Chapter 141 At the Same Time

At the same time, the Shining World Gate, the Dawn Star Cluster.

The surfaces of the military base planets were covered with dense deep wells, hiding huge-caliber beyond-visual-range psionic Destroyer Cannons, aiming at the adjacent Goul Star Cluster, Crown Ring Star Cluster, and Renault Star Cluster. These were areas explored in the second phase, now bustling territories occupied by many Super-A Grade forces. Among them, the Destroyer Cannons aimed at the Black Star Territory were the most numerous.

The Dawn Star Cluster was the first area taken over by the Crimson Dynasty. Many planets were military restricted zones. After decades of secret modification, the interiors of these planets had long been converted into special star-level weapons.

After the first Conference of the Gods decades ago, the Crimson Dynasty secretly implemented this modification project, preparing for a rainy day, precisely to prevent the current situation. Once things changed, this star cluster could immediately become a bridgehead for war and block the regular passage between the Shining World and the explored universe.

Fleets belonging to the three major civilizations were stationed throughout the Dawn Star Cluster, and the temporary joint command of the three major civilizations had also changed from Beacon Star to a military planet in the heart of the Dawn Star Cluster.

"For these ten days, maintain the highest level of alert. As long as the joint fleet starts a war in the Mechanical Race territory, that's the signal for us to act. Bombard all Super-A Grade forces, including the Black Star Army's territory."

In the temporary command post, Eon Fabick looked around at the many officers in the room, his eyes as sharp as an eagle's.

He was a high-ranking Crimson Dynasty officer. After Tarrokov retired, he took over as marshal of the Dynasty's Exploration Army. In the recent turmoil, the three major civilizations designated the Shining World as an independent and important war zone, and he directly became the commander of the war zone, responsible for commanding the military operations of the three major civilizations in the Shining World.

"Understood," the crowd responded in unison.

Eon turned to look at one of the officers and said, "The higher-ups are short-handed and can't dispatch direct Super-A Grades to guard this place. How are the interception measures being arranged? After the war starts, the Super-A Grades will definitely rely on their personal strength to try to decapitate the command post. If we can't stop them from invading the heart of the Dawn Star Cluster, the situation will be very passive."

"The engineering units are racing against time to deploy interception equipment and have left strangulation traps and rapid support channels. If the Super-A Grades are trapped too deep, there's a chance they'll be surrounded and annihilated by us..."

"Give me a report later." Eon raised his palm, signaling him not to say any more, then turned to ask about the progress of other deployments.

Whether the three major civilizations and the Association would eventually fight was not his concern. He only cared about his duties, being responsible for preparing for war and ensuring that the strategic plan could be strictly implemented after the action began.

...

On the other side, a desolate asteroid belt in the Dawn Star Cluster.

Floating shielding devices surrounded an asteroid, slowly rotating along the orbit of outer space, releasing illusions, covering the landscape of the ground, and preventing remote observation.

From the outside, it looked like a barren planet, but once you entered the atmosphere, you could see that the true appearance of the planet was a mechanical fortress armed to the teeth, with countless battleships and mechanical legions taking off and landing.

Over the past few decades, the Black Star Army had not only been managing its territory, but also setting up many hidden posts in other areas, and this was one of the secret bases.

At the top of the tallest building, Aurora stood on the edge of the rooftop, looking at a giant white mechanical ring in the distance. This was a new type of directional portal technology that Han Xiao had unearthed from Jess's technological treasure, which could transport troops on a large scale. It was not activated at this time.

Behind her, stood a dense crowd, their bodies emitting a faint fluorescence, all of them were reincarnated Hero Spirits who had obtained physical bodies.

The eight Hero Spirit Kings stood in a row, followed by thousands of Calamity Grade Hero Spirits, and countless B-Grade Hero Spirits behind them.

As early as when Manison's warehouse was exposed, Han Xiao had urgently recalled Aurora, who was wandering outside, and gave her a secret mission, which was to hide in a secret base and constantly perform the Impure World Reincarnation (Edo Tensei). Except for eating, drinking, and resting, all other time was used to summon Underworld Hero Spirits.

Aurora's life during this period was to summon Hero Spirits - rest and recover - continue to summon, constantly cycle, almost draining her, and finally reached the current scale.

The existence time of these materialized and reincarnated Hero Spirits depended on the rate of loss of the body's activity. As long as they were not killed or not dispelled by Aurora, they could basically exist for a long time. Especially now that it was a low-energy standby mode without combat, the rate of activity loss was almost negligible, which allowed Aurora to continuously expand the scale and accumulate an army.

Aurora turned to look at the Hero Spirits and said softly, "Black Star said that before the end of the ultimatum, he wants you to make a big scene in the Dawn Star Cluster and try to destroy the three major civilizations' Destroyer Cannons."

"He sure knows how to use people."

Solokin snorted.

After being a Hero Spirit for more than forty years, he had resigned himself to his fate and got used to his identity, but he still had not given up his hobby of accumulating wealth. In order to satisfy his own preferences, he tried to transform the social environment of the Underworld.

Because the Hero Spirits basically had no material enjoyment in the soul state, Solokin discovered the common needs of many Hero Spirits through long-term observation. Therefore, according to the characteristics of the Hero Spirits, he created a conceptual currency system based on "promises" in the Underworld. A promise currency meant owing someone something, and Hero Spirits of different levels and identities gave promises equivalent to different "denominations".

When a Hero Spirit made a promise to another or even multiple Hero Spirits, it was equivalent to printing money, and Solokin formulated a special credit system to prevent Hero Spirits from arbitrarily making promises that would lead to inflation, and to solve a series of problems that would damage the value of the promise currency. Moreover, the promise currency that each Hero Spirit could create in each cycle was limited, and this two-way promise currency was allowed to be resold to others, similar to transferring "debt relations".

In order to promote this system, Solokin made a lot of efforts, and also persuaded Aurora and Ol尼斯露 to semi-hook the realization channel with the reincarnation opportunity and the reincarnation time, which was equivalent to the general Hero Spirits' chance to relax, so that the Underworld Hero Spirits, who had nothing to do on weekdays, slowly accepted this gameplay.

After cultivating the market, Solokin used a series of skilled capitalist methods to harvest a large amount of promise currency. Now, the Underworld owes him an average of 0.37 requests per person, making him the "richest" person in the Underworld... Although it didn't have much practical significance, accumulating wealth itself satisfied him.

This war allowed Solokin to see the opportunity to realize promise currency on a large scale. After all, they, the Underworld Hero Spirits, were born daredevils and would definitely be reincarnated frequently. Although being summoned was for combat, it was better than staying in the Underworld and doing nothing.

As for the conflict between the Association and the three major civilizations, Solokin was no longer interested, after all, his identity was different, and it was not his turn to worry about this kind of thing.

Aurora retracted her gaze and continued to look forward. In a place where many Hero Spirits could not see, her expression became worried.

In several key star fields, the three major civilizations and the Association had placed similar hidden pieces. Once a full-scale war broke out, bloody storms would be set off everywhere. She couldn't bear to see this scene.

"If the war really breaks out, I hope to use the Underworld to save more people..."

...

The Old Star River, the Mechanical Race territory.

The news media was still broadcasting the confrontation situation in its entirety. A long time had passed since the failure of the negotiations between the two sides. Han Xiao was sitting in the middle, as if one person separated the two fleets, and neither of them took action.

Looking at the broadcast screen that seemed to be frozen, countless interstellar citizens became more and more anxious.

More than half a day had passed, and neither side had taken action. Would the two sides just stare at each other like this for ten days? After ten days, the attitudes of the two sides would not change, right?

Just when many people were pessimistic, there was a sudden movement in the joint fleet of the three major civilizations. The High-Dimensional Revelation Teleporter was suddenly activated, and after rotating at high speed for a while, a flash of light, and another small fleet teleported over.

"Reinforcements are coming?"

Countless interstellar citizens were energized. Although they didn't know what the three major civilizations were doing, it was a good thing that there was a change.

Through the broadcast screen, countless people's eyes followed this small fleet, watching it pass through the army formation all the way and dock with the main ship of the joint fleet.

At the same time, in the command room of the main ship of the three major civilizations' joint fleet, all the crew members, including Commander Simon, stood up to welcome the comers.

The sound of footsteps slowly approached along the corridor, and a group of guys with different appearances walked into the command room.

Seeing this, the crew members stirred slightly, and there was an excited chat with deliberately lowered voices, reporting the names of these people like counting treasures.

"The Crimson Dynasty's 'Dark Emperor' Clotti, 'Thunder' Guzar, 'Leader' Padro, 'Military Flag' Inid... the Glorious Federation's 'Golden Ring' Oulu, 'Super-Power Mentor' Verina, 'Guardian' Rama... the Void Spirit Religion's 'God-Chosen' Ulnos, 'Mechanical Disaster' Francisco, 'Saint' Monan... all big shots!"

The ones who arrived at this time were all the direct Super-A Grades of the three major civilizations, as many as dozens of people, who were urgently conscripted.

Simon took a few steps forward and nodded to the crowd, "Everyone, let's not talk about the idle talk. Presumably, the higher-ups have already given the order, and everyone knows what to do."

Hearing this, the crowd turned to look out of the porthole, their eyes locked on Han Xiao, who was entrenched in the starry sky.

Oulu grinned, revealing a grim smile.

"Don't worry, now that we're here, he can't continue to show off."

"We'll leave Black Star to you." Simon nodded.

Fleet firefights were a signal of full-scale war. Before the ultimatum deadline, the three major civilizations did not allow the group army to take action, but it just so happened that Black Star jumped out to challenge in his personal name. They could use high-end combat power to test him out, so the three major civilizations called their direct members, unwilling to see Black Star continue to clamor, and planned to kill the Association's prestige and exert pressure.

At this time, Verina, with her long hair fluttering, glanced at the crowd and slowly said:

"Black Star is notoriously fierce and has an illustrious record. He is extremely difficult to deal with, but if we gang up on him from the beginning, it won't look good on our faces. Only Clotti, Oulu, and Ulnos here have the ability to fight Black Star one-on-one. Which of you three will go first?"

Hearing this, the crowd's eyes turned to the three of them, and most people looked at Ulnos, who was recognized as the strongest.

Ulnos lowered his eyes and remained silent, seemingly uninterested in this task.

The fact was also true. If it weren't for the Void Spirit Pope ordering him to come and guard the battle, he wouldn't want to leave the Pantheon at all.

Seeing that he didn't speak, the crowd moved their eyes away and looked at Clotti.

"You used to work with Black Star, so you should know his abilities better than us," Verina said.

Clotti frowned, "I don't know more than you, he..."

Just then, Oulu interrupted him.

"Don't argue, I'll deal with him. I've wanted to fight Black Star for a long time. Maybe I can take him down directly."

Seeing this, the crowd nodded one after another, and no one competed with him.

At this time, Verina pointed her finger at her forehead, and a ray of pure white aura escaped and landed on Oulu.

Oulu shuddered, feeling the energy in his body begin to surge and roar, and the intensity of his ability climbed up and up.

"Hey, even without enhancement, I can handle Black Star."

Oulu啧了一声, not very grateful.

"This is all for insurance."

Verina's face remained unchanged.

She was the dean of the Super-Power Research Institute of the Glorious Federation, and possessed a composite ability, mainly inclined to assistance, enhancing the abilities of other super-power users, and could analyze the development trend of the target ability and formulate a complete training plan. This was also the origin of her nickname "Super-Power Mentor".

...

A few minutes later.

Han Xiao, who was closing his eyes and resting in the middle of the battlefield, suddenly frowned and slowly opened his eyes.

In his sight, a familiar figure stood out from the array of the three major civilizations' fleet, suspended not far from him, exuding the powerful aura that belonged exclusively to the peak Super-A Grade.

"Oulu?"

Han Xiao spoke softly, his voice ringing in the wide-area channel.

Oulu narrowed his eyes.

"I heard that if you want the Association to hand over the technology, you have to get past you first?"

"As long as you can beat me, it's not impossible to consider."

Han Xiao didn't take it seriously and answered casually.

Hearing this, Oulu's eyes flashed and he said in a deep voice:

"Then you can start considering it now!"

After saying that, his aura quickly rose, and dense golden rings unfolded behind him, connecting a dazzling golden world, the "Golden Treasure Ship" dimension that he was famous for.

Seeing this, Han Xiao shook his head and slowly said:

"Do you want to consider joining the Association to enjoy the Sanctuary Recovery? That way, you won't die in vain later."