Chapter 565: Foreign Object
For Duncan, the most easily deduced among the series of hastily conveyed messages from the Saint was actually the first one—that something designed to last only eight thousand years was now operating in overload.
The first thing he could think of was the "sun" that was now hanging over the Endless Sea, which had already begun to malfunction and even start dropping parts—indeed, it was the "First Anomaly" created by the Saint leading the Ancient Crete clan during the Ancient Crete Kingdom era.
The sun had been operating for ten thousand years, if its original design life was really only eight thousand years... then its current troubling state was explained.
And extending from this, the Saint also mentioned that "they" were waiting for a signal from "somewhere" within this period, but had not received it to date—who were "they"? And this "somewhere," the short burst of noise referred to, what place was it?
"We didn't receive the signal from *&%￥ outside within the time limit…"