Chapter 954 But of Course (1/2)

After a discussion with the other Legendary champions, Joshua had decided to head for Stellaris with his true form to purge the Evil God spawn and attempt to hunt for the lesser Evil Gods, while his clone scouted the unusual happenings at the Galaxy of Bloodbath in attempt to uncover the truth behind the mystery.

There was therefore no doubt that Creed and Elma's involvement then was a pleasant surprise—one was from Mycroft and a former expeditionary captain, while the other was a local Amos and seemed to hold considerable rank as a Supreme-pinnacle champion with the excess strength to break the seal on national borders. Either way, both of them had their causes, and were within the borders of the Amos Court.

Things could not have gone better.

There was nothing greater than having the two act as his agents in investigating the state of affairs in the Court; it was certainly more convenient than having sent a clone to gather intelligence. After all, his clone was ultimately an infiltrator that would have had to revert to direct confrontation mode once his cover was blown, while Elma was part of the local governance. Joshua therefore gifted Creed Phantom Gold imbued with artificial Steel Authority which encrypted jargons and aids in infiltration and spying. Elma was meanwhile given Azure Blue, which held Steel Authority but was tailored for combat and temporarily boosted her strength and size to absorb energies and unleash powerful Legendary-class blows.

That way, Joshua may not have even needed to lift a finger to uncover the truth.

However, with the secondary objective, the Galaxy of Bloodbath, having surprising developments, things were going rather slow at Stellaris, the initial primary target…or as he would have put it, it was not the right timing yet—it would have taken a considerable period of preparations for the Midgardians to perform a summoning ritual.

There was also a simple reason behind the sudden need for the ritual when they could have freely travelled to and from Stellaris. It was not Star the Steel Python driving away any elements from realms beyond, nor was it that the Chaos invasion would have triggered an instinctive reflex in worlds to repel unexpected guests, but rather…it was because Joshua was too heavy.

Truth be told, when Joshua contacted the Multiverse Sacrificial Grounds and queried the Commanding Will in regards to when he could have gotten there, the warrior remained unaware of the fact despite the Will not holding back and apologizing straightaway while stating that it could not be done. It was only when the Will began quoting the numbers and honestly pointed out how the mass of his true form exceeded the standard volume of dozens stars, and that the artificial black-hole, which drove rapidly whirling engine inside his body, was heavier than an ordinary world that Joshua realized the truth with a start.

Indeed, how could his astronomical mass be easily transported? Moving around conveniently was impossible unless the Midgardians built a Dimensional Hub and spend over half a year to calibrate a Stargate or teleportation beacon on Stellaris, just like what the Expeditionary had done back at the Zeta Ram system.

After all, Stellaris had a very thick dimensional barrier, since it was a vast realm containing thousands of galaxies. While it would not have been a problem for the Multiverse Sacrificial Grounds to send an ordinary Legend over, the Midgardians had to at least build a supermassive spell formation the size of a planetary system, coordinate its exterior and interior, and open a gap allowing Joshua to get inside, with Joshua's mass as it was.

It was due to Stellaris being a supermassive singular world. Had it been a miniature world, Joshua would not even have been able to approach, much less teleport inside. The world would have collapsed, been decimated, and been absorbed by him should he have insisted on entering—a fate more frightening than an Evil God invasion.

Therefore, after sending Stellaris the related information and having them prepare a receiving teleportation circle, Joshua had nothing else to do other than to wait for them to get ready, or to carry out certain excess frivolities. Incidentally, he could handle and delegate certain necessary matters before he finally left—such as the project now, which was the attempt to create a small shelter world.

Joshua's human-sized clone slowly rose up. He looked around New Xillia, seeing gentle scarlet everywhere he looked.

The ring world was very huge.

In the realm of ether dubbed the Sage's Refuge, the profound constructs known as the Ring World boasted sizes that exceeded imagination. Having 24,000 times the surface area of the Earth, billions could live upon it in stability, and it was equivalent to having 24,000 hospitable worlds built, a grand project that transcended what ordinary creatures could conceptualize.

But it was too massive, and that remained a disadvantage.

There was no question that the Ether Ring World would be the final refuge of all intelligent civilizations when the war against extinction ignited in the future. It was the hope beyond despair, the crown of worlds of order, the diamond ring of worlds—and as important as it had been, its objective was too profound.

Even by blocking all information memes through the use of artificial stars as an energy source, along with the Ether Ring World as the basis for a massive spell to hide the world in the dark galactic remains, it was not a hundred percent secure. It was not difficult to destroy the ring world despite the trouble in creating it, for as long as there a hostile Legend existed, they could destroy the circulation that maintained balance in the world, causing a part or even the entire world to lose control and the shelter to malfunction.

That was why they could not bet everything they had on it.

In order to gain as much assurance as they could gather in ensuring the survival of human civilization should the day of need come, the important characters hence caught sight of the design of shelter worlds, realms that were a size smaller than the ring world. The procedure of its construction was simple too—find a world that was mid-sized or perhaps smaller, alter it to suit human habitation, and enchant it with concealment magic—and the shelter world would have been completed.

And that was precisely what Joshua was doing at the moment—working alongside Zero Three and using the divine power of the God of the Sky to shield New Xillia from being connected to the outside, thus creating a small shelter.

Now, they had to design the interior of the shelter to be more suitable for human habitation.

Hovering in the air, Joshua lifted his hand, and all unmanned siege machines in New Xillia moved at once, energizing and igniting their engines in an instant. As if steered by spectrals, dozens of thousand construction machines all moved and worked in synchrony.

”Adjusting the shape and position of floating islands, layering with runic formation base to shield information and memes, connecting energy source to the Scarlet Lifetree and setting it as the largest solar energy harvester….”

Joshua did not use excessive strength, but simply controlled the machines to achieve something he applied Steel Strength for in the past. He could see that the Scarlet Lifetree which was protected by the Luminous Humanoid, Light's true form, had been very helpful in shifting its roots around so that the machines controlled by Joshua could carry out their task freely, even offering a considerable chunk of its trunk to set up as the base for runic inscription.

If Joshua task was to alter the landscape and set up the base for the spell, Zero Three's work was to construct new buildings for governance or the public according to the blueprints on the land that Joshua had cleared. As the AI girl called out, Black obediently descended from her random flight and casted her Ancient Dragon power to create was semi-permanent hot spring from the water source, providing individual hot tubs in each building. Meanwhile, Light had gained considerable Creation ability after being provided with many Steel Shards by Joshua. At Joshua and Zero Three's instructions, the part worked together to shift around the rugged floating continent into an astonishing disc-shaped world!

The form of the itself was the most perfect saucer there was, the center of which was the ocean-sized Bloody Lake and the Scarlet World Tree, its roots and branches reaching across the entire floating island. The tree and its branches had been pruned to such a conforming appearance that it resembled a spiderweb that spreads out by layers, dividing the disc-shaped world into 9,600 major districts. At the edges were protruding summits, each forming a very distinct dented realm. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.