Chapter 2122 - 1683: We Will Erase This Place

Chapter 2122: Chapter 1683: We Will Erase This Place

"Dig it open, dig it open and you’ll see the Divine Light. Although it’s already extinguished, what’s hardened now is only the surface. The entire extinguishing process lasts at least one to two hundred million years. Even if it’s completely gone out, it will still condense a huge amount of Divine Light Crystal. If we stimulate it with special methods, it will release Divine Light again, then we deflect it a bit with an Oblique Star Mirror, and that gives us Divine Light that can nourish Star Descendants," Concrete said.

Negris no longer knew what to say: "The extinguishing process actually lasts two hundred million years? That kind of time unit really makes people despair. Still, even an extinguished God Star is something they can brag about. They’ve really seen nothing of the world."

Just now Concrete had proudly said they possessed the only God Star in the vicinity of several hundred settlements. That show-off posture led everyone to misjudge, assuming this was a burning God Star. Now that they really looked, it was a huge letdown.

For Ange and the others, a burning God Star is no longer anything rare. What can impress them is increment. A God Star without increment, like the Sixth Divine Star type, when it’s time to run, all that stored stock is just dead weight to be thrown away.

Anthony said, "That’s not quite fair. Star Descendants are life birthed by God Stars; their relationship to a God Star is like our humans’ relationship to a Plane. Don’t say a whole Plane— even a small fragment of a Plane can be treated as a treasure. Back then the Church of Light spent a huge amount of effort just to convert two Plane fragments into Heaven’s Fortresses."

The Church of Light has two Heaven’s Fortresses, one of which is the Holy Kingdom, whose core houses the Light Main God Status. Now it has become Little Ghost’s domain.

The other one is the Judgement Heavenly Kingdom, used to bombard the Master Plane, then it got stuck on the Space Barrier and finally turned into Flash Feiti’s tomb.

Because of the God of the Forgotten, Feiti completely forgot his own origins and spent more than a thousand years there picking up Garbage.

Both Heaven’s Fortresses were refitted from Plane fragments, their volume not inferior to an ordinary Abyss Dimension, and they even possess a Plane Barrier. This Plane Barrier became a natural protective shell; back then if Ange hadn’t transformed into Locke, he simply wouldn’t have been able to open it.

Two Plane fragments were enough for the Church of Light to treat them like priceless treasures; now here lies the remains of an entire God Star. Of course Concrete treasures it. It’s just that Negris has seen too many good things, so he sneers at it.

With this corpse in hand, the Star Descendants of the several hundred nearby settlements no longer have to worry about dying from Divine Light depletion. And with control over such resources, whatever Concrete wants to do becomes much easier. No wonder three mutually unrelated Thieves’ Groups would rally around it as their leader.

They kept Flying forward and arrived at a valley, where they found many Star Descendants attempting to cut the hardened shell on the God Star’s surface.

Anthony asked in puzzlement, "What are they doing?

"Oh, they’re collecting building materials. There are more and more Life Species gathering here, and most of them can’t live directly on the God Star’s surface, not even on an extinguished God Star. So we collect some Star Shell and sell it to them. After they go back and slice it up, it can serve as building material."

Negris asked in shock, "Star Shell? As building material? Life Species? They have a way to process it?"

You couldn’t blame Negris for being shocked, because Star Shell is an extremely hard material; Morania’s surface is covered with a layer of such hard shell.

It can withstand the pressure on the God Star’s surface without cracking, and it can withstand the internal high pressure without exploding. It’s simply not a material that Life Species can process.

Back then, in order to process the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms, Ange specially cultivated a kind of insect whose mouthparts carried Power of Chaos, and only then barely managed to gnaw on the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms.

And even harder than the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms are the various carbonized Divine Tree remains. Those things the insects couldn’t gnaw at all; they could only be processed by Ange and the Gray Divine Star.

It wasn’t until later, after mastering Star Power, that Ange specially made a few Star Bone Sticks and had those Mourning Undead Soldiers smash away, finally solving the problem of pulverizing the carbonized remains. That was only because after carbonization, hardness went up while toughness went down; they were too brittle, otherwise there’d be no way to smash them.

And the hard shell on the surface of the God Star is even tougher than the Divine Tree remains, yet they actually sell it to Life Species as material? What kind of Life Species can process that?

Giant Tool said, "They can’t process Star Shell, but fitting pieces together is no problem. If you’re curious, why don’t you all just come down and take a look?"

They exchanged glances and nodded one after another.

So Concrete led everyone, Flying toward a relatively chaotic region on the outer edge of the God Star.

While Flying, Concrete took the chance to explain: "The cooling rate on a God Star’s surface isn’t uniform. The top layer cools first, while below is still hot, so it becomes stratified. If we peel the Star Shell layer by layer, we get a gigantic flat sheet of Star Shell. Treat it as a foundation, and then we can build all kinds of structures on that flat surface."

Negris suddenly understood. Uneven cooling indeed causes layering; this structural separation means you can pry them apart easily, but breaking them is very difficult, which makes them just right for use as foundations.

Once they reached the outer region, they indeed saw huge thin sheets of Star Shell floating in the Void, with all sorts of buildings haphazardly piled on top of the Star Shell, like a small mountain of structures.

Concrete continued his introduction: "Many Life Species need to breathe air, so the first step is to place something possessing Power of Devour on the Star Shell, which can suck air onto the surface of the Star Shell."

"Because Power of Devour is the center, the air sucked over forms a kind of inverted half-sphere on the Star Shell. The closer it is to the center, the thicker the air layer, so buildings naturally get piled into this shape."

Tyrone couldn’t help but sigh, "So even the shape of the buildings carries so many details. You look at it and think it’s just a random heap of constructions, but it’s actually to make use of the space inside the half-sphere air dome."

From these details you can tell that these Star Descendants and Life Species have been staying here for a very long time and have already begun developing a corresponding architectural style.

Concrete had just been about to say something more when a strong Energy Wave suddenly came from the distance, like something had exploded.

Not long after, a Star Descendant star-shifted over, tumbling and scrambling: "My lords, Settlement Fifteen up ahead has been blasted apart, blown up by Star Descendants coming from the Furnace Road. All the Life Species and Star Descendants are dead."

"What? Star Descendants from the Furnace Road? Why would they attack our settlement?" Giant Elephant asked in shock.

Before the reporting Star Descendant could answer, a powerful surge of consciousness swept across the entire area:

"We are Star Builders of the Ten Thousand Refining Empire from the Furnace Branch. Our Oblique Star Mirror was accidentally damaged. We need an Oblique Star Mirror of the Ten Thousand Refining Empire. If you hand over one Oblique Star Mirror of the Wan Nian Empire, we will grant you rich reward. If you have none, we will completely erase this place."