Chapter 1 The Beginning

The northwestern part of the Empire, the edge of the Ionia Mountains, the wilderness covered by layers of clouds, then came a torrential rain, and the world was filled with falling icy rain.

Because Su Zhou resolved the great natural disaster of the extreme northern cold wave of Aean, the northwestern region, which should have been snowing heavily, turned to rain, and this cold rain would freeze, covering the entire wilderness with a layer of solid ice in the future.

But now, in the rain, a fleet is speeding from the gap between the hills and the plains. The 3rd Army Group of the Empire, the super-heavy land battleship flagship 'Kingmaker', a huge warship shadow stands in the center of the fleet.

The vibration of the distant fleet made the three accompanying parties present somewhat panicked.

The Hope Light Society was alright. Both Gasha and Loya were young people and obviously didn't understand how powerful the 3rd Army Group was.

And judging from the momentum alone, the enemy was obviously not as shocking as the battle between Professor Svetozar and the Solar Emperor.

But it was different for the Holy Sun Church and the Light Chasing Order. They knew the power of the 3rd Army Group.

Decades ago, in the era when the Solar Emperor conquered all sides, quelled rebellions and turmoil, and held power in his hands, the rebel insurgents and noble city-states in various places were often panicked by the movements of an army—the arrival of the 3rd Army Group was equal to a harbinger of death. This army had never been defeated, and they would surely be able to conquer the enemies they wanted to defeat.

The rumbling of the earth was the signal of their arrival. The sound of hundreds of heavy fleets galloping together was enough to make mobile cities tremble.

This was just a legend. The 3rd Army Group had actually tasted defeat. They had retreated when facing the rage of the Great Chieftain of Heavenly Dusk, and had also avoided the battlefront in the face of the invincible fleet of the Coastal Heavenly Dragon Nobles.

But all of this did not detract from their glory, because the master behind the 3rd Army Group, Solar Emperor Asmodeus XIII, always achieved the final victory.

"They're surrounding us now. They don't come with good intentions."

Contrary to the uneasy expressions of his entourage, Pope Cardato of the Holy Sun Church just smiled and was not nervous: "There must be a traitor in our team, otherwise they couldn't have arrived so quickly—this was obviously an ambush prepared in advance, and they moved out as soon as they received the signal."

And High Priest Aiboen of the Light Chasing Order didn't say much. His eyes focused for a moment, and then returned to normal: "It's the main heavy armored fleet. It seems that the Aharonov father and son are here, and even the First Knight, Ilovitz, may be here too."

Turning his head, the High Priest said to Su Zhou, "It's not impossible to fight, but it's best not to do it here."

"We only have three warships now. There's no need to fight them head-on in the wilderness terrain."

At this moment, Su Zhou didn't reply immediately.

He was holding two crystal balls in his hand, closing his eyes, extracting the key memories about the first fairy from his mind, and imprinting them on them.

"These are what I have seen and heard, as well as the truth of the ancient gods' era."

After doing this, he handed the two crystal balls to the two old men, and in the solemn gaze of both, he raised his head and looked at the horizon in the rain.

The rolling power of the 3rd Army Group was indeed awe-inspiring, but he smiled: "It is indeed very powerful—in terms of the technology and era of the Aean world, this is already an invincible fleet. On this land, except for the gods themselves taking action, I'm afraid no one can stop their advance."

Holding the crystal ball in his hand, the Pope and the High Priest, who were reading the memory in it, heard this sigh, and thought that Professor Svetozar, like them, felt that they should retreat temporarily, and then discuss joining forces after returning to the headquarters of each force.

But they heard Su Zhou immediately change the subject after praising.

"But in the final analysis, it's just on the land, limited by the era."

Raising his hand, Su Zhou shook his head calmly: "And I have already prepared countermeasures."

"What?"

For the first time, Grandmaster Aiboen didn't understand what Su Zhou meant. He knew that Su Zhou's strength was very strong. It might not be impossible to fight the 3rd Army Group head-on with his own strength, but this posture obviously didn't look like he was going to take action personally.

And the Pope of the Holy Sun Church lowered his head thoughtfully, looking at Xiaoxiao, who was staying by Su Zhou's side, who was now closing her eyes and shedding tears.

Silver Fairy.

Although he couldn't compare to the High Priest of the Light Chasing Order in terms of technology, he, who held the Book of Omniscience, could keenly notice the connection between things.

And as expected, Su Zhou lowered his head and looked at Xiaoxiao beside him.

At this time, Xiaoxiao was not immersed in the memory of the first fairy.

She knew the origin of her era, knew the reason why she was created, and knew why the extinction of the Holy Sun, which had affected her life for 80,000 years, was born.

But none of this could make her cry. The Silver Fairy would not be afraid even in the face of death.

She just suddenly understood why she was sealed again and again, resurrected from one passing era after another, and arrived at the next brand new era.

——The box has been opened several times.

——The message of the first fairy was once opened by the heroes who intended to save the world at the end of each era.

They opened the box, some people paid their lives for all the people of later generations, and a group of people tried their best to continue the world—and there was no doubt that there were her past friends among them, those who hoped that the Silver Fairy could live on.

"Arcana, Isaacson... it's you, you were the strongest in that world,"

"I live in the world you continued..."

Although she was shedding tears, Xiaoxiao gradually straightened up. Although the fairy's figure was petite, she was equally full of spirit when she straightened her body.

She wiped her eyes, her eyes bright.

"This world has a reason to exist." She muttered to herself in a low voice, her tone firm: "The gods betrayed the God Tree. Destruction is the ending they deserve, but how innocent are all living beings? They followed one another, continued the era, and burned themselves, which accumulated into the present of this world."

"Professor Svetozar..." Xiaoxiao raised her head and looked at Su Zhou. The Silver Fairy's voice returned to its clear and cold tone: "You're right."

"This world does not belong to us who exist in this world, but to all things that exist, have existed, and will exist."

"I won't allow anyone who wants to destroy this world!"

Everyone has their own story, and everyone has their own reason for existence.

As long as life still exists, they themselves are their correctness.

Xiaoxiao's 80,000 years of life, 400 years of life, accumulated many encounters and farewells. Her existence itself is the imprint left by many lives—although she herself may not know it, the thoughts lodged in her are so vast.

The entire First Radiance Ruins was built to allow her to exist safely.

The Silver Fairy is a created life. In a sense, she is no different from the Extinction AI of the Void Cult that she once killed.

The fairies created the Silver Fairy in order to find an opportunity to survive the apocalypse, while the Extinction AI was developed in the beginning to protect its creators.

Because of the creator's excessive behavior, the Extinction AI destroyed the race it was supposed to protect, which made it lose its meaning of existence.

And the fairies have long since died out, with only a little bloodline circulating in the bodies of all living beings. The reason why the Silver Fairy was created has disappeared, and Xiaoxiao is essentially a person who lacks meaning.

Originally, Xiaoxiao should have embraced the dusk.

But because of the many encounters and acquaintances, the connection with the people in the many eras who wanted to continue the world, made her gradually have a new reason to exist in the world.

Originally, she just wanted to exist, to remember everyone she had ever met, or to die in an ignorant and unconscious dream.

But now.

She already knew that she was a loved life.

Her existence condenses too many meanings, which cannot be decided by herself alone.

"After everything is over, I want to build a memorial hall."

Xiaoxiao turned her head, she looked at the empty wilderness around her, and said with a smile: "I want everyone to remember the people I still remember. They are all heroes who have done everything to continue the world. I won't allow them to be forgotten, and they must always exist in people's memories."

To be immortal in memory, isn't that also a kind of existence and continuation?

Su Zhou and the Silver Fairy looked at each other, and he nodded with satisfaction.

Meaning is never something that is innate, given by others, or even by the creator and gods.

It is something that needs to be found by oneself, the condensation of one's life's will.

Even if they are derived from the shadows and眷族 of great beings, they all have their own will and desires. For this, they can even rebel against their origins.

"Xiaoxiao."

Su Zhou raised his hand, the corners of his mouth翘起, pointing to the fleet in front: "Now is the time for you to show your skills."

"Remember the transformation we did together on the First Radiance Ship? Remember your hard work during this time? It's the right time, now, let them know what is called the power of cross-era!"

"Of course!"

Xiaoxiao raised her head, the Silver Fairy vibrated her wings and flew towards the First Radiance Ship not far away.

And the Pope of the Holy Sun Church and the High Priest of the Light Chasing Order blinked their eyes, watching this scene somewhat呆滞.

"The First Radiance Ship... isn't it a research ship?"

High Priest Aiboen frowned, his slender white eyebrows twisted into a snake shape: "And it's still a research ship excavated from the ancient era, does this really have combat power?"

The more emotionally intelligent Pope of the Holy Sun Church did not raise technical questions in this regard, but he also had doubts in his heart: "Although Miss Xiaoxiao's strength is also at the Heart Light stage, she obviously has not been exposed to transcendent power before, and she has only been practicing with Professor Svetozar for this past year."

"In this year, what can the Silver Fairy rely on to stop the Third Army Group?"

Their thoughts are very normal. It's better to say that people with normal sanity would think this way.

However, what kind of changes can a time traveler, a powerful time traveler, bring, that can be measured by normal sanity?

That is an incredible miracle!

At this moment, as Xiaoxiao entered the First Radiance Ship, silver-blue streamlined source energy light streams flashed along the crystal veins on the ship's body, conducting to every part of the ship.

Then, it began to roar and deform!

The diamond-shaped warship, which had been personally modified by Su Zhou several times, was now unfolding its new structure hidden under the thick carapace, turrets, light beam condensing crystals, electromagnetic acceleration components... thousands of gun ports appeared on it.

Big is good, more is beautiful. In a short time, the First Radiance Ship transformed from an ordinary research ship that looked harmless into a hideous multi-turret annihilation ship!

And with a clear buzzing sound, the anti-gravity magic circle began to work, causing the entire First Radiance Ship to slowly rise in the astonished eyes of everyone, and fly into the sky.

"Boom!"

Like a thunderous explosion, the source energy engine driven by the Holy Sun Crystal started at full power, and dazzling white light streams began to light up behind and below the warship, thousands of meters long, creating incredible propulsion!

The heavy rain in the sky was burned by the flames, and the clouds were also cut open with a long gap. The dim sunlight fell from it, but it was far less bright than the warship's jet stream.

Su Zhou raised his head and watched this scene.

This is a crystallization of wisdom that far surpasses the Aean world, a technological dimensionality reduction strike that far exceeds this era—this is a spaceship that integrates the Zhuzhou God Tree warship form and the Earth United Space Fleet flagship design.

A true space warship!

The First Radiance Ship, made of perfect metal and personally debugged by Su Zhou, can fly freely even among the stars at this moment. Except for the absence of a sub-space engine, everything is the most standard product of the interstellar era.

Incredible? Where did the超凡者 get the incredibility! The Tiangong practitioners on Earth can hand-craft space fleets, and although Su Zhou's profession is not right, what's so strange about transforming a warship that can already fly and is very advanced into a space warship!

超凡者 are such inconvenient things!

Therefore, the man laughed loudly: "Go, let them see what is called a spaceship of the interstellar era!"

"Let them see what space fleet-level firepower strikes are!"

Xiaoxiao didn't reply, but action is the best reply.

At the core of the warship, the Silver Fairy, who was protected in the very center, chuckled softly. Although she had been practicing hard this year, and her foundation was very good, she was only a year old after all, and her main body's strength was only at the Heart Light stage.

——However, if the power of the entire First Radiance Ship is added, the strength of her warship fairy can advance by leaps and bounds!

Buzzing.

A circle of cyan light streams rose from the outside of the First Radiance Ship suspended in mid-air. The wind-attribute source energy repelled the surrounding atmosphere, forming a vacuum circle around the warship.

Then, Xiaoxiao began to accelerate.

In the incredibly shocked eyes of everyone, the First Radiance Ship turned into a stream of light, tore through the clouds, and disappeared into the sky.

Third Army Group.

The source energy became chaotic.

"Warning, there are signs of natural disaster!"

In the vanguard's detection ship, the shipboard spellcaster roared nervously in the monitoring room. Just now, they detected a source energy hurricane sweeping across the entire northwest wilderness, which even affected the weather in reality, causing the heavy rain to rotate with the storm, forming rain tornadoes in the world.

The airflow rolled up dust and raindrops, swept across one after another, tearing apart the clouds and the atmosphere.

This was an obvious anomaly that would only be caused by the dispatch of an Disaster Realm powerhouse.

"What's going on?"

On the flagship Kingmaker, in the conference room, a young general with flaxen hair raised his head and suspiciously moved his gaze away from the battlefield's map light screen. The staff officer beside him, and the white-haired old general sitting at the conference table, narrowed their eyes and looked forward in unison.

Where did this vision come from?

In the eyes of the Aharonov father and son, the emperor's most trusted generals, silver-blue brilliance was leaping.

They saw a huge shadow flying above the sky, but the rising illusion was not a Heart Light body with the characteristics of a Disaster Realm powerhouse, but a warship.

No, that's not an illusion or a Heart Light body!

That is a real warship!

——But how did such a huge warship fly up?! Everyone was extremely confused.

The answer is interstellar civilization-level anti-gravity magic circles and power engine modification!

"The decision is you, Xiaoxiao!"

After realizing this, before they had time to be shocked or feel a sense of crisis, everyone, including the Pope of the Holy Sun Church and the High Priest of the Light Chasing Order, all members of the Third Army Group, and even everyone in the entire northwest wilderness, heard an instruction that seemed to be laughing.

"Now, use the Fairy Light Cannon!"