Chapter 672: Civilization Biographies: Absinthe, One of the Four Civilization Riders

——[Civilization Biography: Absinthe, One of the Four Civilization Riders]

As a legendary great existence from the Star Track era, the predecessor to the Civilization Ladder, she carried an aura of myth.

This time we discuss the mysterious witch, the brightest star of the Star Tracks, the blossom of civilization, one of the Four Riders and the legendary prophetic seer — Absinthe.

The rise of the Four Riders was extremely mysterious and rapid, and Absinthe was undoubtedly the most dazzling among them, so everything connected to her drew intense attention.

Such as the Star Track Cult she founded, such as her husband Adran, and such as her cherished daughter, little princess Lilith.

And also her most intimate comrades and students.

These people stood at the absolute pinnacle of the Star Tracks. Even numerous other factions dared not confront them head-on.

But everything changed with the appearance of a black hole.

The black hole sat at the very center of the entire Star Track network.

No one knew its origin, no one knew why it was there.

It was as if it had always been there, simply undiscovered until that moment.

It appeared suddenly and without warning.

After deliberation among many great existences, the rulers of the Star Tracks decided to investigate the black hole.

As the most powerful seer of the Star Tracks, Absinthe, who had just finished giving birth, volunteered to follow the leaders into the black hole to investigate.

She joined others to form the Star Track exploration team.

Once inside the black hole, Absinthe discovered a brand-new, unfamiliar world.

It contained multiple layers of completely different ecosystems, even wildly contrasting environments coexisting within the same realm.

Consequently, countless unusual lifeforms were born there.

The creatures were powerful and varied in temperament: some friendly, some treacherous, some driven by pure destruction.

The world itself was full of traps and disguises, yet it also yielded rare resources and items unknown to the outside.

What surprised Absinthe and the rulers of the Star Tracks most was the discovery of ancient civilization relics.

The ruins contained technologies far beyond the Star Tracks’ knowledge and many treasures with incredible powers.

At the same time, they found numerous dangerous and forbidden creatures and defensive systems.

The Star Track exploration team’s first expedition succeeded flawlessly.

The spoils and intelligence they brought back shocked the entire Star Tracks.

This black hole realm was soon named the New World.

Other great existences quickly organized their own expeditions.

Casualties followed, and reports of entire forces being annihilated came in one after another.

Only then did enthusiasm for exploration cool.

The powerful beings of the New World discovered the Star Tracks’ existence, including entities above Gold Rank.

Open conflict between the New World and the Star Tracks erupted.

The Star Tracks underwent dramatic change.

The New World creatures formed a faction called the Fallen Abyss and opposed the Star Tracks.

The Star Tracks fought the Fallen Abyss while continuing to explore the New World.

While probing the New World’s core area, the Star Track exploration convoy suffered an accident, and Absinthe fell.

In the end, only Adran escaped that world, aided by many comrades and by Absinthe’s help, and returned to the Star Tracks.

Absinthe’s fall dealt a crushing blow to her friends. Mortarian tirelessly attempted to resurrect her.

Adran also sought ways to bring Absinthe back to life, even venturing into the New World alone multiple times.

He doted ever more on his daughter with Absinthe, Lilith.

Undeniably, although Absinthe had fallen, she left an indelible mark on the Star Tracks. Her students were proud to call themselves Absinthe’s disciples.

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Yu Yuan’s expression had gone blank.

No wonder — the amount of information contained in that intelligence report was enormous.

He recognized many familiar names.

He also understood many previously inexplicable relationships.

What shocked him most was that Absinthe actually had a husband, and that husband was not Mortarian.

It was that fellow suspected of causing Mortarian’s fall, the one named Adran.

Good grief!

Really, good grief!

He had always assumed Mortarian and Absinthe were lovers.

After all, every trace found in Mortarian’s relic pointed to Absinthe’s importance in his heart.

Even after his own fall, he tried every means to resurrect Absinthe!

In Yu Yuan’s mind, Mortarian had always been the deeply devoted male lead.

But in the end, he turned out to be the lovesick secondary male — that was hard to stomach.

Then there was the name Lilith.

Only one Lilith sprang to Yu Yuan’s mind.

The Blood Duke’s daughter, the Night Witch who was drained of blood by the Blood Clan Progenitor Gurlad — Lilith.

“Could they be the same person?” Yu Yuan wondered.

If the two Liliths were one and the same, then wouldn’t that mean…

Yu Yuan suddenly snapped his head up, his pupils dilating.

“The Blood Duke is Adran — Absinthe’s husband, the one suspected of causing Mortarian’s death.”

Hiss—

At that moment, Yu Yuan felt his skull burning.

Hey, did the channel get mixed up?

This is a male-oriented sci-fi apocalypse novel!

Not a female-focused melodramatic revenge story…

Yu Yuan’s brain began to short-circuit.

After a long while, his gaze landed on a paragraph in the intelligence.

—[Absinthe’s fall dealt a crushing blow to her friends. Mortarian kept trying to resurrect Absinthe. Adran also sought ways to resurrect Absinthe, even entering the New World alone several times. He doted increasingly on his and Absinthe’s daughter Lilith.]

He recalled what Gurlad said when he killed Lilith.

The Blood Duke had conspired with Lilith to use Gurlad to raise Lilith’s rank.

Could these things be connected?

Memories of previous intelligence about Gold Rank surfaced in Yu Yuan’s mind.

His brain raced through permutations.

—When fighting the Lord of Dawn, the Blood Duke fought alongside the Fallen Abyss demons.

—Known intelligence indicates the Fallen Abyss demons and the Snake of Rebirth are both New World creatures.

—The black mist with devouring, polluting, destructive properties found on oil creatures also comes from New World species.

—Mortarian’s trip to the New World was based on information provided by Adran, the Blood Duke. After Mortarian’s fall, his remnant soul sought help from Adran.

But Adran did not come; a Fallen Abyss demon arrived instead.

A plausible hypothesis formed in Yu Yuan’s mind.

Adran likely became contaminated or influenced while exploring the New World, looking for a way to resurrect Absinthe.

That would explain his subsequent actions and his shift toward the Fallen Abyss faction.

Yu Yuan had personally witnessed the oil creatures’ strangeness earlier.

If such things were so troublesome, the dangers inside the New World were obvious.

It was a place where beings above Gold Rank could casually fall; corrupting them would be far too easy there.

Yu Yuan judged that even if his hypothesis was not perfectly accurate, it was probably close to the truth.

“Lilith is actually Absinthe’s daughter, and the Star Track Cult was founded by Absinthe…”

In that moment Yu Yuan suddenly understood why the Star Disciple of the Star Track Cult sheltered Greenfield.

Greenfield looked exactly like a copy of Absinthe; there had to be a connection.

If a Star Disciple could take over the Star Track Cult Absinthe founded, his identity would be easy to guess…

Yu Yuan had not expected Greenfield to turn out to be the most powerful ally among the people he knew…

“Hiss—what a leg!”