The Unvanquished: Child of Nihility-Chapter 77: The Lost Order of Eden

Chapter 77 – (The Lost Order of Eden– The Rise of the Three Paths: Cultivation, Supernatural, and Technology)

"Welcome back to the official reconstruction of the Eden Planet History and Apocalypse Crisis Log..."

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Instructor Calem crossed his arms behind his back, standing to the side as the past began to breathe again.

The Lost Order of Eden

The lecture hall remained dim, the SEgrade-Echo holograms swirling in shades of pale violet and deep blue. Mountains shimmered in outline. Forests breathed in frozen time.

Instructor Calem stepped beside the display, his hands folded calmly behind his back.

The cadets felt as if they’ve traveled back to the past Eden.

Then he spoke, voice clear and commanding "As most of you already know... Eden was once a planet where pure cultivation reigned supreme."

A wave of old, golden light pulsed through the hologram–revealing sprawling landscapes covered in aether-rich fields, mana-saturated lakes, and sky-floating citadels. The hologram weren’t only displayed on the front wall–but through the four walls of the class...

"Before the Apocalypse Crisis... mana flowed without restriction across the land. No need for converters, amplifiers, or absorption chambers. The very air was cultivation."

He gestured lightly, and the screens zoomed toward a green-gold region, revealing nine radiant territories carved into the planet like divine sigils.

"Eden was divided into Nine Grand Domain, governed by powerful bloodline families. Each domain was connected to a sacred forest or ancient elemental source."

The map displayed slowly rotating labels across the nine sections:

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Eden’s Nine Grand Domain – Pre-Apocalypse Layout

1. Domain 1 – Classified by the Ancient (Access Denied)

2. Domain 2 – The Mu Royal Ancient Empire (The current EDA location was a sacred ground of an Ancient Empire–The Mu Royal Family–Ruler of Eden Planet).

3. Domain 3 – The Ancient Voidspace Clan (1st in Power Ranking)

4. Domain 4 – The Ancient Sherman Clan (4rd in Power Ranking)

5. Domain 5 – The Ancient Magnus Clan (2nd in Power Ranking)

6. Domain 6 – The Ancient Tarma Clan (3rd)

7. Domain 7 – The Ancient Wisewind Clan (6th)

8. Domain 8 – The Ancient Stormer Clan (5th)

9. Domain 9 – The Ancient Erickson Clan (7th)

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"Each Domain was ruled not just by cultivation strength," Calem continued, "but by the resonance between their bloodlines and their region’s elemental core."

"At the surrounding it all was the Ancient Divine Beast Forest–a large forest that stretch over the entire Domain. Said to house ancient beast contracts, primordial bloodline seeds, and the original Eden Core Tree."

The screen pulsed again, revealing a towering white-silver ancient tree, its branches touching the clouds, its roots forming leyline rivers across the planet–It’s The Original Eden Corn Tree

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"The Ancient Voidspace Clan in Domain 3," instructor Calem said, "held sway over spatial manipulation and ethereal techniques–ruling as the strongest ancient lineage."

"The Ancient Magnus Clan of Domain 5 followed, known for their elemental fusion dominance, especially over fire, lightning, and wind."

"The Ancient Sherman Clan, holders of Dark element bloodline adaptability and hybrid combat arts, ranked third, controlling domain 4."

"The Erickson’s, defensive tech-based cultivators, operated from Domain 9."

"The Tarma’s, experts in toxic-elemental warfare–Domain 6."

"The Wisewind’s, rooted in spiritual scouting, Rune’s crafting, and precision strike techniques, held Domain 7."

"And the Stormer’s–brutal physical enhancers and berserk martial weaponists–resided in Domain 8."

He paused as the cadets absorbed the layout.

"These weren’t just Clan," Calem said. "They were dominions. Each formed an ecosystem. An order. A natural balance..."

Then his tone dropped slightly.

"...Until the mana tides shifted."

The SEgrade-Echo card began to hum.

The light changed.

And the story darkened.

The Fall of Mana Harmony

The classroom fell into a deep, eerie silence.

No one moved, No whispered. Even breathing felt heavier.

Each cadet stared at the SEgrade-Echo holograms around them–but their eyes saw more than light. They felt the weight of Eden’s forgotten truth pressing into their bones.

Why is this unsettling?

Is this truly the planet we now walk on? 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

What kind of force could collapse such power?

Thoughts flickered–quiet, anxious, reverent.

Then, without warning–

The classroom dimmed completely.

A cold shiver spread through the air, like the room itself remembered what came next.

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Inside the holograms... Eden’s sky began to flicker.

The serene glow of mana-rich clouds pulsed unevenly. The lands beneath–the Nine Grand Domains–vibrated subtly. Not violently, but wrongly.

The spiritual mana of the world trembled, as if flinching in anticipation.

Then the voice of instructor calem returned, layered and haunting "It began not with a war... but a whisper."

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A deep hum resonated from the core of the planet.

The screens shifted rapidly–zooming deep beneath Eden’s crust, where the original Eden Core Tree stood in radiant silence.

Its silver-white trunk pulsed with the rhythm of the world’s leyline heartbeat, its roots threading through the very soul of Eden.

Then–

its glow cracked.

The tremor that followed wasn’t an earthquake.

It was the collapse of order.

Mana reversed.

The leyline veins bled darkness.

And the Core Tree... withered.

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Then came the Rifts.

Spiraling vortexes tore open the skies–Spatial Rifts that crackled with corrupted void light.

From them poured the first wave–beasts not born from Eden’s nature, but from beyond the veil of dimension.

They came in all forms;Serpent-beasts with molten scales that melted stone, Eyeless flyers that screamed pure sound and shattered mountains, Hollow-fleshed giants whose footsteps liquefied mana rivers, Crawling, faceless things that mimicked human voices and many more...

"These were not monsters of Eden, They were the beginning of the Beyond-Touched Invasion."

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Cadets shifted in their seats.

Neo Laura’s fingers twitched slightly.

Leo Mordric narrowed his eyes.

Jack Voidspace sat unnaturally still.

Only Morca remained motionless–his mismatched eyes glowing faintly in the dark.

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The screen rippled again.

The light of Eden’s skies dimmed.

Hope began to flicker.

The SEgrade-Echo holograms showed humanity’s first response–a desperate one.

The seven ancient clan, each ruling a Grand Domain of Eden, unleashed their full cultivation might.

The Voidspace clan distorted terrain with spatial folds.

The clan family unleashed elemental torrents of flame, lightning bolt, wind, and molten light.

The Sherman clan fused adaptable styles and bloodline might to strike at chaos.

For a time, it seemed they might contain the invasion.

But...

It wasn’t enough.

"Cultivation alone could not combat the dimensional anomalies. The monsters weren’t bound by Eden’s natural laws. They were twice as strong as normal cultivators"

They shifted, evolved, fed on mana itself.

The skies were red with broken leyline storms. Entire sections fell into ruin, Blood flowed without end,Rivers dried, and Eden itself turned chaotic.

Survival became a luxury–not a right.

The once-flourishing planet became a battlefield of ashes and rotting silence. And for the citizens...

Survival wasn’t guaranteed, It became a war of attrition one that lasted decades.

It was then... the first change occurred.

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From the ashes of destroyed cities, a group of strange warriors emerged–clad in metallic veined armor, their strength powered not by mana, but cores, plasma nerves, and mechanized enhancements.

Their origins unknown, they fought with tech-guided instinct and non-elemental energy weapons that tore apart even Royal-class beasts.

The projection highlighted these mysterious soldiers–early Exotech Warriors–moving in swift, precise formations, cloaked in glowing magnetic fields and reinforced flesh.

Their appearance altered the war. But not alone.

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At the same time, deep within Eden’s fractured sanctuaries, a collective of researchers, spiritualists, and failed cultivators uncovered a new truth–an energy source buried in human emotion, will, and soul.

They awakened what became known as the Supernatural Path.

Not mana... not technology... But pure awakened resonance. And the discovery of monsters core

Their bloodlines mutated, and their abilities broke known laws.

Where cultivators faltered, and tech warriors bled–supernatural awakeners adapted.

As for the Ancient Mu Royal Family... mystery was what defined them...

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Instructor Calem’s voice layered back in, weaving across the memory echo.

"This... was the moment Eden’s world system split. And the rise of the three paths: Cultivation, Supernatural, and Technology–with them... the rise of a new alliance."

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The screen transitioned to show the seven surviving ancient clan gathered atop a shattered mountain range.

They forged a pact, no longer divided by pride.

Their united goal: containment, protection, order.

This alliance birthed a new structure–Eden Domineer Academy.

A place to train the strongest from all paths.

A shield. A spear. A crucible.

"Thus, from destruction... came Domineering unity."

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As the monsters began to adapt again, now faced with unpredictable supernatural experts and evolving tech-forged warriors, the tide turned.

They were forced back, howling into the very rift that birthed them.

And humanity responded.

Engineers, with guidance from surviving warriors, created runed metallic gateways–weaving ancient cultivator runes and modern alloys.

These gates were placed at every known spatial crack.

The world called them Dungeons.

"And so... the monsters were sealed. Not destroyed–They were only contained."

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The camera panned back to the section once known as domain 2, where the Eden Core Tree, now transformed, stood at the heart of the zone. Its branches had folded into spiraling metal, its bark now fused with strange crystal lattice veins. Absorbing Blood of the fallen...

"Its final transformation... formed the basis of the Monument Tower. The structure that now monitors rift activity... and cadet anomalies. And the mystery around its transformation was still unknown"

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Instructor Calem finally stepped back into the projection’s light.

His voice was grave "This is your inheritance. A broken planet, stitched together by three evolving paths, still haunted by echoes of extinction."

"And the rifts..."

"...still watch."

Instructor Calem let the projection fade completely, the final trace of Eden’s apocalypse flickering into silence.

He turned back to the seated cadets–each still lost in private reflection.

"That will be all for today."

His voice remained steady.

"No questions. No discussion. You are not here to debate the past–only to learn from it–and If you do have any questions, then do research about it in your wrist device."

He turned toward the glowing wall panel behind him and pressed a sigil.

"Your next lesson–Power Pathways and Rank Comprehension–will take place two days from now."

"Tomorrow’s session belongs to Instructor Haister–Combat Application and Monsterology. I advise you not to arrive unprepared."

Without another word, he stepped off the stage and disappeared through the rune-slit wall.

And just like that–

Class ended...