Chapter 1 The Overture Great Universe · The Age of Sonic Resonance

The continent of Ylothar, the east coast.

As a member of the Pioneer Space Zhuzhou Fellowship [Justice League], the lawful good legendary fire demon, Baharold, felt excitement the moment he arrived in the new, high-level, unknown universe [The Overture Great Universe].

Why? The answer was that he couldn't understand it at all!

Generally speaking, Pioneer Space explorers are considered knowledgeable and experienced. Even the massive forces spanning many worlds in the multiverse are unlikely to have the same benefits as Pioneer Space, where their combat personnel can run around the entire multiverse, not to mention observe the customs and cultures of the entire multiverse, and see many different and wonderful landscapes.

Therefore, explorers are not easily surprised and can see through many of the seemingly profound settings lurking beneath the 'main storyline' of many worlds at a glance.

For example, a cliché story of a hero fighting a demon king – if an ordinary person came to this world, it would probably take a while, after delving deep into this world, to barely analyze a trace of anomaly.

But Pioneer Space explorers are different. They can easily see the incongruity in the battle between the hero and the demon king's army, and then, from the fact that the demon king hasn't appeared for hundreds of years, and only the demon king's army is wreaking havoc in the peripheral corners of the world, they can roughly deduce that either the 'demon king' doesn't exist, or the form of existence is far different from what they imagined.

A strong person might live in that world for several years without being able to analyze the underlying truth of the world, while a powerful explorer, even if just guessing, can spend three days dissecting the worldview that 'the demon king doesn't exist, it's just a unified means for the countries of order to maintain the great alliance and collect more taxes'.

Of course, that's just a general explorer – if it's a high-level explorer, after a few more days, they can again analyze the even deeper worldview setting that 'although the demon king doesn't exist, the entire world is the egg of a huge void beast, and humans need to develop rapidly by any means to leave this world, otherwise when the void beast awakens, the entire world will explode and be buried with it'!

That's the strength of high-level explorers... many ordinary low-level explorers will be immersed in the first step of the truth and become complacent, but high-level explorers can continuously delve deeper into various mysteries and traps.

The question is.

What about Pioneers?

Pioneers are not ordinary – if it's a Pioneer, after a few more days, they can even understand what kind of void beast laid the egg, and why it laid the egg... it turns out that this void beast encountered an unstoppable powerful enemy and laid the egg to ensure the continuation of its legacy.

Then, they will either lead the civilization of this world to the void together or seal the beast's egg. In short, with their own strength, they will lead the entire civilization to a new, unexplored future.

Of course, Pioneers might open up another line later, such as that this void beast fell in a massive multiverse war, and the newborn civilization was swept into this vast multiverse war along this line, and there are other hidden secrets behind this war...

Exploring the unknown is endless, and if you want to dig, you can always dig something out.

Although Baharold is not a Pioneer, he is also a dignified high-level explorer, having experienced many worlds, encountered many adventures, saved the world no less than five times, defeated corrupt officials no less than ten times, and defeated countless demon kings, giant beasts, and monsters. He is a genuine immortal great demon.

With this strength, this experience, how much of the secrets of the Overture Great Universe can he see?

Not even a fraction! He simply couldn't understand it!

"What the hell is this? Why does this world even have void motherships, and it still looks like the Middle Ages!"

Landing on the east coast of the Itanore continent, the front line where the original forces of the continent and the Atlantis countries are facing off, this friendly fire demon gentleman burning with white holy fire was immediately a little dumbfounded.

Because, above his head, there was a giant regular dodecahedron warship covered in magic crystals, with faint blue magic light flowing through the crystals, suspended at a height of fifteen thousand meters above the ground. The huge warship, with a diameter of over eight kilometers, was spewing out hundreds of steel shuttles and space fighters, patrolling and suppressing every corner of the surrounding area.

Baharold had only seen this kind of scene in some interstellar worlds, and not even every time... Good heavens, in the neighboring village, ordinary people are still wearing linen robes, eating baked bread and pickled fish, and the whole town looks like a Renaissance-era scene. How can there be a space fortress-like aerial mothership floating in the sky?

"At the very least, it should be a floating city, right? What's with the space warship!"

Baharold complained, but there were many more things that needed his complaints.

For one thing, this friendly Holy Light Fire Demon Justice League gentleman turned his head and looked towards the east of the continent, immediately taking a deep breath, making the flames on his body burn even hotter: "World Tree?! Why does this world have this thing?!"

Appearing before him was the East Coast Sacred Tree, originating from the sacred trees of the Atlantis countries. It was a full hundreds of thousands of meters tall, supporting the sky and the earth, and exuding an unparalleled aura of life – thanks to it, the surrounding land and coast were all vibrant forests and fish schools, with all kinds of seaweed, coral, and wonderful creatures existing around it.

Around this giant tree, humans didn't live on the ground but in 'fortresses' in the sky – one could see giant geometric fortresses similar to the aerial motherships circling the giant tree, using the branches of the giant tree as supply points.

Steel, machinery, giant warships, sacred trees, and transcendents living on the floating fortresses, driving melody armor, singing hymns and epics, releasing magic and miracles...

"This is too Zhuzhou!"

Baharold couldn't help but sigh.

This was the exploration he wanted... it had to be a world that looked completely incomprehensible, a setting that was completely incomprehensible, with who knows how many layers of reversals behind it. Only by uncovering such secrets could explorers become stronger!

Moreover, this world was obviously related to Zhuzhou!

The reason why he came to this world today was first out of curiosity, second out of the instinct of an explorer, and third, because of Zhuzhou.

As a member of the Pioneer Space Zhuzhou Fellowship, [Justice League], Baharold had naturally exchanged for Zhuzhou bloodline and installed a [Holy Light Core] for himself.

In addition, he majored in meditative psionics, following the 'Way of Kala' with the goal of understanding and communicating with everyone in the world, abandoning all unnecessary battles, and living in harmony with all living beings.

It sounded very Pioneer Space – a chaotic evil fire demon added holy light to himself, practiced Kala Way psionics, and finally chose to become a Zhuzhou, a genuine Justice League member.

Yes. There were too many mixed things.

But this was actually very normal.

The chaos of demons originated from the soul fragments that shaped their souls, originating from every corner of the multiverse. It was an absolutely disordered crystallization. Many fragments without true spirits recondensed into a true spirit. The conflicts, contradictions, and pain encountered in this process were obvious.

And evil was just something that emerged from the constant pain. No one could understand the chaotic demons. Naturally, such monsters were seen as evil by all living beings.

However, the Way of Kala could allow practitioners who held the same path to understand the conflicts between the many soul fragments in the demons' hearts, coordinate the demons' pain, and if the practitioners were strong enough, they could even guide the demons to the 'right path'.

In short, Baharold came to the Overture Great Universe because he heard that an 'original Zhuzhou' had appeared in this world... Good heavens, who wouldn't want to see the ancestor of their bloodline in this multiverse?

Maybe he could also nitpick at the ancestor, evaluate whether the other party's scales or feathers had problems, so that the other party could innovate and make their appearance look better...

In short, the current situation of the Overture Great Universe did not disappoint Baharold – he was 100% certain that all kinds of inexplicable situations in this universe were all due to the actions of a certain Zhuzhou.

As for himself... as a Holy Light Hermit practicing the Way of Kala, the fire demon believed that this world did indeed have the unknown that he wanted to explore and the opportunities that could make him stronger.

Mutual understanding... sounded very much like empty talk.

But that was because mutual understanding was too difficult, too unrealistic, and almost impossible to achieve, so it was empty talk.

Not because the concept itself was a joke, so people were unwilling to believe it.

But... the Way of Kala could allow all living beings to understand each other.

Although this was not necessarily the right path, that was only for the interstellar races that created this path – a path that others seemed unable to take was a path of redemption for other races.

Even if there was really a problem, then fix it yourself!

Anyway, Baharold was very understanding, gentle and reasonable, and kind to others. These were all virtues brought by the Way of Kala.

Generally speaking, the fastest way for Pioneer explorers to integrate into a new world after arriving in it was to find a job.

Any job was fine, mainly to integrate into the interior of the world, so as to obtain the world's information channels and not be regarded as an outsider.

Therefore, after a brief moment of emotion, this righteous Holy Light Fire Demon, with his superb business skills, powerful strength, and good personal image (looking like a ball of Holy Light fire element), easily received many invitations.

Among them, the vast majority of the invitations came from the 'Atlantis Countries' and the 'Ylothar Continent Alliance'.

These two major forces were the opposing sides in the Age of Sonic Resonance – since the Second Era, after the Light-Dark Alliance unified in the civil war, the Continent Alliance had been fighting against the Atlantis Countries until now.

Without the checks and balances of the gods, the Continent Alliance instead burst out with new vitality, and it stubbornly resisted several offensives from Atlantis. Now the two sides have been at peace for more than seven hundred years, only confronting each other on the border and having some sporadic friction at the border.

Pure force was no longer effective.

But to defeat the other in culture, military, and technology, both sides began to absorb and recruit talents and conduct a cultural and military cold war.

Baharold was not interested in this kind of cold war, mainly because it was too cliché. As a pure Pioneer Space explorer, how could he do such a commonplace main storyline?

More importantly, he could guess all the plots behind this main storyline with his toes, which was very boring.

So he directly declined all the invitations from the two countries and then began to pick among the small forces.

Then, he saw that a small force called the 'Dawnlight Church' was very interested in his 'Way of Kala', which connected all individual wills of the group, thereby perfecting itself and sublimating into a god, and was willing to offer a high price to hire him.

Without a doubt, Baharold agreed – if he didn't agree, someone else who agreed would appear today, in short, this was also fate.

And just as the Holy Light Fire Demon arrived at the headquarters of the Dawnlight Church, the White Day Temple built by the well-known merchant Alan in the center of the continent, this strong man received a human spirit.

After a brief exchange of greetings, the two sides directly began to conduct technical inquiries.

"I am Matthew."

The white-haired human male spirit smiled and shook hands with the Holy Light Demon: "Mr. Baharold from another world, our goal is to connect the minds of everyone on the entire continent and allow everyone to understand and complete each other. Do you think you can undertake this level of work requirements?"

——Are you looking down on me?

Thinking so because of his demonic nature, but because of good moral education, Baharold just smiled confidently: "I am not talented, I once led all the humans in a StarCraft world to form a collective human will, suppressed the Zerg hive, and directly usurped the hive's authority."

"Although the scale is not as large as here on the Ylothar Continent, I have considerable practical experience and am definitely worth the salary."

"On the contrary, you." Saying so, the demon looked at the man in front of him with interest. The man was surrounded by a colorful barrier: "Dare to propose such a grand plan, may I ask how much strength you have, sir?"

In response, the man who had guided the human completion once smiled slightly. Matthew shook his head and said modestly: "I am not talented, I have some experience in connecting human minds, but this time the goal is trillions or even more people on the entire continent. I still need to communicate more with more colleagues."

"Not at all, this is also my honor!"

Human Completion and the Way of Kala met on this land of destiny.

The instruments for playing the overture have begun to be prepared.

And such scenes were happening in every part of the world.

Whether it was the Continent Alliance, the Atlantis Countries, or small forces like the Dawnlight Church that had just been born, they were all absorbing these new possibilities from outside the world as much as possible, the 'variables' that came with countless knowledge and future.

The Pioneer Space explorers descended on this land, just like rainwater being absorbed by the soil, embraced by this world.

The changes they brought to this land and to this world were far beyond the imagination of all the locals, and even themselves.

Exploring the unknown... is pioneering, is being a pioneer.

It is to do 'what no one has ever done', to open up 'fields that no one has ever understood', to carry out 'plans that no one has ever tried'.

It is not necessarily 100% correct, but if you stagnate and do not do these things, then it is 100% wrong.

Just like now.

——Ylothar Continent · Continent Alliance——

A divine oracle that had not appeared for a long time descended, originating from the sky, the order of the Supreme God-King was issued crudely.

[Start a war!]

Under the Alliance Chairman's furrowed brows, the ancient statue of the god manifested a halo, releasing unparalleled pressure: [Now wage war against Atlantis and all other Pioneer Space explorers!]

[Nothing is allowed to be changed, the world must not become more chaotic!]

The God-King issued a crude order: [Do not allow them to have the slightest chance to achieve their plans! That is the prelude to the destruction of the world!]

[Start a war!]