novelhk Chapter 1068: 283 Void Line: Leading to the Ending of [White Wolf] (8)
Chapter 1068: 283 Void Line: Leading to the Ending of [White Wolf] (8)
Chapter 1068 283. Void Line: Leading to the Ending of [White Wolf] (8)
sad.
anger.
disturbed.
Pain.
remorse.
happy.
Such emotions no longer exist in the void.
Only when one truly faces the leader of the Void, Lord Dusk, or the Emperor of the Void, will one understand its meaning.
The battle was about to break out, but the way of fighting was far beyond expectations.
Leoz stood in the corridor of the hospital with a long knife in his hand. He couldn't find where the enemy was. The surrounding environment was neither an illusion nor a entity, and could not be defined by any words.
He could only watch things develop, watch people coming and going in the hospital. The Void Hospital looked no different from other Star Abysses. There were the same doctors and nurses, the same indiscriminate medical troubles, the same pharmaceutical agents, and the same pediatricians who worked themselves to death.
"Many years ago, Ira Dasco was born into a very ordinary family in Zhouyuan. His father was a worker in the commune production team, and his mother worked at a trading station. They were ordinary, common, and had no talent. They had neither strange and tortuous experiences nor a miserable past."
The voice of [Huang Huang Qing] rang in my ears.
Rioz turned the long blade and was about to chop it down subconsciously, but his mind took control in time and allowed him to stop the long blade from falling steadily - under the blade was a little girl with white hair, petite figure, neither pretty nor cute, with slightly cloudy eyes.
"The girl lived the same life as 99 percent of Zhouyuan citizens - she grew up in a commune, received an education, had average grades and average talent, and after graduation, she followed the organization's arrangements and served under the command of a designated great monarch as a clerk in the Chanting Academy. After that, she fell in love, got married, had children, continued to work, and when necessary, took up a knife and went to the battlefield to fight for the land that we should have gotten for the void."
The scene suddenly changed without warning. The white-haired girl, who had grown into a graceful young lady, patted Leoz's shoulder and passed by him with a smile.
The girl trotted a few dozen meters ahead, took the hand of a sturdy void citizen, and a gentle and happy smile appeared on her face.
She turned her head, and there were more wrinkles on her face, her eyes were kind, and her temperament was more stable. If I had to describe it - it was a very standard face of a mother.
The white-haired woman looked at Leoz and raised her hand, motioning him to sit on the chair in the pavilion. Leoz took a few steps forward and glanced around - the scene changed again. Outside the pavilion was the Star Abyss shrouded in flames of war. Sometimes it was in the boundless continent of the Realm Abyss, sometimes in the vast starry sky of the Layer Abyss, and sometimes in the shattered masses of the Group Abyss.
“Until her old age, she never thought that one day, she would become the [Lord of Dusk] and become the most powerful person in Zhou Yuan or even the Sixth Layer of Xing Yuan.”
The white-haired woman gently waved the fan, and each wave subtracted ten years of age from her face, adding to her beauty while also inflicting more battle scars.
"The so-called [Twilight Lady] is not a chosen one, but an ordinary person. She relied on caution, luck, and courage to survive a near-death experience on the battlefield. After going through countless hardships, she finally reached the highest level of the Chanting Academy and rose to prominence from then on, completing a class leap."
Ira Dasco stood up and scattered a handful of chess pieces on the board:
"In this respect, we are very similar, Sir Leoz."
The chess pieces fell like rain, crackling.
The next moment, Leoz suddenly stood up and held the long blade in his hand in front of him, just blocking the swinging long blade of the void.
"Illusion?" Rioz was surprised: "What did you just cast?"
"I didn't do anything except this one blow, Sir Leoze."
Ila calmly drew back the long sword and turned back into her childhood appearance. She raised her hand to take a sip of tea, then raised her eyes and turned into a mature woman, calm and composed.
"Sir Leoz, I admire you. You are a warrior who has faced Gaia, but you have never had a life of your own, so you cannot understand that when you reach my level, you cannot be shaken by violence."
"Every move I make is the result of my life's feelings. What you see is just superficial, but I have already jumped out of the objective material world."
"You have a lot of strength in reserve. It's not an exaggeration to call you 'Overlord' in the objective world. But unfortunately, you have to ascend to the position of Lord God and face the greatest enemy. It's never violence."
[Lord Dusk] Ira Dusco blew gently on the teacup and said calmly:
"You have also studied Earth culture, so you should know this saying: Those who are good at fighting do not have great achievements."
"At my level, violence stronger than me cannot physically wipe me out, and beings weaker than me cannot touch me. I just swing my sword at random, and magic and technology are mobilized at will."
"Why do you think [Player] Prior didn't do the storyline after the void in Star Abyss? Why hasn't your system responded until now? Why do you feel so powerful, but can't touch me?"
Ira smiled.
"Because it can't be done."
The next moment, her figure suddenly appeared in front of Leoz, raised her hand and slapped it forward. Leoz raised his long sword with his backhand and cut off the head of Lord Dusk. Ira Dasco's figure was instantly shattered.
However, at the same moment, the little white-haired girl raised her hand and gently touched Leoz's calf.
"The void no longer belongs to Xingyuan."
[Warning: Memory overflow, memory overflow, memory*(&%￥!——]
[Unknown data black hole detected, system code running error]
【System is offline】
Snapped!
The white-haired little girl was smashed to pieces by Stardust's punch. [Dusk Lord] raised his hand and placed it on Rioz's shoulder, saying lightly:
"You can kill me countless times. I don't deny your strength, but in this empty world, we don't recognize violence."
"What is emptiness?" Lioz asked in return, "If everything is made invisible, then emptiness itself can be defined, and it is no longer emptiness. If emptiness is not empty, how can it be empty?"
"No, 10752, you are wrong. I do not need to define the void. You still do not understand that at this point, violence is no longer a solution to all problems. It is easy for you to kill me. With your power to call upon the stars, even the universe will succumb to your authority with just a shout."
[Twilight Lord] let go, and the next moment, Ira Dusco, who had long braids in his youth, pushed his glasses and came to Leoz holding a few books:
"I don't need to make a definition, Lord Leoz. The Lord God's status is that he can distort, change, and tamper with the definition of his own authority and responsibilities at will. As a true god, you need to draw strength from the divine authority, domain, and followers. But as the Lord God, our power is created out of nothing, can be changed at will, and ignores the rules."
"I am Lord Dusk, Ira Dusco, I am the Lord of the Void, and I can also be nothing at all."
She snapped her fingers and Leoz immediately returned to the bank on the Frost Border. As the fire burned, more and more Rule Four agents gathered around.
【gravitational】
Lioz grabbed with his five fingers, and the gravity pulled, tearing the agents into pieces. He turned his head and was about to look for the trace of [Lord Dusk], but a faint voice echoed in his senses.
"Lee... Oz."
He stopped and raised his palm: a bloody face grew on his palm.
——It’s Yawen.
She opened her mouth, looking weak and powerless, with disbelief in her eyes:
"Why, is it like this——"
Bang!
Leoz clenched his fists and crushed Arwen's face, but endless blood overflowed from his palms like a tide, and the scarlet sea of blood instantly washed over the entire world.
Leoz was not in a hurry. He calmly flew up from the sea of blood, surrounded by an entire star system. As he flew away, more and more spaceships and enemies appeared in front of him.
"Destroy the tyrant!"
"Tyrant Leoz, you started a war, destroyed the peace, give me back my family!"
"Even if we surrender to the Earthlings, we will not obey your will."
Voices condemning him, cursing him, and slandering him rose one after another.
Leoz just lowered his head slightly, and the galaxies around him suddenly expanded. The powerful gravitational force captured and swallowed all the obstacles.
He didn't know how long he had been flying, and neither the light nor the darkness could catch up with him.
Along the way, Fu Shen swung his halberd at him in despair, but was stabbed to death by him. Xia Erguinia attacked him, but was crushed into pieces by him. Du Zexin shot him, and Leoz's eyes shot out concentrated heat rays, turning him into annihilation.
One after another, his former partners and allies appeared before him and attacked him, and all he could do was kill them.
"Have you ever considered that the people you killed were all real people?"
[Twilight Lord] held his chin up, sat on the swing and asked boredly:
"You killed people almost indiscriminately, even the ladies who had feelings for you, you tore them to pieces without hesitation."
"With you like this, even Red King might have more humanity than you, right?"
stab-
Rioz slowly pulled out the black hole sword from Alexia's chest and said without turning his head:
"It is their honor to die for me - besides, even if they really kill me, what does it matter? From the moment I embarked on this path, I had already decided to sacrifice myself for Xingyuan's grand narrative. I am not even afraid of my own soul being torn apart, so what else is there to be afraid of?"
"I am the overlord of the stars, not a perfect and wise king. Everything I do is just to eliminate evil and unify Xingyuan. If I threaten Xingyuan's narrative, I will kill myself as well."
“Pure, efficient, cold, even if confused, you can find the answer immediately, always in action.”
Watching Leoz walk past him, Lord Dusk praised from behind:
"Lioz, 10752, you are a pure killing machine, but will anyone really follow the narrative you believe in? Is the future you create really a beautiful world? You may be able to create a feat that no one else can match, but at what cost?"
"Countless families will fall apart because of the war you started. Normal social production will be disrupted by your will. You do not allow anyone to go against your will. Overthrowing the Lai Anding and Yuan Yuan regimes is only to create a new empire dominated by you."
"In the end, you just became a new Mephidria—that's all."
【Cangyue Sword】
Leoz turned around and suddenly appeared in front of Lord Dusk. He instantly grasped the Moonlight Blade in his left hand, and the cold light slashed down in an instant, freezing it and then shattering it. The whole process took less than one thousandth of a second, and Lord Dusk was shattered and dissipated between heaven and earth.
"You talk too much."
The moonlight sword slowly dissipated, and Leoz continued to move forward.
He already understood what Lord Huanghun was doing.
This is battle.
The process seems extremely abstract, but it is the terrifying part of [Dusk Lady]. She is just waving her moves, but the effects are completely unpredictable and unestimated.
It is neither fantasy nor reality.
All of this is just Lord Dusk's tactics.
Just as she said, when he was close to the level of the Tao Lord, violence was no longer the most powerful weapon. On the contrary, violence, the most superficial and direct means, had become his weakness.
How familiar it looks.
Rioz walked forward alone.
——Five thousand years ago, a woman named Gaia did just that.
Leoz walked forward alone, and towards him came more people who once followed and loved him.
——She said: "In terms of destructive power, you and I are equal, but in the universe, the most insignificant thing is the power of destruction."
Leoz continued to move forward alone with the black hole sword in hand, killing all those who came towards him.
——She was wrong.
“Perhaps violence is insignificant in the vast universe, but it is the only proof of my existence here.”
kill.
Rioz swung his sword without hesitation and cut off Lanan's head.
"How can order be maintained without violence? Those who go against me will be killed."
Rioz raised his hand, and a stardust storm erupted from his palm, tearing Geo Jaeger into pieces.
"Without violence, how can justice be achieved? Those who bully me should be killed."
Leoz snapped his fingers, and the planetary system circling around him suddenly burst into flames, instantly killing Silverston, Arwen, Alexia, Dialan, Mired, N4 and everyone else who was willing to sacrifice for him.
"Without violence, how can we change the world? Those who get in my way, I kill."
In one hand, Leoz held a shining sword, which glowed brightly and vaporized all invaders. In the other hand, he held a black hole sword, which spiraled and devoured everyone who dared to look directly at him, regardless of whether they had malicious intentions or not.
Without any hesitation or confusion, he carried out the most primitive killing completely out of instinct and nature.
One after another, [Lords of Dusk] appeared before him, no matter they were young or old, even newborn babies, Leoz crushed them and burned them to death.
Sonorous!
After taking lives countless times, the sharp blade was finally blocked.
Rioz looked up.
The face under the blade gradually became clear and turned into the appearance of Li Oz.
"Are you crazy, Leoz!"
Lioz roared:
"If you continue like this, you will kill everyone. Wake up! She is using you. The void is corrupting you. She is using you to kill all of us."
"Are you going to stop me too? On my own."
"You are now insane and have completely turned into a killing machine. Even the cannon fodder god 10752 has more humanity than you do now. Wake up!"
Li Aoz was extremely anxious and kept persuading and shouting.
Rioz looked at the other person calmly.
Facing himself, he finally hesitated.
A person can love nothing and abandon all principles and bottom lines, but the only thing he cannot abandon is himself.
"So, how do you make a decision?"
[Lord Dusk] raised his hand and climbed onto Rioz's shoulder, resting his chin on his shoulder, and whispered softly in his ear:
"You want to kill yourself as well, completely destroy your self-consciousness, and become the nondescript cannon fodder you were before."
"Or do you decide to take a step back, make peace with yourself, put down the evil butcher knife in your hand, and wake up from this?"
[Mr. Huang Huang] suddenly appeared between the two of them, raised his hands and gently pinched the tips of both swords, and said casually:
"Your mind is too small, Lord Leoz. It is so small that it can only accommodate everything related to yourself. This is why you are not my opponent. The reason why the void is so great and powerful that even the source cannot interfere is because we can accommodate everything infinitely."
"I have no intention of corrupting you, I am only telling you a basic truth: everything you and I do, everything we touch, change, create, and destroy in this life, is ultimately meaningless."
"You fought with Gaia 10 billion years ago. What have you gained in these 10 billion years? A reputation as an iron-blooded hero who fights to the death? An exiled soul? Or a warlord who is labeled a traitor to Xingyuan and a tyrant?"
"You only know how to fight, kill, and destroy, but you have never understood life and the universe. Whether it is the power of the stars or the flintlock, it is the same to you. And because these are essentially the same things to you, and your excessive pursuit of practicality and efficiency, your life is extremely thin."
"There is no joy, no pleasure, no anger, no hatred, only the goal and the means to achieve it."
"When you try your best to prove that you are not troubled by nothingness, you are already the most empty person. You also know that your existence is meaningless, your deeds are forgotten by the universe, and everything you change will eventually come back. No matter how many revolutions and wars you launch, in this contradictory double helix system, all history will inevitably be repeated in another form."
“Everything has changed, and nothing has changed.”
[Twilight Lord] stepped back, the lingering sound echoing in an empty valley:
"Leoz, what's your point?"
Clap!
The black hole sword was broken into pieces. Lioz pushed his chest away, took advantage of the victory, raised the sword, and stabbed it towards Lioz's heart.
At that moment, Leoz thought: Maybe, Lord Dusk is right.
Violence, at a certain point, is really just the most insignificant thing.
A word, a spirit, a thought, a concept.
Purely subjective, metaphysical power.
These things cannot be scratched by swords or broken by physical force.
It doesn't matter how strong you are, or how big the rock you can crush is; nor is it about how great you are, or how you can create the heaven, earth, sun and moon.
[Lord Dusk], or in other words, the power of the quasi-lord god of the path of [Void], is something that a cannon fodder god like Leoz could never achieve in his lifetime.
Just as wild animals can only bite and scratch, but humans can use bows and spears.
Leoz is that beast.
Humans have already evolved to the point where they no longer need weapons and can easily exterminate ferocious beasts simply by relying on industrial pollution.
"Leoz, what's the point of your life?"
No, the changes that Leoz made when he was alive could not shake the entire Xingyuan.
"Leoz, what's the point of you dying?"
No, the impact of Leoz's death cannot change the Earth-Star Abyss spiral system.
"Leoz, does it matter whether you exist or not?"
It has no impact. Even if there is one less Leoz, there will still be Lei Aoz and Zhang Aoz to take over in that era.
What he loves will eventually fade away, and what he hates will disappear with the passage of time.
The anchor point that exists here will ultimately not be able to withstand the passage of time.
The promise that the Origin made to him will be forgotten in the next era.
In the end, it's just a handful of earth.
When you die, you enter the underworld and start reincarnation all over again.
It perished and disappeared, and the river continued to flow eastward.
Does all this really make sense?
No.
Leoz couldn't deny it.
In the realm of violence, he was completely defeated. From his defeat in Gaia to now, he has never set foot in or expanded in this field. This was determined by his birth. He was destined to be unable to get involved in this metaphysical abstract field. He could only come here alone as a thug and murderer and could not go any further.
He lost.
It's not because it's not strong enough, but because this struggle has exceeded the upper limit of violence. Physical criticism cannot fight against the right to define at the level of spiritual thinking.
Rioz lost cleanly and without any controversy.
He lost not only to Lord Dusk and the Void, but also to himself.
The blade of the black hole was shattered by the tip of humanity's sword, Leoz was defeated by Leoz, and humanity's conscience and the concept of survival defended the last bottom line. For human beings, this is already the greatest victory.
Lee Oz won.
This extremely abstract division and opposition separates him into multiple individuals. If his divinity overwhelms his humanity, he will lose.
Because Leoz, who had lost his self, was no longer Leoz, just like the 'Ship of Theseus' in the Earth mythology. In order to continue sailing, a ship constantly replaced parts, added watertight compartments, changed the keel, and added nuclear fusion engines - in the end, except for its name, everything else was no longer the ship that sailed at the beginning.
If the traditional violent confrontation is between two athletes competing, then the confrontation with a quasi-Tao Lord like [Dusk Lord] is like letting the Olympic athletes compete with the entire staff of the Olympic Committee and the organizers.
The rules and the referee are in the other party's hands, how can you win?
When the "right to define" is in the hands of the other party, even if you have the power to destroy Xingyuan, you are just an ape that can smash rocks.
He lost.
The loss was not unfair. After all, no one would think it is shameful to lose to the referee.
Besides, fighting with the void is meaningless. What if you win? What if you lose?
Pointless.
However, when Lioz's sword pierced Lioz's chest, the long-lost pain seemed so abrupt.
significance.
Leoz murmured, the blood in his body burning like fire.
“Meaning, isn’t that it?”
His body, which was leaning backward, suddenly froze in mid-air.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" [Twilight Lord] frowned: "You have been defeated by yourself. From now on, whether you kill your own human side, or get killed, or kill me, you will lose."
"I can define the standard of nihilism at will, but can you define yourself at will?"
"Lioz, admit it, you shouldn't have stepped into this void."
Click.
Li Oz's sharp blade was grabbed by a big hand.
"If you say that Leoz's existence is meaningless."
Rioz stood up, his eyes gleaming with silver light:
"Then let the Blacksmith tell you - hammering and forging the entire world is the meaning of my existence!"
The next moment, his body suddenly straightened up, and Li Oz's sharp blade was instantly shattered and melted. Endless molten iron wrapped around Li Oz's body. He clenched his fists and smashed down at Li Oz fiercely.
Clap!
Li Oz's head was instantly destroyed by the hot iron stream. The scorching heat turned into countless sharp blades, piercing his skin, spinning and cutting rapidly. Before he could be crushed into flesh paste, he had already turned into ashes.
"Leoz may need a definition, but the people of Earth won't buy it."
Rioz's visor cracked open, revealing a ferocious and terrifying smile:
"Looking at the civilization on Earth, what has always dominated everything is supreme violence!"
"You may hold the power of definition, but for Earthlings, definition has always succumbed to violence."
"Thank you, Lord Dusk. I have been unable to make this decision. Thanks to you, I have finally become a real Earthling."
"I have fully comprehended the civilization of the Earth: iron and fire forge civilization, destruction and demise lead to the prosperity of a nation."
"The so-called civilization of the Earthlings is a tool built on bloody violence and used to enslave living beings. Since I am on Xingyuan's side and I can't beat you by playing by the rules, then let's not play!"
[Lady Huang Huang] realized something was wrong and instinctively took a half step back, but soon she realized the ridiculousness of this behavior.
She is basically equivalent to the main god, and given her status, Leoz's violence is not enough to scare her.
——But why did she step back?
【Huang Huang Qing】cannot understand.
If a living thing can feel fear, it will retreat when faced with a threat.
But as she has become the main god and has the right to define nihilism, how could she be afraid of a mere wild beast?
Humans would chew chocolate with big mouthfuls, while dogs could only watch in horror as humans swallowed the highly toxic theobromine - this was the fundamental reason why Leoz couldn't defeat her, as both were not on the same dimension.
—But she backed off.
There must be a reason for this. Her physiological reaction even surpassed the blessing of the godhead and was overstepping her authority to control her body. This showed that from a biological point of view, she had already felt a serious threat to her life.
Then, if even her life level is afraid of the reason why it is instinctive, it is...
Before Lord Dusk could react, Leoz's evil whisper had already sounded:
"【Fresh·Fierce·Devil·Iron·King】!"
The bright red thunder instantly tore through the sky. All illusions were replaced by steel and furnaces. The wind of erosion that destroyed everything tore open the mouth of the dimension, bringing here the talented craftsmen of all ages and civilizations.
"Hephaestus, Zhurong, Gongshu Ban, Archimedes...everything you have is at my disposal."
Rioz laughed cruelly and enslaved these craftsmen to forge armor for himself in the forging world.
All of this, [Lord Huanghun] could do was watch.
From now on, this no longer belongs to the void, no, it is completely different from Xingyuan’s concept.
The sound of metal clashing against each other was like the sound of a jar. The energy in the void was twisted and wrapped by the blood of the ether. The aura of cruelty and evil continued to linger in the space.
Just as Leoz said, the way he played the Star Abyss was not the rules of the Star Abyss gods.
Their identities are destined and their powers are innate.
But on the Earth side, this is not the case.
"Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Earth's civilization has advocated that the lower classes should work hard to change their circumstances and achieve class transition. On Earth, even a beggar can become the supreme ruler of the world. This kind of resistance to fate is the reason why Earthlings can invade Xingyuan and dominate our lives at will - our weakness comes from obedience to class and dependence on talent."
Rioz raised his hand and skillfully manipulated the authority given to him by the Blacksmith.
【Hammer of Hephaestus】
He drew out the holy sword that he had taken from Arthur's apostle.
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"The [Society] hated Xingyuan, Mephidria, and Yuanyuan, but after they were transformed, they were just a group of beasts. So soon, Mephidria planned a countermeasure."
"The High Court Society received an order from Mephidria to use the best materials, the purest source soil, to create weapons to kill the Society. These things exhausted all the aid Mephidria received from the outside, so He had to continue to pretend to be weak and sleep, constantly deceiving the source for aid."
"However, the news still leaked out."
"Gaia and Pergale found the loyal lackey and brutally killed Highgarden and ate him, but they didn't find the weapon that killed their own kind. After my investigation, I found that Mephidria must have secretly taken it away early in the morning."
"Later, during your purge, Mephidria's cronies were killed and eliminated one after another, and the weapon of the social killer was eventually left somewhere in Haines. My original goal was to find this weapon to guard against the increasingly powerful Gaia and Pergale."
Meganius stood up, stared at the sword in Lioz's hand, and said in a loud voice:
“And this half-finished [social] killer is right in front of you and me.”
"As long as we complete it, even a [Society] like Gaia can be killed. Even if we can't kill it... at least we can cause serious wounds. In that case, we still have a chance of winning."
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This sword, once used by Mephidria to try to control and suppress the "society" he nurtured, is still a work in progress.
No one knows what the sword looked like in its final form, as the Highgarden Society that forged it has been devoured.
"I didn't know how to make this sword before. Mephidria wanted to use this sword to suppress and enslave the creatures it oppressed. And I don't understand the Lord God's idea. Why would he give up his military achievements and just nurture the enemy to protect himself?"
Rioz turned the hilt of the sword and threw it into the forging world:
"It was not until you defeated me that I realized that I could not empathize with the gods of Xingyuan. Instead, those enslaved and oppressed [societies] were the ones who were similar to me. I understood, I realized, I finally understood - resistance is the meaning of struggle."
"You... found the meaning?"
The always calm [Huang Huang Qing] finally changed her expression at this moment. She slowly stood up and looked at him solemnly:
"You are no longer yourself, Lord Leoz. No, you are now a member of the Earth's parliament. The power you use is totally inappropriate for Xingyuan."
"Yes, on Xingyuan's side, I am just a cannon fodder. My significance stops here. You high and mighty gentlemen, I can't beat you."
Lioz laughed:
"Thank you, Lord Dusk."
The next moment, he grasped the void and smashed down the hammer of power.
"【forging】!"
clang!
With one blow of the hammer, the legendary craftsmen throughout the history of the earth listened to his command, precisely operated the forging machines, deconstructed and analyzed the holy sword, thoroughly understood its original intention, and designed the manufacturing direction.
"【forging】!"
clang!
With a double bang, gold and iron elements taken from the star abyss gathered here, melting and disintegrating according to the rules set by the earthlings, becoming something that can be shaped and molded by anyone and introduced into the mold.
"【forging】!"
clang!
After three chiselings, the philosophy of life gained from the historical years was integrated into the sword body. Various abstract visions and forging techniques were organically combined at this moment.
"What I want to create is not a blade to suppress and enslave others, but a weapon that defies fate and can be wielded by mortals. It must transcend ideals, nations, and beliefs, and it must be a weapon that anyone who is willing to fight against fate can pick up."
【Huang Huang Qing】shakes his head.
"That doesn't exist. There is no such weapon in the world."
“Give up. Even though I can’t see the true nature of that sword, it’s not something you can forge at your level.”
"How long will it take you to realize that even if you use all the means at your disposal, you still have no chance of winning?"
“I wasn’t thinking about winning.”
Leoz stretched out his hand toward the furnace. The scorching flames melted his armor and burned his flesh, but he felt no pain at all.
On the contrary, it's very warm.
"If you ask me why a mere cannon fodder like me is considered a councillor by the [Secret Society], and even a councillor of the [Blacksmith], which is such an important role, then the only reason is: my original intention has never wavered."
The flames ignited his body, and the weapon being forged burst out with intense energy, devouring and annihilating the craftsmen working on it.
"I'm not thinking of defeating you, Lord Dusk. I want to tell you that no matter whether it's Xingyuan or Earth, I don't care about the process or the means, whether they are dirty or noble. I only know that there is only one goal in doing this."
Rioz's hand grasped the molten hilt, and his evil faith spread, causing his words to resound through the void:
"I want to destroy this world."
Bones and flesh grew and wrapped around the sword.
"Heaven is unjust, but I am in power. This world must either be reshaped in my hands, or it will continue to rot and never recover."
Temper the fire with blood and mend the sword with your body.
"Kneel down, you Yanyan gods, surrender your most primitive instincts, and let me tell you, the noble one, how this brutal force brings fear to you!"
Leoz gritted his teeth, his strength broke through the limit in an instant, and the etheric blood in his body continuously flowed to the hand holding the sword.
"come out!"
"Forget it, there's no point anymore."
[Huang Huang Qing] can’t stand this farce anymore.
She walked forward and slapped the swallowed Rioz:
"The circus show has come to an end. You and your tragic end should end together..."
————Zheng!
A beam of light burst out from the furnace, penetrating the universe and the wilderness.
At that moment, Lord Dusk Ira Dax's life so far flashed before his eyes like a film, from birth to death, everything was so intimate and beautiful.
……die?
clang!
The blazing sharp blade cut Lord Dusk into two pieces. The recast holy sword did not stop. After making a sword flower in his right hand, he held it with his backhand, hooked it around the neck like a sickle, and pulled it in front of him.
Her head was grabbed and she looked into those eyes that were spinning like galaxies.
"Shut up! I will never surrender."
After saying that, Leoz crushed the head with one hand.
Snapped.
The next moment the illusion was shattered, the world of void was eroded by the forged world, the blood of ether continued to travel through the void, distorting the world of Xingyuan.
"Eh? Where is this? Is this still the void?"
"Damn, the air here is so hot—why is there air in a vacuum?"
"Are we back? The space here has suddenly stabilized. Damn, we can actually stand firm!"
The figures of the expeditionary forces kept appearing in the forging world. Only when they checked the records did they find that they had died once. Most people seemed confused, but soon realized that the atmosphere and environment had changed, and they took up fighting postures again.
The slain Lord Dusk did not even have a moment to be resurrected right in front of them. With just a thought, Zhou Yuan's Lords of the Void and Commune War Group came one after another and stood on the land of the Void Realm.
In a flash, the two sides were on the verge of a fight. Even though they were dozens of light years apart, at this level, combined with the environmental characteristics of the void, it would only take a few breaths to reach each other.
"It's really unexpected."
[Lord Dusk] Ira Dusco held his forehead, still immersed in the headshot:
"This power is so raw, pure, and wild."
She was surrounded by the Lords of the Void, and as they spoke, a connection had been established between them.
"But this power is just right for you."
The legion changed its formation in an orderly manner.
At this stage, no advanced weapons or technology can be as effective as the most primitive physical confrontation.
"Even more amazing is the sword - well, well, you've finished it."
Leoz stood in front of the crowd, the sword in his hand gradually cooling down. After hearing what Lord Dusk said, people focused their attention on the sword.
“Ah.” The pupils of the Collector’s curator shrank. He was usually calm, but for the first time he showed such a shocked expression: “This is really… a miracle.”
“Even divine weapons don’t have this kind of brilliance. I can feel the power in it.” Fu Shen held the trident in his hand and said in horror, “Your Majesty Leoz, could this sword be the same as the one before…”
"It is that holy sword." Xia Erqinia said with certainty: "But it has far surpassed that holy sword."
"That is not Xingyuan's craftsmanship, nor is it Earth's creation. It is a perfect miracle that combines the exquisite craftsmanship of the two worlds... Water and fire are incompatible, but they can achieve balanced fusion in your hands. The curator said it was a miracle. No, it is no longer a miracle."
Under Sharquinia's serious explanation, Leoz slowly raised the reforged holy sword.
"The existence of this thing has already opened up new possibilities."
【System back online】
[Special patch detected...installation completed]
[The current patch is unnamed, click here to enter a name:]
"Name?"
Rioz gripped the hilt of the sword and raised his hand to gently stroke the pure blade.
This is not a gorgeous sword, but rather a very primitive one.
Golden lines like the spine and ribs slowly bloomed on the sword, and the blood vessel-like spiral hilt connected to the blood vessels in his palm, continuously inputting silver-white etheric blood into the sword. Compared with a regular long sword, the blade seemed a little slender, and the further it went forward, the more the tip of the sword became like a long needle.
There is a large hollowed-out area in the cross-skeleton-shaped gauntlet, with a blue planet slowly circling around it.
"...Tanzimat."
Rioz turned his sword and aimed it at the Void Army in front of him:
"The name of this sword is Tanzimat. It means 'revolution' in some language of Earth."
"In the history of the Earthlings, there have been many times when the country was destroyed, the family was ruined, and the society was overthrown. However, at these times, there were always people with lofty ideals who realized the weakness and backwardness of their own nation. Even if they had always regarded foreign enemies as barbarians, they would spontaneously stand up and advocate learning and reform at this moment."
"Tanzimat means to learn from the barbarians in order to defeat them. May the sword bearers always remain humble and unyielding, and always make progress. At the same time, do not forget where your humiliation and suffering come from."
"I seek strength from advanced civilizations, not to succumb to your powerful ships and guns, but so that you can one day see the greatness of our nation."
[Patch: [Tanzimat] has been installed]
[Patch update description: New item*1]
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【Tanzimat】
【Category】：Patch
[Quality]: IMBALANCE (severely disrupts the balance)
【Attributes】:
This patch does not provide any attribute bonuses
- Cause reasonable damage to any target;
——When the attacks on a social target accumulate to a certain level, they are enough to cause death;
——Adaptively evolve countermeasures according to the environment
【Introduction】:
“Now, all the problems have finally been solved.”
Blade length: infinitesimal - infinitely large
Net weight: infinitely small - infinitely large
Materials:
Extremely pure soil
Aether Blood
【Equipment requirements】:
"The fighter who refuses to yield to fate, take up this sword."
【Additional Performance】：
[Eternal Struggle] - Tanzimat constantly draws on the host's proof of existence, and as long as there is even a trace of the host in the world, it can urge the host to fight at its best.
[Self-Revolution] - Tanzimat will change its own form to cope with any environment.
[Winner Takes All] - Tanzimat cannot be destroyed. In the same battle, even if the host dies, as long as someone takes over the control of Tanzimat, the host's will will continue. If the final battle is won, the host will fully recover. If the final battle is lost, the host's existence will be injected into Tanzimat, and the next host will obtain all the will, experience, skills, abilities, and status accumulated by Tanzimat.
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Leoz did not hide Tanzimat's attribute panel, and showed it to everyone. Even Lord Dusk could see it.
"At this point, do you still think the number of deaths is not enough, Councillor Leoz?"
【Twilight Lord】said slowly:
"You showed me this sword. Are you trying to threaten me? You're implying that this sword can kill even society, so it's no problem to kill me, too. Is that right?"
"If that's the case, then my instinct is indeed to retreat a little, but no matter how powerful a sword is, it must be matched by the swordsman wielding it."
"Anyway, do you have the qualifications? Even if you are qualified, your companions and subordinates have just come down from the Abyss. They are either short of weight or cursed, and their strength has been greatly weakened. Even if [Player] Prior comes to give you plug-ins, it will be useless in the void."
"Numbers are nothingness, and we don't believe in numbers. But since we have more people, we can have an advantage because I can define the standard of nothingness at will."
"In a one-on-one fight, you still have a chance of winning. In a war, you will surely die."
After she finished speaking, she no longer suppressed her aura, and the Lord God's power instantly enveloped the entire void.
"I'll give you one last chance, Rioz. If you commit suicide, I can still let your men go home—"
"Everyone."
Rioz said calmly:
"You have seen the properties of Tanzimat. Tanzimat can absorb your souls and combat experience. So, I will tell you straight away. Take this sword and die for me."
Such explosive remarks instantly silenced [Dusk Lord] who was still attacking.
Even she, or rather the [Void Emperor] who was controlling the situation from behind, did not expect that Leoz could say such words.
"You let your men die for you?"
"There's no need to hide it. Leaders aren't like that. You've realized it, right? Even if I have the combat experience of a million people, I might not be able to kill you, even if I have Fu Shen, Xia Erguinia, the curator, and the White Knight. But I can kill through the void."
Rioz turned the hilt of his sword and looked at everyone:
"So, which one of you comes first?"
crazy.
[Huang Huang Qing] It’s unbelievable.
Leoz was completely shameless in ordering people to die for him.
From ancient times to the present, the only things that can make people die voluntarily are faith and love.
Even in a narrative civilization, people must at least be fooled by grand narratives into making sacrifices. Not only that, they must also be well fed and served during their lifetime. If the welfare level and religious propaganda are lower, there is no way people will voluntarily contribute.
However, the players' reactions far exceeded Lord Dusk's imagination.
"Fuck, is this kind of heaven-defying artifact really something I can touch?"
"Me, me, me! I can't think straight! Choose me."
"Don't fight, don't fight. Choose me, Your Majesty. Choose me! I should have died long ago! I stole chickens and dogs during the day and kicked widows' doors at night. I did all kinds of evil. Let me die first!"
The players didn't think that much about it at all.
Death? I might have been a little scared before. I was playing on a private server, but the merciful and forgiving Lord Leoz reduced their resurrection cooldown to a full two hours.
What, you said that if Void dies, the character is really gone?
Well... the account is gone, but the private server is still there. With this level of welfare, it doesn’t matter even if you open a new account.
What? There is a chance of real death.
Hiss...So what?
Didn't you see the instructions on that Tanzimat?
Even if the host dies, all existence can be injected into the sword and passed on to the next person. In other words, even if you die, your existence can still be continued.
Total death is scary.
But these players are originally a group of infertile divine warriors.
They couldn't stand Leanding's rule in the first place. Not only did they not get any coins, they were deceived into working for nothing, and then they were bullied by plug-ins, so they chose to join Leoz.
At this moment, with Tanzimat here, the players, or the divine warriors, suddenly realized: Isn’t this equivalent to mortals having fire?
Most divine warriors who have no concept of bloodline pay more attention to the inheritance of spiritual ideas and skills.
Faced with this temptation that is no less than a single page in the genealogy of mortals, their enthusiasm for fighting has far overwhelmed their fear.
At this moment, [Huang Huang Qing] finally couldn't sit still anymore.
From the moment Tanzimat was created, she realized that Leoz's trip was not unprepared.
What, he never thought about winning?
You haven't even thought about winning? You're clearly after my life!
"...Piarinus."
The Emperor suddenly took over the body of [Twilight Lord] and said slowly:
"Have you planned this far? Do you really not want me to win?"
"This has nothing to do with Tianzun."
"You are a [Dominant] type, so you must have received His blessing. That is proof of Sorao's interference!"
[Emperor of the Void] Voroid smiled:
"After thousands of years of investing, I finally found a good stock for you."
Rioz tilted his head.
In his impression, although Piarinus gave him small favors every time, when accumulated...
It doesn’t seem like they gave much.
Anyway, it is far less than what he has earned with his own fists.
"But it doesn't matter."
Voloid glanced at Leoz ambiguously:
"Even if you can kill Lord Dusk, Sorao can't take away the godhood. And all your efforts are just making wedding dresses for others."
"You can kill as many chess pieces as you want, but the chess pieces cannot escape the control of the chess player."
"No matter what skills you use... I can only tell you that the only watershed in life is amniotic fluid. There are some things that you can never change in your lifetime."
"is it?"
Leoz said frankly:
"I don't care whether it's fate or destiny, I'll kill anyone who stands in my way."
"Oh, then I hope to have the chance to see that scene."
The Emperor smiled slightly:
"I'll be waiting for you in the Abyss, Lord Rioz."
As soon as she finished speaking, Huanghun Qing's eyes became clear again and she held her forehead.
"superior."
She suddenly said:
"If a tyrant like Rioz is allowed to escape the void alive, you will follow him into the Abyss!"
"Kill them all!"
The Lord of the Void roared loudly, and suddenly, there was a roar of mountains and seas, and waves of purple frenzy were set off in the territory of the Void.
"Eat these porcelain skin guys alive!"
"Long live the void!"
"The Supreme God is dead, let everything return to nothingness!"
"All troops, line up!" Fu Shen roared, "Let them see the greatness of our orthodox Xingyuan Protoss!"
Rioz threw the sharp blade into the crowd. A warrior caught Tanzimat, and with a burst of energy, he raised his sword and shouted:
"I have taken up the sword! I am the sharp edge of Leoz! Everyone follow me!"
"Humph, you want to monopolize the artifact? No way!"
"Give me back my Trench Warrior! I am your Majesty's sharp edge!"
"You bunch of straight male gamers, can you please say something serious? Let's get into the game! We are in a war, can you please chant some exciting slogans?"
"Eorzea! The High Rises!"
"Are you sure it's this?"
"Don't block the road, please stop, I almost blocked your bullet with your head, luckily the private server has disabled friendly fire, otherwise my KDA would still be negative, hey, you mage next to you, don't block my bullet hole, what are you doing, didn't you hear me yelling, do you think I'm telling a crosstalk?"
"Comrades, I have medical insurance, let me go first - hey my holy sword! I dropped my holy sword! Ma Kua Zhuo!"
confusion.
Neither Leoz nor Ira could describe the war except as chaos.
Both sides deployed a total of more than 800 million combat units of various types on a flat land of only a few dozen square light years.
The two sides have not even established diplomatic relations, nor have they joined any conventions or organizations, so naturally there is no question of principles, and any forbidden weapons and means can be used at will.
Because the radius of the battle was too small, both sides simply abandoned their high-end warships and vehicles and started hand-to-hand combat in the air and on the ground.
[Lord of Dusk] Ila has an unparalleled home advantage, and her right to modify the definition of the void at will means that any place could be the void, and even the judgment results encountered by players can be forcibly modified.
Although the expeditionary force has a huge disadvantage in terms of numbers, rank, and quantity, they also have their advantages.
Tanzimat.
The expeditionary soldiers holding Tanzimat soon realized that they did not fall into the definition of the Void, so they just fought hard on the front line. Due to Tanzimat's [Continuous Struggle] special effect, they did not even need treatment.
At first, the Void Lords did not care about the Sword Bearers, thinking they were just a group of powerful elite soldiers.
But as soon as the swords crossed, they immediately realized why the attribute description of Tanzimat read "cause the damage that should be caused."
This is not an attribute at all.
Rather, it is the ability of those members of the [Secret Society] to distort the rules and create their own rules! .
What does it mean to cause harm that should be caused?
A person holding a fruit knife can cut fruit, but because in a parallel world, this person killed someone with the fruit knife, this knife can kill people.
It doesn't sound outrageous.
When the first sword-wielder killed the Void Lord, the other Lords did not take it seriously. After all, the sword-wielder was strong and powerful, and was controlled by the great evil god Fu Shen, the God of Deep Water and Sea Beasts. This was understandable.
But when the second and third sword-wielders were able to kill the Void Lord with ease, the Lords could no longer remain calm.
Because the second sword holder was a mechanic and the third was a cook.
The fourth one is Sharquinia, who has become a mortal.
Starting from the fifth one, there was no need for a person to hold the sword. Just a touch from someone, even if the hilt of the sword just touched his ear, was enough to kill a great king in the heat of battle.
Only then did I realize it in the void.
It turns out that this is the 'harm that should be caused'.
Because there was one who killed the Maharaja with this sword, therefore this sword can kill the Maharaja.
No matter who it is.
In this way, the sword-wielder is no longer a killing machine, but a pure meat grinder, wasting every moment of his time in frenetic fighting, until finally the sword falls to the ground, truly meeting his death.
But often the sword is snatched away in mid-air before it even falls. Fanatical players keep their eyes on this equipment that surpasses the artifact. Due to its wide range of usage conditions, anyone can use Tanzimat to kill everyone.
The Void Side continued to send in fighters, trying to deplete the number of Leoz's men, but the more they sent in, the more it was like falling into a bottomless pit.
It becomes easier and easier to kill high-level fighters. As long as one new monster is killed, the sword-wielder behind it can be killed.
There is no reason.
This sword is not within the game rules of "Xingyuan" at all. After the system was upgraded by Prior's plug-in, it can only be installed as a patch.
The power of Tanzimat made the soldiers of the Xingyuan Expeditionary Force, no, made the entire Xingyuan realize for the first time that classes can be broken.
The fighting continues.
..............................
20 years later.
The battlefield was still in chaos, with people crowded together and trampling on each other's corpses. A new wave of players had just come down from the Abyss Port and were immediately thrown into the battlefield. They either survived by chance or were devoured by the void monsters that had evolved for countless generations.
The war continues.
"So, at this point, can you still say that force is the least important?"
Rioz spoke slowly:
“Violence may not be able to shake your origins, but it is the only tool given to people at the bottom of society to shake their class.”
The two of them were suspended in mid-air, confronting each other from a distance.
"What's wrong with succumbing to the arrangements of fate? In the end, everything will return to nothingness anyway."
Ira Dasco said coldly:
"You gave them weapons to resist, but you also let them lose their lives. They paved your road to success with their bodies. In this case, what's the point? It's all for others to benefit."
"It makes no sense."
Leoz looked at the battlefield below. A swordsman was dragging Tanzimat and chasing after a monster that was dozens of levels higher than him, slashing at it relentlessly.
"I won't go back and argue with you. The definition is in your hands. I can't win you no matter what. But I said - I didn't come here thinking of winning."
"You're still saying this now—"
"I am serious, Lord Dusk. I am not here to fight, but to unite you."
Rioz looked ahead calmly and said:
"We are all citizens of Xingyuan. Continuing to fight among ourselves will only benefit the Earth invaders and the Leanding Group. But I also know that you and the Void cannot be convinced by reason."
"So? You want to change our ecology, change our ideas, and forcibly annex us to facilitate the realization of your grand narrative?"
Ira sneered and commanded a team of men to hunt down the sword bearer:
"You are taking it for granted. If slogans like national justice and national crisis were enough to unite people, Xingyuan would have been unified long ago."
"Yeah, that's my goal."
Lioz pointed at the people on the ground and asked them to use the barrage of artillery fire to open a gap for the sword-wielding man:
"I want to unify the six great narratives of the Star Abyss, defeat the ruling group of Leanding, and drive out the invaders from Earth."
"Idiot's dream."
Ira shook her head:
"Don't you understand yet? The void is unconquerable. The Lord of the Origin has not done it, and the secret Earthlings have not done it. It is not your turn to do it."
"You are very strong in fighting, but other than that you are not good enough."
"You can kill me three thousand times with violence, but I have the right to define the void, nihilism, void creatures, and the state of void creatures. I can die if I want to die, and I can live if I want to live. Without me, you can't control the void."
“Leanding, Mephidria, Specter, Azarofi, Dumfis—even Silverston, who had no authority or combat power, they were able to become the main gods not because they controlled the Tao, but because they were the ones who created the Tao.”
"The void, Zhou Yuan, the void path, the void people, the void creatures, the void resources - these things exist because of me. You can't conquer them all just because you have military force. Otherwise, why do you think Gaia would let go of my endless void?"
"I knew before that it would be difficult to liberate the void by force. Now it seems that you may be unconquerable, but it is much better than I thought."
Rioz crossed his arms and said calmly:
"Ira Dusco, let's negotiate."
If the war continues like this, nothing will be accomplished.
Fighting at home, Ira can mobilize tens of billions of Void soldiers with just a thought.
With the blessing of Tanzimat, players are fighting like perpetual motion machines, and the more they kill, the stronger they become.
But Zhou Yuan has his limits.
If the combat power of both sides is allowed to continue to expand, Zhou Yuan will be the first to collapse.
This has already happened once in Jingyuan. Whether it is Lioz or Ira, they can at least reach a consensus on this point.
What's more, Zhouyuan is different from Jingyuan. Zhouyuan's special ring tube structure is far less solid than Jingyuan's vast plains.
Peaceful negotiations are impossible. For issues involving sovereignty, there is either no room for negotiation or fighting while negotiating.
Ira fell silent.
To be honest, Leoz's question also hit her expectations.
Judging from the result of the duel, she had actually won, but Leoz directly broke free and used his secret ability. Not only did he not suffer any loss, but he also created a magic sword.
Just talking about war, she still has the advantage, and the advantage will expand because the bodies of dead players are also becoming nutrients for the void.
But it has only been twenty years, and the Void Planning Committee has begun to sound the alarm for her. If the Void continues to fight like this, she will definitely win, but Zhou Yuan really can't withstand so many Void troops.
A very counterintuitive fact is... although Zhou Yuan is equal to the void, the energy of the void actually only accounts for 3% of Zhou Yuan's energy.
If the void energy and matter are allowed to increase in large quantities, Zhou Yuan's own ecological balance will be broken. At that time, it will not cause a humanitarian crisis, but a mass extinction.
Talking about a duel at this time - let’s not talk about it, she has already won the duel against Leoz.
What if she wins? As long as Leoz is convinced that she will not die, she can't kill the other party. Conversely, Leoz can't kill her, and can't kill her.
20 years later, the curse on Leoz has disappeared.
Now in a one-on-one fight, it is questionable whether he can defeat Leoz relying only on limited force.
Interfering on the battlefield is even more ridiculous.
After she left the court, Leoz followed. If they both fought with all their strength, Leoz would definitely lose, but Zhou Yuan would also be useless.
The decision-making bodies and think tanks of the Void were also constantly debating and seeking opinions from the various communal war groups below. Most people, who had been enthusiastic about the war at the beginning, had become tired at this moment.
But the players were different. They completed daily tasks, and Leoz distributed benefits to the private servers. Anyway, the experience and rewards came from the void monsters they killed, so Leoz didn't suffer any loss, and the players had to thank him.
Tanzimat is getting stronger and stronger, and the iterations of void monsters are getting faster and faster. If this continues, ordinary players will feel that the game is updated faster than QiQa Network, and they can kill monsters with great pleasure. Even various challenge competitions are organized among the people.
Leoz will not suffer any loss, and Lord Dusk will not suffer any loss.
The only one who would suffer the loss would be Zhou Yuan.
To be honest, a war of only 20 years is considered short in Xingyuan.
But in these 20 years, the Void Project Committee believes that the damage caused to Zhou Yuan is no less than when the 13 councilors gathered together in Zhou Yuan.
Leoz is also aware of this. In recent months, he has also reduced challenge rewards and sponsorship of private competitions, intending to give the Void some slack, but Lord Dusk is obviously still undecided.
Finally, today, Leoz took the initiative to propose negotiations, and Ira reluctantly expressed his willingness to cooperate.
Leoz and Lord Dusk left the battlefield and entered the synagogue hall. Both sides brought their representatives to start a new round of battle.
Fighting outside and talking inside.
Leoz's demands are very simple: the Void must join the Yuanyuan Federation, allow Zhou Yuan to retain its own military forces, even taxation can be negotiated, and the narrative and political structure of the Void will not be changed, but the Void must send an expeditionary force to follow the Yuanyuan Federation and go to Yuanyuan together to overthrow the Leanding regime.
[Lord Dusk] was quite satisfied with these, because this was equivalent to acknowledging the autonomy of the void in disguise, and did not interfere with their nihilistic beliefs.
But the old men in the Chanting House were furious about this, and shouted that if Leoz asked the Void to join the Federation, they would rather recognize the Leanding regime and pay tribute to Leanding than give Leoz a penny.
Ilevent, who was attending the meeting, was quick-witted and seized the loophole: If you say so, it seems that the Void Side has not yet recognized the Leanding Group as the legitimate regime of Yuanyuan?
Since you do not recognize the Lai Anding regime, then the only legitimate regime in Yuanyuan is our Federation. Moreover, our Federation is recognized by the three major narratives of Chengyuan. There are diplomatic documents. Don’t you recognize it?
The three major narratives of the Layered Abyss have never been to the Source Abyss, so they have no diplomatic relations. In this case, isn't it just that they do not recognize the Source Abyss regime?
It's okay for him to say that.
Because the three major narratives of the Layer Abyss believe that the Origin Abyss Federation only wants to defeat Leanding, and thinks that the Federation is just a country established by the Origin Abyss Protoss. But they never thought that the goal of the Federation is to unify the six major star abysses.
But here, separated from the three major narratives by a layer of Jingyuan, Xukong wanted to send someone over to inquire, but suddenly found out that he had not signed a ceasefire agreement with Jingyuan yet.
As soon as they climbed to the abyss, the ambassador of the Federation saw them and drove them back.
However, Leoz's manifesto before the war was never shown to the Void, so that only Lord Dusk on the Void side knew what Leoz's purpose was in liberating Zhou Yuan.
With the cooperation of Ilevint, no one on the Void side knew what the Origin Abyss Federation was. They thought that the Origin Abyss Federation had been recognized by the three major narratives, and even assumed that the three major narratives and the federation had joined the new Star Abyss system, and the unification of the upper three layers of the Star Abyss was imperative.
The obstacles to communication, the stalemate on the front line, Zhou Yuan's increasingly dangerous situation, and the pressure of Ilevent's deception of the two levels of narrative eventually led the diehards of the Void to compromise.
But they still had serious disagreements on the last issue.
"Zhou Yuan must join the Yuanyuan Federation independently in the form of a narrative." The philosopher of the Chanting Academy said solemnly.
"No, you must become a void province of the Federation. This is a constitutional issue. The Federation has no allies, only provinces or dominions." Elevent rejected the request directly: "A highly centralized federal government is our core need. If you are allowed to narrate independently, what is the difference between you and the previous Xingyuan?"
"Your leader is not even a Lord God, so why is he higher in status than our Lord Dusk?"
"Then let's take a step back and allow you to be a self-governing state. The leader of the self-governing state is also the commander. Is that okay?"
"Independent narrative, and Lord Dusk must take the position of Prime Minister, otherwise there is no room for negotiation!"
"The prime minister can only be appointed by the leader. If you don't respect our constitution, then we can only continue to fight."
"Okay, let's fight! Do you really think the people of the commune are afraid of you porcelain-skinned people?"
"enough!"
[Twilight Lord] said impatiently:
"There's no point in arguing like this - there are 29 people at the meeting, and Leoz and I are not allowed to vote. You guys decide by voting."
"No." Lioz knocked on the table. "Province or dominion, you can only choose one. I can allow the void to be autonomous, but independent narrative is absolutely not allowed. If you are allowed to narrate like this, then the void will only continue to go to war with other narratives. In this case, what is the meaning of establishing the Federation? We are supposed to unite to fight against the Earthlings and the Leanding Group."
"That's your problem, you usurped power." A Void Lord said disdainfully, "Are you pretending to be noble now? You killed as many of our compatriots as the people on Earth, right?"
The Zhenwu Party members were dissatisfied:
"What's your attitude? To give opinions to the commander, we need to follow the procedures—"
"He is not our leader yet." Another senior Void official said sarcastically, "Don't forget, you were the one who took the initiative to seek peace with us. If you didn't care about our universe, would you be afraid of your small number of people? It is you, Yuanyuan, who need us, the Void, not us, the Void, who need you. Get it clear, porcelain-skinned guy."
"If you want to say that, then you can't say that." Ye Zhangjian held his pipe in his mouth and said, "Then we will withdraw from the Molten Void Realm and attack your city."
The Void staff's face changed:
"Damn porcelain guy, how dare you!"
"Why shouldn't I? Don't forget, we are the ones who declared war on you! We started the war, and we can still fight. We are willing to fight and we can fight at will! What about you?"
Ye Zhangjian pulled off his boots, knocked on the table and shouted:
"Let me tell you, our people have been very restrained. Thousands of years ago, would the Protoss warriors have treated you as human beings? The reason we didn't attack the city is not because you are strong enough, but because we are of high quality. The expeditionary force is a force fighting for the people of Xingyuan. If we fight with the Earthlings, we will not let go of any child taller than the wheels!"
"Look, you have all picked up the bad habits of Earthlings."
"As expected, the porcelain-skinned guy never changes his bad habits."
"I knew you still wanted to invade our homeland."
The two sides were on the verge of a fight, and if Leoz and Ira hadn't been there, they would have started fighting immediately.
【Twilight Lord】rubbed his brows, turned to Rioz and said:
"Many people cannot accept Zhou Yuan's autonomy. Independent narrative is good for all of us."
"Federal Republic, Xingyuan Autonomous. This is our constitution, and our national policy cannot be questioned."
Rioz insisted:
"I can give you preferential treatment, but you must give up the status of narrative civilization and become a province or autonomous region of the Origin Federation. I can even allow you to become a member country, but independent narrative is absolutely not allowed!"
"Ye Zhangjian, go back and tell Fu Shen to prepare for a ground attack on Lasfalia (one of Zhouyuan's central cities). It's been 20 years, and I've been tolerant enough. You are not qualified to negotiate with me, Leoz, now."
"Either accept Zhou Yuan's autonomy, or keep fighting. At worst, I'll beat you to the point of Zhou Yuan's annihilation. It's up to you!"
If this was not enough to make the Void side give up, then Leoz's next words completely shattered the beliefs of the Void diehards.
"Send Tanzimat to me. I want to spread the blood of ether in Zhouyuan. If you don't want to be a member of the Federation, then I will turn you all into Earthlings."
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February 25, Year 8 of the Federation Calendar.
The Xingyuan expeditionary force of 129 million people entered the void capital of Nicheglia.
As Lord Dusk Ira Dasco signed the Yuanyuan-Zhouyuan Joining Agreement, the red, black and white tricolor flag of the Yuanyuan Federation was officially raised in various places in Zhouyuan.
The Yuanyuan Federation officially announced: The Federation recovered the Zhouyuan territory. From then on, Zhouyuan became a Yuan-level administrative unit of the Federation, with Ira Dasco as the leader of Zhouyuan.
The void narrative officially announced the change to the Zhouyuan Republic. The system remained unchanged and the commune and chanting academy system was still adopted.
As the commander of Zhou Yuan, Ira Dasco announced his support for the great cause of the Xingyuan Expeditionary Force and donated a megacity to the Federation as a temporary capital.
Since then, 25 years after the founding of the Yuanyuan Federation, it finally had its own capital.
According to the past traditions of the Star Abyss Protoss, the federal commander Leoz named this temporary capital: New Haines.
In order to celebrate Zhou Yuan's recovery, experts suggested modifying the original red, white and black tricolor flag, changing the original ink black to purple black to highlight the characteristics of the void.
Leoz disagreed.
Because in his opinion, the road to conquering Xingyuan has not yet ended.
Sitting in the office of the temporary capital of New Haines, Lioz slowly closed the notebook in front of him. He raised his eyes and looked at the name he had written on the cover:
《Coexistence and Conflicts in the Double Helix System of Xingyuan and Earth》
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"The people of Xingyuan are now facing the oppression and rule of two barbaric monsters that look different but are the same in nature. One is called Earth, and the other is called Yuanyuan."
"This is the conclusion I have come to after seven hundred years of continuous observation of this world through various channels and my personal experience."
"There is only one solution to change this situation..."
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The work that had been left unfinished in the ending that Prior had described for him, he had now completed.
"There is only one solution to change this situation..."
Rioz said slowly:
"Let Xingyuan and Earth, two different worlds, completely merge into one."
"To achieve this goal, we must first unify Xingyuan, and secondly, unify the Earth."
"In order to achieve this ultimate goal, Gaia, Leanding, and all the Star Origin Seeds are obstacles and must be eliminated."
"Recovering the Void is just the beginning."
Rioz put down his notebook and looked at the documents beside him.
The two wars established his authority, and people followed him, loved him, supported him, and died for him.
But this is not enough.
What Leoz needs is that they entrust their future and children to him.
Next, he will present his plans and agenda to Congress.
Hua la la la——
The wind blew the folders, revealing the covers of the plans one by one:
The Xingyuan Unification War Begins
"On the Feasibility of Using Ether Blood Weapons in the Xingyuan Battlefield"
The Earth Exclusion Act
"C3 Luca-type space human race subdivision suggestion"
Start Earth Language Education
"Issuing a Permit to Kill Earthlings"
《Establishing Isolation Communities and Labor Camps for Earthlings》
The spread of populist ideology
Snap.
Leoz gently closed the folder.
"This universe needs the methods of a hegemon to achieve unification."
Lioz walked to the window and looked down at the Abyss Port under construction:
"Perhaps only by letting the flames of war ignite the Sixth Layer of the Star Abyss can the rot and filth be swept away."
"Let the Great Star Abyss War begin."