As the truth bomb was dropped, everyone was left staring at each other in stunned silence, seemingly seeking to find a resemblance of reassurance from one another, but to no avail.

Everyone was shell-shocked with many thoughts roamed their minds regarding the whole situation.

If it wasn't for Empress Emily being the one delivering the news, they would have already labeled her as a 1st tier bullsh*ter.

Fortunately, Empress Emily didn't leave them brewing in their thoughts for too long.

"What you have just watched was the last footage of a Twilight Battle between our Supreme Azzorus and Supreme R'vaelor. They are called Supreme beings because they are the consciousness of their corresponding universes."

'Consciousness of the universe?' Felix frowned in confusion, 'Does she mean that our universe is actually alive, with its own mind? How can that be possible?'

Those same thoughts coursed through everyone's minds. Unfortunately, everyone was still muted, so, no one could ask anything.

Thankfully, Empress Emily planned on explaining everything from A to Z.

She waved her hand and a holographic manifestation of the universe appeared before them. It was spherical surrounded by a glowing aura and had an unfathomable number of galaxies suspended within it.

From a distance, it resembled a beautiful shiny marble.

"This is our universe." As she said this, Empress Emily zoomed out until billions more like spheres emerged at once, each one floating near another without directly coming in contact.

"Those are just a small portion of other universes in the Multiversal Plane." Empress Emily said emotionlessly, "Each one is conscious and has absolute authority within its territory...However,"

She suddenly expanded again, not giving even a minute for those poor souls to register her shocking truths.

After the expansion was over, Felix and the others had their hearts skip a beat at the sight of those universes being all contained within a spherical white nebula that was suspended in an absolute void!!

There was a literal wasteland of nothingness around it that seemed to extend to infinity.

"The white barrier is called The Celestial Cocoon and it is the only thing keeping those universes stable and safe, brimming with life...This is the fate of any universe outside of the protective Cocoon."

When she finished, the infinite void seemed to be highlighted by trillions of stars.

'Oh my god...'

Felix felt his heart hit his stomach the instant he realized that each star represented a universe!

The only difference was it had no spherical structure or a white aura surrounding it. Each one resembled a chaotic canvas of colors...Galaxies were thrown everywhere akin to guts spilling out of a wounded animal.

As the light faded off those universes, they seemed to be consumed by the darkness of the void.

"This infinite expanse of void is called The Blighted Grounds." Empress Emily uttered expressionlessly, "With the death of Supreme Azzorus, our universe is on a straight path to get expelled and join those perished universes, sealing our fate once and for all."

"Any questions?"

Suddenly, everyone found out their voices had returned. Yet, silence prevailed inside the large hall.

With everything said, it was nearly impossible not to be confused, overwhelmed, and petrified.

Fortunately, there were many leaders with great emotional restraint as they quickly crafted the most critical questions and didn't hesitate to fire them out.

"How did you come across such information? Why is this the first time we are learning about it? Is the metal race the only one with such Intel? Or are the ten rulers all on it?"

The minute one voice echoed across the hall, it seemed like it had set a fire inside everyone's chests, causing a thunderous ruckus to emerge!

Yet, Empress Emily left them be and listened to their noisy ruckus, seemingly picking up the important questions from the bunch and highlighting them through the chaos for everyone to hear.

"After careful analysis, I assume that Supremacy Games is a system used to weed out the weak universes and expel them from the Celestial Cocoon. If this is true, why is this happening? Who is in charge of this ludicrous operation? How come our 'Supreme' perished permanently when he is the consciousness of an entire universe? Isn't he supposed to be a God?" A serene scientist spoke calmly, yet, everyone heard him.

"I have some many doubts...Was the SGAlliance founded on lies? Was it truly founded to stop wars raging out between races by holding out games or is it all just a ruse to create a united front?" An infamous politician joined in with his series of questions.

"If all of this is correct, why are we being told? Shouldn't this be an issue to solve between you ten rulers? After all, none of us knew about the existence of this Multiversal Plane, Supremes cosmic battles, or whatnot. What do you expect from us humans, who don't even have a cultivation system, to do anything about it?"

As those questions kept resounding in everyone's ears, they realized that there was no point in yelling together.

Thus, they quieted down and waited with solemn expressions for Empress Emily's answers. Felix also kept a deep furrow as he waited with everyone else, feeling like he was in a lucid dream.

Supremes? Multiverse? Blighted Grounds? Celestial Cocoon?

How could he adjust his sense of reason when he was just thinking about how to convince some low-level company representatives and instantly skipped to an existential crisis affecting an entire universe?

It was like a child learning about 1+1 equals 2, suddenly being told about quantum mechanics.

The shift was just too extreme, all he could do was keep his mouth shut and his mind open to all possibilities.

Fortunately, he had Empress Emily as the teacher.

"First of all, we have summoned you here since we believe you are the key to our salvation." Empress Emily spoke calmly, "But, we will go into details about this later, for now, you deserve to learn about the true history of our universe and the origins of the SGAlliance."

"I will keep it brief." She paused, "Everyone knows that the Metal Race is motivated by our search for the truth, the truth our of universe and existence."

"Unbeknownst to the public, we have already found out after we invented a device capable of piercing through the veil of our universe, helping us see the Multiversal Plane for the first time."

"While our device wasn't good at the start and merely showed us numbered data that proved the existence of other universes, we spent eons trying to perfect it until it started showing us live video feedback."

As she said this, she showed everyone what the first video ever recorded of the Multiversal Plane looked like.

Everyone's eyes were affixed to the screen as they watched the low-quality video of the closest universe to them, appearing as a moving sphere in an ocean of white mist.

'How the hell did they achieve such a technology?' Felix was completely fascinated, knowing that it should be impossible to video record an actual universe from outside.

Its scale was simply too unfathomable to be captured by any recording device no matter how progressed the technology.

This made him presume that maybe the device was sensing and crunching a heavy load of data and using it to paint out a recorded image of what was supposed to be.

In other words, they were looking into another universe externally, but merely what the calculation had resulted in...Though, this was the Metal Race, making him understand that math was their fortitude.

Suddenly, his thoughts were interrupted by a sudden flicker in the screen before it went completely dark.

Just as everyone assumed that the video finished, two bright crimson eyes burnt through the screen, scaring the majority of watchers to the core...It felt like their souls were about to be snatched by a single stare!

"Those were the eyes of the neighboring universe's consciousness, Supreme V'eldrax." Empress Emily said calmly, "That's our first interaction with an Outer God and last without the permission of our Supreme Azzorus."

"However, because of this incident, Supreme Azzorus has finally decided grace us with his presence and enlighten us about everything."