Chapter 450 - Gains and Crisis (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“You don’t have to be thankful. Say, since you’ve got your revenge, what are your plans for the future?” Chen Jin asked.

The future? Mu Yunhua thought about it for a moment. Confusion flashed across her face and she shook her head, “I don’t know, I haven’t thought about the future.”

She had originally thought that it would take at least a few hundred years to fulfill her vendetta against the Selains and exhausting an infinite amount of energy in the process. She might even die before realizing her wish.

She felt that she was lucky enough to be able to take revenge in her lifetime.

She had never imagined that it was so easy to realize her wish with Jin’s help.

It was so easy that her heart felt somewhat empty, she did not know what to do next.

“If you don’t have any plans, then continue to work for me according to our previous agreement, and strive to occupy more galaxies and planets.”

“After annexing the Sela civilization, I plan to take a break for a while.”

Mu Yunhua wore a weary expression, “After all these years, I’m a little tired, let me take a break.”

“Well, you really should have a good rest for a while.” Chen Jin said.

…

After the central mother galaxy of the Sela civilization issued a signal of surrender.

For the next six months, most of the Sela colonial galaxies chose to give up on their resistance and joined the Haierfa civilization.

The small number of stubborn resistors who chose to hide out in dangerous terrain to carry out their resistance, even under the threat of death, soon met with attacks from a powerful interstellar warship. They had no choice but to yield after paying a heavy price.

Thus, such a civilization with great wisdom and knowledge was in the control of a group of human survival forces.

From one galaxy, the strength of mankind suddenly swelled by a thousand times in an instant.

As a classic example of counterattack, it could be described as a model of inspiration.

Moreover, the Selains (Crystal Brainers) were extremely valuable, and their potential was huge. Except for their appearance, which was rather ugly, they scored well in other aspects.

For example, they had powerful learning abilities. They could achieve rapid dissemination and absorption of knowledge through the use of their brain wave signals.

They belonged to a race where everyone was an elite.

Their ability to innovate was not bad either.

Also, because their treacherous, cunning, and overly clever characters were engraved in the soul of many Crystal Brainers, they were very fond of dallying in power plays and conspiracies.

So in theory, humans couldn’t defeat the Crystal Brainers.

In the end, it was because Chen Jin had provided external assistance by giving them a special shortcut, that the human survivors led by Mu Yunhua could finally realize their dreams. They trampled a powerful and wise civilization under their feet, and all the Crystal Brainers became slaves.

…

Very quickly.

Two years passed.

The power of the Sela civilization had been “digested” by the human forces.

Chen Jin, who had been standing behind the scenes and investing his resources into the war, had also been rewarded.

The best portions of the spoils seized by Mu Yunhua and her forces were put on the Black Emperor and transported back to Haierfa.

This included nearly all of the information on the Crystal Brainers’ science and technologies.

Including a rich variety of special mineral resources.

And a batch of up to ten million “brain crystals” – that’s right, it was that special crystal that grew at the backs of the brains of the Crystal Brainers. Those crystals were very valuable.

After years of research, Alice believed that brain crystal could even become a strategic resource and develop very important functions.

Besides sending and storing brain wave signals, the brain crystal had two other magical functions.

First, it could increase the realism of virtual games from the original 78% to more than 95% in an instant… it could even possibly increase the realism by up to 99%.

The original realism of the gaming experience was like a bottleneck that simply could not be broken through (as it was reflected in the human brain), experienced a qualitative improvement.

This principle behind this phenomenon had not been fully understood by Alice, but there was no doubt that the brain crystal could bring about a qualitative evolution to the virtual games that had not seen much change in the past hundred years or more.

The sense of immersion was better.

The gaming experience was more realistic.

It could be said that it had brought immensely good news to the vast number of veteran gamers.

“If the new generation of game helmets that are embedded with the ‘brain crystal’ was integrated with the virtual game Galaxy Era 2.0; the realism of the game would become infinitely life-like. It will set the game on fire with an all-new vitality, attracting at least billions of players.”

“A better game experience and a greater number of players would allow the Galaxy Era 2.0 to analyze the celestial powers and new laws of cultivation at double the speed; the efficiency of the game in analyzing these subjects will be doubled too.”

Besides this, after the brain crystals were brought to earth, it was discovered that due to its magical brain wave amplification effect, practitioners could obtain a 30% to 50% improvement in their cultivation efficiency by using the “power amplification” function of the brain crystal during meditation and cultivation processes.

If it was used for the arrangement and deployment of certain spell formations, the formations could be maintained for twice the original amount of time using the same amount of mental power.

These additional accomplishments were extremely impressive.

Its existence was akin to that of a magical artifact.

There were, of course, some magic weapons or special jades and stones that also had the effect of boosting one’s cultivation. But they were generally very expensive and their boosting effect was relatively average.

Magical items that could produce such obvious results like the brain crystal were very rare.

More importantly, after Mu Yunhua gained control of the entire Sela civilization, Chen Jin proposed an additional requirement of “handing over 100 million brain crystals” every year. This was not an enormous task because there were over a few hundred million Crystal Brainers who died of natural causes every year. Their brain crystals could be retrieved after death.

Of course, the brain crystal was very important to the Crystal Brainers. It was said to be the home of the soul. After death, the crystal should be properly laid to rest for the soul to ascend into the kingdom of heaven. If it was taken away, there would be no chance for the departed soul to enter the kingdom of heaven, it could only fall into darkness.

Typically, the Crystal Brainers would never surrender their brain crystal even if they were faced with the threat of certain death (although they would also quickly die after the crystal was cut out). According to traditional thought, the brain crystal must be placed in a beautiful dream-like cathedral where it would form part of the tower made up of soul crystals.

However, after being relegated to the status of slaves, the Crystal Brainers had no choice.

If they resisted, they would be killed and their brain crystal taken away immediately.

If the number of brain crystals collected was insufficient, then the humans could only kill those who were disobedient or guilty of crimes, to make up the amount that needed to be handed over.

This seemed a little cruel.

It did not give people a good feeling.

Mu Yunhua also hesitated for several seconds. She felt that no matter how she looked at it, this was not a kind act. Instead, it was somewhat like farming. They would wait until the brain crystal was matured before cutting them out to be used.

“This is the rule of the world. The strong can do whatever they want and the weak are turned into feed. Besides, 100 million brain crystals per year are only equivalent to just a few thousandths of the Crystal Brainers. The harvest ratio is not high. And since they have been defeated in battle, they should have the awareness that they are the losers. If they still dare to resist, then all of them will be slaughtered. Then, the hundreds of billions of brain crystals would be sufficient!”

Using a few natural substitutes, which were only a very small minority, in exchange for the continuation of the entire population; the Crystal Brainers should know what was their choice.