Glory class warship … I think I've heard that term before.
At its peak, the Xi Ling Empire was able to build a battleship the size of a planet. This was not something unimaginable. The things they built were always famous for being big, but as a planetary-sized battleship, "Glory" had a unique characteristic. Because it was not built, but … imagined.
That was a unique ability of the Commander-level Xi Ling Apostles. Relying on their powerful spiritual power and understanding of the world, by avoiding the correction of the world's laws, they could forcibly materialize a huge celestial battleship or something in the material world. This sounded so fantastical that it was unimaginable. Of course, there was no such thing as a free lunch in the world. The difficulty of conjuring such a heaven-defying thing was far beyond one's imagination. Even a Xi Ling Apostle like Pandora, who was born to attack, would probably need more than a month to materialize a Golden-class battleship. However, a battleship that could act as a mother planet and was almost indestructible, even if it took a month to build, was really worth it.
When developed to the extreme, the boundaries between science and magic would become increasingly blurred, and in their respective ultimate domains, the two would merge into one. The Glory class warship was one of the embodiments of this concept. It may be a machine, but it was created through a method similar to 'summoning magic'. When it reached the level of the Origin of Laws, there was no meaning in distinguishing between science and magic.
Although it was called a Glory class warship, it could no longer be simply categorized as a 'warship'. It was actually the physical form of the Commander-class Shiring Apostles' spiritual power, and also the manifestation of the pinnacle of the Schilling Empire's individual power. Apart from the gods, only the Shiring Apostles could use science to explain mysteries and use mysteries to explain science. Since it involved the destruction and creation of Laws, the Glory class warship was fundamentally different from the so-called 'materialization of fantasies'. Once it was created, it would become a tangible existence. No matter how bizarre and bizarre it was, even if it had attributes that did not conform to the current laws of the world, the Glory class warship could not be erased. It would become a real part of the 'world', even if the laws of the entire world had to be modified because of the Glory class warship.
For example, if Alaya projected his Glory Class Battleship in a world of pure technology without a trace of magic power, then that world would instantly produce magic elements and even produce a complete magic system. This was the heaven-defying aspect of the power of the Laws.
However, even though it was powerful, "Glory" wasn't that easy to use. First of all, building an astral fortress would require a terrifying amount of spiritual power and other consumptions. Going against the laws of the world was an extremely risky thing to do. Even the Commander-class Shiring Apostles would rarely be able to do such a thing. Even the Shiring Apostles who could create a Glory class planet fortress were extremely rare in the entire Empire. The second limitation was even worse. Just like how every person's brainwaves were unique, the Glory class warship, which was the physical manifestation of the Shiring Apostles' spiritual power, also had its uniqueness. Every Shiring Apostles who had the ability to create a Glory class warship could only create one Astral Fortress in their entire lifetime. But even just one was enough to defy the heavens …
Just like the Visca's Barrier Star, the inside of it was basically a highly developed military planet! Could such a thing really be called a "warship"?
From a practical point of view, a 'Glory' grade planetary fortress was similar to a nuclear weapon. To humans, it was good enough that it could be used as a strategic deterrent. Normally, no one would casually drive this planet into a war. However, if they were to use it … it would be a war of annihilation.
"Our moon …" After Sandora explained about the Glory class warship, Shallow Shallow's mouth twitched. "It's actually an alien spaceship?"
"Although it's a little inaccurate to put it that way, there's nothing wrong with understanding it that way."
"In other words, Earth only had satellites for 770,000 years?" Big Sis was thinking a little deeper. "Earth didn't have satellites 770,000 years ago? And the moon was actually brought by Visca? "
"No," Visca shook his head. "Earth originally had a moon!"
I exchanged glances with Qian Qian, who was dumbfounded. Then, we asked in unison, "Where is the original moon?"
"I blew it up!"
Visca answered cheerfully.
A bolt of lightning from a clear sky — I'm definitely not exaggerating, there really was a bolt of lightning from a clear sky. I don't know which energy pipe was in disrepair, but it almost blew me up!
"You … blew it up?" Even someone as steady as Big Sis looked like she was about to collapse. "You're saying that you blew up Earth's original moon and replaced it with your own planet fortress? You even added a moon shell on top of the planet fortress as a disguise? "
Visca nodded vigorously.
After all this time, the Shiring Apostles that came to Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago … were Visca's men!?
They even blew up Earth's original moon …
But everyone knew that this part of history was not as simple as Visca made it out to be. Looking at the Schilling ruins all over Earth, thinking about the Espers with the blood of the 'gods', and the place we were staying at, Visca's Barrier Star that was pretending to be the moon, such a huge commotion was definitely not the result of a simple outing. And if even the planet fortress was used, I really couldn't imagine what Visca was doing back then … Could he really have colonized this place?
Knowing that it would take at least a day or two to explain everything clearly, Sandora decisively diverted everyone's attention. "Alright, we'll discuss this later. Now let's talk about where Artemis might be hiding. Visca, since this is a planetary warship you created, you should be the most familiar with its structure. Can you guess the teleportation destination of the astrolabe?"
Seeing that we had no intention of delving deeper, Visca visibly heaved a sigh of relief. He then spread his hands slightly and formed a clear three-way projection in the air. Looking at the structure, it was a cross-section of a planet fortress.
"Our current location is here."
Visca raised his right hand and moved it on the three-dimensional image, enlarging a part of it. The complex structure that was originally unclear suddenly became clear. From the projection, it could be seen that it was a rather loose building community, which was very different from the other areas. "Lavalon isolation section, this is the production area for all kinds of small and medium-sized warships and fighters.
Because of the particularity of war vehicles, the buildings here are quite loosely distributed, just like what we see now, "Visca said, drawing a bright path on the projection with his finger." If we follow this path, we can enter the second-level cabin area, which is the production and storage area for soldiers and weapons. Along the way, we can also avoid most of the Realm Towers and mobile troops. Although they were destroyed when I left, after 700,000 years, it is difficult to guarantee that this fortress has not produced new defense forces. It is always better to be careful. The most likely place for Artemis to hide is here, near the moon's core, which is the control center and energy regulation center of the entire astral fortress. We must get there as soon as possible. Although the fortress is currently in a dormant state, it does not lack energy. There is a main control console in the moon's core that can wake up the psionic well and the entire fortress. That human is very likely to activate it by coincidence. Even I don't know what automatic reaction the starship will take at that time. "
Sandora nodded in agreement. "For the fragile creatures of Earth, any small change on the moon will cause a devastating blow to the entire ecosystem, not to mention the entire moon suddenly turning into a spaceship and running away."
As a fragile Earthling, I was under a lot of pressure.
"Visca, no matter what, this is your territory, right? Don't you have a remote control function or something? "
I roughly organized a few areas within this planet's fortress, and then I suddenly asked out of curiosity. Logically speaking, an ultimate fortress created by an apostle like 'Glory' shouldn't have a problem with the authority of command falling to someone else, right? Could it be that Visca … Ugh, thinking about it this way, she threw her Glory starship to the Earthlings to be used for YY, while she ran to another world to become a demon king. That would be very suspicious …
"Right now, the command of this planet's battleship is empty." As expected, Visca could only shake her head and smile bitterly in response to my question. "Even though I have the right to seize it first, that will have to wait until I return to the core of the fortress. Un, also, if we were to head to the control center, it would be best to use the spaceships in the fortress. That way, we shouldn't attract the attention of the patrolling troops."
It was extremely easy for half a dozen Commander-level Shiring Apostles to seize a spaceship. In less than three minutes, Visca and Pandora worked together to take down a modified assault spaceship called 'Elegy' that was hovering above us. The quality of the Xiling Empire's items was really high. This thing had probably hovered in the air for more than 700,000 years. Look at the handbrake, the accelerator, the gear, hehe, it's even automatic …
Why was it that even a 1.2m tall lass could do it, but I couldn't learn it no matter what!
Looking at how easily Visca started up the assault spaceship, which was famous for its difficulty in controlling, I couldn't help but tear up.
It could be said that this journey was more daunting than dangerous. Even though there were huge sentry towers and strategic cores floating all over the moon fortress, they were like silent statues that didn't react to the assault airship's appearance at all. It was as if we were passing through a still painting, surrounded by strange towers and battleships.
In reality, such a large space was just a cabin in Visca's Star Barrier that was used to park spaceships.
When we passed through the door of the isolation cabin, we were shocked once again.
The ridiculously large mechanical structure, the energy "pipelines" that had a radius of at least a hundred meters, the airflow "holes" that were like tunnels in a mountain, and the "spaceship tunnel" that seemed to be as vast as the earth — such a shocking scene appeared in our vision. The pressure from the gigantic mechanical structure even made it hard for me to breathe.
This was the miracle that could be created by the combination of technology and mysterious powers. If this intergalactic battleship, which was undefeatable in the mortal world, wanted to destroy a basic civilization like the humans, it wouldn't even need to use any weapons. As long as this ultimate fortress's thrusters were activated, the entire continent would be torn apart by the gravitational tides. No matter how powerful an alien civilization was, it was likely that they wouldn't be able to resist against any of the fleets parked here. I really didn't dare to imagine just how ridiculous the firepower of such a planet-sized battleship would be.
And this wasn't even the strongest destructive machine that the Schilling civilization had ever created. It was the manifestation of the Shiring Apostles' peak individual power. However, the peak of individual power had its limits. The Xiling Empire's true strength lay in their almost paranoid unity and extreme sense of purpose. From this, it could be seen that humans really should feel inferior …
However, even such a glorious civilization had declined. Thinking about the remaining Imperial Army troops that were gathered around me, even though they were all elite soldiers, their power was probably less than one-thousandth of the iron hooves of the Empire in the past due to their incomplete equipment and basic technology.
"Course correction, 3.3 degrees to the left." Visca analyzed the various information gathered by the probes as he corrected the direction of the ship. "This is the energy transmission tube of the starship's third thruster. It's the path on the right side of the cabin wall … Big Brother, that's not a mountain range … Hmm, judging from the numbers, there seems to be a large radiation leak. It would take quite some effort to fix it … Hmm, in front of us is the location of the energy shield generator and the psionic buffer module. It seems that both of them have malfunctioned. I'm afraid that their maximum output is only 10%. How terrible …"
I rolled my eyes as I listened on the side. You threw your spaceship into Earth's orbit and let it be bombarded by meteorites for over seven hundred thousand years without any maintenance. You should be thanking the heavens that this thing is still functional!
In the end, we safely arrived at the core of the starship, which was the control center that Visca had mentioned. It was a metal sphere that was floating in midair with a radius of a few kilometers.
"It's so smooth. There isn't even a door?"
Looking at the shiny silver-white sphere in front of me, I asked this question.
Visca didn't answer. He drove the assault ship directly towards the surface of the metal sphere.
A chaotic flash of silver light flashed before us, and we found ourselves in a small garage.
After the assault ship stopped, Visca turned around and explained to us, "The conceptual barrier is an illusory reality. To unauthorized intruders, it is an impenetrable barrier. However, to those who have the right of passage, it is merely an illusion."
"I've said it before. Starship Glory isn't just made up of technology." Sandora smiled and opened the cabin door.
Along the way, Shallow Shallow, Sis, and I couldn't take it all in with our eyes. The scenery inside the battleship was far beyond our imagination. I couldn't help but imagine the possibility of shooting a sci-fi movie here and destroying Hollywood and Bollywood …
Pandora first scanned the surroundings. After confirming that there were no ambushers, she relaxed. Then, she spread her arms, and her eyes and hair instantly transformed into a purplish-red battle form. Following that, countless energy ripples appeared in the air around us. Groups of Terminators armed to the back of their molars swarmed out of the battleship one after another.
Our expressions were calm. To Pandora, it was normal for her to come out of the sea, land, or air at any time …
Visca shared the precise route map of the control center with every soldier's thinking circuit. Within a minute, hundreds of well-trained elite soldiers disappeared from our sight and began to split up to search the complex fortress core. Meanwhile, we headed towards the central control room.
Regardless of whether we could find Artemis or not, we at least had to ensure that Visca could regain control of the entire battleship as soon as possible. That way, we wouldn't have any doubts about the initiative.
Schilling's soldiers moved rather quickly. With Visca providing us with the most detailed route map, the entire search process went rather smoothly. In the shared information that was continuously refreshed in our minds, the spherical space that represented the control center was divided into hundreds of areas. Currently, they were constantly being marked with "Normal" green marks. Unfortunately, in this SSS-level security zone, most radars would be blocked, including life detection devices. We could only resort to this clumsy method of carpet searching.
While these highly effective war machines searched the entire control center, we stopped in front of an information center.
In this vast room, there was only a crystal prism in the center that was constantly moving with numbers and characters. The ground was divided into dozens of trapezoidal areas with light blue light beams. Above each area, there was a 1: 1 three-dimensional projection rotating quietly. Without exception, these projections were … humans.
To be exact, they were ancient humans, because they were wearing loose clothing or oddly shaped armor that clearly did not belong to the current era on Earth. Their faces were also slightly different from modern humans. Most of these holographic projections maintained a quiet standing posture, rotating clockwise in the air. Occasionally, a projection would make a sudden move, such as launching a fireball from its hand, or suddenly wrapping itself in lightning. Then, a burst of data would flash across the air next to them, indicating the intensity of the energy explosion. Above each projection was the name of these people in Schilling's language. Although I was still not very familiar with the language, Gaia had given me a lot of information, so it was not too difficult to recognize these words. I spelled out the names one by one: Ares, Apollo, Hera, Hercules …
The legendary gods and demigod heroes, the majestic beings who had the ability to destroy the world in ancient times and were revered by ordinary humans, the experimental mutants born in Schilling's laboratory, the first generation of superhumans …
The entire information center was silent, only the occasional flow of data would be accompanied by a low buzzing sound. We, who had just walked in, fell into a short period of silence.
"It's weird to look at this place."
It was Shallow Shallow who broke the silence. She looked around at the holographic projections of the ancient humans and the analysis data surrounding them. She frowned slightly. At the same time, Sandora, who was next to her, had a slightly awkward look on her face.
However, we all knew that it wasn't that Qian Qian was dissatisfied. She just felt a little uncomfortable seeing the human ancestor being analyzed like a lab rat.
"It seems that this is the place where the Shiring Apostles studied human superhumans." The big sister's expression was much more natural. "I didn't expect that the birth of modern superhumans was the result of Visca's arrival on Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago …"
"That's not it."
Sandora and Visca suddenly spoke in unison. The difference was that the former's tone was very calm, while the latter had a trace of panic and determination after the panic.
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