Lucien was stunned.
The light of the projection reflected across his face, but his attention was no longer only on Clara and Seravelle.
His mind had stopped on one sentence.
The first man who could wield the energy of the universe.
Lucien slowly leaned back.
Does that mean that before the Human Ancestor, no one could wield the energy of the universe?
Did that mean mana itself had not always been available to ordinary people?
Or perhaps the energy had existed, but no mortal body could safely contain it. Perhaps the world had been filled with power no one knew how to touch without dying. Perhaps practicing Laws, as people now understood it, had not been a natural gift at all.
Perhaps someone had opened the road.
Lucien's gaze moved toward the Human Ancestor's echo.
Then another thought struck him.
The Origin Core.
The Human Ancestor had once been the first owner of the Origin Core.
