Chapter 2: The Star Alliance and the Star Brokers

(This section provides some background overview, and the main story will continue in the next chapter.)

When it comes to the Star Alliance and the Star Broker, there is a long story to tell.

At the birth of the universe, its opposite, the void, also came into being. The two spaces erode each other, and one trades off the other.

The universe and the void are not self-conscious, but as carriers of all things, they are able to carry out some "program-like instructions" internally, so as to develop, expand, and suppress each other.

Creatures were also born from some kind of internal directive, and since then, highly intelligent beings have evolved in the universe and in the void, respectively, and these creatures appeared billions of years before the emergence of humans.

As the first creatures in the universe to evolve advanced intelligence, that is, the race called the cosmic gods by later generations, the universe has endowed them with powerful powers, although these powers are insignificant to the universe itself, but they are enough to change the environment, create life, and turn decay into magic.

The leader of the cosmic gods, that is, the cosmic god king, was chosen by the universe as the spokesperson, and the body can directly mediate the power of the universe's origin, this supreme power is the strongest embodiment of the cosmic power, even the god king can only be used as a conductor of this power, and cannot use it directly.

Later, the cosmic gods began to travel between galaxies to transform the planetary environment and promote the evolution of new life.

They didn't know that in the void on the other side, countless pairs of eyes were coveting what they had created.

For hundreds of millions of years, those planets that should have evolved life have become a hellish scene when the cosmic gods return to visit hundreds of millions of years later.

After an epic project, the gods decided to stay on the planet to find out.

This stay is hundreds of millions of years, when intelligent beings evolved on the planet and reached a certain scale, the invaders came, countless portals of different sizes tore through the sky in an instant, and the void creatures with teeth and claws appeared overwhelmingly, and as soon as they landed on the planet, they began to kill wantonly.

The cosmic gods quickly attacked, repelling millions of Void armies, and the enemy began to retreat, and the God King sent several of his high-ranking gods into the Void to pursue the victory.

However, a few days later, with the exception of the most powerful god of death in the pursuing party, who was found in a corner of the universe seriously injured and unconscious, the other gods never escaped back to the universe.

Sensing that there might be an even more terrifying threat in the void, the God-King began to think about countermeasures.

He used the characteristics of his body that can mediate the power of the origin of the universe, and every time he went to a planet that had created civilization, he would rip off a part of the tissues on his body, catalyze its division and multiplication, and then use magic to metalize it, and finally use these metalized tissues to design a device that can affect the surrounding universe space for about a light year, blocking all connections between it and the void, in order to protect life on the planet, he named it the Creation Engine. Within the sphere of influence of the Genesis Engine, no Void creature can enter the universe. Any void creature in the universe that is affected by the Creation Engine will be instantly annihilated by the supreme cosmic origin power.

Billions of years ago, on some planets that have not yet appeared intelligent beings, but are located at key nodes in cosmic transportation, the god-king also set up the creation engine, and our tiny blue mother star, Earth, is also one of them.

Billions of years later, the engine of creation sank into the Pacific Ocean due to the change of the Earth's plates.

For a long, long time after that, the cosmic gods have been recuperating their strength, planning to completely level the void to prevent future troubles.

Finally, about 1,000 years ago, the cosmic gods began their journey. Breaking into the Void Plane, he marched all the way and killed directly in front of the throne of the Void Lord God.

However, unexpectedly, this is a trap, and the entire Void Throne has been transformed into a giant bomb capable of destroying dozens of galaxies.

The power of a million-fold supernova explosion has created countless black holes around it, and almost no living beings can survive this devastating power, except for the God King, he looked around, and it seemed that the entire Cosmic Legion was spared except him, and the only thing left was a relic of his lover that he held in his hand.

The God-King wanted to withdraw to the universe, but the Void Air Regiment did not give him the slightest chance.

Countless void creatures began a never-ending wheel war with him, and the Void Evil God King didn't even take action himself.

In the void cut off from the power of the universe's origin, the Cosmic God King fought fiercely for 500 years, and finally died of exhaustion.

After the death of the God King, the Void and the living forces of the universe were out of balance, and the Void Air Regiment tried to devour the entire universe in one fell swoop, but the Creation Engine stopped them, even if the Void God King personally cast a spell, he could not tear even a trace of spatial cracks leading to the universe within the influence of the Creation Engine. Some Void creatures try to enter the cosmic area that is not affected by the Genesis Engine first, and then invade the target planet, but the Genesis Engine not only blocks the teleportation between the Void and the Universe, but is instantly annihilated the moment they touch the Engine's domain, and the universe seems to have become an impenetrable fortress.

However, this does not fundamentally stop the cunning Void Evil Gods, and since the strong attack fails, then disintegrate them from within.

The evil gods began to use spells such as secret words, dreams, and omen that can ignore the difference in spatial location to divide the cosmic creatures on each planet, causing them to cause civil strife, shutting down or even destroying the creation engine from the inside, and then the void creatures swarm in and ransack the planet.

A church organization on the earth called the Voidless Net, which also appeared at this time, the believers are all earthlings who have been brainwashed by the Void Whisper, although they believe in the Void Evil God, but the believers themselves are not void creatures, and the Void Annihilation System of the Creation Engine has no effect on them.

Thankfully, these cultists have been searching for hundreds of years and have not been able to find the specific location of the Creation Engine, so they have no way to reach a true internal and external alliance with the Void Evil Gods.

500 years ago, that is, some time after the death of the Universe God King, the universe began to create new living forces, as mentioned earlier, our universe is similar to a system with no self-consciousness and infinite power, which is aimed at expanding itself and fighting against the void, executing one "command" after another, and these "instructions" affect the creatures in the universe to a greater or lesser extent.

This time, the Nova Project did not pin all its hopes on one race, but left it up to the planet to choose the right people for itself. Although the combined strength of those chosen ones is not as strong as the former Universe God King, at least they will not all disappear because of a single failure, the universe judges it so.

It was also at this time that a special human being appeared on Earth, the Star Mediators, who, as the name suggests, were chosen by Earth to be the pioneers who mediated their various powers. These people were born with some abilities and talents beyond ordinary people, and they joined forces to create the four major star organizations today: Nightingale Fortress, Solaris Temple, Owl Head Hall, and Liyuan City.

This is where the star mediator comes in.

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Time flies, more than 200 years after the Star Intermediary appeared on Earth, that is, about 300 years ago, a group of aliens whose homes were destroyed by the Void Air Force came to Earth by mistake.

In order to prevent the Earth from repeating the mistakes of the past, the good-natured aliens found the creation engine that sank to the bottom of the South Pacific Ocean due to plate movements, and used the engine's own power to lift the surrounding submarine rock formations into the air and reach above the clouds, forming a huge floating island.

This is Cloud Peak Star Island, the headquarters of the Star Alliance.

After the establishment of the Floating Island, the aliens began to recruit talented people from all over the world to expand the power of the Earth against the Void.

The aliens taught the first people to use the Creation Engine to strengthen themselves, taught them how to study and use various spells, and gave them many precious treasures.

Cloud Peak Star Island has stood tall and grown stronger and stronger, and later established the Star Alliance, an organization that leads the islanders of Cloud Peak Star Island.

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To sum up, the difference between Star Alliance and Star Intermediary is that the former uses the Creation Engine to stimulate potential and gain power beyond humans, while the latter is born with some different types of supernatural potential.

This difference will inevitably lead to "pride and prejudice" between the two, and because of this, although the two camps have the same purpose, they have rarely cooperated for many years.

However, this situation will soon change.