And clearly, the Moon was a choice.
The construction of the Moon Base was not difficult. The Terra People themselves had been modified by the civilization of the previous era, possessing the ability to live in various environments.
Whether they were Dragonfolk, Awakeners, or Cyborg Modifiers, or even the pilots with Mechanical Dragon bodies, they were unafraid of the vacuum environment and extreme temperatures of space, easily establishing a simple ecosystem on the Moon and starting to grow potatoes.
On the Moon, they even discovered several Moon exploration bases left by the previous era’s civilization—where there were even remnants of exploration bases.
After all, sixteen hundred years had passed, and the Illusory Moon had endured many impacts from New Moon Fragments, turning the previous era’s civilization bases into scrap metal, but the presence of exploration bases indicated that there must be resources nearby, facilitating the development for Moon developers.
Let alone, even scrap metal can provide a lot of ideas.
The world war lasted nearly eight years, and the omens had become somewhat blurry in this regard, and Ian didn’t know the specific state of the war.
He only knew that by the end of the war, those at the Fifth Energy Level also began to act, engaging in several terrifying battles near the Terra orbit—they even fought all the way to the vicinity of the Moon and then back to Terra.
No wonder people on Terra had such a high sense of crisis, they didn’t even think of going to the New Continent to hide, and instead went directly to the Moon.
The distance to the New Continent was essentially like a backyard for those High-Energy Advancers and could not guarantee any safety!
And then after these few wars, The Empire seemed to have split—the Azure Sky Royal Court also seemed to have split for some reason...because of the perspective issue, Ian couldn’t see the current situation on Terra, naturally making it impossible to know how Terra had split exactly.
Anyway, it was all trivial matters; you Terra People can beat each other’s brains out for all we care, just don’t affect our Pioneers developing the universe.jpg
But at the same time, outside, an exploration team centered around an Assembled Dragon had already flown to the surroundings of Kreis Star (Terra’s third planet) and Mars Star (Terra’s fifth planet).
There, too, were reserves of Sublimation Minerals, where the Mechanical Dragons could establish another base.
However, compared to Terra, the mineral resources on Mars were actually quite scarce. One could even say so scarce that it hardly seemed like a planet within the same solar system.
This fact made Ian rather suspicious.
The resources on the Moon were even much more abundant than those on Kreis and Mars, which was quite illogical.
It’s as if various Sublimation Materials radiated towards the whole solar system with Terra at the center, rather than radiating from the sun as the center.
The change brought by the Star God Spaceship’s fall seemed to be more than just the Calamity of Heavenly Fall and the Demon of the Abyss...it also had some deeper change.
This is the prelude to the grand era of cosmic expansion.
The earth continues in chaos, while the Dragon Group flies to the distances.
[So this is the Pioneer...I see, this is what The Creator meant, where a Pioneer would lead people to become explorers and move towards the distance...]
At this moment, the way the Galewind Dragon King looked at Ian had completely changed: [This is a future entirely unimaginable for the Terra People—they simply do not want to look up, for there is not much ’sublimation material’ among those stars, only ordinary rocks and metals...but you are able to make those ordinary metals the foundation of technology!]
[Moreover, your ambition is definitely not merely those few planets!]
At this point, just taking a breath of cold air was not enough, the Galewind Dragon King even felt a shiver.
If previously, His assistance to "Mahdi" was simply due to the appreciation from the King of the Mountain and the possible aid to the True Dragon’s future from the Creator’s Heir.
Then, now that He knew Ian was a true Pioneer, formidable enough to foresee the future as a Prophet, this Dragon King realized something.
—The person before him might be the only one who can help these True Dragon Kings shake off their predetermined destiny!
—The person before him might truly become the future ’Star God’!
It was at the moment of the Dragon King’s realization.
On Mars Star, an enormous Mechanical Dragon body, towering like a mountain, slowly set out, departing from the planet’s orbit.
This Mechanical Dragon had no soul nor any physical pilot, it was entirely operated by artificial intelligence, loaded with all sorts of resources and supplies—on top of it, there was even a simplified version of the ’Tera Spark.’
And this Mechanical Dragon accelerated...it activated the Ether Furnace Core, began distorting space-time, and entered Curvature Space...soon, as the stars aligned in their proper positions, this Great Dragon, which condensed all the hearts and efforts of the Xiawei Territory, sped towards the other side beyond the Terra Solar System.
Its destination was evident.
It was none other than outside of the ’Star Prison Tianyu,’ or rather, beyond the ’Cradle’!
Ian clenched his fist, and the thunderlight on the Dragon King’s body unconsciously tensed.
They were the third generation True Dragons, and their understanding of the ’Cradle’ was merely limited to its function and cognition—how it specifically worked or how to enter or exit it was beyond their comprehension.
But this did not affect the Galewind Dragon King in cheering for Ian’s dream and offering blessings.
The speed of Curvature Navigation was swift, even if the Mechanical Giant Dragon was not proficient, more than a year later, the Ether communication feedback came through.
The Mechanical Dragon had reached the gravitational edge of the Terra Solar System, which was the entrance of the Star Prison Tianyu.
A piece of black cosmic space-time, the only place where stars could be seen.
[Report: Explorer No. 1 has reached the outer gate of Tianyu]
The artificial intelligence applied as such: [Proceed?]
Ian couldn’t hear any sound...that must be another world line of himself making a decision, he thought.
But there was no need to think, there’s simply no possibility of a negative answer.
Thus the Mechanical Dragon sped off—towards beyond the Star Prison Tianyu.
The Mechanical Dragon vanished.
All reactions dissipated.
This thought flashed for a moment in the minds of Ian in both the Prophecy and alongside the Galewind Dragon King, not just the Ian of that world line.
However, the monitoring facilities scattered by the Mechanical Dragon around the Star Prison Tianyu began to relay back the information around Tianyu in place of the vanished Mechanical Dragon.
But this information sent chills down everyone’s spine.
[—Warning! Detected abnormal space-time curvature!]
[—Warning! Detected ultra-high energy reaction within the gate of Tianyu!]
[—Warning! Detected signs of an ultra-intense Gamma Ray Burst!]
The detection facilities were destroyed.
Their final message left was the simplest warning and the reality.
The ’Calamity of Light’ foretold by the Hall of Ten Thousand Spirits had arrived prematurely.
And it would progress at the speed of light, reaching Terra in five years.
To destroy everything.