a miracle. The person who created the Wheel of Stars even managed to keep it running stably. He Ao had also roughly discovered that the key to the system’s stability was the ’rays’ constructed of the Life Goddess’ power, which greatly alleviated the conflict between the Divine Powers, allowing them to operate stably. And the core of the entire system was that huge central star, the power of ’Truth’. At the same time, that star was also the most unstable part of the entire system. He Ao looked up at the fiery red sunrise, falling into some sort of contemplation. The system’s description of the Wizard who created the Wheel of Stars ’capturing the traces of Truth’ made him feel somewhat familiar. He raised his field of view and took a look at his personal attributes. [Authority Level: Advanced Player] [Physical Quality: 8221] [Skills: Talent Sequence 272: Super Memory (B-tier), Basic Firearms Mastery, Talent Sequence 144: Miracle Scholar (B-tier)] [Mechanical Modification: None] [Martial Arts: Qi Refinement and Spirit Transformation (B-tier)] After his promotion to Miracle Scholar and Martial Arts B-tier, his physical quality had reached over eight thousand, and with the over three thousand growth from Super Memory, his physical quality could skyrocket to over ten thousand. This level of physical quality could already more easily bear the burden of an Angel Tier Truth Eye, but it still couldn’t withstand the contamination and power spread by the Wheel of Stars’ Advent. Although this might be related to the unstable energy of the Wheel of Stars itself, the total energy it carried was probably far greater than that of an Angel Tier Truth Eye. This thing was very likely already approaching the level Above Angel. Moreover, from the description, this thing was still an unfinished product. The system really spawned something big this time, he even had the feeling of a kid who’s picked up an atomic bomb. However, he couldn’t really be considered a ’kid’ now; there should be other methods to control this ’atomic bomb’. Countless thoughts echoed in He Ao’s mind, and he already had some sort of plan in his heart. Coughing lightly again, He Ao looked around at the Gobi desert. But the next attempt shouldn’t be here; he would need to find a place with almost no life. The contamination of the Wheel of Stars was too strong, and He Ao couldn’t be sure if he could effectively control the spillover of its contamination. If it were to descend here, it might instantly spawn countless twisted monsters, and it was also possible that people living nearby might see it. This thing was really dangerous. He Ao’s gaze returned to the center of his field of view, where the system had now popped up new captions. [Exchange Star has been granted] [Super Advancement Task calculation in progress] [Current Advancement progress: 34.5/25] [Congratulations on completing the Super Advancement Task] [System Super Upgrade will now commence] [You can continue to monitor the real-time status during the Super Upgrade] [System Upgrade in progress: 160:52:17] The system was upgrading. He Ao glanced at the countdown to the start of the next Copy World, [161:52:17] Missing one hour, so the upgrade completes one hour before the next Copy World begins? He Ao opened his personal attributes page and Character Card interface; he could still see the real-time status and it wasn’t closed due to the upgrade. He took a casual look at his current Exchange Stars, seventeen. He had received nine stars for the task evaluation, almost achieved three stars, and Epoch Scriber had given him five stars. The progress of the Super Advancement Task was calculated based on the Exchange Stars + comprehensive evaluation; seventeen Exchange Stars plus a five-star comprehensive evaluation, had increased the progress by 22. The last mission had increased by 12.5 progress, adding up to 34.5, matching up correctly. The roaring sound of the steam whistle rose up behind He Ao as the Velora appeared from the void, with He Ao turning around to step onto the train. Next, was to figure out how to control this Wheel of Stars. If his guess was correct, it shouldn’t be difficult. After all, from the background of this thing’s creation... What was the background of its creation? He Ao blinked in surprise. Had I ever read its creation background? Where did I read it? Is there such a thing? In that instant, he suddenly realized something, with his eyes focusing on the personal attributes panel. As the system’s captions appeared in his field of view, the forgotten memories once again emerged in his mind. Forgotten, just with a turn of the head, forgotten. He Ao looked down at the palm of his hand. He could feel that, as his memories were restored, the connection of the Wheel of Stars with him was also returning to normal. He hadn’t even noticed just now that his relationship with the Wheel of Stars was weakening as he forgot. If he was to completely forget about the Wheel of Stars. Could this thing really come back to reality? Is this being forgotten by history? All traces of its existence being invisibly erased by the world, even objects close to Above Angel tier, would only be immersed in forgotten history.
