However, the Terra Dragon's efforts were not in vain.
Indeed, destruction, the end, and extinction came with the Apocalypse. The Terra civilization, which thought it had prepared for doomsday in every way, faced an unforeseen disaster in haste. Yet, the Terra Dragon's perseverance allowed this planet to preserve a trace of the Spark.
The last thing Ian saw was the Terra Dragon, thoroughly burned out and exhausted, slowly falling to the ground.
Even so, in its final moments as it approached the ultimate conclusion, it bore a colonial city on its back, gently lowering it to the ground like a gravestone for itself.
[As an end befitting a dragon, this is not bad]
In this acceptance, the Retrospective Vision came to an end.
Ian fell into silence.
It was yet another retrospection related to the Calamity of Heavenly Fall—unsurprising, for within Terra's lands, nearly everything, every origin and upheaval, stems from that calamity over 1,600 years ago.
