Chapter 123 Communication

Successful connection established. The message was received not only by the Creation Goddess but also by Hao Ren, who was resting in the mortal realm.

He had just seen Heather Ann off, who had come to visit, when he learned the astonishing news from the communication link that Asu-Man had successfully established contact with the Dark Abyss cage. He immediately grabbed the data terminal, opened a door to the Rift Nebula, and teleported to the Core Research Station, accompanied by Vivian and Lily.

By the time they arrived, Leah had already come from the World Tree Temple.

As soon as she arrived, the Creation Goddess proactively said, "I came after finishing my homework!"

Hao Ren couldn't help but wonder if he was assigning too many study tasks to this goddess...

"How are things now?" After reflecting for less than a second, he looked up at the Asu-Man crystal floating in the center of the hall on a crystal platform, as if sealing a luminous cloud. "Those guardians are still there, as expected?"

"The reconnection was perfectly timed," Asu-Man's bell-like voice echoed in the hall. "The Night Watcher Legion responsible for guarding the cage still exists. Moreover, due to the increasingly frequent movements of the Lord of Mad Whispers, my compatriots were originally preparing to fight to the death. If communication hadn't been established in time, they would have been exhausted in this meaningless battle."

Hao Ren felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead, but then he breathed a sigh of relief. If contact hadn't been made in time to let the Star-Folk guardians in the Dark Abyss know about the Creation Goddess's return, they probably would have fought the Lord of Mad Whispers to the death, willing to make a heroic sacrifice. Such courage was commendable, but it would have pointlessly depleted their valuable fighting strength before the final battle. More importantly, once all the sentinels in the Dark Abyss were sacrificed, all the divine power restrictions left by the Creation Goddess in that space would have become ineffective, and those divine power restrictions were a crucial part of Hao Ren's counterattack plan.

Leah had arrived earlier than Hao Ren, so she already knew some of the situation. She shook her head gently. "Although the sentinels are still there, the situation inside the cage is still not optimistic. The divine power impact released by the Goddess of Destruction some time ago did weaken the Lord of Mad Whispers' power, but subsequently, the activities of the Mad Whispers' power have shown increasing logic and purpose. Those scattered, unnecessary energies are being integrated with extremely high efficiency to resist the Dark Abyss's seal. After the two offset each other, the Lord of Mad Whispers' counterattack is even stronger. Now the inner defense line has almost been lost, and the middle layer is also under frequent attack. The Night Watcher Legion is fighting alone inside, and they have to preserve their strength as much as possible. I really don't know how long they can last."

"...Preserving strength is necessary," Hao Ren frowned. "Delay as much as possible. If you really can't delay, retreat. The Dark Abyss is already the Lord of Mad Whispers' home ground. It would be a waste to expend valuable veterans in this situation."

Leah agreed with Hao Ren's statement, but her expression still didn't relax. "So now the most crucial thing is, can we be ready before that happens?"

Hao Ren first talked about the progress on his side. "The proliferation speed of the drone legion has reached its limit, and the Annihilation Spear has also entered the mass production process. The first batch of prototypes will be offline in the next few days. As far as these war machines are concerned, no matter when the battle breaks out, they are ready."

"The Guardian Legion is also ready," Salaman's holographic projection appeared on a platform on one side of the hall. "We have been preparing for this war for ten thousand years. Once the Lord of Mad Whispers breaks free, the Guardian Fleet and Agudaar Fortress can be deployed to the battlefield at any time."

Hao Ren nodded and turned his gaze to Lehman Dusa's holographic projection on the other side of the hall. "How is the progress of the Genesis Engine assembly?"

Lehman Dusa nodded. Next to his holographic image was a set of massive golden space structures, the main structure of the Genesis Engine, which was almost completely closed. A massive number of engineering machines were flowing around the pale gold artificial celestial body, like schools of fish. "The engine core sent to the foundry some time ago has been installed in the chassis. The hardware connection and adaptation tests have been successfully completed. The crust encapsulation and attachment mounting can be completed within a month. But..."

"Without the Golden Disks, it's like having no CPU... right?" Hao Ren rubbed his brow. "Let's put this problem aside for now. You finish the engine first, leave the slots for the core computing group. If it really doesn't work..."

As Hao Ren spoke, he looked down at his feet.

The central computer room of the Core Research Station was located below. Through the faintly transparent, thick crystal barrier, he could see the beam of light emitted from the top of the central computer "Crystal Spire" connecting the main axis of this giant space station and spreading to all sides of this magnificent building, causing every crystal edge here to flow with mysterious and wonderful brilliance.

"We can install the host of the Core Research Station. We already have the logic language library of the Genesis Engine, we just need to design a set of decoding programs, and the computing power of 'Crystal Spire' should be able to replace those Golden Disks."

This was not a whim, but the result of careful consideration over the past few days. Although Leah had confidently stated that after completing elementary school studies, she would have a way to recreate the Golden Disks in a short period of time, he had later privately reconfirmed with Leah several times, and the latter admitted that this was not a sure thing. Even if the Golden Disks were rushed to completion, how much of their performance could be brought into play would also be a big problem. Those disks were the core of the engine, unlike the engine casing, which could be patched up. Once the core power was insufficient, this powerful artifact might not even be able to exert the power of the Annihilation Spears firing in a queue.

This was obviously not what Hao Ren wanted.

Therefore, one of the things he had been racking his brains about these past few days was where to find a substitute for the Golden Disks...

And the result of racking his brains was the host of the Core Research Station: This was the most powerful and best-performing data processing core he could find in the Dream Plane. Of course, he also had a World Tree, whose performance was definitely much stronger than "Crystal Spire," but now the World Tree was responsible for maintaining the stability of the Dream Plane's laws, and in the future, after eliminating the Lord of Mad Whispers, it would also be responsible for healing the world's wounds and restoring order, so it definitely couldn't be moved.

Of course, the more important reason was that the World Tree was too high-end, and Hao Ren and the Creation Goddess, these two amateurs, didn't know how to mess with it...

"Install Crystal Spire into the Genesis Engine?" This was obviously quite shocking, and the first to jump up was Lily. "Wouldn't that shut down the Core Research Station? Isn't this our base camp?"

"The Core Research Station has several secondary hosts and redundant systems. Even without the main host, it can continue to operate at a lower efficiency and will not be completely shut down," Hao Ren waved his hand. "Once the final battle breaks out, the value of the Genesis Engine as a super weapon is greater than that of the Core Research Station. This space station is, after all, just a comprehensive civilian space station. We can already mass-produce its most powerful main gun, so on the battlefield, its role has been limited."

Lily still understood the principle of using good steel on the blade, so after Hao Ren explained, the husky girl didn't have any more questions.

"The rest... is our trump card," Hao Ren said as he turned his gaze to the Creation Goddess. "How are you preparing?"

"Using the newly learned knowledge of divine power, I have completely recovered from the injuries I suffered ten thousand years ago and the weakness caused by the slumber, and I should be able to exert even stronger power than I did back then," Leah gently clenched her fist. "It's a pity that time is tight, otherwise I would definitely be able to draw more power from the textbooks. Those valuable experiences and knowledge are simply unimaginable for me, alas..."

Vivian couldn't help but mutter, "It always feels weird. Holding a bunch of elementary school textbooks and doing practice questions actually makes your strength soar. There's no sense of solemnity."

Lily rolled her eyes at her. "If you replace the elementary school textbooks with divine skill manuals, it won't feel out of place."

Vivian thought for a moment and felt for the first time that what this dog said was so reasonable.

"Speaking of... can we only wait outside?" At this time, Hao Ren couldn't help but say, "That 'Night Watcher Legion' is fighting alone inside the Dark Abyss cage. It must be quite difficult. Even if we can help a little, it should make things easier for them, right?"

"Unfortunately... we can't help," Leah shook her head gently. "The seal of the Dark Abyss is very special. It is based on 'information blockade,' which maintains the 'inactivated' state of the Lord of Mad Whispers by hindering information exchange inside and outside the seal in various ways, eliminating the observer effect. In other words, any information exchange inside and outside the Dark Abyss will weaken the effect of this seal, causing the Lord of Mad Whispers to break free ahead of time."

Seeing the thoughtful expressions of the others, Leah sighed and continued, "Now that Asu-Man has established contact with the Night Watcher Legion, this contact itself is already breaking the 'information blockade.' If it weren't for the fact that the Lord of Mad Whispers had already damaged some of the restrictions, causing the damage caused by this level of information exchange to be negligible, I'm afraid those sentinels wouldn't have sent any information outward until now."

Hearing this, Vivian couldn't help but exclaim, "Those sentinels who chose to stay inside the seal back then... made a great sacrifice."

Asu-Man's ethereal voice came from the crystal, "The era of the Primordial Ones has actually ended long ago. We have survived to this day because of a mission. There's nothing great or not great about it."

At this time, Leah brought up another matter. "If you really want to do something, there is one thing we can start now."

Hao Ren cast a curious gaze.

"The stable portal to the Dark Domain has been completed," Leah said. "Rahelheim... it's time to go there, isn't it?"

The corners of Hao Ren's mouth curled up slightly, feeling that he had finally heard some good news.