At least within the Great River System, the situation is not too urgent.

The strong integration of the civilizational forces within the system seems to be interrupted by external forces

The ambition to conquer the sea of stars, perhaps from the moment you look up at the starry sky, already exists in the minds of intelligent beings, which is not only the result of the speculation of the elves from themselves and others, but also the conclusion that the lurkers have painstakingly discovered.

It may be said that almost all group civilizations, including the Elven Realm, have almost identical ambitions in the fields related to the starry sky;

Even though their respective reasons and goals may be different, they all have a similar way to achieve it, or there is a similar link in the way, that is, at least to conquer the most conspicuous market in the night sky first.

Under such circumstances, the spiral of war and peace should perhaps become the mainstream of the river system;

But when the elves stepped out of their home planet and looked around, they found that there was a general peace, and that the killing and conquest were not non-existent, but they were almost only contained in shadows and darkness, and could not be carried out in the open.

The elves were naturally curious about this, and later began to investigate the specific reasons for this when they were able to create the right opportunity

Through the continuous infiltration and lurking of various forces, and the accumulation of what we have learned and heard, the kingdom has finally been able to confirm that the cause of the current situation is not the result of the general peace-loving civilization conceived by the river system, but the compromise after being involved in it as a last resort.

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In fact, the road to hegemony belonging to the great river system has also been opened, and the conquest carried out under the blood and fire, and the scorched earth wreckage caused by it, are the most common cultural scenes in the river system during that time;

In the process, countless lives are withering, many cherished stars have been shattered, and even stars that were once thought to be eternal have been evaporated in tens of thousands.

I don't know how many civilizations have fallen, and I don't know how many races have declined, which can be said to be the period when the martial arts of the Great River system are most abundant.

However, seeing that most civilizations are beginning to choose to submit, and seeing that the river system will enter the final competition for supremacy and supremacy;

But at this moment, when the new curtain was about to be opened, a powerful force suddenly came, as if a mechanical séance, interrupting the long-lasting war that had lasted for a long time and had many sacrifices.

Everything begins to regress, and the existing parties are forced to retreat to the territory of some point, but the victims of the previous battle will not return, and the destroyed star fields will also fall into the dark...

As a result, all the previous sacrifices and decisions seem to have become the unjust souls ridiculed on the 'armistice book';

Then, the Council of Peace, which was based on the Alliance of Peaceful and Independent Regimes, was established in the confusion, incomprehension, rejoicing, and hatred of all parties, and maintained the status quo of the river system for a long time to come.

Since then, the negotiating table and conference room have replaced the interstellar battlefield, and conflicts and benefits that could only be resolved through rivers of blood have been forced on the negotiating table to demand a peaceful settlement.

There are many ways to solve the problem, such as winning more civilized seats to become allies, and then raising a louder voice and gaining more voice in the council;

At the same time, when encountering disputes and problems that cannot be resolved by civil fighting, violence within the limits of use will also be recognized, such as the confrontation of individual combat power between individual powers, the real confrontation between miniature special fleets, and the large-scale bloodless war in the virtual world, which are all ways to fight for interests and correctness, and can win interests within the scope of the rules.

There was much less bloodshed and sacrifice, but the various regulations and norms prevailing within the council also eliminated the possibility of the river system being unified by one party within it;

Not only that, but even the hegemon of the river system in the real sense is difficult to emerge here.

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The minimum limit of the hegemon may be to become the 'super' of 'one super' and many powers, but under the restrictions of the existing rules, what the top echelon, including the permanent seats, is striving for, it seems that it is only the 'strong' among them;

Some of them are already 'very strong', and some of them may be 'quite strong', but none of them have really reached the level of subduing all parties on their own, and they are still only in the category of 'strong', and have not been able to step into the ranks of 'super'.

The Elven Lurkers have been probing for a long time, and are keenly aware of the top ones, such as the Standing Board of Directors, who are in fact strongly dissatisfied with the current state of affairs.

It is difficult to be slow on the road to the forefront of the frontier, but the chasers in the rear can plagiarize and forge ahead under the guidance of the existing path, and there is still a considerable degree of gap at present and even for a long time in the future, but it is not unimaginable to be chased under the distinction of speed and slowness.

Logically speaking, if it is fast, it will be tens of thousands or tens of thousands of galaxy years, and if it is slow, it will be possible for the first-line civilization to catch up with the top ones and obtain the minimum resistance in the military aspect;

In addition, if there are unscrupulous participation in external factors, the time that can be predicted by common sense will be insufficient, and it will all depend on the ability and purpose of the so-called 'external factors'.

It is conceivable that without the existence of the shackles of the Council, the later civilizations will hardly have a chance to catch up with the top in the department, and will even be more likely to quietly disappear in the long river of history.

However, under the restrictions of the rules, the top ones cannot take advantage of the fact that the two sides are still in the clouds, and they sit in the permanent seat of the council and have allies and the right to speak, but in fact they are more like the restricted people who are constrained by the established rules, and can only watch the mud turn into bricks, into bungalows, and then into steel buildings, and gradually shrink the gap between the front and back lines.

In such and such cases, there will naturally be corresponding dissatisfaction, but it can also be seen from the fact that they have been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years without moving, and the discontent is powerless to change this situation;

It's as if one or more pairs of powerful eyes are watching, and they can't even reveal the action or even the meaning of the change.

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Intelligent beings are complex, and the various civilizations composed of them are also complex, in fact, it is not only the top people who are being chased who are dissatisfied with the status quo, but even the front-line people who are chasing parties are not completely satisfied, because under the change of perspective, these pursuers will also have the identity of the pursued;

Just as there is a first-line crowd behind the top one, there are also second-tier crowds behind the first-line civilization, and then the third and fourth tiers are also moving forward according to the same rules;

As a result, civilizations in different positions along the chain are very ambivalent about the Council's policies;

In short, they are not angry that they cannot arbitrarily embezzle the technology and resources of others, but at the same time, they are glad that there are rules to protect the bottom line when they are threatened;

Knowing that under the protection of the current rules, they don't have to face the most helpless and desperate crushing situation, but they always want to exploit the loopholes in the rules to crush the weak.

In this situation, the natives of the river system have been dormant for more than hundreds of thousands of galactic years in the generally peaceful environment built up after the establishment of the council.

And thanks to this, the elven kingdom does not have to usher in all kinds of nightmares at the beginning

For example, after stepping on the starry sky, you find a great river system that is moving towards unification and full of war, in which the conquest between hundreds of millions of warriors and fleets of all sides not only makes the present world full of devastation, but also brews in the sea of the mind, or has already given birth to a pulse full of negativity;

The rest, such as the great river system that has completed unification, or the river system that has ushered in the true overlord, also has its own different types of nightmares, such as the super evil spirit that is about to be born in the depths of the sea of minds.

Such an alliance policy, based on 'peace' and 'independent regimes', whether its leaders were formulated with good intentions, bad intentions, or neutrality towards the natives, at least to a certain extent curbed the development of negative sedimentation-related developments;

Under the constraints of other policies, the river civilization may always be moving forward in terms of science and technology, but in the case of not being able to effectively expand the resource territory and so on, their respective sizes have not yet reached the warning line in the estimate, that is, they cannot independently breed a super evil spirit on their own.

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In stark contrast to the bright world like a pool of stagnant water, it is a dark world where there are too many careerists, discontents, and unprovoked entanglers, and the undercurrent and the bright waves are surging;

Here, there is justice that is only limited to the establishment of a special vision, such as those black gloves who deal with the matter of not seeing the light for the upper peak;

There are also those who sow chaos and sin without a bottom line, and burning, killing, plundering, and raping are just a kind of pleasure;

Others are strengthening their power to converge under the darkness, intending to use it at some point to pursue individual or group ambitions.

Compared with the wars of scorched earth and hundreds of millions of corpses, the depravity may seem slower in terms of speed and lower in intensity, but it can also spread more insidiously, as if it is an appendage of bones in the realm of black, white and gray.

And as time goes by, the tide in the dark is becoming more and more agitated.

Its harm is multi-purpose, not only in the cross-regional chain spread of all kinds of evil to depravity and negativity, but also in those underworld gangs that are becoming bigger and bigger in terms of size;

For example, the Torto Legion, which ranks outside the hundredth, has no less direct and indirect control than the surface civilization, let alone those giants within a hundred or ten.

The Council's war ban could not restrain them, and the fires based on interests between the branches of power were not going on almost every day, and were increasingly becoming one of the important sources of negative deposition, along with the Fallen Business Stars, etc.

These negative sediments of the emotional sea may breed small evil spirits in the corresponding area, and even relatively speaking, this is a relatively good situation;

Or, they will gather more and more in the continuous fire and separation, and they will remain in difficult childbirth until the future becomes a heavy historical burden, or they will be solved in advance, or they will be solved in advance, or they will be solved and the pregnant party will usher in the first cry.

Fortunately, the time for the formation of this river system is still very short, and it is so short that it is difficult for a unifier or overlord to appear in the previous era, and even if it does, it will not be detected by all the traces of the present world;

So, at least within the river system, you don't have to worry about the remnants of older eras, such as the super evil spirits that were bred by the previous generation of river overlords, etc.

As for the rest, such as small regions in large civilizations, small and medium-sized underworld forces, and small and medium-sized end civilizations

Although there are indications that there are such beings that give birth to evil spirits and destroy them, and they seem to be more likely to occur than in the previous cases, and the process of conception and birth will be relatively faster;

However, there are also indications that the evil spirits born during this period are limited by the size of the pregnant body, so they are not as extremely powerful as those in the previous estimate, and belong to the scope that they can theoretically deal with;

These signs are also the source of the data that the elves now use to estimate the more powerful evil spirits in their imaginations, and in order to grasp more specific information about such existences, they are also searching for various 'civilization fallen relics' and 'regional fallen relics', trying to find opportunities to capture them and carry out more specific research.

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Speaking of the present, although the sea of depraved convergence minds that has not yet been nurtured will also affect the present world, it is not life, and there is no wisdom or instinct to speak of;

At this point alone, its impact on the present world is only a back-and-forth feedback from negative deposits, stemming from the special nature of the two sides of the physical world and the sea of mind.

The most common manifestation of this effect is a series of sensory strangeness experienced by psykers before and after awakening, as well as the trials and illusions they endure from time to time during their subsequent growth.

The impact is not necessarily bad, it depends mainly on the negative deposition of the civilization or power to which it belongs, and the more chaotic the area, the more likely it is to awaken the psionics, and the more the mad among them will become.

In addition, the situation of the non-power affiliation, but the area where it is stationed, will also have an impact on the psykers.

If a normal psionic person accidentally arrives at the Fallen Commercial Star by chance and frequently uses his supernatural abilities here, then the chaos and depravity outside can be invaded like an osmotic pressure difference, and then the psychic person's spirit will be affected more or less;

Immediately, it can also be used as a medium to infiltrate the subordinate civilization or power, and become a small drop of ink mixed into the water that is difficult to remove.

In addition to these unusually sensitive psionics, ordinary non-supernatural people, or non-psionic supernaturals, will be sluggish in this regard;

Even ordinary people who have good habits and have never had a tendency to degenerate will only show negative changes in behavior and mentality after the negative deposition of the area has reached a certain level, and only in the later stages of infection will they form into reckless madness.

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(End of chapter)