It had been a few minutes since Lucy transferred the information into Liam's mind, and he had taken his time going through everything carefully.
Sitting on the couch inside Dark Dragon Villa's grand living room, he leaned back, eyes half-closed, absorbing every piece of data like water through sand.
"Fifteen years ago," Liam muttered, summarizing what he'd just read, "the world changed overnight."
According to Lucy's findings, humanity in this version of Earth had experienced a disaster that later came to be known as the Great Awakening. One night, across every continent, gates had appeared—massive rifts in the sky and on the ground, shimmering like torn mirrors. From them poured creatures that defied reason.
Cities fell in hours. Entire armies were almost wiped out. Humanity teetered on the brink of extinction—until something unexpected happened.
People began to awaken powers.
