Ron furrowed his brow and continued to inquire about the information he was interested in:
"How could it now become... so backward?"
Aselia sighed deeply, her voice becoming as heavy as lead:
"The core of the Second Era's civilization is what I just mentioned, the 'Conceptual Sharing Network.'
It was a colossal structure that covered the entire Main World and even extended to parts of the Otherworld.
All knowledge, skills, experience, and even personal insights and intuition could be shared in real-time through this network."
"But the problem lies within this network."
Aselia continued to explain:
"Because everyone's consciousness was partly connected.
Some terrifying knowledge with polluting properties, originating from higher-dimensional beings, also spread uncontrollably through the connected network."
"That kind of knowledge wasn't ordinary information but concept viruses that could directly alter cognitive structures.
