"Later, the Nine Realms reconnected, and the Red Dust Base also attempted to find the culprits behind the nuclear strike. Chronologically speaking, however, the Sovereign of Red Dust was the last of the Nine Sovereigns to fall into slumber; the others had entered their dormancy pods long before her... Furthermore, with technological regression, the ballistic trajectories of the nuclear weapons could no longer be traced, so the matter remains unresolved to this day."
"No wonder everyone in the Red Dust Realm has such a short life span... So it was because of nuclear radiation?" Red 9 nodded slightly.
"After those three rounds of nuclear strikes, the radiation levels in the Red Dust Realm never dropped back within safe limits. Fortunately, the Sovereign of Red Dust's Domain seemed to have a suppressive effect on the airborne radiation, and only after a dozen years did the radiation drop to a barely tolerable level...
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