The 'Vanguard' Fortress is a void fortress community located at the edge of the world's galaxy, composed of a large number of temporary research institutes and large observation equipment.
Colorful research facilities and their supporting observation equipment rotate around an inconspicuous silver world. These facilities were jointly built half a year ago by the major forces in the mainland. By absorbing the Glory Fortress of the Holy Mountain in the Far Sea and the World The information and experience provided in the sacrificial site, although most of these facilities are operating in the real void for the first time, they can perfectly exert their own effects.
On the outside of the fortress group, there are large trapezoid-shaped void observatories used to observe the galaxies of other worlds in the distance. On the inside of the fortress, there are prismatic research institutes that analyze the observatory data and other world information. Buildings with completely different scales and shapes interlock like gears, giving the entire Void Fortress community a strange beauty.
And located at the edge of the fortress community, in a special white void facility, a group of black and gray eight-clawed fungi surrounded a white eight-clawed fungus, waiting in the hall.
The white eight-clawed fungus raised its sensory magic quality and 'looked' at the empty scenery outside the window, remaining quiet.
The Great Khan of the Star Shepherd is thinking about the past and future of his race.
The Shepherds are a race with a rough fate.
Of course, this sentence actually doesn’t mean much—which racial civilization doesn’t have a bumpy fate? Any civilization that can exist and reach the level of entering and exiting the void must have experienced many hardships and disasters. There is no civilization in this world that can progress without competitive wars. Whether it is civil war or war with other races, it can develop Growing stronger means that there will never be less disputes.
But even so, the Shepherds are an excessive race with a rough fate.
Because before civilization had fully developed void technology, they were forced to lose their home world.
To this day, the Great Khan can still recall that day.
As the world's barrier was torn apart by incredible fluctuations in time and space, the perennially dark sky of the Shepherd's home world was illuminated by a sudden fire. It was a phenomenon caused by the simultaneous injection of energy from thousands of void battleships, which was far more powerful than the sun. The eye-catching jets drew bright blue jets on the gray-yellow sky of the planet, and the next moment, endless meteor-like energy beams and cannonballs fell to the earth like rain, easily destroying the original Mu. The entire defense system of the Stars.
Following the artillery fire that obviously came from other civilizations, came the invasion of Chaos - countless Devourer families followed the artillery fire above the sky and came to this world, devouring everything and destroying everything.
The Shepherd civilization was accidentally involved in a war between a certain advanced civilization and the World Eaters. It collapsed completely in an instant. The aftermath and stray bullets of the battle between the two sides completely wiped out the future of a civilization.
At that time, the Great Khan, who was the most powerful being in the clan, happened to be communicating with a gentle giant beast of the void. The Shepherd civilization hoped that the other party could leave some flesh and blood, and in exchange, the Shepherd Civilization will provide the void behemoth with its favorite high-energy minerals, and both parties will get what they need, creating a perfect win-win situation.
As a race that specializes in the soul, the Shepherds are enough to appease the unpredictable and violent temperament of the void beasts. They have already traded with many beings in the void, and this time it is just an ordinary one - but it is different from the previous situation. Differently, when the Great Khan desperately discovered that his civilization might be completely destroyed in the mother world, he suddenly had a whim and keenly recalled that the body of the Void Beast contained something huge enough for ordinary creatures. Cavity.
There was no time to think, no time to plan, the continent was sinking, the mountains were burning, and while the aftermath of the battle between the advanced civilization and the World Eaters was destroying the entire world, the Great Khan made his only choice.
It swallowed the soul of the void beast, stored as many people as possible in its own body, and then fled its hometown in a hurry.
Thousands of years passed.
In the past, the Shepherd, who was like a refugee and lived in fear in the body of the void beast, became a real Shepherd.
They herd the giant beasts of the void and cast the world on their backs. They use the planet continent as pasture and the lava of the earth's crust as pasture. They wander nomadicly among the stars. Thousands of years of recuperation have made them extremely powerful. Dozens of them The giant beasts of the void and the powerful kings made them even more powerful than the fleet that destroyed their home planet.
They can even do everything they encountered back then - the Shepherds don't mind extorting other civilizations to give them the knowledge and resources they need on the condition of destroying the world.
Not to mention, the strong man who truly mastered the souls of all the giant void beasts and carried civilization forward on his own... Facing this man who dispersed and stationed his soul in all the giant void beasts and inhibited the recovery of their original souls The ancestor of the Star Shepherd, all the eight-legged fungi can bend the fungus column with great sincerity and sing the "Great Khan", and its power can be regarded as the forefront in the entire galaxy of the world, even on the other side of the galaxy. , and its reputation spreads.
Recalling the process of his hard work over the past thousands of years, finally lifting civilization from a state of certain death, and even making it prosperous again, the cap of the white eight-legged fungus shimmered slightly, showing his excited heart, but in the end , the light of the cap turned dim, and it sighed deeply deep in its soul.
But what's the use
In the final analysis, the Star Shepherds are nothing more than lost dogs... And not just once, they have escaped from the pasture countless times to avoid the terrifying existences wandering in the void.
In the vast and seemingly endless world galaxy, it seems that there is no pure land. No matter how deep you hide or how far you escape, there will always be darkness following you like a shadow.
"The veil of tranquility has been broken by disaster, and our home galaxy has become a scorched earth. Countless civilizations have abandoned the balance and order they had struggled to maintain before, killing and trampling on each other... I don't want the Shepherd to survive with such difficulty... Today's civilization is destroyed like weeds in meaningless battles, so we are looking for ancient books, looking for clues to the lost galaxy, and trying to find a piece of pure land in this dark multiverse."
Even this pure land is just the ruins left by a more horrific war in the long past.
Sighing deeply again, the caps on the Great Khan's head took on a 'wry smile' black-red color.
Who would have thought that this seemingly peaceful and desolate Lost Galaxy would actually be more dangerous than the outside world!
How long does it take to cross the material vacuum zone? They actually encountered the awakening of an ancient World Eater! What's even more terrifying is that the strong men of the ancestral civilization - just two star-devouring strong men can actually suppress a World Eater!
Even if this World Eater is weak, has no dependents, and has just awakened from the seal, it is still a very terrifying thing. You must know that if you want to resist the invasion of a World Eater, even a high-level civilization capable of traversing the void must be extremely difficult. Treat them with caution, and even be prepared to escape like their shepherds. Those disasters wandering in the void can easily destroy all life in a world. No matter how violent artillery fire and magic are, they can't cause this. Complete destruction.
In fact, the reason why the Shepherds fled from the original world galaxy was precisely because the number of World Eaters was increasing day by day. Originally, the number of World Eaters wandering in the void was very small, almost non-existent, only luck. Only extremely bad civilizations will be encountered, but just a few hundred years ago, the number of World Eaters was increasing day by day. Their appearance not only destroyed some weak civilizations, but also destroyed the original fragile balance of the galaxy. The balance between two powerful civilizations was broken, and what followed was a war called chaos.
Civilizations of order conquer each other, and at the same time they have to resist the erosion of chaos. Weak civilizations are like blades of grass in a typhoon, which will be ruthlessly blown away and eliminated, while stronger civilizations like the Shepherds will also be destroyed. He could only flee in a hurry.
But now it seems that it has escaped into the mouth of some sleeping ancient beast.
Thinking of this, the Great Khan turned his head and looked at the hall of this void fortress.
Ever since the powerful and brutal Ancestral Civilization master killed the Awakened World Eater, the entire Star Shepherd civilization has been restrained by the Ancestral Civilization masters around the Dark Star Territory and ordered not to leave.
Although the number of strong men revealed by the ancestral civilization is not very large, at least less than the cluster of more than twenty giant void beasts, the Great Khan knows that these young void beasts under his command are absolutely unparalleled. Perhaps being hostile to these powerful civilizations with wisdom and powerful skills, our own side is at an absolute disadvantage. In addition, we also need to recover. Naturally, we can only follow the other party's words and stay at the edge of the galaxy.
In the process of communication, it also keenly discovered that the current situation of the ancestral civilization seemed very strange.
This ancient ancestral civilization that calls itself 'Mycrov' undoubtedly has incredibly powerful technology. According to the information obtained through exchanges, this civilization's homeland is located at the bottom of the Lost Galaxy, extremely far from the edge of the galaxy, but their powerful space-time Magic allows them to cross this distance in an instant, seemingly at no cost.
Their Void Fortress technology is also very advanced. Although they don't seem to understand the technology they are using, the technology is indeed extremely advanced, far superior to those that the Shepherds have seen in the original galaxy. The fortress of civilization must be more sophisticated and powerful.
Not to mention their strong men - each of these strong men from the ancestral civilization possess incredible strength. With the blessing of the great demonic tide, they even have the power to destroy the world on their own. Each of them is equivalent to an entire void fleet, and behind the powerful man who controls the holy light, there seem to be seven stalwart beings they call 'Holy Spirits'.
Just the powerful man who controls the holy light, the Great Khan believes that he has the power to obliterate the entire Shepherd civilization by himself. Even he can only run away and cannot resist.
This ancestral civilization seemed to be in a state of confusion and decadence not long ago. Through these exchanges for more than half a year, the Great Khan could confirm that decades ago, this ancestral civilization named Mycrof was just as they imagined. That way, you stay in your own home world without any desire for external development. This is also the reason why they have not discovered any abnormalities in the Lost Galaxy during these tens of thousands of years.
However, not long ago, this sleeping ancient civilization woke up.
They cleared away the Shenke within the civilization and restored the damaged world barrier. These ancients rekindled the flame of civilization and recovered their long-lost space-time hub and information library. They restarted external expansion with the intention of restoring the glory of the ancient times. There is no doubt that they are cleaning up the galaxy of their own world and suppressing all hidden dangers such as the awakening of the World Eaters. Their eyes are not even limited to this lost land that is their territory, and they have even turned to themselves and other eight feet. The endless world where fungi once lived.
It can be seen that they are building large void observatories and building fortresses on the edge of the world's galaxies. They are gathering fleets and gathering strength. The Great Khan does not feel at all that the expanding void fortress community is just a show,' Mycroft said. 'I really want to get out of this lost land and return to the stage of the multiverse.
And they are just the first unlucky ones who happen to encounter bad luck, the first unlucky mantis to use his arms as a vehicle.
"How to fight against this awakened ancestral civilization?"
Wrong, stupid!
As a leader of civilization, the Great Khan, who has traversed the galaxy for thousands of years, would never have such an extremely stupid idea in his mind.
"How to embrace the ancestral civilization and make them believe that we are indeed willing to cooperate sincerely?"
Yes, correct!
This is what a serious and civilized leader should think about.
Facing an existence that your own civilization cannot resist, the best solution is definitely not to resist or escape, but to try your best to join in and become a strong one yourself.
The Great Khan has been thinking about this issue these days, thinking about how to achieve his goal.
But unfortunately, the attitude of Mycroft's side is extremely ambiguous. Although they did not show too obvious hostility to the Shepherds, they did regard them as untrustworthy outsiders and were on guard. Although both sides If you want to communicate, you are trying again and again, but it makes the situation more complicated and confusing.
Therefore, when the Great Khan learned that the ancestral strongman who fought with him had woken up from the coma of suppressing the evil god, he put forward the conditions for negotiation with the other party.
It was precisely because he had fought with him and had bombarded each other and eroded his soul that the Great Khan could be 100% sure that he was a truly strong man who kept his word, absolutely kept his promise, and would not play any tricks.
The perception brought by battle is far more real and reliable than verbal communication.
So it waits, waiting for the other party to arrive.
time flies.
The Great Khan, who was originally staring at the empty scenery outside the window, suddenly turned his head and stared at a blank spot in the hall with his sensitive light- and magic-sensing organs.
At that location, there was a little silver light shining, like the starlight in the distance.
But soon, this silver light, which was so weak that even ordinary people couldn't handle it, turned into a vortex that distorted time and space. The endless steel power turned into a raging wave, which began to gather and solidify from all directions.
Not far away, the core surrounded by all the fortresses and observatories, the miniature silver world, was shining brightly.
All black and gray, the cap on the head of the eight-legged fungus as a guard began to change color violently. At the same time, an extremely sharp chime sounded, representing the highest level of alert, but the white eight-legged fungus, the incarnation of the Great Khan, raised his head. He raised his limbs and silenced the hall.
The next moment, it strode towards the silver vortex without any hesitation.
At the same time, an incarnation completely condensed from the power of pure steel emerged directly from the center of the energy vortex, and then stood on the floor of the hall.
"Nice to meet you, Great Khan of the Star Shepherds."
"Nice to meet you. Kill the evil god's Galaxy Guardian."
The transformed black-haired man nodded slightly to the white eight-legged fungus, and the white eight-legged fungus also changed the color of its cap to express hello.
After such a short exchange of greetings, Joshua, who was far more familiar with the other party than the others and knew his thoughts and purposes, asked the Great Khan straightforward questions.
"Before we cooperate, Great Khan, please describe to us in detail what the situation was like in the galaxy you once lived in."
There was no preface or foreshadowing. Joshua never talked nonsense. He stared at the body of the Great Khan and said bluntly:
"Why do you, who are so powerful, flee your hometown in such fear and come to the 'Lost Galaxy' you call it?"
(End of chapter)