Chapter 41: Echoes of the Void
Far away, endless clusters of worlds, multiverse galaxies.
The multiverse galaxy is the largest cluster of galaxies in the currently observable multiverse. If a strong man observes it in the void, he will find that its shape is an extremely regular circular disc. The galaxies of countless worlds are arranged neatly in sequence, forming this huge world cluster structure that transcends imagination.
The closer it is to the world galaxy inside the multiverse galaxy, the higher its energy level, and the closer the world is to the melting form at the beginning of the birth of all things. Although it is rich in resources, such a world is not suitable for the reproduction and survival of most intelligent lives. Instead, a large number of intelligent civilizations are nurtured in the halo disc outside the disc structure.
In a cantilever bulge at the lower right side of the multiverse galaxy, a civilization that has emerged in the last thousand years and is flourishing is expanding in the void.
The intelligent life that calls itself a spiritual race is caused by bee-like insects obtaining their own will through their souls, thus developing the existence of civilization. They were originally just a large omnivorous insect on the "Farm of Origin". The social structure is similar to bees. No individual in each group has wisdom except for the mother of insects. However, due to a large-scale geological change in the mother of Origin, the magical ore veins hidden underground are exposed to the surface. The large-scale "magic recovery" phenomenon caused by it has led to the individuals of bees obtaining their souls and appearing wisdom.
Surprisingly, although they were bee-like insects, the spiritual race did not merge into a huge bee colony consciousness after gaining wisdom. In fact, they formed a monarchy with the mother emperor as the core, and in a series of social reforms, they confirmed the political system as a virtual monarchy similar to the constitutional monarchy.
The spirit races are naturally calm and good at obeying order. They have developed a complex but efficient bureaucracy that manages complex world-class nest communities. In addition, since there are no other intelligent lives born from awakening on the parent planet of origin, they have always been extremely curious about the life forms of other worlds.
In fact, the spiritual races are also lucky. The galaxy in the world where they are located is extremely remote. Because of the lack of high-energy environmental catalysis, there are no other high-vac civilizations in the same galaxy. Those infamous natural disaster civilizations do not move much in this galaxy due to insufficient resources. The dangerous higher civilization closest to the galaxy in this world is a fleet civilization called "knowledge takeover". They wander around the entire multiverse galaxy.
The spiritual civilization did not know that those knowledge collectors had indeed discovered them, but because the spiritual race was too backward at that time, they did not spend any effort to get close.
Therefore, today's spiritual civilization is equivalent to owning a world galaxy. They have expanded greatly in the past thousand years and their technical level has also improved leaps and bounds. Now they have vaguely become a large interstellar empire, and everything can be said to be smooth sailing.
Except for the sudden attack 351 years ago.
Everything originated from an abnormal time and space fluctuation. The central mother nest received an emergency alarm from the edge star field. A first-class mining world prepared to be developed was suddenly attacked by an unknown race. In just one night, eighty percent of the world's mass was stripped away, and the remaining wreckage was the worst valueless mud and sand.
Most of the individuals in the spirit race who were responsible for guarding the world died in that huge change. Only a few technicians located in the Void Observatory survived. They were all greatly stimulated, as if they had seen some incredible existence. In the fragmented words, they could only hear them repeating the word "big beast".
But this is not the end, but just the beginning is soon. After the first alarm sounds, the second, third or even dozens of alarms sound one after another. One after another, one ready to develop, developing, or the world that has been developed, was suddenly attacked, and the quality is stripped out. Not only that, many worlds with no man and low value are destroyed, and the water resources in several ocean worlds are also absorbed out.
If you look at it from the star map, it would be a huge shadow that constantly invades the territory of the spiritual race from the edge of the galaxy, and wherever you pass, it is deserted, like a grassland gnawing by locusts.
At the moment of crisis, the Spirit Clan gathered all its fleet strength, but because there were no foreign enemies, the strength of the Spirit Clan's fleet was simply useless compared to the size of the entire civilization. There were less than a hundred small and medium-sized warships in appearance. But even so, the Spirit Clan still sent the only fleet to the surroundings of the world star domain where the shadow was about to invade, preparing to resist the unknown powerful enemy.
Then, they knew what the so-called "big beast" meant.
It was a huge cluster of void beasts with a total of nearly forty, covering the sky and the sun, and even the stars could cover the stars and moving forward silently. The fleet of the spirit race was even worse than the bulges on one of these giant beasts. The turbulence caused by their advancement would even affect the world's orbit.
Do not accept communication, do not accept communication, do not accept resistance, the huge fleet of behemoths responds to all communication and battles of the Spirit Clan in silence. They do not even care about the suicide attacks launched by the Spirit Clan fleet. They just plunder the resources of one world after another, and then fly forward to destroy one world after another.
That attack did not cause devastating damage to the spiritual civilization. All densely populated worlds on the trajectory were urgently evacuated, and the Void Behemoth Fleet was simply moving forward in a straight line and reserved all the resources that could be reserved, and did not pursue the evacuation fleet of the spiritual race.
They were not attacks, they were just passing by, but the damage caused by the giant stepping on the ant's nest. It was too huge for the ants. Fortunately, after halfway through the spiritual civilization circle, these giant beasts seemed to have reserved enough resources. They did not continue to destroy the world, but flew towards the end of the world's galaxy.
The disaster that encountered that led to the death of tens of millions of spiritual individuals, and had a great impact on spiritual civilization. They finally realized that there were other powerful civilizations in the huge world galaxy, and these powerful civilizations cannot be described as "friendly" and "malice", because if they did not reach a sufficient height, let alone communication, the strong would not notice the weak's desperate counterattack.
‘They’ just passed by and disappeared at the end of the galaxy that the Spirits could not observe. Whether the consequences were destruction or help, it was not their business.
Because of this, the spiritual civilization today vigorously develops void technology and focuses its national strength on the combat fleet. After hundreds of years of continuous development, the spiritual civilization has not waited for the powerful existence and enemies they are wary of, but the development of the fleet has become a deeply rooted tradition of the entire civilization. Now, the huge void fleet of the spiritual race has taken shape. They firmly believe that even if they encounter the former void beast army again, they will not be at least at a disadvantage, and will not have any power to fight back as before.
Out of vigilance for sudden attacks hundreds of years ago, the spiritual civilization has been collecting information about the surrounding star fields and the world galaxies as much as possible to avoid being attacked by the giant beast fleet without warning like before... Of course, they have not gained anything in recent years. After all, the spiritual races isolated from the deviated galaxies do not know how anxious the situation in the entire multi-world galaxy cluster is. Naturally, it is impossible for civilizations to waste time and send fleets to explore the edge galaxies at the end of this world.
Just as the Spirit Clan itself began to slack off and no longer cared about detecting information about the surrounding galaxies.
A monitoring center from the edge of the territory of the Spiritual Empire sent an vague emergency notice to the central mother nest of the parent star of origin.
"...Jing, in the name of the great Mother Emperor and the 24th generation awakened Kailua, the No. 937 Frontier Monitoring Institute detected a very weak magic power fluctuation..."
"… With extraordinary energy levels, our technicians and instruments are unable to track the source of the fluctuation..."
"...It is not a misjudgment caused by the aging of the instrument. It is indeed some abnormal magic energy fluctuation, which is mixed with some strange psychic energy flow. We apply for advanced testing equipment..."
At the beginning, this emergency notice did not attract the attention of the entire empire. Although local technicians repeatedly reiterated that this was not a misjudgment caused by the aging of the instrument, this vague report and almost isolated data could not be used as evidence at all. Some senior technical departments even suspected that this was an excuse for local monitoring stations to ask for more funds.
Originally, this kind of thing was like a stone thrown into the lake, and it could not cause much trouble. But to the surprise of the top leaders of the entire spiritual race, similar emergency reports came one after another from all the frontier monitoring stations of the entire empire.
"...Our instruments sensed some extremely strange energy fluctuations that were completely different from the systems we are familiar with..."
"...Our monitoring station intercepted a strange subspace echo, and the sound came from the unknown depths of the silent void..."
"…It has been confirmed that the echo is very weak at the beginning, but it is gradually getting stronger over time. It seems that something is approaching our galaxy..."
"...its source is in the depths of the silent void, but we cannot correctly judge its range. The existing explanation is that the silent void is too calm on weekdays, so that as long as any abnormal energy fluctuations appear in the depths, a huge range of resonance waves will be triggered..."
"…The technicians cannot explain the reason. This strange phenomenon is unprecedented, but we are still analyzing the existing data and hoping to get support from advanced equipment..."
Although most of the notices from different monitoring stations have different contents, they are essentially a monitoring station located at the edge of the world's galaxy. The source of these fluctuations is unknown, and they occur in the depths of the silent void, and the cause is unknown.
For the spiritual race living at the edge of the multi-galaxy river, the void facing the inside of the world galaxy river is a normal void, while the void facing the outside of the world galaxy river is called the silent void. Because there is no other world outside, the silent void is extremely calm all the time and there is no large state of invasion of time and space fluctuations.
But now, the silent void is no longer silent, which immediately triggered heated discussions within the Imperial Technology Department.
Not only that, news about these fluctuating signals has now become various strange speculations in the media. For example, a new world is being born at the other end of the galaxy, and a fleet of giant beasts that had disappeared inexplicably in the past is returning from the silence... The steadily developing spiritual empire suddenly showed up a craze about speculation about external signals.
A large number of advanced equipment was supported to the monitoring stations on these frontiers. The Spiritual Empire began to mobilize fleets to prepare for exercises. The arrival of their new friends was also wary of possible enemies in the future. In short, they would make all preparations to deal with all communication and threats.
However, the Spirit races are just an emerging empire after all. They may not be behind in the technology of void warships, but they are a bit too weak in information monitoring and extraordinary power system.
The galaxies in the diverse world, many civilizations that are also located in the marginal areas, powerful extraordinary individuals, and super civilizations that flourish and prosper one after another, spanning multiple galaxies have detected corresponding strange signals, and they can all hear the energy fluctuations and subspace echoes from the distant galaxies.
Chapter completed!