Chapter 1176 New Gateway

• "Exactly. To my knowledge, nearly 1,000 years have passed without a single mythical stage martial artist emerging," Gage confirmed, voice as steady as an ancient bell. "That drought is why this era invented the so-called close-to-mythical stage."
• "Which means that before then, the close-to-mythical stage didn't exist at all," Aiden muttered, eyes narrowing like blades catching morning light.
• Gage nodded. "That's right. The powerful figures then must have carved out that extra stage—wedging it between the Peak S-Class and the mythical stage—simply to keep hope alive for the martial artists of their time."