It was a question that had been lingering in Sylas' mind for a while, one that he didn't have an answer to.
However, what he did know was the trigger point.
The Milky Way Galaxy was once known as the Skai Galaxy. There was a number attached to it as well, but that was all but irrelevant at the mont.
After the All-Seeing Eye appeared, the manifestation of the Legendary System triggered by an item of The Professors of Legacy, things changed. After that point, even the impotent system itself began referring to it as the Milky Way.
Originally, Sylas dismissed this. He assud that the original na of the galaxy had been Milky Way until the Thryskai laid claim to it, before naming and numbering it.
This made sense.
Until the system started referring to the Sector as the Milky Way Sector as well.
And now, it was calling this Horizon—the na for groups of Sectors—the Milky Way Horizon as well.
Sylas didn't know how far this would go, or what the purpose of all of it was at this point.
It had started off as sothing innocuous, and quickly beca a mystery that left him baffled. But even then, he had so many other things to worry about that this loose end wasn't sothing he could spare much thought toward.
Suddenly finding out that others cared enough to cross Horizons to co and investigate, though… that changed everything.
That was because this Horizon—or, more accurately, this Sky, the na for a group of Horizons—was under the influence of the very sa Demi-God Thryskai Clan that had been completely wiped from existence.
When Sylas got to this point in his thoughts, he beca more confused.
Logically, if this Sky was under the control of that Demi-God Thryskai Clan, then it only went to show that this logic should follow much the sa. If they had once renad things here, and were now destroyed, maybe the nas had reverted.
But there were two issues with this.
First, the system, as Sylas understood it, was basically a program that cut corners wherever it could. You had to prove yourself to make it waste any of its processing power. That was why Mounts couldn't be used in battle, or why it was so easy to trick, and likewise why it was so infuriated when it realized it had been tricked.
Why would the system waste ti flipping a na back to normal when it could get away with leaving it the sa?
That was the more complex reason this didn't make sense, but there was a far simpler reason…
If the answer was that simple, and it was a simple na reversion, then the Veil Humans wouldn't be here to investigate. They would have made the connection between the Demi-God Thryskai and the na changes.
Of course, there was the chance that they were lying. But… this was quite a convoluted lie to use for no reason other than to save face and avoid being questioned about why they had co all the way here.
The only conclusion that Sylas could co to was that there was indeed a secret here.
Maybe if it had been before his ti in the Golden Grove's Secret Realm, he would find all of this silly. But now… he knew what kind of power True Nas held, to the point that it could command the life of soone as powerful as the Duchess' father.
It could be said that if the Duchess never told him her father's True Na, even with his power-ups, Sylas would have been hard-pressed to co out of there alive.
The Sanguara—their existence, that broken remnant system that they were under the control and at the rcy of… they too were tied to the Legendary System of the past, weren't they?
No, did Sylas really need sothing so recent to understand the importance of nas? He had learned how important nas were to the system from day one, hadn't he?
If they were so unimportant, how had his na changed from Brown to Grimblade in the first place? Why did the system not acknowledge him as Sylas Brown?
Suddenly, Sylas' eyes widened as sothing shook him to the core once again.
'Earth. Earth is in danger.'
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Thinking of his mother, his father, his little sister, Cassarae's parents—everyone he had left behind—a feeling that Sylas hadn't experienced in a very long ti was welling up in his heart.
Anxiety.
Fear.
Apprehension.
Nas were important—too important. But he had co across soone in the past who had changed their na.
During his Quickti Event to kill Professor Broussard, a series of events that led him to trigger the awakening of his Demonic Will and nearly cost him his life several tis, he had co across soone.
Back then, he had almost killed Professor Broussard because she had beco a traitor to Earth. Distraught over the death of her son, she felt like the governnts of Earth didn't deserve her loyalty.
The details of back then had been glossed over by Sylas. He had co out on top, killed those that crossed his path, and stood unmatched. Plus, back then, he had finally made the decision to go to the Grimblade family and set things straight, killing those that needed to be killed and taking his real family away.
Because of that, and because he couldn't have possibly pieced sothing like that together back then, he didn't give a damn about such a "minor" detail.
Until now.
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[Masquerade (???)]
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mories flashed by in Sylas' mind.
… "I t a man simply nad Masquerade today. He's probably dead by now. A traitor through and through. Do you think his parents nad him that? I don't know much about history, but I'm also fairly certain that a na like Grimblade was not common before the Sixth Summoning."… 'I'm a fool.'
The realization shook Sylas' mind.
He had had the answer right in front of him, but he missed it by a hair.
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