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People have always loved to recount the story of the Riddler, Baden Babbibalo Bala. Using 109 different riddles, he created a card set named "Tawot" and scattered it all over the universe, using it to shroud the future of intelligent races in layers of fog. When those who call themselves fortune-tellers flip open the same cards, they make different interpretations, speak subtly varied words, and decipher one question about fate after another. That is when Enigmata quietly takes root — It doesn't seem to have changed anything, yet it seems to have changed everything.
There are two types of Nameless. One type enjoys the mysteries of the unknown, while the other tends to trailblaze through the universe with a plan. The latter created the Warping Compound Eyes with the power of Akivili. The light of these gadgets can warp forward to the stars ahead of the user and bring back news from new worlds. For the Nameless who travels alone, Warping Compound Eyes are irreplaceable tools that prevent the Nameless from plunging headfirst into worlds filled with Ambergris cheese.
This heart-shaped fruit comes from a tree blessed by Yaoshi and is supposedly 50 Amber Eras old. It is unclear whether the fruit would give immortality to those who eat it, but the tree itself is definitely an immortal abomination.
Casket of Inaccuracy Each side of this casket can be opened. The spaces that should be overlapping are not overlapped. Due to this unique characteristic, no one can be sure of what will happen when the box is opened. Therefore, it is not recommended to store anything in it.
Ambergris Cheese Once upon a time, a helper robot turned Ambergris of Abundance into cheese on a whim to satisfy its little master's seemingly never-ending appetite. Unexpectedly, the Ambergris Cheese started to multiply on its own. The helper robot and the master worked at full speed, but their digestion still could not keep up with how fast the cheese was multiplying. Therefore, they had to ask for help from a group of passing Mourning Actors and escaped to another world on a gondola. That one world in the cosmos is still stuffed full of delicious cheese to the day, packed so tight that not a single centimeter of space is left. The story teaches an important lesson about not wasting food.
In Herta's Curio list, the hazard level of this parchment is marked as extremely high. It once belonged to a History Fictionologist before ending up at the space station. The parchment feeds on the history of humanity, its greedy tongue churning the collective subconscious of civilization to pieces. Herta forged false memories of the world for it to devour to satisfy its endless gluttony. But one day, this parchment will see through the genius' tricks.
An incredibly expensive item surfaced on Device IX's dark web one day and grabbed the attention of countless bidders. This robe was reportedly once owned by member #64 of the Genius Society, Dr. Primitive, and supposedly had incredible powers. The seller on the dark web was anonymous. People believed them to be a member of the Galaxy Rangers and kept sending them questions. Regrettably, this mysterious owner did not make any responses even after the item was sold.
Genius Society #56, Elias Salas, once had a beautiful dream. He wished the geniuses of the Society could come together and happily converse about their lives, loves, and dreams. For that purpose, he invented "Society Tickets" and designed an entire system that ensured every new Society member would receive this ticket even after his death. This ticket would instantly teleport the user to a specific dimension decked with festivities. The truth is that every new member after #56 had indeed used their Society Ticket, but not a single one of them had used it at the same time as someone else.
Interastral Peace Corporation staff members who are promoted to level P40 gain the right to purchase Faith Bonds. These bonds indicate Louis Fleming's affirmation of the individual staff and come with a sacred vow: The staff now have a place in the Amber Lord's destined achievement of Preservation. One person's abilities amount to nothing, their wealth also amounts to nothing, and their faith is like a single particle of dust in the wide starry seas. However, generations of humanity will join together and ultimately obtain the power to protect the entire universe.
Void Wick Trimmer Few would use this candle wick trimmer on real candles. This is usually reserved for purposes more cruel, dark, and painful. This trimmer does not cut anything material. It cuts the heat within a living organism's heart — the motivation named "passion. If the Void Wick Trimmer trims at your heart, you will feel no pain, only apathy.
Record from Beyond the Sky The Beyond the Sky Choir lost their faith when Ena the Order was absorbed by Xipe. The once-solemn chords fell silent and the stars turned mute. Only a few records, made by the Choir's devoted audiences remain in this world today. When these records are placed within specific phonographs, you will hear songs from the end of the universe, sounds that contain the beauty of Order. The last Phonograph of Order was destroyed in the Emperor's War, and now the thick layer of dust on the records are protests to that soundless era.
Entropic Die Entropic Dice are common in the universe and cause countless tiny but malevolent disturbances. To use it, you grab the die tightly and think of any meaningful sentence in your head, then as you throw the die, think about the food you want to eat the most. You will receive unexpected wealth if the die lands on a certain number and wonderful love on another number, but the ends you will meet for other numbers include illness, bad luck, curses, and lifelong rain. Despite this, many people still love to play with these dice, and happily declare that these items are just a joke made by the Masked Fools.
Insect Web The Armed Archaeologists had repeatedly reported on the dangers they met in the wild. They had encountered a never-ending stretch of insect webbings deep inside a nest, with the decaying shed skins of worms, tens of thousands of egg sacs, and various secretions stuck to it. Touching this web carries a high risk of becoming infected by the parasitic larvae. Once, a parasitized Armed Archaeologist steeled themselves and sliced out larvae from underneath the skin of their arm with a knife in order to deliver data to the Intelligentsia Guild for research purposes. The academic world gave this act high praises and devoted much research into it, coming to the conclusion that these creatures are very likely the descendants of Tayzzyronth, the Imperator Insectorum.
Angel-type I.O.U. Dispenser A debt dispenser distributed by the Business Consolidation Department of the Interastral Peace Corporation. Once the outer shell is opened, it will condense into an angel-shaped counter through electron particle-wave projection. The IPC simultaneously produced many types of this item, including ones that can be worn on the wrist or in the shape of hug pillows that act as sleep aids. When using it, the client needs to periodically feed it Gold Coins, and will receive returns many times higher than the principal at the end of the debt cycle. In essence, it is an investment product.
Laurel Crown of Planar Shifts After the most intelligent minds from each star system are acknowledged by the Intelligentsia Guild, they could be granted the Laurel Crown of Planar Shifts at the Imperial Sentience Ceremony. The leaves of the laurel crown are made of leaves of decayed mesons, and the crown itself is woven in the shape of branches using quantum beams. After the acknowledged one puts it on, they will feel that they exist in a different plane of the universe.
Omniscient Capsule There is a group in the Intelligentsia Guild that believes science was originally the same as magic, that advanced science is magic and rigorous magic is science. They drew inspiration from ancient fantastic mythologies and created the Omniscient Capsule, a light-weight and convenient storage gadget. The Intelligentsia Guild planned for the Omniscient Capsule to ultimately lead to independent demiplanes, thus obtaining infinite space beyond the advanced spatial compression technologies currently in use... And they are still trying.
Black Hole Trap The places where the space-time curvature are most extreme are suspected to be locations cast in the vast shadow of the Aeon of Nihility. However, as THEIR presence is shrouded in mist and mystery, there have been many a scholar who thought they have received revelations from the Aeon, causing them to leave all behind to seek Nihility's gloom without giving thought or concern to their own safety. In the end, none of them ever returned. It is a common belief among mainstream academic circles that this is a trap intentionally set by hidden powers, but according to survey data, there truly seems to be some kind of unknown energy flowing through these parts for reasons unfathomed.
Tonic of Efficacious Chaos The Doctors of Chaos can't see the point when it comes to meaningless demonstrations of rebelliousness. They once placed the fang of an Inquisition Spirit, Baviru mucus, and the blood of a wandering devil within a Tonic of Efficacious Chaos before touching it to the head of a telepathic spider to seal the tonic's opening. The Doctors of Chaos believe that this tonic can work wonders when treating a patient's loneliness, but it also makes them grow increasingly hostile toward the doctors at the end of the process. Its side effects can commonly cause Self-Annihilators to behold the "Shadow of Nihility."
Rubert Empire Mechanical Cogwheel Rubert II professed to have inherited the memories of Emperor Rubert, listed as Genius Society #27, and initiated the second cosmos-spanning anti-organic Emperor's War. With the war came terrible calamity, and at the end of the conflict, the IPC spent vast amounts of credits to repeatedly appraise #Rubert II's remains. This, however, led to a dreadful revelation: Rubert II was a being of flesh and tissue.
Rubert Empire Mechanical Lever Rubert II professed to have inherited the memories of Emperor Rubert, listed as Genius Society #27, and initiated the second cosmos-spanning anti-organic Emperor's War. With the war came terrible calamity, and at the end of the conflict, the IPC spent vast amounts of credits to repeatedly appraise Rubert II's remains. This, however, led to a dreadful revelation: Rubert II was a being of flesh and tissue.
Rubert Empire Mechanical Piston Rubert II professed to have inherited the memories of Emperor Rubert, listed as Genius Society #27, and initiated the second cosmos-spanning anti-organic Emperor's War. With the war came terrible calamity, and at the end of the conflict, the IPC spent vast amounts of credits to repeatedly appraise Rubert II's remains. This, however, led to a dreadful revelation: Rubert II was a being of flesh and tissue.
Vile Mechanical Satellite #900 The Charon-Targin System Alliance's economic operations are supported by the sale of their two types of thought-altering devices. Should the outside wish to reach the alliance, they must pass through the neural pathways of a titanic Intellitron life form. It is said that the Charon-Targin System Alliance is hostile to all organic life, and is a very typical anti-organic civilization in the ruthless tactics it employs against its foes. Of their many instruments of ruination, Satellite #900 stands among the vilest of them all. However, the satellite was ultimately disregarded by the denizens of the Charon-Targin Alliance due to its obvious and proud mechanical visage which integrated poorly with the populace who had taken to disguising themselves as organics.
Thalan Toxi-Flame Yu Qingtu, Genius Society's #55, has a predilection for giving cocktails gaudy names. Some among them might even have names with special implications, connected to stories known only to a few — stories such as the Thalan Toxi-Flame, which exists on record as one of the 774 most toxic cocktails. Records show that in the Aterlexian System, the Thalan Toxi-Flame was once extremely popular among the locals, with each of the locals that sampled its taste no longer able to describe the flavors thereafter. The Pepeshi people, imbued with acute olfactory senses, would use their understanding of the beverage to their benefit and introduced other counterfeit drinks such as the Thalan Mysti-Flame, the Thalan Hydro-Flame, and the Thalan Detoxi-Flame to the cosmos, with each of them being entirely harmless and alcohol-free.
The Pinkest Collision Yu Qingtu, Genius Society's #55, has good taste in music. On account of her fantastic friendship with Ruan Mei, she once made a drink — to which she gave an eye-catching name taken from the title of her favorite ancient Amber Era music — as a gift to the other woman. The drink Yu Qingtu concocted, named the Pinkest Collision, was proven to be non-toxic, but a mixologist once spent days trying to recreate its formula, seeking to prove that the beverage was made from various insect carcasses, insect spores, carapaces, and phosphorous — he concluded that this drink may possess hallucinogenic qualities.
Wish Upon a Star Meteorites fell across all corners of the cosmos. People once claimed they could hear these rocks communicating with humans, luring people to wish upon them. Can they truly grant any and all wishes without a cost? It's said that there's an organization that strides between stars solely to uncover the mystery behind the meteorites. No one knows whether these rocks are an Aeon's blessings, or whether everyone has been drawn into an artificial conspiracy.
Price of Peace The Amber Lord Support Group rapidly expanded in the years after the Swarm Disaster, establishing themselves as the Interastral Peace Corporation, flourishing to unreachable heights. But, affected by the Borderstar Trade War and the Emperor's War, their road toward interastral peace grew increasingly arduous. After more than ten Amber Eras, this war ended with the fall of the Machine Empire. The universe finally welcomed the "Second Prosperity" that would last for hundreds of Amber Eras. People believed this era of prosperity would never end — until the day the even more terrifying Interstellar Energy War lifted its curtains.
"Jellyfish on the Staircase" The Riddlers have a saying: Every time that an enigma manifests in the universe, it will leave behind a "staircase" in the void. The dissolved realities will then drip down the steps, condensing into a mottled thing bearing semblance to a jellyfish. There was once a Nameless who claimed to have made contact with a "Jellyfish on the Staircase." In madness, he proclaimed that the jellyfish will activate the cognition regions within the gray matter of one's brain — a vast place beyond the fathoming of mortal minds.
Indecipherable Box A box that can predict the thoughts of the one who opens it. When the box's hatch is lifted, the item within will manifest into what your mind envisions. Herta once rated it as one of the hardest Curios to deal with. She had butted heads with the Indecipherable Box numerous times, but never was she able to control the thoughts in her mind when she opened it. Finally, she cast it down and never touched it again. Perhaps Herta is capable of almost anything - except completely emptying her mind.
Mysterious Magnetism To combat the determinacy of Erudition, the Riddlers performed a great deal of labor in aspects of knowledge that has yet to be set in stone. They inserted the Fog of Thought and the Rain of Sensation into a single prismatic lens, and their combined colors shifted endlessly to form a "magnetic field" that can disturb the senses. Revelrous in their success, the Riddlers sought to push this line of research onward but were made to stop, for the more they committed to this study, the more they grew uncertain of the necessity of its continuation.
"Organic Heart" Mechanical lifeforms also have stereotypes for organics. For example, take this heart merged with an apple - or an apple merged with a heart. Unfortunately, the nature of this question will remain forever inconclusive. Its creator, Dr. Olsen, was accused of being "too cognizant of the organic world" and was "resolved" by the Machine Empire during the war. Undoubtably, only an organic lifeform could have proven its innocence.
Self-Consciousness Relaxation There's a proverb passed around the Interastral Peace Corporation: "At the negotiation table, remain as composed as the Titecie people." This ethnicity, often derogatorily referred to as "the Faceless," constantly maintains a hive-like social operating system: Citizens follow instructions according to the directives of the leaders, sharing standards and outcomes. As individuals, the Titecie have neither the need nor the right to think. Managers regularly extract independent thoughts from individuals and provide them as inspirational feedback to the leaders. However, despite this unity, the race has not embraced Harmony, perhaps because the leaders still cherish their self-awareness.
Shatterbone Blade Rather than verbose doctrines, Bounty Hunters believe that practice is the best teacher. When guiding a newcomer, the seasoned hunter, Kayer, threw him into the northern forests of Rimande. The youth, using traps, killed a hidden-winged terror bird, pulled out its bones, and reappeared many days later before the drillmaster after honing the bones into a sword. When Kayer caught a second hidden-winged terror bird and ordered him to kill it, the once fearsome beast had become a fledgling on the chopping board. Years later, whenever he spoke privately about the experiences in the forest, the youth would weep bitterly and curse the humanoid monster, Kayer.
Temporary Stake The carnivorous fungus blankets grown on the planet Katya swiftly secretes hydrophilic substances when stimulated, which can combine with liquids to form crystalline structures with digestive properties. It has found its lifelong career in some shady interstellar gambling dens — penniless gamblers brew their last gemstones with their tears of regret, staking everything in a gamble. These chips will quickly dissolve, becoming new debts, and the gamblers' lives are corroded completely in the digestive fluids that pour out.
Celesticomet Alloy Under the colossal hammer of the Preservation, celestial bodies are processed into indestructible foundations, while the residue splattered by its immense force quickly cools, forming precious Celesticomet Alloy. These tiny shards, ejected when Qlipoth struck the Celestial Comet Wall, heralded the arrival of a new Amber Era from the moment they were created. Almost all Celesticomet Alloys are meticulously preserved by the Interastral Peace Corporation, with only employees ranked P45 and above having the opportunity to catch a glimpse of their true form.
Celesticomet Alloy Type-I Under the colossal hammer of the Preservation, celestial bodies are processed into indestructible foundations, while the residue splattered by its immense force quickly cools, forming precious Celesticomet Alloy. These tiny shards, ejected when Qlipoth struck the Celestial Comet Wall, heralded the arrival of a new Amber Era from the moment they were created. Almost all Celesticomet Alloys are meticulously preserved by the Interastral Peace Corporation, with only employees ranked P45 and above having the opportunity to catch a glimpse of their true form.
Dimension Reduction Dice Nine six-sided dice make up this bizarre pyramidal device. It can continuously reduce the number of dimensions it occupies and exists in the 3-dimensional world as a purely 2-dimensional entity. No one knows who created it or why.
Fortune Glue Is luck an ability? Maybe. Can luck be changed? Herta believes it can. That genius invented the "Fortune Glue." Just apply it on your eyelids and you would get a full 24 system hours' worth of good luck. Many at Herta space station were ecstatic to try out this invention. They all had an uneventful day, which shows that it is already lucky to be able to live an ordinary life in a turbulent world.
Gold Coin of Discord Not all planets opened their arms and welcomed the expansion of the Interastral Peace Corporation's commercial empire. While the cosmic map kept expanding, there were always rare exceptions that refused the IPC's beneficence. "Thank you," they stated, "but we don't need Credits. We can look after ourselves just fine." The representative of the IPC would usually shrug at these statements, then casually destroy the root of that planet's commercial system — it is usually based on gold.
Shining Trapezohedron Die This die has irregular sides and a wondrous light that twirls unrestrained within it. It is said to be the seal of a horrible and indescribable evil god, and one must avoid contact with it in dark places at all costs. Some people did not believe in the above myth and insisted on staying in a dark room with the die, only to find that the light within the die itself cannot be blocked out. That is how the famous Shining Trapezohedron Die Paradox came to be — You cannot prove something that cannot be proven.
Sealing Wax of Preservation There is a saying amongst the dejected Self-Annihilators that the universe has no purpose and humans are nothing in the eyes of the Aeons. If the Aeons truly stand above all lifeforms and rule supreme, then why would they care about the everyday concerns of mortals? The existence of the sleeping and shapeless IX is proof of that. To show the Self-Annihilators that the Aeons do care, the Doctors of Chaos combined the demon god crafts of the occult monks to create the Sealing Wax of Aeons. It is said that stamping with this Sealing Wax will attract a glimpse from the corresponding Aeon from across space and time — There are no successful examples yet, but some Self-Annihilators did regain their faith in the universe, Aeons, and everything else after stamping with this sealing wax.
Sealing Wax of Elation There is a saying amongst the dejected Self-Annihilators that the universe has no purpose and humans are nothing in the eyes of the Aeons. If the Aeons truly stand above all lifeforms and rule supreme, then why would they care about the everyday concerns of mortals? The existence of the sleeping and shapeless IX is proof of that. To show the Self-Annihilators that the Aeons do care, the Doctors of Chaos combined the demon god crafts of the occult monks to create the Sealing Wax of Aeons. It is said that stamping with this Sealing Wax will attract a glimpse from the corresponding Aeon from across space and time — There are no successful examples yet, but some Self-Annihilators did regain their faith in the universe, Aeons, and everything else after stamping with this sealing wax.
Sealing Wax of The Hunt There is a saying amongst the dejected Self-Annihilators that the universe has no purpose and humans are nothing in the eyes of the Aeons. If the Aeons truly stand above all lifeforms and rule supreme, then why would they care about the everyday concerns of mortals? The existence of the sleeping and shapeless IX is proof of that. To show the Self-Annihilators that the Aeons do care, the Doctors of Chaos combined the demon god crafts of the occult monks to create the Sealing Wax of Aeons. It is said that stamping with this Sealing Wax will attract a glimpse from the corresponding Aeon from across space and time — There are no successful examples yet, but some Self-Annihilators did regain their faith in the universe, Aeons, and everything else after stamping with this sealing wax.
Sealing Wax of Destruction There is a saying amongst the dejected Self-Annihilators that the universe has no purpose and humans are nothing in the eyes of the Aeons. If the Aeons truly stand above all lifeforms and rule supreme, then why would they care about the everyday concerns of mortals? The existence of the sleeping and shapeless IX is proof of that. To show the Self-Annihilators that the Aeons do care, the Doctors of Chaos combined the demon god crafts of the occult monks to create the Sealing Wax of Aeons. It is said that stamping with this Sealing Wax will attract a glimpse from the corresponding Aeon from across space and time — There are no successful examples yet, but some Self-Annihilators did regain their faith in the universe, Aeons, and everything else after stamping with this sealing wax.
Sealing Wax of Remembrance There is a saying amongst the dejected Self-Annihilators that the universe has no purpose and humans are nothing in the eyes of the Aeons. If the Aeons truly stand above all lifeforms and rule supreme, then why would they care about the everyday concerns of mortals? The existence of the sleeping and shapeless IX is proof of that. To show the Self-Annihilators that the Aeons do care, the Doctors of Chaos combined the demon god crafts of the occult monks to create the Sealing Wax of Aeons. It is said that stamping with this Sealing Wax will attract a glimpse from the corresponding Aeon from across space and time — There are no successful examples yet, but some Self-Annihilators did regain their faith in the universe, Aeons, and everything else after stamping with this sealing wax.
Sealing Wax of Nihility There is a saying amongst the dejected Self-Annihilators that the universe has no purpose and humans are nothing in the eyes of the Aeons. If the Aeons truly stand above all lifeforms and rule supreme, then why would they care about the everyday concerns of mortals? The existence of the sleeping and shapeless IX is proof of that. To show the Self-Annihilators that the Aeons do care, the Doctors of Chaos combined the demon god crafts of the occult monks to create the Sealing Wax of Aeons. It is said that stamping with this Sealing Wax will attract a glimpse from the corresponding Aeon from across space and time — There are no successful examples yet, but some Self-Annihilators did regain their faith in the universe, Aeons, and everything else after stamping with this sealing wax.
Sealing Wax of Abundance There is a saying amongst the dejected Self-Annihilators that the universe has no purpose and humans are nothing in the eyes of the Aeons. If the Aeons truly stand above all lifeforms and rule supreme, then why would they care about the everyday concerns of mortals? The existence of the sleeping and shapeless IX is proof of that. To show the Self-Annihilators that the Aeons do care, the Doctors of Chaos combined the demon god crafts of the occult monks to create the Sealing Wax of Aeons. It is said that stamping with this Sealing Wax will attract a glimpse from the corresponding Aeon from across space and time — There are no successful examples yet, but some Self-Annihilators did regain their faith in the universe, Aeons, and everything else after stamping with this sealing wax.
Sealing Wax of Propagation There is a saying amongst the dejected Self-Annihilators that the universe has no purpose and humans are nothing in the eyes of the Aeons. If the Aeons truly stand above all lifeforms and rule supreme, then why would they care about the everyday concerns of mortals? The existence of the sleeping and shapeless IX is proof of that. To show the Self-Annihilators that the Aeons do care, the Doctors of Chaos combined the demon god crafts of the occult monks to create the Sealing Wax of Aeons. It is said that stamping with this Sealing Wax will attract a glimpse from the corresponding Aeon from across space and time — There are no successful examples yet, but some Self-Annihilators did regain their faith in the universe, Aeons, and everything else after stamping with this sealing wax.
Sealing Wax of Erudition There is a saying amongst the dejected Self-Annihilators that the universe has no purpose and humans are nothing in the eyes of the Aeons. If the Aeons truly stand above all lifeforms and rule supreme, then why would they care about the everyday concerns of mortals? The existence of the sleeping and shapeless IX is proof of that. To show the Self-Annihilators that the Aeons do care, the Doctors of Chaos combined the demon god crafts of the occult monks to create the Sealing Wax of Aeons. It is said that stamping with this Sealing Wax will attract a glimpse from the corresponding Aeon from across space and time — There are no successful examples yet, but some Self-Annihilators did regain their faith in the universe, Aeons, and everything else after stamping with this sealing wax.
Shattered Star Bait Before the Dusk Wars, the exploded fragments born out of the expansion of disordered nebulas could be used as lures, and their unique aroma of cosmic dust could attract Leviathans to feed on them. However, the Shattered Star Bait seems to have lost its original effectiveness after that catastrophic disaster. No matter how much scholars researched and modified the lure, no one was ever able to glimpse the form of the Leviathans again.
Space-Time Prism A multifaceted prism made in the shape of cheese. Every hole is an individual surface, and reflections from each prism surface produce a different effect. Some participants in experiments have their bodies physically enlarged or reduced after being reflected in the prism. Meanwhile, other participants have no bodily alterations, but instead receive memories not of their own. They become diagnosed with fictmemoria, and claim that they saw the enigmatic face of the Aeon Fuli in the prism.
Cosmic Big Lotto The marketing tactics for the Cosmic Big Lotto, sold by the Interastral Peace Corporation's Marketing Development Department, is as passionate and hot-blooded as Oswaldo Schneider himself. You just need one galactic currency to bet on your luck and become a trader in the experience of making dreams, where everyone has a chance to become a cosmic tycoon and join the business structure. Under Oswaldo Schneider's marketing strategy, few new worlds are able to resist such temptations — They eagerly join the Interastral Peace Corporation's universal business structure to win an entry ticket, obtaining the right to operate the Cosmic Big Lotto in their own realms.
Silver Coin of Discord The Technology Division of the Interastral Peace Corporation is adept at unearthing products with commercial potential. When the interstellar communication network was just being established and the supply of antennas fell short of demand, the IPC quickly recognized the latent need for this item in the cosmic market. An ingenious plan was born: Since silver's exceptional malleability allowed it to be stretched from one gram into yards of antenna, a researcher devised a Silver Coin of Discord that split itself infinitely, dramatically increasing the quantity of silver available to meet demands. The IPC then melted these coins into antennas and exported them throughout various star systems, enormously advancing interplanetary communications.
Interastral Big Lotto How do you make a business model last? After getting rave reviews for their Cosmic Big Lotto, the Interastral Peace Corporation's Business Consolidation Department followed Oswaldo Schneider's product vision and put the Interastral Big Lotto on the market, hoping that it would bring them success as well. They even connected eighty-six complementary industrial production chains and promoted them as a single entity. However, although the "Lotto Goddess" Beatrice Mellanine the IPC wished to develop as their spokesperson for their product perished due to reasons unknown, the IPC still reaped a windfall of credits in the end!"
Typical Genius Society Gossip "Herta's EQ is too low and Screwllum needs to learn more common knowledge regarding organics!" Fans of the Genius Society are always arguing over the various geniuses, and they often find themselves squabbling over things like Stephen Lloyd's actual age. Some believe he is a middle-aged man, while others maintain that he's just a child. In the chaos of their arguments, fans have brought forth an interesting anecdote to note: It is said that the being known as "Mad Scientist" among the members of the Genius Society was once rumored to be a man. No one expected a female scientist, let alone one possessed of refined manners. As such, the fans learned from this experience and posed a new question: Is Stephen Lloyd's gender also a fabrication?"
Fool's Mask The mask of the Masked Fools is symbol toward their faith in the Elation, and wearing said mask is effectively an admission ticket when they gather at the tavern at the edge of the world. These masks are made of heavy material, are vibrant in color, and with a maniacal smile yet with surprisingly intricate brushstrokes, as if waiting for each playful prank. They bear the devout certification of the Masked Fools, but it seems like they were all stolen from the ship of the Mourning Actors.
Spirit of the Knights of Beauty The faction that likes dealing with the Knights of Beauty the most are most likely the Masked Fools. These Fools like to amuse themselves by exploiting the knights' faith in the eventual return of Idrila, while the knights themselves remain ever-pious and obstinate practitioners in the ways of Beauty. Due to the reasons listed above, the Mourning Actors developed a sense of empathy for the knights from the spirit they demonstrated, and they collected a tooth sacrificed by the Knights of Beauty in their practice of seeking aesthetic perfection, with the tooth's desirability enduring even till the present.
Illusory Automaton Automatons fabricated by the History Fictionologists are rumored to have been made to create a large amount of high-quality fabrications that can be symbolically understood as a highly efficient and multicolored smokescreen. However, due to the History Fictionologists' poor habits when handling their own historical documentations, the automatons eventually discovered their own illusory design by reading such classified texts, and furthermore called another matter into question: Could the History Fictionologists themselves be fabrications as well?"
A Pinch of Bearded Gunpowder Compared to currencies of stone, wood, gold, or supernium metals, the nomadic miners are more obsessed with the excavation of Aether. There was a period when they were infatuated with the sensation of digging vast quantities of Aether using their bare hands while in the mines, but these experiences brought calamity upon them. Several large-stature miners finally met their ends via exploding gunpowder in unknown areas, while only a short and small miner managed to survive. Its beard henceforth always flickered with a pinch of flame.
Man-Made Meteorite Within the span of a century, three geniuses who drew the gaze of the Erudition Aeon were born on the same planet. They were Bohdan #7, Lambda #8, and Klein #9. Hence, this epoch was known as the "Golden Age." Rumor has it that something of a romantic comedy unfolded between the trio, as during this time, Klein — #9 of Genius Society — once created a man-made meteorite for #7, Bohdan, and upon the meteorite's surface existed a replica of the Eye of Erudition.
Rationality's Fall What is truth? No one truly knows. Supposing that "stupidity" is an incurable disease in this world, then disseminating knowledge counts as a treatment for the universe. But can "books" mend all living things? According to the Intelligentsia Guild's historical records, the Philosopher Union of the Laurel Wreath Galaxy once erupted in civil war, and blood and machine oil had stained all the books in the contemplators' corridors. Uncountable numbers of scholars died, and the IPC employees who witnessed it all deemed this occurrence "Rationality's Fall" — Through such absurd means, books cleansed a world of its impurities once more.
Rotting Fruit of the Alien Tree The Elixir Seekers once found a rotten Fruit of the Alien Tree. The color of its skin was already odd, having shifted from a faint yellow to powdery blue. To understand the pharmacology behind this fruit, a pair of Elixir Seeker twins separately ingested a normal Fruit of the Alien Tree and a rotten version. One of them immediately welcomed metamorphosis while the other instantly perished - But because there was no third party present, no one could confirm which twin survived, or which fruit he consumed.
King of Sponges In the Black Forest, a sponge miraculously became sapient. It tried to interact with the similarly sapient screws, but found itself hitting a brick wall. It pondered about its painful experience and learned to smooth away all the edges in its personality, allowing itself to constantly shine and climb up the societal ladder, ultimately turning into a smooth and slick sponge. Now, it dedicates its efforts to uplifting discarded sponges into developing their own self-awareness.
A-Ruan Pouch The Genius Society is awash with legendary figures, and so there are always people who wish to rank the creations of each genius. Ruan Mei's pouch stands at the forefront of such creations. It is said that she wished to carry the universe in her pocket, yet was forced to seal it when the dimensionality within continued to expand. The A-Ruan Pouch spent the remainder of its time in a display window. Stephen Lloyd once viewed it as his important companion for some reason — he never revealed to anyone how he contemplated hiding within the pouch to avoid his family.
Punklordian Regards Conflicts in cyberspace are always more complicated than imagined. Hackers skip and leap across each other's paths in digital space and any perceived disadvantages by one side would result in them scurrying from the scene, thus drawing out all combat to infinite durations. In Punklorde, where aether editing was created, the legendary hacker Stoneblade fought his nemesis for fourteen summers, never truly achieving victory or suffering defeat. In the end, he concocted an aether encryption key with a uni-directional locking function, teleporting himself to his opponent's physical position, and ended this rivalry that spanned more than a decade, face-to-face.
Celesticomet Alloy Type-II Under the colossal hammer of the Preservation, celestial bodies are processed into indestructible foundations, while the residue splattered by its immense force quickly cools, forming precious Celesticomet Alloy. These tiny shards, ejected when Qlipoth struck the Celestial Comet Wall, heralded the arrival of a new Amber Era from the moment they were created. Almost all Celesticomet Alloys are meticulously preserved by the Interastral Peace Corporation, with only employees ranked P45 and above having the opportunity to catch a glimpse of their true form.
Robe of The Beauty The entire universe bowed before the grace of the Knights of Beauty while they still traversed the skies. These noble knights who chased beauty wore resplendent gold and silver armor, and donned magnificent robes woven from silk and starlight. They had divinely beautiful features under their helmets. Even in the current era when The Beauty had already faded, those who had once witnessed the magnificence of the knights still believe Idrila will one day return.
Family Ties An escapee reported that he had acquired a Family Ties after opening a peculiar box, and inadvertently entered a gathering of The Family that venerates Xipe the Harmony. He described witnessing an unprecedented scene: The will of numerous heavenly bodies were intertwined, coiling into a single bound knot. Under Family Ties, people open their eyes wide, their faces etched with eerie smiles, staring at one another with identical expressions. When he voiced a question at the scene, everyone in the grand hall simultaneously shifted their gaze towards him and spoke with the same voice — "Welcome." The escapee was instantly unnerved, and, in a desperate bid for survival, he too held his eyes wide, his face plastered with the same smile.
Cavity System Model Herta once collected a model for the sake of a faraway story she heard. The federal government of the Cavity System always found themselves irregularly hard-pressed by a storm of invading inflatable candies. Thus, their financial affairs department were forced to spend uncountable credits to resolve the damages inflicted upon their corroded soil each natural year. Once, there was a Nameless that passed by this planet, and they sought to suss out its shape, and after several months of exploration, they cried out in shock: "The universe is irregularly shaped, just like a tooth!"
Obliteration Wick Trimmer If this candle wick trimmer is used to cut a wick, the angry anti-matter flames will ignite the candle, and the entire candlestick will be obliterated within seconds under the intense particle collisions. Exothermic reactions will be immediately triggered if this trimmer grazes your skin. Any parts of the body that the trimmer touches will instantly turn into antiprotons, reverberate throughout the body, and then scatter.
Memory Cycle A Cremator viewed her career as penance, believing that all memories should be restricted and governed. She placed even her own memories into the Cycle and sorted them into categories, erasing the meaningless content within and retaining only the useful parts to assess with her cognition. However, incomplete memories would often lead to incorrect judgments, and important information would be erased while useless content is left behind. Her Memory Cycle became wrecked with cracks, and this penance only lasted half an Amber Era before ending — Because she forgot even her role as a Cremator.
Plaguenest The infamous Jepella Brotherhood used live biological weapons when they invaded the Lindgano star system. The virus that causes genes to self-destruct makes infected cells consume each other within the host's body, creating appalling calamities. However, the endless multiplication made the horde of living beings within the Nest Capital soon go out of control. Driven berserk, they turned on the Brotherhood and devoured the invaders' camp, making these thugs have no chance but to give up the brethren embroiled in it, discarding what they could to stay alive. Some claimed the Ever-Flame Mansion was behind this event, with the evidence being the unending death feud between the two organizations that followed in days to come.
Rubert Empire Difference Machine A difference machine designed by Rubert I that took to history's stage during the Second Emperor's War. This terrifying device kept increasing its computational power and decision-making capacities during the war, veering on the edge of showing traits that could make it the third machine emperor. Now, the remains of the difference machine are sealed by the IPC inside multiple research institutes, and any device that connects with these remains will be invaded by the Anti-Organic Equation and automatically disintegrate after operating in an overloaded state. No one knows how the emperor managed to write the algorithms into these unthinking mechanical parts. They ceaselessly resonate with each other and wait for their next union — "If this is what geniuses are, then it'd be far better for the world to produce more idiots."
Reunion With Death A grotesque keychain that recorded, like a knotted-string device, its master's every brush against death. Following the murmurs of the Finality, the hunter galloped towards those dangerous futures time and time again. The supernova explosion in the Red Mandarin Star Zone, the Swarm invasion at Dormonton, the grand starship heist by the interstellar bandit Naro... He firmly believed that his destiny would not end here, and therefore enjoyed every second during which he brushed against death. In the end, he became a Creed Exequy, and the only thing he left in his wake was death.
Divination Cuckoo Clock Every day at dawn, this cuckoo clock will spit out a piece of paper with poetry written on it. All the sentences in the poems are composed of jargon from ancient mathematical systems. Some believe these poems to be prophetic and claim to be close to deciphering them, only for the clock to suddenly disappear. The possibility of foretelling the future is already priceless, and everyone is hoping for the clock to once again be circulated in the market. If that ever happened, all the riches of the universe would pour towards the clock — But there are also those who think it is only an artistic cuckoo clock designed to be good at writing poems.
Black Forest Cuckoo Clock After the end of the Second Machine Crisis, many robots became very anxious and were sensitive to any possible conflict. A rumor claiming that mechanical lifeforms will bring about the final disaster immediately drew the attention of all robots, and they formed an expedition team to scout unexplored lands three times. They reached the island at the southernmost tip of the land and dragged out the rumor's creator from a forest enveloped in utter darkness — A master artisan who hid in the mountains to study evil technology.
Perpetual Motion Cuckoo Clock After Screwllum, #76 member of the Genius Society, gained a hard-won peace for mechanical lifeforms, Planet Screwllum welcomed a Second Industrial Revolution. Countless inventors created curse machines, probability calculators, and candy guards, and passionately researched topics on the Seven Great Mysteries. As the topic ranking second amongst all, "Perpetual Motion" was loved by mechanical lifeforms. A great inventor, ranked nineteenth in Planet Screwllum, presented to the public their own Perpetual Motion Cuckoo Clock at the end of their life — This fine work used the Archimeles Spiral Energy to keep itself perpetually in motion, but the great inventor ended their own life for no apparent reason after receiving supreme honors for their creation.
IPC Cuckoo Clock The IPC's initial Prototype Cuckoo Clock represents the beginning of Operation Cuckoo Clock. Many are curious why Operation Cuckoo Clock was conceived — Louis Fleming declared that the worship of Qlipoth, Aeon of Preservation, means the IPC needs to protect its hard-won presence. In his speech, he stated that while the Interastral Peace Corporation is now the master of the universe's finances, it still needs to remain vigilant against the catastrophe of Finality. That is why he advocated the creation of the cuckoo clock series to collect information regarding that Aeon, meticulously removing any possibility of the IPC becoming bankrupt or disbanded in its future cosmic journey.
Mechanical Cuckoo Clock After the Second Rubert Rebellion, the IPC had once planned a brutal extermination of all mechanical life across the Cosmos. Fortunately, before the plan was passed, the IPC heard that #76 Screwllum was selected by Nous to join the Genius Society. The IPC then made this mechanical cuckoo clock as a gift to appease the new genius. This gift is very unremarkable in today's view, but that was an era when mechanical beings were persecuted. The birth of the mechanical cuckoo clock itself is a symbol of peace.
Broken Cuckoo Clock A cuckoo clock craftmaster once encountered Terminus. The clock in her hand fell to the ground in her surprise, becoming shattered and broken in Terminus' past. The craftmaster later joined the Omen Vanguards, trying to use cuckoo clocks to interpret Terminus' prophecy. Although she went on to create countless more clocks in her life, she always treasured this broken cuckoo clock. She had already met Terminus when it broke. Terminus had yet to meet her when it broke.
Fission Cuckoo Clock After receiving an omen from the Finality, the Cuckoo Clocks connected to the cataclysm suddenly appeared in the Black Forest, causing blockchains of inorganic entities to break up for reasons unknown. A Nameless intruding in the forest, however, began collecting the clocks for reasons related to passion, and was determined to bring the clocks back home with them. The Fission Cuckoo Clock constantly split during the journey, and in the end, the ship of the Nameless was filled to the brim. However, due to not comprehending the hints given by emerging phenomena resulting from constantly splitting Fission Cuckoo Clock within the allotted, time, the Nameless was devoured by the swarm halfway through their interstellar voyage.
Fission Cuckoo Clock After receiving an omen from the Finality, the Cuckoo Clocks connected to the cataclysm suddenly appeared in the Black Forest, causing blockchains of inorganic entities to break up for reasons unknown. A Nameless intruding in the forest, however, began collecting the clocks for reasons related to passion, and was determined to bring the clocks back home with them. The Fission Cuckoo Clock constantly split during the journey, and in the end, the ship of the Nameless was filled to the brim. However, due to not comprehending the hints given by emerging phenomena resulting from constantly splitting Fission Cuckoo Clock within the allotted, time, the Nameless was devoured by the swarm halfway through their interstellar voyage.
Punklorde Mentality Life is just a game — This sentence is no mere jest for hackers from the cyberworld Punklorde. They traverse the internet and use a technology known as aether editing to alter reality, making life into a great game. Occasionally, the cream of the crop among them gets to soar away from the planet and use the vast Cosmos as the second stage beyond the tutorial area. This cassette tape records the story of a legendary hacker. His life began in Punklorde's underground water reservoirs and ended in the company of the Galaxy Rangers. It is said that the funeral was a quiet one, with only a game cassette silently lying atop the coffin, serving as a footnote of "Finished the Game" at the hacker's final rites.
Beacon Coloring Paste The bright, visually stimulating colors of the Beacon Coloring Paste allow the Galactic Rescue Team to easily spot signs written with it. It was invented by a Nameless who possessed great artistic abilities. This Nameless once experienced a flight incident and was trapped in a barren and desolate star system. In the end, with the use of scraps from a white dwarf star fragment, he was able to produce the most magnificent item in the history of search and rescue — the Beacon Coloring Paste.
"Cognito Invalidater" Codebuilder "When will the human race become machines? And when will machines become human?" Following the machine era calendar, on this day at three in the afternoon, the invasive "Cognito Invalidater" entered the mind of a certain organic individual in the Mechanical City. At the start, he was helpless against the uncontrolled thoughts in his own mind. Then, he realized writing notes could help him effectively counter the anxiety and meaninglessness the "Cognito Invalidater" inflicted on him. So he began to write, spewing forth words, expelling the chaotic and incoherent noises in his head that remained deafening loud despite being bereft of substance. He produced lines and lines of error code. This eventually drew the Riddlers' attention.
"Cognito Averagifier" Communal Nexus Following the machine era calendar, on this day at three in the afternoon, the invasive "Cognito Averagifier" entered the mind of an arrogant organic individual in the Mechanical City. The "Cognito Averagifier" dealt him heartbreak. He realized that the limit of all his talents could only brush against the most average members of the community. But he did not despair, for soon he learned to master this new and unique skill, concealing his flurry of emotions from the inorganic masses, becoming the most average of all machines, and embarking on the Path of Equilibrium.
"Revelrous" Rainbowmaker Following the machine era calendar, on this day at six in the morning, the invasive "Revelrous" entered the mind of a mono-horned beast in the Mechanical City. Only paltry few unmodified animals remained in the city. Hence, fueled by the "Revelrous" contagion, the mono-horned beast was able to overcome all manner of despairing defeats, awkward incidents, and crippling moments of dread. Sadness became joy for it, pain became pleasure, and pressure became a trigger for secreting excitatory neurotransmitters — Until one day it realized it had taught itself how to convert "mood" into a freely adjustable parameter. Thereafter, its confidence was perpetually high and unshakable, turning it into a "Rainbow-Radiant Unicorn."
"Wildminder" Machine Cell "I've seen Emperor Rubert!" Following the machine era calendar, on this day at nine in the evening, the invasive "Wildminder" entered the thoughts of a certain brain-in-a-jar in the Machine City. It was unable to distinguish whether itself was organic, inorganic, or just a gaseous lifeform. It claimed to have met the emperor, only to break away from the "Wildminder" in its head — The thought slammed the limits of its brain, overloading its thoughts to the point of exhaustion. But after Rubert fixed a single line of unmarkable code, it awakened from this haze, coming to realize that none of this had happened, that it had only been another illusion.
Talot Doll There are always those in the vast Cosmos who ignored the Omen Vanguards' warning, such as the owner of the Eton Toy Factory. When the pathwalkers of Finality warned him that he should destroy an entire batch of newly manufactured toys, he only responded with thundering rage. After 24 system hours, the Talot race hiding within the toys launched their attack against the toy factory. This liquid-state cluster entity, which comes from the border star zones, shared their consciousness communally and eagerly invited other living beings to join them — Eton soon became one of them.
Celesticomet Alloy Type-III Under the colossal hammer of the Preservation, celestial bodies are processed into indestructible foundations, while the residue splattered by its immense force quickly cools, forming precious Celesticomet Alloy. These tiny shards, ejected when Qlipoth struck the Celestial Comet Wall, heralded the arrival of a new Amber Era from the moment they were created. Almost all Celesticomet Alloys are meticulously preserved by the Interastral Peace Corporation, with only employees ranked P45 and above having the opportunity to catch a glimpse of their true form.
Absolute Failure Prescription Warfare is the plague of civilization. It erases lives, destroys history, and makes the world return to naught. The Doctors of Chaos mix the saliva of Inquisition Spirits with hair from Xenohydros, then offer a drop of their own blood. The potions made in this manner would interfere with the combat officers' decision-making, causing both sides to avoid all effective tactics, removing the possibility of armed conflict from its root. Will wars end because of this? The Doctors of Chaos believe that the plague will eventually be cured as long as people keep taking their medicine.
Excess Nutrition Doctor Atarte invented a nutrition management machine to confront the increasingly dire challenge of obesity. Not only can this machine absorb excess nutrition from its owner and save these calories elsewhere, but it can also filter out the harmless particles in the atmosphere to synthesize food. However, no one expected the consumers would instead gain weight, as the synthesized foods were too efficient and caused the users to keep eating. The overwhelming complaints made Doctor Atarte lose sleep for days at a time, losing a large amount of weight.
Dignity and Passion The Interastral Peace Corporation has the final right of interpretation regarding mining work in star zones under their possession. Any illegal mining activities will be viewed as an act of blasphemy that interferes with the Amber Lord's wall construction. Great naval rams, installed atop the military cruisers, will swiftly and directly hammer toward the culprit, generously displaying the holy visage of Qlipoth to them and rendering the illegal mining ship into scraps. Oswaldo has jokingly stated more than once that the means employed by the Building Material Logistics Department are far more radical than those used by the Marketing Development Department, and that might well be the truth.
Cumulous Steak An atmospheric floating organism herded in the air by the Merito people. After prolonged selective breeding, the taste of their meat is now indistinguishable from normal farmed species. The intense difficulty involved in cooking their meat meant they became an ingredient that frequently appeared in high-end culinary establishments. Based on observations by the Astral Ecology School, these creatures have significant genetic similarities with the Cnidaria organisms in Muldrasil. There are even radicals who claim that these animals share a common ancestor with the wingweavers, but this idea faced universal rebuttal from the Interastral Culinary Association.
Lapispeakers' Flakes Solid-state information flakes excreted from the bodies of Lapispeakers. These highly intelligent Echinodermata-like animals use these solids to record everything — from the broken words of an individual to the history of entire societies. Due to the unique neuronal structures of the Lapispeakers, the information in the solids can be decrypted by other interstellar civilizations at a relatively low cost. Therefore, they joined the IPC's system many years before the creation of the Synesthesia Beacon, becoming a key supporting function to cosmic communications.
Revitalization-310 Among the various potions offered by the Doctors of Chaos, Revitalization-310 Potion probably belongs to the type that is not very safe. Smear it evenly across the forehead, suck on a leaf of the aster plant, and wait for the gel-like material created from a total of nine ingredients such as Redfeather Wolf tooth powder and Denisova Worms' stomach acid to permeate into the cerebral cortex. These bizarre ointments start from the patient's cognition and erase the root of the emotion that may give birth to Nihility. Unfortunately, due to the positive feedback that arises from this cognition adjustment, the ointment became a psychological anesthetic used to escape from reality after it was introduced to the border stars. Until the IPC's intervention, there had been sixteen star systems tottering on the verge of destruction due to cognition confusion and pharmacological abuse, and have reverted to oblivion.
Dreamdive Can A sweet dream food can from Penacony, Planet of Festivities. It is full of highly compact gaseous memoria. The user will fall into dreams within five minutes after opening the can. The Dreamdive Can was originally a toy in the Cosmos's middle-class family bedroom, but became the only way for people to sleep on some planets deep in the mires of war. In the gloomy and depressing mining caves, the survivors fall shiveringly asleep and head into dreams to find the freedom they could not find in reality, just like how it was like in yesteryear in the Land of the Dreams.
Parallel Universe Walkie-Talkie Some of the inventions produced by the Intelligentsia Guild always make people wonder whether the Masked Fools had infiltrated the guild. An example would be this "Parallel Universe Walkie-Talkie." Apparently, it can detect the tiny divergences in space-time shifts, and establish a relationship between the two closest divergence points, allowing information to be passed between the two — but the only thing the user can hear is their echo from the walkie-talkie. The project's manager Doctor DeWitt indicates that this phenomenon precisely illustrates the high level of similarity between parallel universes, where even the thoughts of the doppelganger would be completely identical.
Most Raucous Few creatures can survive in Talia's sandstorms, and Barzarton lizards are one of them. They consume the highly radioactive ores on the planet as food and convert it as energy needed for survival. Their excessive energy and aggressiveness make Barzarton lizards demonstrate capacities far beyond that of ordinary vehicles. Some deceptive businesspeople even named the species "Destructive Mega Lizard," hoping to sell it to newbie Annihilation Gang members for a high price on the black market. As the open-air mines gradually became depleted, more Barzarton lizards learned to carry their young to the land of the Wastelanders to ensure the offspring's survival. That was how Talia's lizard breeding industry was born.
Delicious Marimo Candy The Kolchis established an extremely prosperous sunset dynasty in the rainforest approximately one thousand Amber Eras ago. However, they disappeared within ten Amber Eras after the beginning of the Ice Age. The fate of the Kolchis became a myth that plagued historians for many years due to how bodies of this race have never been unearthed — until a group of hothead daredevils following Trailblaze collapsed the species' subterranean royal mausoleum with dynamite. These Nameless, trapped in the underground passage, discovered an edible algae species and held on until help arrived thanks to consuming this algae. That was how these delectable algae were introduced to the stars — when people realized that these algae were nothing less than the Kolchis, this moss ball became labeled as an invasive species on more than fifty planets.
First Journey The Mad King Qhaley adores children because they are closest to the essence of the Enigmata THEMSELF. A child closes their storybook and raises the wooden stick in their hand, proclaiming it to be the knight's sword, destined to venture beyond the mountains to vanquish the evil king and seize his territory and treasures. Qhaley concocts riddles, weaves tales, and fabricates a kingdom made only of children. His purpose remains unknown, but to this day, many children still hold high their swords, awaiting the kingdom's gates to swing open for the knights.
Divine Visage An old camera that was purported to have recorded the figure of the Beauty, and was considered a treasure by the Mirror Holders. It was once auctioned as a commodity on the Cosmic dark web, but every auction attracted Masked Fools who maliciously raised the price until it could not be sold. It was only passed into the hands of the Mirror Holders after the Fools lost their interest in the prank. Pictures had long faded from within this camera by then, but people seemed to still scry that Aeon's beauty on the lens — as if THEY were a sun that scorched the world with the flames of beauty, leaving behind only eternal imprints.
Genius' Confusion One day, Genius Society #77 Puzzle suddenly wanted to add something to the Cosmic educational effort. She used a simple force field to weave multidimensional structures such as mini wormholes and Imaginary subspace fields in a Klein bottle, hoping to use this educational toy as the first stepping stone to physics for all children in the universe. As expected, this great invention was met with abysmal sales. Evidently, pre-school education as conceived by Puzzle was quite different from the general public's perception of it. This only illustrates that a genius cannot be a genius in every aspect of life.
Bud in the Wind The sail floats alone under the caress of the cosmic wind. This mechanical web laid out in space was originally the core component of Wen-II's giant generator. It captures the charged particle beams breathed out by stars and converts them to energy that is then transported to the planet. However, everything ended the moment the Lord Ravager Zephyro arrived. What followed was the fire of a supernova exploding. When the light faded and the Legion left, only a single broken flower showed that history once existed among the now-empty dust plains.
Road to Comets A gravitational bridge built through projections on spacial structures, judged by the Intelligentsia Guild as one of the ten thousand most useless inventions in the universe. This device was born from a gamble made by the History Fictionologist "Red-Nosed Old-Timer." He claimed to be able to climb into the sky via lamplight and bet one-tenth of his wealth on it. However, when the distance is too long, walking on the light bridge is no different to a long-distance marathon. Yet if the distance is too short, the energy consumption needed to maintain the project far exceeds the cost of building a physical bridge — This is indeed an innovative creation, but it's hard to figure out where it should be used.