Time passes like a river, and history rolls forward.

The period from 196 to 216 in the federal calendar, 500 years ago, was the era when the disputes between the inhabitants of Terra and the inhabitants of the stars were at their most intense since the 'War of Unification'.

The 'Rebellion of the Century', which took place in the last decade of the second century, lasted for a long time, and together with many wars, including the 'Battle of Frost', it is collectively known as the 'Twenty Years' War.

Beginning with the 'Valentine's Day Conflict' (Terra's Valentine's Day is December 12th), the Terra Federation and the Lunar City Alliance and the Cosmos City Federation had friction during military exercises, and the friction quickly turned into a conflict or even a war, and in just one year, the three parties directly entered a state of all-out war, and blamed each other for being the cause of the conflict.

At the same time, the 'Celestial Swarm' from Jupiter, the self-proclaimed True Humanity Unification Human Mind Body also took the opportunity to launch an attack on Terra Mainland - and behind the war, as the death toll increased rapidly, the restless dead in the Void Hades also launched Operation Breaking the Wall, and a large number of dangerous spirits broke away from the constraints of Hades and wandered through the Void and the Present World.

Soon after, the 'Valley Army', a free organization known as the 'Knights of the Valley', also launched an assassination of the leaders of various organizations.

The Glen Army harnessed the 'Underworld Forces' to attack the major power centers, resulting in the deaths of the 50th Federation President, Laikal Harden, and the leader of the Lunar Cities Alliance, Bernard Mahada.

The Glen claimed to be the culprit of the war for peace, intending to use terror as a deterrent, but the war did not end with the death of the leaders of the parties, but intensified - they got it wrong, that is, the Terrans were not afraid of death at all, especially the Terrans who had long been accustomed to the existence of Hades and went to war with all their might.

Even, because of the death of the leader, a large number of substantive warlords have appeared within the Federation and the Lunar City Alliance.

More than thirty different forces appeared and fell, and people seemed to want to release the hatred accumulated by two hundred years of peace in one breath, and the historical data of that period was difficult to verify, but from the side observation of information from all sides, during the more than ten years of war, the total population of the entire Terra Star Domain dropped by one-third, and even some of the dead could not even be classified into Hades, but dissipated in the cosmic starry sky that Hades could not capture.

During this period, the 'Battle of Frost', which was later regarded as a legend, took place.

In order to compete for the Ice and Snow Planet, the 'Key to the Abyss of Ice Hell' excavated on Vesta on Terra's ninth planet, the three generals of the Federation Army, the sages of the Independent Silver Peak Army, the two Grand Commanders of the Moon City, the three major city lords of the cosmic city-states, and the 'Great Lord' of the Celestial Hordes broke out here.

With the Aether armament as the core and the power of the stars, the ten peak powerhouses erupted with a destructive power close to the fifth energy level in the past in this era of lack of ether, completely shattering Vesta's frosty crust and turning it into a furnace planet, from Hell of Ice to Hell of Fire.

In this war were born many characters who were close to legends.

The last prophet, the second generation of the Silverpeak Sage [Aldo the Visionary], rose miraculously, he started as a civilian security company, and gradually became a well-known scholar of the Ofa University in the entire human civilization circle, before the rebellion in the second century, he was supported by a general, and led a special operations force to dismantle the rebellions and coups that took place in the New World (New World) several times.

With this power, the Sage of Aldo quelled the 'anti-privilege wave' that was growing within the Federation, curbed the trend of corruption within the Federation, and even became the President of the Federation.

However, the problem of the Federation is that after the exile, or the blocking of most of the authority of the 'unified intelligence' through voting, it is no longer possible to recover from internal reforms, and war is inevitable, so Aldo chooses to accumulate power within the Federation and make choices that can change the direction of the world at a critical moment.

After the Battle of Frost, the Silver Peak Sage Aldo, who was the ultimate victor, was one step ahead of the others and mastered the power of the abyss, and this forbidden power allowed Aldo to surpass all other competitors, but he knew that the power of the abyss must not get out of control or be abused.

It's just that no matter how well you know some things, no matter how bitter some fruits are, in the face of today's situation, you can only swallow the bitter fruit.

Using the power of the abyss, the Sage of Aldo summoned the 'Seventy-two Pillars of the Abyss Demon God' to launch the 'War of Reunification', completely defeating all opponents in the Terra Star Domain at the end of the year 216 of the Federation Calendar, the 1000th year of the old Terra calendar, and completing the great cause of 'Second Unification'.

Since then, in the name of the philosopher, the sage of Aldo created the current [Holy Terra Federation], and ruled the Holy Terra Federation for nearly a hundred years, reshaping the collective cognition of the people, and constructing the state religion belief based on the 'Holy Spirit'.

After that, the Sage of Aldo left Terra in order to suppress the power of the Abyss. And his disciple, the third sage casting the sage, became the new philosopher.

Five hundred years have passed.

Following the sages and great sages (the later titles of Ian and Aldo, similar to Zhou and Kong), one philosopher and sage after another, led humanity forward, and the technology of the Holy Terra Federation developed slowly but steadily.

The technology carried in Terra is so large and powerful that a little faster pace can induce unimaginable social change and conflict, so the Federation would rather demand peace and stability than war and rapid development.

In the meantime, a big event happened.

In the year 575 of the federal calendar, the [cradle] was opened.

Five hundred and eighty years after the pioneer sage Ian Silverpeak left Terra, humanity finally broke out of the cradle and into the vast universe beyond the cradle.

The brilliant sea of stars, the bright and brilliant Milky Way, there is no end, and there is no darkness. I don't know why, and I don't know where it started, the universe has been restored, and the cradle has detected this, so it spontaneously shattered.

In this endless starlight, even the once bright [Guide Star] is only an inconspicuous one among the infinite stars.

After that, mankind began a new era of great development of the universe. In just over 100 years, human beings have traveled to nearly 1,000 planets, including more than 30 habitable planets.

However, as the realm of humanity continues to expand and its power grows, the Holy Terra Federation inevitably begins to clash with its 'enemies'.

The so-called enemy is [other cradle civilizations].

There are not many cradles in the universe, and after the cradle is broken, other cradle civilizations that have begun to expand are also recovering their footprints in the galaxy and the universe.

Unlike the Holy Terra Federation, although these cradle civilizations have not built a 'world ring' due to various reasons (most of them have not had time, and the internal chaos has not started the perpetual motion machine), their civilizations have been well integrated, and the civilization spark has also been effectively used, so their strength is extremely strong.

These powerful civilizations that are beyond human expectations should have had 'good intentions', after all, all people are 'descendants of the star gods'. But for some reason, the existence of the star gods, the existence of the end of the world, began to fade from the end of cause and effect, and the existence of no 'immortality' could not even recall these two concepts, and the civilizations of the whole universe were very indifferent to the 'other cradle civilizations' except for the slightest mutual identification of the races in each cradle.

Moreover, in the universe, there is also a mysterious force that is invading and attacking everywhere, making many civilizations suspicious and indifferent to each other.

For humanity, encountering these alien civilizations is the same as encountering other Terra nations in the past.

After a brief period of vigilance, a period of communication and conflict......

The cosmic war began.

It was a war that was too tragic to describe in words, with rain-like currents of light filling the universe, illuminating the stars, and the fall and explosion of countless warships and cosmic armor even creating a 'battleship graveyard' in the core galaxy of the war that could deflect planetary orbits.

The War Death Star, as massive as a dwarf planet, warps through space, while the Star Destroyer Giant Ship against a hostile civilization passes only in dust.

Humanity is defeated. And the enemy also won a crushing victory.

In the course of the war, the enemy was stunned to find that humanity was actually a monoracial civilization - too tragic the war, so that the enemy could not contain the fear of humanity, they believed that humanity must have wiped out all other civilizations in their cradle to be so powerful as a race, and the reason why humanity lost to them was precisely because humanity was not the real owner of those tinder technologies after all.

For the sake of the justice of the universe, for the sake of the 'other civilizations' who died tragically at the hands of human beings, they want to carry out a thorough 'purification' of human beings without sparing even a little genetic information.

Do not accept surrender, do not accept escape, all enemies must be destroyed, even if they have to chase to the end of the universe.

Federal calendar, 716.

Humanity is facing a complete crisis of extinction.

But, that is, in this year.

In the ancient and stale Terra system, long forgotten by the Holy Terra Federation with a thousand stars.

There are some ancient things that have been awakened.

[Is there anyone in this world who still remembers me? 】

In the deepest part of the Void Realm, on the silver-white throne, the white-haired and purple-eyed young man slowly raised his head and looked at the black-haired old man in front of him with an all-in-one look.

In his eyes, the old man in front of him was completely different from the eyes of others, the old man was surrounded by twisted fire, and the phantom of the seventy-two pillars of the demon god turned into a totem, revolving around him endlessly.

This is more than 600 years after the human race chose to abandon the path of the Silver Peak Sage, and after the unified intelligence was banned from most of its permissions on the trumped-up charge of 'suspected rebellion', he also chose to seal himself, watching the civilization that betrayed his brother step by step on the path they chose.

Why does my brother love them so much? The purple-eyed youth thought so. The elder brother burned his own life to lead this group of perishable and volatile mortals forward, and it only took the elder brother eighteen years to transform the entire world, if human beings followed that path, how could there be a follow-up rebellion, and how could it have developed for more than 500 years and still be caught up or even surpassed by other civilizations that did not have pioneers?

Because of greed, because of selfishness, because of arrogance, human beings have destroyed the signs of their future, rejected the assistance of the most just and fair 'limited intelligence', and chose to dominate people's hearts again.

They have sealed the unified intelligence, rejected the path of the virtual realm, coveted the prosperity of reality and forgot the sublimation of the spirit, and they sought their inner desires but abandoned the exploration of distant places.

Such human beings are very boring.

So he chose to return to the depths of the Shroud and communicate with all the souls, a mission left behind by one of his long-departed teachers named Adalbert.

Yes, don't talk about my brother, the teacher and Uncle Qingchao haven't come back, they must be disappointed in today's human beings.

He should have continued to watch like this, just indifferently watching the rise and fall of humanity, until in the end, all the dead souls were one, and he would have left to go to the distant time and space where his brother was.

But he doesn't seem to have that easy ending.

Elan Silverpeak...... Brother of the sages. ”

The old black-haired human slowly raised his head and said to the 'young man' in front of him with a smile: "It was the lunar artificial human exploration decree you signed that gave birth to my mother and me, and also gave me the name of 'Silver Peak'. ”

"Of course I remember you. Former leader of the Commonwealth. ”

[Since you know] Elan said slowly: [Then don't disturb my mission, let me quietly watch the end of mankind]

[Aldo Yinfeng, you have done a good job, in order to seal the abyss, you have endured the terrifying pressure of a fifth-level powerhouse in the past, but you can still survive to this day...... Wait here with me, and let us witness the end of these betrayals and abandonment of the path of brotherhood.

"Betrayal? Abandon? ”

And Aldo repeated the word, and he laughed and said: "O great watcher Elam, who has betrayed the sages, and who has abandoned the path of the sages? ”

"The name of the sage is the [guidance] and the [future]! Humanity is a greedy, selfish, fragile and vicious race, and therefore strong, and therefore boiling with desires – humanity is a manic fire that burns up everything and itself! ”

"That's why guidance is needed, just as a tamed flame can be turned into a furnace, tempered steel tools, and starship armor—a civilization without guidance will naturally go astray!"

"I was their guide, I reversed the war that should have lasted for thousands of years, I made the Terra civilization unification for the second time, and I had the most glorious and great golden five hundred years, so that mankind was once again spread across the sea of stars."

"But. What about you? ”

The last prophet asked the watchers: "Have you directed mankind?" ”

[That's my brother's path!] The white-haired and purple-eyed young man frowned: "Since they abandoned it, why did I ......]

"Why not try to reverse it!"

The black-haired sage, the visionary Aldo, took a step forward, and he raised his voice: "If you think this is wrong, then why didn't you deny it, don't reverse it, don't guide the human race at that time?" ”

Elan sneered: "Haven't I twisted it? Aldo, didn't you see me expelled by a joint vote of the General Political Assembly? You were in the audience at that time, did you support me then? 】

[All people don't want to have a non-human intelligence to supervise - no, all humans don't want anyone on their head to be able to regulate themselves unless that person can give them what they want...... I can't give it to them]

"I've got your back."

Aldo said calmly: "Of the three votes that support you, there is one vote of mine." ”

The purple-eyed watcher was slightly stunned, and Aldo continued: "As for the future, this is what I want to say to you, great watcher Elan. ”

"Do you really think that 'advice' without any violence is the so-called guidance?"

"If it were a sage, your brother, if he was expelled by the General Assembly of the Five Hundred, he would really be expelled obediently, not ......"

Speaking of this, Aldo laughed, and he humorously used his fingers to make a 'beheading' action: "Although I have never met a sage, I guess the sage will also have the wrath of thunder, right?" ”

"Just like the second time I unified Terra, the sage of the year...... Surely it's just using voting as a pretense, essentially crushing others with absolute strength and forcibly unifying Terra, right? ”

Elan was silent.

After a long time, he slowly raised his eyes, and said with some nostalgia: [Yes...... Brother he...... Although it seems to be gentle and peaceful all the time, if you really need it......]

He will kill all those who stand in his way. Everyone, including me]

[Even, even my birth was screened from the endless time and space by him in order to go further]

As soon as these words came out, even Aldo, who was as wise and composed as he was, was stunned.

After all, he had never met Ian Silverpeak, he had never seen the Silverpeak Prophet of that era, the forerunner of Silverpeak, so he did not know the epic story that led to the heavens, nor did he know the terrifying determination of the sage as he stepped forward.

He only suddenly understood that the 'watchman' in front of him might not have sat on the throne in the deepest part of this realm for hundreds of years just because of those simple reasons.

However, Aldo also believes.

He believed that the people in front of him were also people who were full of love and compassion for all beings—if it weren't for Elan's secret action back then, during the Twenty Years' War, the tens of billions of Terrans who died would definitely have more than hundreds of millions of souls scattered.

【Guideline ......】

At this moment, Elan slowly closed his eyes.

He fought for a hundred years to maintain the civilization left behind by his brother, but he watched the Terra people forget their brother's exploits and sacrifices little by little, and deviate from the right and great path.

If it does not follow the right path, human civilization is destined to repeat the contradictory spiral of war and peace, rising and falling, moving slowly, or dying suddenly.

Exploration and distance, progress and sacrifice, right and wrong.

Elan suddenly remembered that when he was a child, Ian took him to play in the sand, building castles out of sand and decorating them with shells, seaweed, and starfish.

"I did it, the castle, always no, my brother's good."

At that time, he was still a little stuttering and looked at the humble little castle he made with some disappointment, and the big castle that Ian made that could be called 'majestic', and in contrast to the two lines, he even had the idea of bulldozing his castle in one go.

But Ian stopped him.

"Elam, I decorate with shells, sand and starfish, pile up castles, decorate them, but I never catch jellyfish." Ian, who was also a child at the time, threw out a question that easily caught Elan's attention: "Do you know why? ”

"Why?"

"Because I love jellyfish. Elam, whether it is a thunder jellyfish or a glowworm jellyfish, their fluorescence in the sea is as brilliant as the stars. ”

At that time, my brother hugged himself and pointed to the sunset coast that had slowly stepped into the dusk, and in the depths of the gradually dimming sea, a dark blue fluorescence lit up in the turquoise water: "That's the scenery I love." ”

"It's beautiful......"

At that time, he couldn't help but feel an extreme, full of life beauty, and he stammered to tell his brother his psychological thoughts, but Ian was not too happy after listening to it: "It's just the scenery I like." Elan, you haven't seen the sea of stars, so you don't know that I like it, just because it's similar. ”

"What you like is these jellyfish, the fireflies in the sea, and what I like is the sea of stars...... They are the same, but they are different. ”

"Just like you and my castle. Elan, since you like this kind of fluorescence, next time you can pick some fluorescent grass to decorate, you don't have to compare the size of my castle, you don't have to do the same as me, you have to do it...... It's your "castle you really like". ”

【Elam】

At this moment, on the throne, the watchman who has been watching for more than 700 years heard a familiar voice: [I know, you still mind, it was I who created your origin]

I also know that you don't care about your own nature. You're just afraid that you've done something wrong, that you're not meeting my needs to create you, that you're not fulfilling what I expected of you]

[Are you scared...... I'm afraid you've strayed from my guidance]

But don't do that, my brother...... My Loved One]

[Because I have left this world to you]

[It's like after that, I left the sand of the whole beach and the whole sea to you, you can build your favorite castle as you like, and shape everything into what you want]

[Go, Elam, the whole civilization is yours]

[You've stopped walking for hundreds of years, it's time to take another step]

【Go and ...... the world Transform into what you want, transform into what I can't predict, transform into something different from my path, but can make me love, like the stars in the sea, the deep fluorescence, the appearance I want to explore]

[Only this is a different world...... That's why I'm motivated to come back.]

- Is it a different world?

Slowly opening his eyes, the Eternal Watcher looked at the last prophet with a surprised expression in front of him, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned: "Brother, don't regret it. ”

"Because...... I'm bound to do more than you can imagine. ”

【——I'm looking forward to it】

In the void, the residual echo gradually dissipated: [If one day you really fulfill your dream, the sea of stars will change because of you, the hearts of all living beings will be as happy as fire, a new civilization will be shaped, and the unprecedented feat will shine on the entire universe......]

[Elan, please don't have any burden, paint the universe into the shape you want, because that's what I expect from you]

"yes."

The throne beneath him gradually lit up with a silver light like the tide of the sea, and Elan Yinfeng lowered his eyes, and the burning light flowed out, intertwined with the words in his heart, and said from his mouth: "After seven hundred years of going around and around, I finally understand what you expect from me...... yes, I finally got it. ”

"I don't want to be king, and Terra's heart doesn't want to be a god, and since humanity doesn't want our guidance, let's leave."

"But I'm more reluctant to ...... I don't want to. ”

"I don't want to be a guest of your life until the end, just your brother...... Brother, I think that I am your successor, and I am the one who can stand side by side with you! ”

The watchman departed.

The Eternal King stared at the universe in front of him.

The brilliance shines.

"Yes, yes! That's it! Aldo looked around him in surprise, and then looked to his side, the silver figure slowly emerging: "Finally—restart!" ”

The far-sighted sage let out a wild laugh, and the seventy-two demon gods chanted with him: "I would rather set this universe on fire than let our civilization perish!" ”

"Since other civilizations have forgotten the glory of the Star God, then I don't mind letting our sun shine on the universe!"

"Wake up! Our sun! ”

"Our Heart of Terra!"

As the Silver Throne is awakened by its true master, a mighty glow illuminates the deepest darkness of the Shroud...... And then.

Transformed into a silver sun!

[——Check the core signal, code 0002——]

[——Full-function full-power wake-up——]

[——Civilization Domination Intelligence: Heart of Terra's Core Main Program Launched——]

[——AEON (Ian)——ELAM (Elan)]

Eternity and war.

Calling out the name of the Creator and the Master, the eternal throne has a master.

Terra Field.

Terra star.

In the center of this ancient galaxy, a silvery glow lit up from the core of the sun, and then spilled out to the outside world at a speed faster than light, turning the entire sun into a silver wheel of light in an instant.

A [Stellar Light Ship]!

Exiled for hundreds of years, the Heart of Terra has never stopped transforming and evolving itself, and this 'Aether Body', which completely dominates all the power of an entire star, is the 'body' of the Heart of Terra!

In the year 720 of the Federation, the front line of the war of the Holy Terra Federation, which was constantly defeated, welcomed a huge stellar light ship from his hometown.

The war came to an end once and for all...... The victors were neither Terra, nor the alien civilizations whose names had disappeared so far.

All of them were absorbed by the Heart of Terra, ruled over, and placed under the command of the Eternal King.

The First Cosmic War of the Holy Terra Federation came to an end - and at the cost of the war, all the Terrans and the remaining fleets became vassals of the Heart of Terra, embarking on a never-ending expedition.

The light and shadow fly by, and the time flows like a tide.

In just over two hundred years, there have been a second, third, fourth, and fifth outbreaks...... Space war after cosmic war.

And the victory of each war, as well as all the empty planets along the way, forged the endless and terrifying prestige of the [Terra civilization].

The myriad starships of the Holy Terra Federation encircled the heart of Terra, turning into dark and bright clusters that obscured the stars, their hulls as black as clouds, and their tail flames scorching the stars as bright and shining as a sea of stars.

Their goal is the eternal and unchanging Star that guides the future to the other side, and their belief is to conquer everything they see along the way.

On this battlefield across the universe, all love and hope, justice and the future are just fragments of the battlefield, ashes that will be crushed by.

Its name is AEON. Eternity. It is called ELAM. War.

Its name is the Calamity of the Stars, [Eternal Heavenly Fire].

The king and the prophet gazed into the universe.

Scorching snow falls on the burning planet.

The star shuttle engine spewed out flames that pierced through time and space.

The eternal fire of heaven sounded the trumpet that made the universe tremble.

The last prophet who does not want to be king joins forces with the wisdom that does not want to be God, bringing about the order of iron, the civilization of steel, and the strife of fire.

A civilization that has lost its awe and love, in order to pursue the farthest stars, launched an expedition to the end of the sea of stars.

Tears still flow from this land, and there is still hope in this starry sky.

The sea of stars is vast, and the fire of the sky is eternal.

There are still twelve millennia left before the pioneers of the Far Star return home.

Full EX-end.

Brothers, now there is only a fan left! Wait for tonight or tomorrow to have a closing speech, and finally write everything before New Year's Day!

It's useless, but I haven't said it for a long time, so ask for a monthly pass!