Yita, whose body had been reforged, now possessed nearly the standards of a Rank 1. Furthermore, she had been given a new name; in fact, it was nothing more than erasing those 13 characters at the end, which somehow felt a bit... inappropriate.

Regardless of Yita's thunderous onslaught, all of her attacks were effortlessly intercepted by the flick of Roland's finger. Without any attempt to counter, Roland's gaze upon Yita was rather peculiar. Well, wasn't this the very robot that had been captured by the Revenge Shadow Rider? How... interesting.

Yita showed no signs of ceasing her assault. Her highest command was to prohibit most outsiders from entering, and clearly, Roland was not on the list. Yita tried every trick in the book yet couldn't even graze him—their only contact was a mere touch of a finger, which gave Yita an almost surreal illusion.

Straight punches, swing punches, inch punches, hook punches—boom, boom, boom, boom, boom... Yita's punches came in rapid succession like a torrential downpour, yet they were casually parried by Roland.

"You are still no match for me, you can stop now. I've just come to see a friend," Roland suggested.

Roland's suggestion went unanswered, replaced instead by another fresh round of attacks. Yita's persistent behavior slightly surprised him. What made this Yita so difficult to deal with?

With a light sigh, Roland simply let go of all defenses and allowed the storm to come... only to find that Yita's intense punches could not touch his body as they seemed to be hitting an invisible barrier, causing ripples in the void like those on water.

"Enough, Yita."

As the Blade Warrior spoke, Yita finally ceased her attack. It must be said that even she was shocked. If it hadn't been for Mr. Blade Warrior's words, she would have given up, for the realm between them was so vast it was unreachable.

The Blade Warrior's eyes shone brightly as he watched the newcomer from afar. After staring for a while, a surprised expression finally appeared on his face.

It must be noted that it was very rare for the Blade Warrior to be surprised. The first kind was when he sensed a threat to his life, and the second kind...

"It's... you..." Blade Warrior murmured softly.

"Long time no see. All's well, I trust?" Roland's voice was more like that of greeting a long-unseen friend.

"I'm fine. Weren't you staying at Hell's Gate? What brings you here all of a sudden?"

A rare flicker of nostalgia passed through Roland's eyes. "Just strolling around aimlessly. Human time may be running short after all, so I thought I'd look around and see the people of times past."

The Blade Warrior's expression turned solemn. "What do you mean by 'human time'?"

"Not quite sure... I strongly sense an extraordinary force gradually infiltrating us. It's not a coincidence. It... may have already arrived."

The Blade Warrior fell into thought. "Stop speaking in riddles. Who do you mean by 'it'?"

Roland shook his head lightly, his movement almost imperceptible. "Heh, I'm not too clear myself—instead of that, have you invented anything new lately?"

She asked somewhat listlessly, her gaze wandering the workshop.

"Don't look. They're all boring toys. I can't be bothered to invent anything new."

"That doesn't sound like you."

"Huhuhu... That's because you humans are all beyond help, expecting to just enjoy the fruits without effort. Whatever I invent or create, their only concern is to reap the benefits. Realizing this, I seem to have figured out a few things."

When she pondered it carefully, it really made sense. Diseases that plagued humanity for centuries could now be cured within a few short years with special elixirs; was this a regression of civilization or the outcome of profit-driven motives?

War, peace, destruction, rebirth—from individuals to nations, everyone revolves around greed and self-interest, never far from benefit-driven harm, humanity's original sin.

The Blade Warrior continued, "Do you know why human technological progress is so slow, even at a standstill?"

"Material civilization advances, spiritual civilization regresses, and technological development halts."

"Exactly, it's like rowing upstream. Humanity will eventually be eliminated by the laws of the universe."

"The laws of the universe..."

Chewing over the Blade Warrior's intentions, Roland bowed his head in contemplation... Perhaps, that's the way it is.

When diseases exist, they can mutate into plagues; when scarce resources cannot meet human needs, meteorites might fall from the sky to replenish and reshuffle planetary resources; when humans, known as viruses of the universe, spread across the galaxy, cells that eradicate viruses might emerge to filter anew. Whether delayed or premature, the cycle's steps always converge at some point.

This... Was it predetermined, or... on this day of the fifth sun, it seems that ever since the year 2012, humanity had already sealed its fate, but what future awaits?

In this brief millennium, countless species that survived for hundreds of millions of years went extinct. They were the greatest treasures nature bestowed upon humans to stabilize the ecological balance.

Yet it was humanity that disrupted this balance. Their destruction of the ecosystem led to irreversible crises like global warming and rising water levels. According to the Tidal Radiation Fusion Law of the physicist Rhine, with the gradual imbalance in the natural ecosystem under the greenhouse effect, the Earth's crustal plates would shift infinitely due to Black Hole gravity, and slowly split and transform under the quadruple tidal fusion forces of satellites, stars, and the Earth itself...

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