Chapter 104 The ring was taken away!
As Zaclan predicted, the High Priest failed.
His body turned into a cloud of dust, leaving no trace.
Humans have made some "patches" to the Void, and the normal use of the Void's power and the signing of contracts with the Void's existence have not been affected.
But it will become extremely difficult to directly "enter" or even "control" the virtual environment.
The high priest didn't know these things. Before he died, he was still thinking about the meaning of the string of "oracles" he saw.
He could vaguely feel what the "oracle" would be like when this happened, but he would rather not believe it.
In the end, he died with fanaticism.
He put on the biggest firework show in the galaxy with a long-surviving ancient civilization and all its vassals.
It took a long time for other civilizations to even realize that there was a lost empire swept into the dustbin of history.
"The Ring" seems to have been waiting for this moment for a long time, and it is finally able to collect a wave of debts with the size of a galaxy.
This time, it believed that even the guy who stopped it before could not stop it.
The "circle" formed by the entire civilization of the "Watcher" has shocked all civilizations, including the "far traveler" who is about to watch a joke.
They didn't expect such a big mysterious circle to be created after their old opponent was "liquidated".
After reaching this point, they felt that their fleet was powerless. If this "circle" came to the door, they could only flee in a hurry as before, and escape to a farther place.
And those young civilizations were quickly shrouded in an atmosphere of despair.
"...This time, is it the 'end' of the galaxy?" They also saw the huge ring that seemed to be invisible at a glance through their own observation methods.
At this moment, they feel that they are so weak, and when facing these crises, they are no different from "stinky fish and rotten shrimp".
But Zaklan, who was hiding on a certain planet, was not infected by despair. Instead, he gathered all the believers and said to them:
"...the time has come when the galaxy needs us. The 'Apocalypse' left this world behind, and we cannot fail to live up to their teachings. Now that our compatriots have made mistakes, we survivors must atone for their sins, even to the last man! "
Along with his speech, many spaceships suddenly appeared in the galaxy where he lived in seclusion, and more and more.
These are the warships brought by those believers who are willing to follow him. Their number may not be many compared with the lost empire, but they are all firm believers.
They are truly fighting for their beliefs, even if they sacrifice their lives, they will never regret it, and their enemy is the evil **** "circle" that has bewitched their compatriots.
Subsequently, Zakran issued his oath to the entire galaxy:
"I am Zachlan, a man who tried to lead the faithful to escape from the 'reckoning'! Our civilization has been destroyed, but we will not deny the guilt! Now is the holy time, we will leave the past All cowardice and depravity, use the 'circle' to verify our faith!"
All civilizations have received this news. In the star map, they saw a force led by Zaklan and claiming to be the "Last Watcher" near the border of the extinct "Watcher".
Their fleet is the same as the "Watcher", but full of traces of old battles. These are scarred warriors, believers who have fought for their faith through a long time.
Even though the "Watchmen" have dissipated in the star sea and their civilization has fallen into the long river of history, these unswerving faith fighters are still called together by Zachlan to attack the "Ring".
Perhaps at any time, there will always be such a group of people who can respond to Zaklan's call.
The moment they appeared, they made a leap to the place where the "circle" was, the former home galaxy of the "Watcher" - the "Throne of Heaven".
However, the transition failed, and the ring large enough to cover the galaxy seemed to have some kind of power that could interfere with the transition, just like the "superluminal suppressor" commonly used by the Lost Empire.
Violent psionic storms raged across the entire galaxy, and even the gas giant planets were blown away with a ring of atmosphere. Perhaps it was because of this large enough psionic storm that the jump engine could not form the "consistent time and space" required for teleportation. ".
However, after the failure of the transition, the last "Watcher" fleet did not stop moving forward, and directly jumped to the galaxy near the "ring", and then used the most basic super-light speed method - hyperspace navigation, towards the "ring" advance.
Even the "circle" cannot block this "hyperspace channel", because this is the foundation of the birth of the interstellar civilization in the galaxy.
Other civilizations also witnessed this scene, but most of them were silent. After all, the "Watcher" did bring an "end" that was difficult to solve.
Then they turned all their attention to the "Mechanical Lost Empire" in the corner of the galaxy, praying and expecting its response.
Finally, when the last "Watcher" fleet was about to approach the entrance of the hyperspace channel, the "Mechanical Lost Empire" finally responded to this crisis.
The familiar powerful signal instantly covered the entire galaxy, and then all civilizations heard the familiar mechanical sound:
【...It is detected that the "End of Reincarnation" has occurred, and the "Guardianship Agreement" has been activated】
【War policy is being implemented. Target: Circle; Attitude: Purification]
【Remarks are as follows: Please do not approach the "Ancient Land of Heaven" galaxy】
The mechanical sound is as cold as ever, but it is like the sound of nature in everyone's ears. They hope that this time the "Guardian" will be able to solve the "ring" as destructively as before.
Zaklan also hesitated for a while under the influence of this signal, and then stopped the fleet at the entrance of the hyperspace channel.
It's not that I'm greedy for life and afraid of death, but I'm afraid of being delayed. But if the "Guardians" are also incapable, they will go in and fight to the last moment.
But the familiar transition fluctuations did not come, and no fleet jumped to the vicinity of the galaxy where the "ring" was located following the announcement of the "Guardian".
Logically speaking, it is only right to enter through the hyperspace channel like him, but the "Guardian" did not have a fleet to come.
At this moment, he imagined many possibilities.
For example, is it because this "mechanical intelligence" has actually fallen into an endless loop, and has been repeating the instructions of "jump, can't jump, jump...".
The seemingly improbable little things are the most likely to happen after a long period of loss.
But soon he realized where he was wrong.
There is no transition wave, but there is another special wave that is being continuously detected by various civilizations.
This kind of fluctuating signal seems to be in a special space state and can be detected, but in fact there is nothing in the source of the signal.
The signal comes and goes quickly, but through the constantly changing signal direction, all civilizations have discovered that the target of this signal is the "ring"!
"...is this... subspace signal?" Some cutting-edge scientists speculated about the source of this signal.
Although these civilizations all have theories related to "subspace", in fact, no one has actually proved the existence of this area.
At this time, this strange and special signal from this source made some sensitive scientists even forget the threat of the "ring", and began to think about "what" was moving through some unknown methods.
And just when the "circle" was about to drag its huge body away, that strange signal arrived near this galaxy.
A small black curtain appeared over the galaxy.
At first, some people didn’t notice this little shady scene. After all, compared with the size of the “circle”, this little shady scene is really hard to attract attention.
However, many careful observers discovered this dark scene, and quickly detected that it was a "holographic projection".
Although this holographic projection seems to be some kind of creation, what can a "projection" do?
The civilizations are still wondering, and the scientists are also speculating, but someone immediately exclaimed:
"The 'Ring'...is disappearing!"
But I saw that the huge ring that seemed to be the incarnation of the virtual world, with the size of a galaxy, was missing a piece, and the smooth section was still spreading along the gap.
In just a short while, this galaxy-sized ring lost more than half of its body, and the speed of this disappearance even far exceeded the speed of light.
The "circle" seems to have also found an abnormality, and is constantly struggling. The remaining rings are flickering, as if they are about to disappear in this universe.
But the mysterious projection didn't give it such a chance, the speed of disappearing suddenly accelerated, and directly made the entire circle lose its trace.
After that, the projection disappeared without a trace, as if nothing happened.
But at this time in the Milky Way, the huge spiritual energy fluctuations that threatened the entire galaxy's "circle" seemed to be gone.
Most civilizations have not yet recovered from their senses, and their intuition tells them that it is the "guardian" who moved the hands. If they say to clean the ring, they will clean the ring, no matter how big the ring is.
But what they care more about is how the "Guardian" did it? This has gone beyond their understanding of the "Lost Empire".
Zakran also witnessed the whole process inconceivably. From this point of view, this so-called "Guardian" lost empire is much more powerful than his former civilization - "Watcher", as if it shouldn't exist in this galaxy civilization.
The "far traveler" is also very difficult to accept. They originally thought that they had already stood at the top. As long as they eliminated their old opponents, no one would be able to stop them.
But this scene shattered their illusions, and even made them have to suspend the "special megastructure project" that had been built on the home star.
Because they realize that the behavior they are going to carry out will definitely be "purged".
And they are far from the opponents of this "guardian".
"What is the origin of this omnic civilization?" Zaclan and many scientists inside "Farwalker" are making the same guess.
However, "Observer" and "Silencer" still did not move.
These two lost empires still maintain a noble posture, dismissive of galactic events.
The "Observers" focused on several of their newly discovered unique species, while the "Silent Ones" did not know about foreign affairs at all.
Now they don't even know that there is an "out-of-standard" civilization in the galaxy.
It's just that after guessing, the Milky Way broke out with extremely high cheers.
Once again, they narrowly survived the galactic crisis, and their understanding of the galaxy has grown deeper.
They understand that it is their luck to have a powerful lost empire willing to stand at the forefront to provide protection.
If this "big umbrella" is broken, then their ending will be predictable.
So these civilizations have reached a consensus: maybe they need to build a large community that can carry everyone.
They can put contradictions and alliances on the table, use less drastic means to resolve frictions, and make progress together.
Even though this will be a very long process, the prototype of this "community" may be prepared and even established now.
Sooner or later, they will also be able to achieve a certain degree of unity, at least when facing the threat of the entire galaxy, they will be able to quickly connect as a whole and jointly defend against the enemy.
And all of this is due to someone who took the "threat" away.
(end of this chapter)