Before anyone appeared in the Big World, Lucien returned to his inner universe.
The ancient beasts were the first ones he gathered.
Most had been training there for years, taking advantage of the accelerated environments Lucien had prepared for them.
They had changed enormously.
Almost every ancient beast that had survived since the Millennia War had already reached Extinction-Grade strength.
It was still not a realm of its own. It was simply the point where ordinary Eternal standards stopped describing what they could do.
Lucien did not immediately send them outside.
He first explained why he needed them.
The Primordial Incarnations had begun appearing in the branching futures surrounding the continental reunification. Worse, the three diviners had discovered signs that those Incarnations could interfere with divination itself.
Lucien could not determine where they would attack.
The seas were possible targets.
