Just as Hao Ren was immersed in his thoughts, Lady Gloom's voice pulled him back to reality.
"System self-test passed. The ship is now in initial mode."
"Phew … So the last part of the prison system has been reset." Hao Ren let out a long sigh and looked at the Lord of Lords, Loken. "Then all we need to do is issue a preset command set from Asurmen, and we can cancel all the divine power shielding in Collow and phase concealment within 20,000 light-years?"
"Exactly. Do we need to cancel it now?" The Lord of Lords, Loken nodded. "The whole process will take a few hours. Just leave it to us. You can use this time to meet our last partner, the captain of Asurmen, at the will hub."
Lily snapped out of her daze. "Huh? Where's the captain of this ship? "
"Of course, a ship has a captain." Vivian glared at the big dog. In fact, she did not expect that there was a captain hidden in Asurmen, and he had not shown up until now. But she had to refute what the big dog said, so as long as Lily opened her mouth, she would definitely fight back. After that, she looked at Lily, puzzled. "Have you figured out what the Doggoblast was all about?"
"I'm analyzing it. Don't interrupt me." Lily waved her hand, indicating that she had everything under control. "What is a Doggoblast? I'm the leader of a race. Can't you show some respect? I've named that move the Sky Splitting Roar! "
"You're so pretentious. Such a long name would kill you 800 times on the battlefield. Let's call it Doggoblast. Am I right, Hao Ren? "
Hao Ren did not have the time to listen to the quarrel between the two, nor did he pay attention to what they were talking about. He just waved his hand and said, "Doggoblast it is. Lady Gloom, take us to the will hub. We want to talk to the supreme ruler of Asurmen. "
Though Lady Gloom was the chief AI of Asurmen, Hao Ren knew from the beginning that she was not the real top administrator of the spaceship. Lady Gloom and the gatekeeper were similar to Nolan. She would only take over control when the captain could not control the spaceship for some reason. The real captain of Asurmen had been sleeping in the core of the spaceship. Since Lockmarton broke free from control 10,000 years ago, Collow was divided into two worlds, and Asurmen became the gate that blocked the passage to the old world. The captain had fallen into a long period of dormancy to maintain the core of the spaceship. It was not until Asurmen was freed from this long mission that he regained consciousness.
This was the first time Hao Ren and his party had met him.
Under Lady Gloom's lead, they teleported into the core cloister of Asurmen and went along the cloister to the crystal hall where the will hub was located. Lady Gloom was as silent as ever. It seemed that even the death of Lockmarton did not affect her. But when they were about to reach the hall, she looked up at Hao Ren and said, "Thank you. You have saved a civilization."
"I thought you had no feelings for the secular civilization of Collow," Hao Ren said with a smile.
"Every civilization is valuable, and so is every race. I used to not understand this, but after years of traveling and observing in the human world, I learned that my mission is not as simple as guarding a prison, but the meaning of guarding this prison."
As soon as Lady Gloom's voice trailed off, the gate of the will hub appeared in front of them. Hao Ren was surprised to see another glowing female figure in front of the gate. "Gatekeeper? You are alive? "
"I used the backup to complete the data reorganization," the gatekeeper replied emotionlessly. "Then I used the memory of No.2 to complete the memory bank, and now I am back at work."
"That's good." Hao Ren nodded. As the strange triangular crystal gate opened silently, he led everyone into the special cabin called the will hub.
This was a pyramid-shaped hall that was the same shape as the other cabins in the spaceship. The floor and walls were completely formed by various crystals. Various crystal clusters of various sizes grew in every corner of the hall. The crystal clusters were flowing with a mysterious glow, and all of these lights flowed and converged in the center of the room. There, a large, irregularly shaped crystal stood quietly. The crystal was crystal clear, almost completely transparent, and one could clearly see the contents inside.
A cluster of light that looked like a solidified cloud floated in the center of the crystal. Within the cluster of light, one could see spots of light that resembled the starry sky of the universe. When one looked at the cluster of light, it was as if there were countless people whispering in one's mind, describing all kinds of obscure and mysterious knowledge.
Hao Ren had all kinds of speculations about the captain of Asurmen. After hearing about the captain's hibernation and seemingly integrated state with the spacecraft, he had also speculated about the life form of the captain. But this time, he could not help but exclaim, "The Denizens of the Stars?!"
The captain of the Asurmen was a Denizen of the Stars? A living, symbiotic Denizen of the Stars?!
This race had been missing in the Plane of Dreams for 10,000 years. Even before they disappeared, they were elusive and rarely seen. But one of them had appeared here, and it was one of the wardens of Collow Prison. He had participated in the goddess of creation's plan to suppress Lockmarton, and had been suppressed here for many years!
The moment he saw the Denizen of the Stars, a lot of information flashed in Hao Ren's mind. He had all kinds of conjectures about the Denizens of the Stars in the past, the activities of the Denizens of the Stars after the fall of the goddess of creation, the extraordinary understanding of the goddess of creation and her creation, and the mysterious situation where they were always hidden in the dark.
What kind of relationship did they have with the goddess of creation?
In Lockmarton's early memory, the first life in the Plane of Dreams that the goddess of creation came into contact with should be these Denizens of the Stars. At that time, these mysterious races lived in the desolate "star graveyard." But because Lockmarton's soul was broken and his memory was distorted, Hao Ren could only see limited images from the illusion, and many of them were not real at all. They came from the memory of a crazy demigod, and Hao Ren certainly did not dare to believe all of them.
Just as these thoughts came to his mind, Hao Ren suddenly heard a gentle voice in his mind.
"Hello, the bearer of the divine blood."
Hao Ren was stunned. "The bearer of the divine blood?"
"When you first visited this ship, I sensed it. It's on your right hand, the bloodstain of that god," the gentle voice said slowly. "Her blood has appeared here. Fate is truly an elusive thing."
"I have a lot of questions," Hao Ren said solemnly.
"I also have a lot of questions," the gentle voice said. "But first, I need to be sure of one thing. Where are you from?"
Hao Ren had answered this question many times, but he was not impatient. "I come from another universe, where another god rules. I think Lady Gloom should have told you these things."
"Is that so?" Asurmen's voice was noncommittal as if it had a different opinion, but in the end, it did not say much. "You have proven yourself with your actions. I think you can be trusted. Ask away. I hope you will get the answer you want."
"Did the goddess of creation send you to guard Collow? What is your relationship with the goddess of creation? "
"She ended the madness and darkness of the primitive era of the universe and ushered in an era of order and peace. Our entire race is indebted to her," Asurmen said quietly. It did not seem to have emotional fluctuations that humans could understand. "So the denizens of the stars surrendered to her and volunteered to be her jailers and sentinels in the darkness. Even if the era changes and history is sealed, our mission will never end."
"After I destroyed Lockmarton, I read his early memories and saw how the goddess of creation found you. But those memories are fragmented and messy, especially the process of Lockmarton's own fall, which has been completely stripped away by the forces of Chaos. Do you know how Lockmarton fell? Did he come into contact with a primitive will of madness and darkness? We call this primitive will the Mad Lord. I don't know if it has the same meaning as the madness and darkness of the primitive era of the universe that you mentioned. "
"The Mad Lord …" Asurmen's voice paused. Even he seemed to be subconsciously vigilant and avoided mentioning the name. "I haven't heard anyone call this name for a long time. The name itself is a curse of power. Any race in the universe will use this name to refer to the primitive power of madness. I am sure that you and I are talking about the same thing. To answer your question, I have to start from the beginning, from the earliest state of the universe, so that you can understand what happened back then. "
After a few seconds, when Hao Ren and the others were ready, Asurmen continued, "At the beginning of the universe, before the arrival of the goddess of creation, the Mad Lord was the master of all things. It was born from the initial tide of energy, blind and stupid. Though irrational, it relied on its primitive instincts to influence the operation of the entire universe. Under its influence, the entire universe was in a state of extreme chaos and danger. At that time, the dangers of the world were far beyond your imagination.
"Stars collapsed and were reborn irregularly. Various celestial systems could collapse at any time. There was no absolute peace in everything. Under the gaze of the Mad Lord, everything was in a state of destruction at any time. Only those completely extinguished stars and barren and cold galaxies were relatively safe. But they were also shrouded in the shadow of random destruction at any time.
"The first life forms appeared and survived in such an environment. The Denizens of the Stars, Entropy Demons, Star Remains, Negative-Energy Walkers, Shadowbeasts, and a whole bunch of other lifeforms that you might think are unimaginable, lifeforms that are almost impossible to be born in a normal universe, appeared in the aftermath of the Mad Lord's energy and struggled to survive.
"We, the creatures from the ancient times, are actually an extension of the Mad Lord," Asurmen said.
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