Curious, Kevin approached and placed his hand on the carvings, allowing the ancient knowledge to flow into his mind as it always did with the Vhael Thun Script.And what he discovered made his blood run cold.The carvings told a story far greater than anything he had ever imagined.The Golden Dragon's Tear was not merely an ordinary artifact. It was a key—a key specifically designed to identify and prepare someone for a role far greater than simply protecting a family or a village.Whoever succeeded in uniting the Golden Dragon's Tear with the dragon soul within their body would be marked as a candidate for Warlord of the Hades Race.Kevin read further with his heart pounding ever faster.The Hades Race.According to the carvings, for millions of years—long before modern human civilization emerged on any planet—there was one race that consistently opposed the Hexa Race and their genocidal ambitions. The Hades Race, whose name was taken from the concept of darkness and the underworld,

The journey proved the truth of the old man's words.Along the way, Kevin passed village after village that had been completely destroyed, not by war or natural disaster, but by something clearly far more terrifying. Buildings were crushed as if stomped by a giant foot, trees were uprooted from their roots, and in some places, Kevin found claw marks longer than his own height, carved deep into the hardened earth.The most heart-wrenching were the villages that were not entirely empty, where he found remnants of lives abruptly halted, household items left behind as if their inhabitants had vanished in the blink of an eye.Kevin stopped at one of the ruins, examining writing crudely carved into a stone wall that still stood—a warning left behind by a survivor, cautioning anyone who came after to leave immediately before Algomo returned.With a heart growing heavier but resolve growing ever stronger, Kevin continued his journey northward.---After three days of travel, Kevin finally arr

According to the information from the capsule, the Hexa Race did not create only one type of annihilation monster for each planet. They possessed at least three distinct categories of weapons, tailored to the characteristics and resistance levels of each civilization they targeted.The first category, like Sin, was "Transformation"—native living beings from the planet that were forced to mutate into annihilation monsters, with their original life cores still trapped inside.The second category, like Algomo, was "Construction"—artificial biological weapons engineered entirely from genetic material collected from various planets, with no original soul or consciousness, purely instruments of destruction controlled by the Hexa Race's artificial intelligence.And the third category, which made Kevin feel deep dread, was called "The Final Guardian"—the most dangerous entity that was only unleashed when a civilization demonstrated significant enough resistance to threaten the Hexa Race's ove

Kevin continued his journey through the giant forest of Planet Vivendi for three more days, until he finally found something different from the wild landscape that had dominated his view since his arrival.In the middle of a hidden valley, surrounded by towering steep cliffs, stood an ancient structure that looked entirely different from anything Kevin had ever encountered on his journey, whether on Earth or Trigana. The building was not made of stone or wood, but of a material that appeared to be living crystal, gleaming with colors that shifted with the movement of light—sometimes bluish-green, sometimes golden-purple—as if the building itself was breathing with its own rhythm.In front of the structure stood a great gate without doors, only an empty archway radiating energy so dense that Kevin could feel it pressing against his skin even from dozens of meters away.Kevin walked closer carefully, and the moment he stepped past the threshold of that gate, the world around him instant

Within that trial, Kevin almost gave up, almost lost himself completely in madness and despair, but at the last moment, he recalled the words once spoken by the Bridge Guardian on the Forbidden Sky Mountain about true sincerity, about the courage to choose what is right even when it hurts.He closed his eyes in the midst of that illusion of destruction and whispered, "If this truly happens one day, I will not let fear master me. I will keep fighting, until my very last breath, to protect those I can still save."The illusion, like the others before it, finally shattered and vanished, leaving Kevin with a body that was increasingly exhausted but a soul that was ever stronger.---Time continued to pass within the crystal structure, day after day, trial after trial, until Kevin lost exact count of how long he had been there. What he knew was that his body was growing more accustomed to the intensity of each trial, his mind was growing sharper in facing deception and illusion, and his so