Chapter 140 Rage <TOC> Chapter 142 New Module
Translator: SumTLMan
“Who are you?”
Li Mu’s body tensed up immediately, his right arm muscles tightened, and the surrounding air vibrated, turning into one circle after another of air rings, entwining around his arm.
He had pushed the power of the holy relic to its limit, causing a slight leakage of power, creating such an anomaly, ready to unleash an earth-shattering blow at any time.
“Don’t be nervous, contain your psychic energy. I am your great-grandfather.”
A humanoid phantom emerged from Li Mu’s body and floated in front of him.
He was a middle-aged Xia person, looking tired and bearing a resemblance to Li Mu, but his temperament leaned more towards that of a civil servant.
Li Mu’s gaze sharpened, and he retracted the psychic energy in his arm, but he didn’t let his guard down. It seemed that the Santanu family had participated in betraying and interfering with the Allied Forces, suppressing the Xia people. So, after killing Deshiron Santanu, his body would undergo abnormalities.
“You’re quite impressive, not inheriting my holy relic, but having such strength at the fourth energy level. I just didn’t expect that my descendants, from the lineage of Li Piguang, would only have an affinity for the enhancement system.”
Li Piguang sighed, and even though Li Mu was a genuine genius in the age of heroes and calamities, he still couldn’t reverse humanity’s fate of heading towards the end.
“It’s temporarily safe here, I don’t have much time, so listen to me quietly.”
His figure was not stable, like a disturbed television signal.
“During the Intervention Alliance period, I was responsible for the entire alliance’s logistics. Most of the food, salt, water, and fuel needed by the Intervention Army, as well as some spare parts and light weapons, were all supplied by me alone.”
Li Piguang recalled the past with a look of nostalgia.
However, Li Mu, who was listening by the side, felt his heartstrings tighten, and his heartbeat accelerated violently.
“There was once a famous paradox, that with the vastness of the universe, and billions of stars within the Milky Way alone, humans should not be so lonely. There should be planets that evolve advanced intelligent life among the numerous stars older than the sun. However, no evidence of colonization and exploration was recognized.”
“It wasn’t until later that humans discovered that the Olden Day Rulers acted as the Great Filter. Whenever a civilization developed to a certain level, the Olden Day Rulers would be attracted to the source essence clusters born in the Source Ocean.”
“Before the Great Catastrophe, humans had killed two Olden Day Rulers and achieved great victory. One of them was named Lethonave and was called the Mother of Devouring Darkness by her descenders. This Olden Day Ruler was regarded by her descenders as the creator and destroyer of the world, possessing the ability to create everything.”
Li Piguang said, at that time he was just a low-level awakener. Due to his rare affinity for the manifestation system, he was able to participate in that mysterious and grand plan.
“In the memory of the Psychic Mother of Devouring Darkness, the Olden Day Rulers have destroyed countless civilizations and enslaved countless intelligent beings. There have been civilizations like humans who have risen up in rebellion, but in the end, only a few survivors remained, struggling to survive as descenders.”
“The holy relic, which humans rely on to fight against descenders, is nothing but bait set by the Olden Day Rulers. High-energy level awakeners are constantly tempted by the Olden Day Rulers, either falling into descenders or completely succumbing to madness.”
“There have been civilizations that have far surpassed humans in the research and utilization of the holy relic and psychic power, but their ultimate fate was to become the breeding grounds for the Olden Day Rulers. Those powerful high-energy level awakeners were nothing more than livestock.”
“The luckiest thing for humans is that they used nuclear power earlier than most civilizations, killing two overambitious Olden Day Rulers. Someone proposed, why not create an Olden Day Ruler belonging to humans, using her holy relic to strengthen humans and resist descenders?”
“This plan was quickly approved and became a great success. The newly born Olden Day Ruler was called Mother of the Great Void, meaning the mother of the source world.
Humans directly used her power to create a world called the Exile Realm, a place of hope for the future.
To control the Mother of the Great Void, more than a dozen first-level psychic awakeners cooperated to construct a huge dreamland. With the completion of the dreamland, millions of volunteers entered it.
The dreamland almost entirely recreated human society before descenders appeared. The volunteers lost their memories of reality in the dreamland, indistinguishable from ordinary dreamland humans. However, their wills were implanted with a steel seal, making them uncontrollably addicted to a game called the Exile Realm.
This was a prayer ritual designed by humans for the Mother of the Great Void. If the rituals discovered in the memory of the Mother of Devouring Darkness were used, the Mother of the Great Void would soon give birth to a new will and continuously try to break free from human control.
Using such a prayer ritual could subtly transform the Mother of the Great Void into something akin to a program, allowing humans to modify and adjust it at will.
The last means of control was to instantly kill all the volunteers in the dreamland, causing the Mother of the Great Void to lose all her followers.
All the volunteers had written their wills before joining the plan.”
“The holy relic created by the Mother of the Great Void was called the Divine Ability. My task at that time was to use my own concrete psychic power to guide the power of the Mother of the Great Void, creating Divine Abilities and enhancing the strength of the awakeners. There were hundreds of awakeners like me. Among them were high-energy level awakeners, who were responsible for reproducing the weapons and technologies of ancient civilizations found in the memory of the Mother of Devouring Darkness.”
“They were just ordinary game props in the dreamland, but they really existed in the Exile Realm and could be directly brought into reality.”
“This was an absolute secret among humans, and only the most trusted awakeners could enter the Exile Realm to enhance their power. But in the end, the existence of the Exile Realm was still leaked, and four Olden Day Rulers directly located the Exile Realm and led their descenders to directly tear the Exile Realm apart.”
“Even if humans tried their best, they still only managed to snatch a dozen fragments. The rest were either taken away by the Olden Day Rulers or disappeared without a trace.”
Li Piguang still couldn’t help but tremble when he remembered the tragic battle at that time.
“As one of the survivors at that time, I was fortunate enough to be assigned the right to use one of the fragments and took on logistical duties, following the Intervention Army to the Xindu Federation.”
“After realizing that the chances of returning to Great Xia were slim, the Intervention Alliance chose to be semi-independent from the Xindu Federation and accepted limited reorganization. The 37th Mechanized Brigade was one of the products of this reorganization, entirely composed of Great Xia people, with the Xindu Federation providing logistics support.”
“During the 57th tragedy, our Great Xia-formed 37th Mechanized Brigade was subjected to a shameful betrayal. At that time, I was attacked by a joint force of five Xindu and descenders. Although I managed to eliminate three of them, I also suffered incurable severe injuries.”
Li Piguang said.
“The most precious treasure of the entire Intervention coalition was in my hands, and I couldn’t let it be lost under my watch. So I exhausted my remaining psychic power, engraved my will into your grandfather’s bloodline, and set the conditions for awakening. Only by killing those disgraceful traitors who transformed into the descenders would one have the qualification to inherit this fragment.”