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"Mist God Star" is the outermost planet of the Mobra Star System and is also the largest planet in this constant star system. It is a non-solid planet with an Earth-sized, extrely dense core, millions of kiloters of liquid nitrogen-helium-hydrogen ocean, and an atmosphere layer nearly twenty thousand kiloters thick. It is the largest celestial body in the star system apart from the Mobra Sun and is also the last planet where the scouting contingent of the Empire concluded their investigation.
We had once thought that Mist God Star would not have many ancient relics, given that a non-solid planet composed solely of gas and an "ocean" lacks strategic value. The abundant helium and hydrogen resources it contains are worthless to the Xyrin Apostles, and the 360 km/h surface hurricanes would cause dry skin and split hair for any Imperial Soldiers stationed there—no one would want to establish a base on such a useless planet.
However, the agents made a significant discovery on Mist God Star, a massive ancient relic.
From the images transmitted back, we saw large interconnected chanical structures, mostly circular, with the upper ends covered in rigid tal protrusions, making its surface appear like a tallic city floating on the dense ocean under the heavy atmosphere of Mist God Star. But in reality, it was a colossal columnar body, vertically suspended in nitrogen-helium-hydrogen ocean under high pressure. This tal column had an average radius of about seventy kiloters and plunged into the ocean to a staggering depth of more than nine hundred kiloters, like a slender stick vertically piercing the sea. The upper end of this "stick" was the "ocean city" we saw in the holographic images.
This massive artificial structure was incredibly complex; it possessed a rigorous and thick armored structure with a shield system (now extinguished), which could well withstand the hurricanes and turbulent seas of Mist God Star. The various tal protrusions at the top, which I initially mistook for city structures, were actually an array of weapons of daunting density.
The ancient relic was relatively well preserved, and it seed that so of its functions might still be operational. Amid the fierce hurricanes and turbulence of Mist God Star, it consistently maintained a stable position with barely any significant fluctuations. We discovered a large number of emblems on the surface of this artifact that did not belong to the Empire, and its overall style was not a product of Xyrin but its shield system and so structure materials originated from Xyrin Technology.
Inside this ancient construction, the agents found tens of millions of corpses.
Silence fell upon the living room, everyone holding their breath and watching these scenes from four astronomical units away. These were the real images recorded by the agents who entered the relics of Mist God Star, unedited, yet starkly real and shocking. Of course, it wasn’t rely the sight of corpses strewn all over: We had seen even more bizarre scenes. What really rendered everyone silent was Sandora’s whisper, "It’s them, my forr vassal races."
"The main passageway was completely breached, isolation gates had been deployed but were soon torn apart by the invaders like paper," Bubbles said in a low voice, "High doses of radiation were detected on-site. It seems that Armored Scorpions first infiltrated and destroyed the defense system, then Ravens and Leader Bees completed the subsequent massacre."
A typical imperial-style plundering tactic, cleansing of living targets in a sealed fortress.
In fact, a long ti ago I thought about sothing and discussed it with Sandora, that is, what path did the vassal civilizations that once depended on the monstrous Xyrin Empire take after the Empire went into slumber. Possibly a small part of them still exists and has achieved minor success, but the vast majority surely couldn’t have lasted through the ages.
For civilizations that depended on a super civilization, the distortion of their technological trees and the rapid weakening of themselves after losing support were nearly unsolvable problems. Once the Empire collapsed, these relatively smaller vassal civilizations would lose their technological drive in a very short ti and then be destroyed by counterattacks from their enemies. Following in the footsteps of the Empire always ant making enemies with unimaginably powerful opponents; while under the protection of the Empire, no one could harm the civilizations under its wing. But, losing this shield, none of the "advanced civilizations" that were unnaturally accelerated could survive on their own in the already turbulent, pluralistic world.
Thus, after the collapse of the old Empire, the destruction of countless vassal civilizations was almost certain; most of them were annihilated to the extent that not even traces of them remained, not even on the records of the Divine Race—because the Divine Race updated their maps only once every couple of hundred million years.
But no one had anticipated that the corpse of a forr vassal civilization of the old Empire would present itself to us in such a way.
They were killed by the hands of their own forr masters.
It must be said, Bubbles initially advised us not to delve deeper into this troubling issue, but the information she released had the opposite effect.
"This is the largest scale ancient ruin discovered within the Mobra Star System," Bubbles said with rare seriousness, and for the first ti in a long while, she wasn’t playing online gas while working, "Mist God Star might have been the last stronghold of an ancient civilization, by then they must have been blocked by the Imperial Fleet from jump routes to deep space and other worlds, forcing them to tread carefully within their ho star system. This site had a significant number of anti-air weapons targeting Ghost Energy Shields, but these weapons show almost no signs of having been used; they were practically useless. The majority of the corpses found at the site are soldiers, and due to the low temperatures and ghost energy radiation in the environnt, these corpses are rely dehydrated, with no severe decomposition."
This explained why these corpses, which were likely several hundreds of thousands of years old, were preserved until today; however, they probably only retained their shapes. In the holographic images we saw earlier, the environnt appeared dusty and dimly lit; the heavily eroded bodies had transford into organic dust that floated in the air. Any slight disturbance, such as the noise from agents opening the isolation gates, could raise a large cloud of dust, and many of the corpses crumbled to dust in front of us the mont they were touched.
Although we have seen far more brutal scenes than this, such a silent scene still made us quite uncomfortable.
"This is the only tomb of the ancient civilization found by the agents; no other remains of ancient Mobrans were discovered in other ruins, it’s too far back in ti, and many planets were too thoroughly swept clean," Bubbles said, while she was processing information transmitted from subordinate data nodes in real-ti, "Of the six major planets of Mobra, aside from the two that are not solid, the other four all showed traces of bombardnt. Although the ravages of hundreds of thousands of years have leveled those battlefields, we could still find evidence under the Earth’s Crust. The First Planet was the most tragic, having been lted by a star’s heat before being pushed towards the sun; one could say that besides the relics of the old Empire, no traces of the ancient civilization were left. The scientists of Mobra also conducted probes on the First Planet, though not as thoroughly as ours, and they discovered quite a few things; now they hypothesize that the First Planet was the cradle of ancient civilization, which they deduced from a vast amount of ancient civilization literature, and this has a high degree of credibility. It ans that the First Planet was focused on and destroyed as a military key point. Mobra’s current Mother Star is the Third Planet, which also has traces of bombardnts by the Imperial Fleet, but not as severe; it seems that those mad Imperial Soldiers were only interested in eradicating life on the planet, not in destroying the entire planet."
"Then there’s also this report scanned from the database of the Canglan Church’s Holy Hall, we’ll discuss the important parts—scholars of this world found so clues, proving that modern Mobrans are actually descendants of the ancient civilization..."
"Descendants?!" Sandora suddenly exclaid, interrupting Bubbles, "The ancient civilization wasn’t completely exterminated?"
Bubbles shook her small head uncertainly, "It’s just a hypothesis, otherwise it’s difficult to explain why modern Mobrans can control so Xyrin Equipnt. Modern Mobrans have a guess about their origins; they believe that after the ancient civilization perished, so survivors slept for a long ti among the ruins of the Holy Sage, then awakened without mory due to the long passage of ti, thus becoming a new species. However, it’s strange; the history of Mobra is exceptionally chaotic during this period, as if the world had not yet settled down; their evolutionary process was cut into segnts, and even the database of the Canglan Church does not have clear records, but this theory is generally accepted, and I judge its credibility to be over eighty-three percent..."
Bubbles, who usually behaved erratically, now seed quite reliable and made sense when analyzing the problem. As she organized the information from lower-level data nodes into the most concise words, everyone slowly began to understand the situation of the new civilizations in this world.
The people of Mobrans were divided into many branches including ordinary people, Rebirth People, New Humans, variants, sub-humans, and so on—each branch having significant differences, yet they shared the sa genetic source. The birth of these races was due to an event called ’The Disaster’. The specific timing and cause of ’The Disaster’ couldn’t be traced, but it might be related to the Imperial Heritage and it definitely occurred after the destruction of an ancient civilization and before the appearance of modern sub-species of humans. The ancestors of Mobrans suffered massive deaths due to ’The Disaster’, and the survivors mutated into various sub-species. This was a result deduced by their scholars, and it held high credibility.
In Mobran society, there was a special class known as "Inheritors", and while it was called a class, it was different from social classes. It referred to individuals with unique talents, unrestricted by race, and any modern Mobran could potentially beco an Inheritor upon birth. Those endowed with such talents were much more likely than ordinary people to beco Holy Professions and scholars and could easily learn how to use their spiritual power to control ancient weapons excavated from Holy Relics, making nearly every one of them elite mbers of the religious society of Mobrans. The world’s largest church, Canglan Church, controlled twelve ancient weapons known as "Sin Punishnt Guns" (presumably removed from Imperial Battleships): these weapons represented the pinnacle of power in the world and were held in the hands of twelve of the strongest Holy Knights, eleven of whom were "Inheritors", and the twelfth was the Pope’s second cousin removed, a testant to the imnse power of genetic inheritance in all aspects.
The appearance of Inheritors was due to their bloodline. Modern Mobrans inherited genetic traits from ancient people, but due to ubiquitous ghost energy radiation across the planet, these genes had remained hidden in the new Mobrans after mutations through a lengthy evolutionary journey. However, so individuals were exceptions, with dominant genes that endowed them with remarkable talents.
If assumptions were correct, Milia would be an Inheritor as well; her ability to control Imperial Heritage and her young age were startling, Uncle Zaku’s intention to keep her from carelessly discussing her identity was indeed prudent. Still, there was a part I couldn’t understand—Milia once said she was a Holy Profession but she didn’t belong to any sect. Holy what occupation could that be?
"I once granted certain privileges to those servants to control so Imperial weapons, and the thod of identification was their spiritual waves," recalled Sandora, despite her sowhat hazy mory which wasn’t entirely forgotten. "They are a species with the talent of racial mory, it seems they ended up encoding this talent into their genes."
"That explains the origins of Mobran’s ’Holy Armor’ technology," Bubbles nodded, "Moblins call the technology of controlling ancient weapons through spiritual power as Holy Armor, and Milia’s Satellite Cannon is one of them. These special agents have been unable to trace who actually invented the technique of Holy Armor. Since the recorded history of Mobra, a portion of the population inherently knew how to use this ability and also how to train ordinary people in developing this technology."
That modern Mobrans were descendants of an ancient civilization was unexpected but also seed sowhat plausible. If this theory were pursued further, then the Imperial Army, which lost control for unknown reasons back then, didn’t completely destroy the original inhabitants of this star system?
"With the combat capabilities of the Old Empire’s army implenting the Extermination Order, it’s impossible that they left survivors by oversight," Sandora said indifferently, "They surely were stopped by sothing when they were about to exterminate the Mobra Star System, an incident evidenced by the halting of the First Planet just as it was about to be pushed into the Sun."
Suddenly, Big Sister softly said, "Like—suddenly coming to their senses?"
A glint flashed in Sandora’s eyes, revealing that her emotions were not as calm as her expression, "Regardless of whether they actually awoke for a mont, I have to personally resolve this issue. The ergence of Fallen Apostles has been the Empire’s greatest disgrace; I can’t accept my subordinates committing the sa madness without being infected by the Abyss."
Sandora’s words deeply moved . If we really had to wage war against her forr army, undoubtedly, the heart of this young Queen would suffer the most, yet so things seed unavoidable.
This war was unlike any they had ever experienced before.
They had also fought against the troops of the Old Empire, but so were Fallen Apostles, traitors who had already sided against the Empire, deserving of their fate. Others were part of the Holy Temple Guard Army, out-of-control ancient spaceships, which strictly speaking were not an official army composed of Xyrin Apostles. That battle, although vast in scale, was essentially just about resolving ancient equipnt malfunctions. Now, however, they were facing the most loyal soldiers of Sandora, locked in a battle to the death.
From his pocket, he pulled out a deck of cards Lin Xue had given him and randomly drew one depicting a blade and gears.
"War is inevitably coming. Don’t hesitate, because the enemy won’t."
That girl must have spent quite a lot of effort on this, crossing out the "hesitate" four tis.
"If we summarize the intelligence we’ve collected so far, the possibility of Sister Sandora’s forr troops going completely out of control has reached 84.65%," Bubbles said solemnly as she turned off the holographic projection. "That’s well beyond the war alert level. The forces at the outpost are ready and working overti to expand production, but I’m afraid they still won’t be enough to confront the enemy here."
Suddenly, he rembered that Bubbles was originally one of Sandora’s Xyrin Hosts, well aware of the Revenge Army’s situation. He imdiately asked, "If the main force of the Revenge Army stays in this world, how much military power will we need to deal with them?"
"A re nurical comparison is aningless. Space warfare has infinite variables," Sandora shook her head, replacing Bubbles, "All I can say is, the more the better. The fighting style of the Revenge Army is very... They specialize in fierce attacks regardless of the cost. To achieve their combat objectives, they can sacrifice themselves with the precision of a math problem, from the mid-level commanders who can resurrect to the lower-level soldiers who only have one life. This was originally the most terrifying aspect of my army, and now it’s giving a headache. I’m not sure if they still have this habit after going out of control. If they do, it won’t be easy for us."
Listening to Sandora’s words, his heart sank, thinking how many Xyrin Apostles were such madn...
"Actually, we should have a more optimistic guess," seeing the gloomy expression on his face, Big Sister suddenly revealed a gentle smile, "Hasn’t anyone thought that perhaps only a part of the Revenge Army has lost control?"
Everyone’s gaze imdiately focused on her.
"So far, the only directly encountered out-of-control Imperial Soldier was the pilot of that single soldier fighter jet, and the rest are all ancient relics left in the Mobra Star System. Those are indirect evidence, proving only that the Revenge Army once attacked the indigenous people here, but not that they all participated in the attack. Moreover, it seems we’ve forgotten one thing: all Xyrin Equipnt found in Mobra was offline— their identification codes were manually erased, making it impossible to unify control through the Xyrin Apostles’ data network, making them more suitable for use by Vassal Races without a spiritual network..."
"That ans, perhaps the Revenge Army is already divided into two," Sandora instantly understood Big Sister’s point, "Or rather, their actions are divided into two parts: one half slaughtering the servants, and the other half trying to leave sothing behind for them to resist with, to let them wipe out themselves—even though this attempt failed, it might still be possible to save the Revenge Army!" (To be continued. If you enjoyed this work, you are welco to vote and support on Qidian. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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