Kairos furrowed his brows at Kyran's words. His knowledge of the past was limited to the experiences and knowledge the past Overseers possessed. Thus, it was unsurprising that he did not know what Caelan did outside the tower's confines.
Indeed, Kairos's knowledge of Caelan was a mere glimpse, limited to the time the latter spent in the Tower of Tribulations, leaving the rest of his story shrouded in mystery.
Kairos's predecessor was the Overseer then, and she had yet to succumb to her death and become a remnant soul. She also had the opportunity to meet Caelan in person whenever she had to present him with his rewards.
Caelan would have been the first to conquer the Tower of Tribulations if not for the fact that the Overseer admitted they could not help him fulfill his desire— to free Layla from the Dark Sage that bound her. They could not help him because they had no idea who the Dark Sage was or where to find him. Besides, back then, Caelan did not know who it was that had bound Layla.
But it appeared that Caelan eventually found the Dark Sage. Unfortunately, the only thing he could do was seal him inside his treasure, the Macabre Glacier.
The thought of the mirror reminded Kyran of one of his doubts. He asked, his voice tinged with uncertainty, "I was told the Macabre Glacier was the Dark Sage's magic weapon, but after learning of this tower and that he might be the King of the Ancients, I wondered if it was one of the Ancients priced treasure."
"It is indeed possible..." Kairos's voice trailed off as he tilted his head slightly.
Looking at Kairos, he seemed to be listening to something he could only hear. Kyran guessed the last Overseer was speaking to Kairos at that moment.
"...Can you describe what the mirror looked like?" Kairos asked after a brief pause.
Kyran was somewhat surprised at the older man's question. Then again, the mirror might have been called differently before The Fall. The last Overseer did not react when Kyran mentioned the Macabre Glacier.
For the record, Kyran believed the last Overseer was watching his and Kairos's conversation from a concealed area, which was why he could not sense her. Nonetheless, he knew she was somewhere nearby, making it easier for her to communicate with Kairos at any moment.
"The mirror is..."
Kyran gave a detailed description of how the Macabre Glacier. He only saw it up close once but could still remember what it looked like. If not, True Void would not have been able to imitate its form when he wanted him to fool Flos and Obstruction back then.
Now that Kyran was reminded of that scene, he recalled a detail that he had not thought much of back then but had now found strange.
His color would still be purple whenever True Void shifted into a different form. But when he turned into the Macabre Glacier back then, his appearance was similar to a tee that Flos and Obstruction were fooled into thinking he might be the original.
Before Kyran's thoughts could delve further into that memory, Kairos's voice snapped him out of his reverie.
"I would have felt the same if I were in your position," he said sympathetically.
"What happened after The Fall?" Kyran veered their discussion back to what happened in the past.
"As you may have already learned, the Higher Being suffered its repercussions when The Fall happened. Since he failed to uphold his duty to The Realm, he was stripped of his authority to possess the Heart of the Cosmos. The Heart of the Cosmos hid inside the tower until a mage favored by The Emperor discovered her.
"You may or may not know, but The Emperor used to be the Higher Being's successor. So when the Higher Being disappeared, he took over and established himself as the new 'authority.'"
"No wonder he thinks everything in the Higher Realm belongs to him."
"Yes. In a sense, he isn't wrong. Because at the pace he was going back then, he would eventually become an existence similar to the Higher Being."
"'The pace he was going back then,'" Kyran repeated with a wry smile. "You mean to say that is no longer the case."
"Exactly," Kairos nodded with a similar smile. "You are already aware of the rumors surrounding the Dragon Emperor's imminent breakthrough."
Kyran nodded, "The Emperor's clan also attacked the Dragon plane recently. I don't know the odds between the two, but I heard that the Dragon Clan successfully fended off their attack.
"Although the Emperor did not participate in the attack, the Dragon Emperor was also absent. This alone is a testament that the Dragon Clan is gaining momentum."
"I also only learned of it. Nonetheless, the Dragon Emperor, gaining momentum at this point, threatens The Emperor's authority."
"Let's go back to that mage The Emperor favored," Kyran said, putting a stop to their discussion about matters happening at present so they would not veer too far from the past.
"Of course," Kairos chuckled. "But you seem to have an idea about him."
"Layla mentioned him," Kyran admitted with a slight nod. "And I've read a few recent entries about him from the tablets I borrowed from Axil."
Kairos nodded, "You also thought that mage might have been the Dark Sage."
"Yes," Kyran replied with a sigh. "Because of him, I'm not 100% sure the King of the Ancients was the Dark Sage because there were clues that point toward him."
"Then I will tell you what I know about him. It may help you further analyze who the Dark Sage was. But I have to warn you, what I can tell you is based on the things the previous Overseers managed to glean from the Tower of the Ancients participants."