Miss Witch Doesn't Want to be a Diva
Chapter 1082 - 135: The End of the Old Era

Saint Carthanas, residential area, night.

The night wind was slightly cool. Tilan sat on the water tank on the rooftop, overlooking the city's nightscape below, and took a moment to clear her mind.

No wonder the Federation sealed the history of the Fifth Epoch, only depicting the brutality of those years in sparse words within education. Seeing too much of these things indeed makes one physically uncomfortable.

The Fifth Epoch lasted for over 4,600 years, during which the slaughter and destruction were countless, to the extent that life in that era became numb to death. The excessively chaotic environment also caused technology to nearly stagnate and even regress. After all, the scientists you might imagine were perhaps just those who crawled out of cultivation tanks after three months. Expecting them to be different from the previous batch of deceased researchers is akin to wishful thinking.

In the first 1,200 years, there was barely any order present, and historical records were relatively detailed. In the subsequent 3,000 years, the entire civilization was in shambles. Even if there were records, they were all personal accounts from various regions, with no unified text documenting from the perspective of an entire civilization anymore.

According to calculations, at the beginning of the Fifth Epoch, around the first 1,000 years, the human population was approximately 4 trillion. By the end of the Fifth Epoch, the human population might have been only over 100 billion, and this count includes the 'primitives' hiding on various concealed planets, having lost a vast amount of technological inheritance. Those who still retained some level of scientific research capability might have been about 50 billion, whereas the newborn races of the same period combined could have nearly a trillion, about 200 times the number of the old humans.

Fortunately, most of these newborn races were gathered under the Black Suns, fighting among themselves, and at that time, they were too lazy to care about these insect-like old humans.

Shaking her head, Tilan lightly tapped her forehead with her fingers, a touch of coolness spread, then she took out a flute, placed it in front of her, and began to play.

The flute's sound wasn't loud initially. As the melodious sound of the flute spread, her mind also slowly immersed in it, carrying a touch of sorrow, perhaps lamenting the scenes from history.

The night was cool and lonely, the flute's sound far-reaching, and the girl's thoughts transformed into strands of music, carried into the wind.

Not far away, the neon of the night market still flickered, traffic and lights continued on the streets, and a peaceful and simple life could be seen everywhere, making it hard to notice any difference. But to the people of 1,600 years ago, in that era, this might have been a scene seen only in dreams.

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[Fifth Epoch, 1200-2400 years, during these 1,200 years, various Black Suns within the Milky Way rose and fell, and the conflicts and battles between them became increasingly intense. During this period, many old human nations perished, and newborn races gradually replaced the dominant position of civilization.]

[Fifth Epoch, 2400-2500 years, even the Black Suns felt fear towards overly brutal wars because the extinction of the species supporting them would also mean their demise. During this period, most habitable stars within the Milky Way were destroyed, and newborn races also lacked reliable footholds. Constructing large habitable space stations and transforming barren planets required a long time and effort. To this end, not a few Black Suns began to tacitly reduce the intensity of battles, refraining from easily waging war, and this tacit understanding spread over the nearly 100 years.]

[Fifth Epoch, 2582 years, a special fleet sailed into the Silver Heart, attempting to obtain the legacy of the Throne of the Primordial Gods left from a glorious era. This action provoked the awakening of the High Rank Mechanical Lifeforms sleeping within the Silver Heart Throne. As Sequence 9 mechanical life created by the Transcenders, these massive and overwhelmingly powerful mechanical behemoths destroyed the fleet after waking up, giving the wandering old humans some hope.]

[Fifth Epoch, 2677 years, many humans gathered in the Silver Heart gradually found ways to coexist with these mechanical lifeforms and slowly deciphered the legacy left by the Transcenders. Subsequently, they announced the establishment of a new Mechanical Council, naming themselves the π Mechanical Council according to the Greek letter sequence, with the 15th letter being Ο (Omicron) and the 16th letter being π (Pi).]

[Fifth Epoch, 2700-2800 years, more and more Black Suns showed interest in the relics of the Silver Heart. Although they were already strong enough, there was still an insurmountable gap compared to the Solar Crowns of the glorious era. To make up for their shortcomings and seek a way to eternal power, they successively dispatched fleets to invade the Silver Heart Throne, attempting to violently pry open this treasure that had been dormant for tens of thousands of years.]

[Fifth Epoch, 2901 years, after over a hundred years of continuous war, the mechanical lifeforms guarding the Silver Heart Throne were completely annihilated, and the π Mechanical Council also perished during this period, with only a few people escaping with inherited relics and mechanical lifeforms.]

[Fifth Epoch, 2915 years, the Solar Thrones left from the glorious era were destroyed during the struggle, and a large amount of precious data and artifacts about the Four Originals were damaged. In the same year, the Moon Throne showed anomalies during battle. According to recorded assumptions, it might have briefly activated for a few seconds. However, in an era where Transcenders and old humans were almost extinct, the throne left behind did not raise the Moon Crown, it merely flickered once.]

[Fifth Epoch, 2916 years, the following year, a dragon's roar rose within the dense stars of the Silver Heart, awakening another guardian force left by the Transcenders, the Stellar Dragons sleeping therein. These dragons were immensely large, with bodies reaching hundreds of thousands of meters, and their power far exceeded ordinary Sequence 9. Their awakening annihilated the Star River Fleet disrupting the Silver Heart.]

[Fifth Epoch, 2900-3400 years, during the 500 years, the conflicts between the Black Suns continued incessantly. Destruction and death occurred everywhere, and the increasingly mature technology led to the faster birth of newborn races, resembling an Insect Swarm. Perhaps at this time, 'humanity' should be called 'Bug Race' more aptly. They matured in hive-like cultivation tanks and, upon emerging, engaged in various preordained repetitive tasks according to higher-up commands, without the need for entertainment, thinking, or developing complex emotions. They no longer had the concept of an independent individual, with all individuals being merely parts of the entire race, like Gestalt lifeforms.]