Stunted.
This was the designation given to their Observable Existence as the numbers of entities who had attained any Civilizational Depth, who had proceeded to advance from Level Zero to Level One Civilization, was abysmally few. Across eons of existence, across countless ages of struggle and conflict and desperate cultivation, only a handful had ever achieved THE distinction.
Naturally, if something was missing which caused this, and such a thing was then introduced to fix the deficiency...
It would have a lot of work to do.
It would have to play catch-up for all that it had missed.
At this moment.
THE Resplendent Paradox ignored the howling serpent beside her as she felt the seas of Civilizational Chaos permeating all around her paradoxical domain. The obsidian tide that had begun spreading through Tian continued its advance with hunger that seemed almost conscious in its determination.
