——Star Prison Tianyu.
Upon hearing this phrase, Ian's heart suddenly tightened.
He lowered his head.
In an instant, Ian thought of many things... He thought of the star chart in his private laboratory on the second floor of the White Chamber Grocery at Harrison Port, from which he had crossed off one star after another, and of the South Sea Great Labyrinth, where the endlessly brilliant expanse of the vast star sea once shone.
Ian thought of the stars that had begun to disappear even before the Calamity of Heavenly Fall, and now the night sky of the Terra Dome that had already dimmed to darkness... Whether it was the Second Prince's phrase 'standing on the mountaintop,' or the reality that no one looked up to gaze upon the sky, it all made his heart tremble with emotion.
He felt an inexplicable sense of desolation.
