Ethereal Religion has a diplomatic embassy on the home planet of the Scarlet Empire. The diplomatic ambassador visited the Tyron Hamill Palace, the political core of the empire, and negotiated with the relevant officials of the empire on the ransom of Dylan and Metes.
Negotiations have been going on for several months, and the imperial officials have gradually accepted some conditions from the beginning of the oil and salt, and the diplomatic ambassador of Ethereal Religion knows that he is gradually making progress.
"Regarding Clause 53 of the ransom, we have an addition..."
The diplomatic ambassadors talked eloquently, and the imperial officials nodded and listened, occasionally asking a question or two about the matter. They don't have the power to make decisions by themselves, they are actually just the loudspeakers for the high-level officials on both sides, and their attitude is the attitude of the high-level officials.
After listening for a while, the communicator of the imperial official suddenly rang, and upon receiving the news, the diplomatic ambassador wisely stopped talking and signaled to continue talking when you were finished.
The imperial official turned on the communicator, glanced at it, and then put the communicator away.
Upon seeing this, the diplomatic ambassador was about to continue, but the imperial official raised his palm to signal him to stop.
"Just come here today, the previous conditions are all overturned, and you go back and make a new ransom agreement."
The diplomatic ambassador was surprised, "Isn't the previous agreement already negotiated, why suddenly..."
The imperial official waved his hand and interrupted the other party's words. He stood up and looked down at the diplomatic ambassador. The arc of a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and the smile carried a sense of pride and superiority that made the diplomatic ambassador feel bad.
"Go back and wait for your high-level news, or you can also read today's news, and you will know why."
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After three months, the situation between the Scarlet Empire and Ethereal Religion has made new progress.
On this day, the Empire issued a new statement to the entire universe, announcing that they had successfully captured two Ethereal Religion Transcendent A Grades. So far, the Empire has four captives.
The empire's counterattack was like a thunderbolt, which made many forces in the universe awe-inspiring. Seeing the blood loss of Ethereal Religion, some people gloated, some secretly secretly rejoiced, and some shared the enemy.
In more than a dozen star fields, among the interstellar citizen groups of countless civilizations, this news also caused a sensation. In the eyes of ordinary people, Transcendent A Grade is close to a god, as far away as a legend, and this time, there are four The high-level Transcendent A Grade was knocked down from the world and became a prisoner.
Since entering Xinghai Calendar, there has been no incident of Transcendent A Grade being captured collectively for many years. Countless interstellar citizens feel as if they have witnessed history. This sensational event will definitely be remembered in history.
On the forum, players' views on this incident focused on another angle.
The task of the regional search has been settled, and the players who provided clues shared the rich rewards equally. In the legion program, Philip released a message to them, praising their contributions, which proved that the empire caught two Transcendent A Grades, and they A lot of credit.
Several players who initially discovered that the two of Sagman were abnormal posted their rewards in the forum, which let many players know that the trend of the plot of this major event was inadvertently changed by them, and they participated in this plot. caused a small impact.
From version 1.0 to version 3.0, players gradually find that they have more and more influence on the plot trend, and their involvement in Xinghai is getting deeper and deeper. Generally, players can only feel the influence of their own changes in the plot when they perform side quests on weak planets. power, and this time, they changed the plot of the big event related to the struggle of the cosmos-level civilization, which was several levels higher.
Realizing the importance of what you do brings a sense of achievement and fun that is more satisfying than a simple task reward.
This incident was also recorded by the player in the Chronicle of Broken Starlink.
Every player can write a chronicle, which creates a messy consequence. The official will screen and sort out the events. Some trivial matters will be put in the appendix. Only such a big event worth mentioning can be put in the main post. The player who wrote it can sign and get rewards. Many people take this as a Rong.
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Another star cluster in Broken Starlink, a long snake-like fleet lined up in front of a public stargate station, among which was an unremarkable ordinary spaceship.
Inside the ship, the virtual screen was showing a piece of news, the Empire News Channel announced the results of the pursuit, and two Ethereal Religion Transcendent A Grades were captured alive.
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The virtual screen is turned off.
Niga put down the remote control and held his forehead with one hand, with a very complicated expression.
"Sagman and the others were captured by the Empire..."
Among the four people who escaped from Glittering World together, two people have already been arrested, and Sisko's situation is also very bad. It seems that he is the only one who can escape from Broken Starlink safely, and Niga can't help but feel a sense of sadness in his heart.
I still remember when they set off, the six of them were full of confidence, and they felt that they were sure of everything. Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, they were completely wiped out, they fled, many people were arrested, and only the end game was left.
He heard that the top level of Ethereal Religion is negotiating with Scarlet Empire to discuss the issue of ransom, and now, the empire has two more chips in hand, Ethereal Religion has to pay a greater price, not to mention, he does not think Scarlet Empire will allow Ethereal Religion redeemed everyone, and among the four arrested, I am afraid that some people will experience long-term imprisonment.
"At least... I took the scepter back with me..."
Niga shook his head gently, and now, he can only use this excuse to comfort himself and Ethereal Religion.
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"Fortunately, Niga carried the scepter of the gods and did not let the empire take them away..."
At the meeting of the Ethereal Religion Bishops' Conference, many bishops frowned, and some people said this sentence in a happy tone, but it only attracted a helpless glance from others.
A bishop sighed, "The spy network of Broken Starlink was enabled, but it failed to bring back all the super-a-level combat power. The price we paid was much higher than the profit. Sagman and Taylor fell into the hands of the empire, The chips in their hands have increased, and we need to pay more ransoms, and the Empire will not be polite to us."
The ransom between the two cosmos-level civilizations will not be simple money, but various political, military and economic conditions.
The conference round table was clouded with gloom, and the bishops' conference looked lost and had no time to be angry.
Dylan, Metes, Taylor Di, and Sagman not only represent themselves, but the four have their own Transcendent A Grade forces. The power is huge and the strong are like clouds. Now that the leader has been arrested, these Transcendent A Grade forces have emerged. The turmoil, the panic, and the Ethereal Religion are under enormous pressure to stabilize these allies.
Coupled with the attention of other Transcendent A Grade combat power, Ethereal Religion must not only redeem people, but also as soon as possible, not to chill the hearts of allies, otherwise it will be difficult to attract new Transcendent A Grades to work for themselves in the future.
There will always be old Transcendent A Grades dying and new Transcendent A Grades born. The time scale of civilization is very long, and the Transcendent A Grades under his command are constantly updated and iterated. From a long-term perspective, the reputation and reputation of civilization in this regard is even more important. to the four people who were arrested.
In terms of updates and iterations, the Scarlet Empire currently occupies an absolute advantage...
As the holder of the fastest record of reaching Transcendent A Grade, Black Star is undoubtedly a potential stock. After this battle, Black Star, who has not reached Transcendent A Grade for a long time, has initially shown its edge, faster than countless forces expected.
In the foreseeable future, the ability displayed by Black Star will definitely become a strong man that the Scarlet Empire relies on. The most terrifying thing is the age of Black Star. He is the youngest of all Transcendent A Grades, enough to serve the empire. Hundreds and thousands of years.
In other words, they will probably have to deal with this guy continuously in the next few hundred years.
Thinking that the Scarlet Empire has such a potential stock, the senior leaders of Ethereal Religion were jealous and separated.
They also wanted to kill Black Star, but this attempt cost them a lot, and Ethereal Religion was forced to decide to temporarily abandon the Evolution Cube.
Before eliminating the impact of this storm, Ethereal Religion does not intend to trouble Black Star again, and does not even want to look at him.
Ethereal Religion admitted that this time they were planted.
This account, for the time being recorded.
Save that for later.
The days are still long!
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"Sagman they planted this time."
In the dim room, Ethereal Religion's Transcendent A Grade gathered here through remote projection, and there were six seats above the round table.
Due to this incident, the Transcendent A Grades of Ethereal Religion gathered together to talk about the storm.
"The Ethereal Religion came to me when they planned this operation. They only saw the disparity in combat power and thought it was impossible to fail, but I felt it was risky, so I refused the call, and the reckless man of Metes replaced it. I got my position, and now it looks like, fortunately, I didn't agree at that time." Some people couldn't help but take a backseat.
"Unfortunately, I was stared at by many forces and could not be secretly mobilized. Otherwise, if I participated in this operation, the result would have been different." Another person said lightly.
Ethereal Religion also has the existence of the three pillars of the Scarlet Empire, but the strongest Transcendent A Grade did not participate in this operation, because they are powerful, they are under more surveillance, and any disturbance will be noticeable, and Ethereal The sect believed that the scepter of the gods and the numerical advantage were enough to crush the empire, so they found six Super A Grades from Sagman, and there was still a gap between the most powerful Sagman and Niga and the strongest Super A Grades.
"However, no matter how you say it, Sagman and the others have an advantage in numbers, but they still failed to get into the cube. The ability Black Star showed this time was an unexpected factor. It seems that we have another strong opponent."
"Well... in a few decades, the three pillars of the empire will probably become the four pillars of the empire..."
Allies of the same camp were slumped in the hands of Black Star, and the Super A Grade present here had an even deeper impression of Han Xiao.
"How about it, what are your thoughts? Are we waiting for Ethereal Religion to redeem the people, or are we going to intercept the fleet of the Empire's escorting prisoners and rescue them midway?"
"Let's just wait and see. If Ethereal Religion can solve the problem, we won't make the situation more complicated... Moreover, the information from Ethereal Religion shows that Black Star can seal Transcendent A Grade, although I don't know what universe it is. Treasures, but obviously not so easy to break."
Everyone nodded, and they were all afraid of the second mysterious Cosmic Treasure in Han Xiao's hands.
According to the general practice, the empire escorted four Transcendent A Grade prisoners back, and the important condition for them to save people in the middle is to cooperate with each other.
And now, Ethereal Religion said that Black Star can seal Transcendent A Grade, with the intelligence capabilities of cosmos-grade civilization, this is definitely not groundless.
Unable to cooperate internally and externally, the difficulty of saving people in the middle increases sharply. It seems to be just a small change, but it affects the whole body.
The Transcendent A Grade present here has friendship with Sagman and others, but this friendship is not enough to make them take risks.
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The blue space energy vortex swayed with tidal-like ripples, and a mighty imperial fleet spewed orange-red propulsion flames and slowly drove out of the star gate, leaving a trail of slowly fading away. Traces of tail flames, including a giant dragon with a size comparable to a battleship.
The dim light of the stargate sprinkled on the hull of each battleship, leaving mottled light and shadow on the angular mechanical structure of the hull, illuminating the cracks and depressions in the armor, and the outer armor of varying degrees of damage was full of battle marks.
Several Black Star Legion spaceships were suspended not far from the Stargate, and the heavy armed main ship that slowly approached the fleet was particularly damaged. The armor plate was torn in a large area, and dozens of nanometers The holes filled by the repair materials all indicate the intensity of the battle.
The spaceship is docked with the main ship, and the mechanical structures around the hatch are locked together to complete the link.
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The hatch slid open, and Han Xiao walked into the main ship along the passage. Under the leadership of the imperial soldiers, he came all the way to the strictly guarded prison area, where two restraint cabins were placed.
The inner wall of the restraint cabin is made of an extremely tough alloy material, which is difficult to escape from the inside out. The internal structure is automatically adjusted according to the prisoner's body shape to fix it. The interlayer is equipped with various devices to provide high voltage and electromagnetic fields for restraint, and Weakening the transferability of energy, the two restraint compartments were holding the two of Sagman respectively at this time.
The restraint cabin cannot completely restrict Transcendent A Grade, but the two have been severely injured and unable to break free, while Heboar, Beoni and other Empire Transcendent A Grade are guarded by the side.
Han Xiao's main body came to meet, in order to use the time-space amber to completely seal the two.
"Master." You Zu and other apostles' weapons greeted him.
"It's hard work." Han Xiao nodded, and recovered the mechanical body by the way.
The mechanical body carries his [Descent of the Lord], and it is impossible for him to fight with Sagman. It needs to be repaired to a certain extent.
The two of Sagman had nowhere to run, and they fought with all their might. The power of the battle should not be underestimated, especially Sagman, when his abilities were fully activated, the destructive power was amazing, causing a certain amount of damage to the fleet. However, in the end, he was besieged and suppressed by the Empire Transcendent A Grade.
Tarrokov's remote projection greeted him and nodded, "Come on, I'll be waiting for you."
"Let them out." Han Xiao asked the imperial soldiers to open the restraint compartment, took out the time-space amber, and sealed Sagman and Taylor in succession.
"This is much safer, and there is no risk of getting out of trouble." Tarrokov tapped the amber ball with satisfaction.
Ravenlaud couldn't help but look at Han Xiao, he felt more and more that time-space amber was easy to use, and he felt lost and envious.
Tarrokov asked the soldiers to remove the two amber balls, and brought Han Xiao and others to the conference room.
After everyone was seated, he looked at Han Xiao and said, "Your Excellency the Head of State is satisfied with our progress. She has learned of Black Star's credit and made a special compliment."
Han Xiao nodded. He contributed a lot in the pursuit and provided a lot of information. After catching the two, his panel got a prompt, and he got 4,500 Empire Contribution Points.
Not only that, but Tarrokov also revealed to him privately before that this credit would make the empire tend to him in terms of dividing Glittering World territory, and have the opportunity to get bigger and better fiefs.
This sudden incident not only turned the danger into a safe place, but also countered the army. The top officials of the empire now have a very good impression of Han Xiao.
"The pursuit of the empire has ended, and then the spies of Ethereal Religion will be hunted down, but this job is taken over by the Intelligence Bureau, and the empire has another task for you."
Tarrokov changed the conversation, "Next, the empire needs you to escort four prisoners to the Constellation Corridor to prevent the interception of Ethereal Religion on the way."
Everyone nodded one after another, it is appropriate to be cautious, and they cannot lose these chips because of carelessness.
"However, the escorted candidates do not include Black Star and Tyrant."
Everyone looked over, and Han Xiao and Heboar were a little surprised.
"What do you want us to do?" Heboar asked in a deep voice.
Tarrokov opened the star map, zoomed in on the field of vision, and pointed his finger on the territory of the Star Pupils Protoss.
"I need two people to lead some imperial fleets to the territory of the Star Pupil God Race."
"Go catch Sisko?" Heboar frowned.
"No, you are just going to pressure." Tarrokov shook his head, "Sisko's situation is different from others, he is the leader of civilization, the base camp is in Broken Starlink, the empire did plan to deal with him, but You seized Sagman and Taylor, and His Excellency the Fuhrer canceled the plan, you can consider it a kind of counterbalancing concession."
"Well, that's not bad." Maxirol interjected: "We have four prisoners in our hands, Sisko is a person who has no way to escape, and it may not be a good thing for the empire to continue to pursue and fight. "
A few other people have no foundation in Broken Starlink. They can only blame themselves for not escaping when they are caught. Sisko can run away from the temple. Civilization leaders will cause a lot of backlash, and Ethereal Religion can't sit back and watch the forces it shelters be bullied like this, otherwise it will lose the trust of its allies.
The empire is not afraid of these consequences, but since it has captured new captives, there is no need for the back-up option of Sisko. If it is not necessary, the empire does not want to cause an excessive backlash, so it changed the original plan and acted according to opportunity. receive.
Of course, not arresting Sisko does not mean that he will not be investigated for his actions. It is necessary to restrain the development of the Star Pupil God Race. If a force close to Ethereal Religion can be driven out of this star field, then Nothing better.
The Scarlet Empire has mobilized hundreds of millions of warships in order to develop Glittering World, and now part of the fleet is transferred to Broken Starlink. The armed forces available in this star field are even more than the sum of the other two, even if the Radiance Federation is the nominal power here. are useless.
Just one word, do whatever you want.
"It's a pity." Han Xiao raised his brows and couldn't catch the other party. He couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He has always been interested in Sisko's body structure. Every time he sees Sisko, he wants to poke this guy in the eye. .
However, he took away the "treasure of the town" in the eyes of the Xingtong Protoss, and the two sides were on the same page.
'It seems to bring more people, don't be beaten...' Han Xiao secretly said.