Chapter 703: Chapter 583: The Moon Goddess Drained of Divine Power_2
As long as they knew the velocity of travel, they could determine their position using the three-dimensional model of the star system they had previously observed.
However, Lynn shook his head, not approving of this method. If conditions were normal, it might indeed be useful, but not now, as the Curvature Engine created a ring of distorted spacetime around the outside of the spaceship.
The space ahead was continuously stretched inward, and because distances were shortened, from a lower-dimensional perspective, both the light carrying information and the spaceship seemed to surpass the speed of light.
Of course, the real situation was that the distance between them was greatly shortened by the distortion of space and time.
So, the appearance of a light screen wasn’t because their speed truly exceeded the speed of light by several multiples, but because the light itself was also accelerated when crossing that area of space…
Just as everyone continued their discussion, Lynn suddenly interrupted.
“Stop the spaceship, we’ve arrived!”
“This fast?” Harrov paused for a moment, immediately looking at the atomic clock inside the spaceship, staring at the time slipping away.
Since they had set off, only around one and a half minutes had passed.
Although Vittorio was equally astonished, he reacted the moment he received the order.
The Divine Power that was thriving ceaselessly in the engine room was abruptly cut off, and the surrounding twisted spacetime gradually fizzled out and became smooth under the universe’s rules…
From superluminal speed to coming to a complete stop, it took less than twenty seconds, which demonstrated the power of the Curvature Engine!
Even though Vittorio reacted quickly, by the time they completely stopped, they realized that their destination, the Brown Star, had been left far behind.
This speed was simply unbelievable!
You have to understand that from their starting position, they were about one billion kilometers from the Brown Star, which would take a full hour at the speed of light!
And now they had used only…
“One minute and fifty seconds!” Harrov said with unparalleled excitement, and this was after far surpassing the Brown Star, meaning the actual arrival time was even earlier!
Anthony and others were also secretly astonished; they didn’t think that the speed of the spaceship had reached two to three times the speed of light, so the discrepancy must be in the flow of time!
“After a few round trips, we’ll know by looking at the time!” Lynn reminded them.
Vittorio nodded, then powered up the spaceship to fly towards the Brown Star, where they placed another atomic clock before returning to the Moon.
After several round trips, testing the stability of the spaceship’s power system and measuring its speed, they found that they could reach a velocity limit of one point five times the speed of light!
This was undoubtedly another milestone!
Using a living god as a fuel supply source, the improvements in speed could only be described as astonishing!
But the most deserving of credit, Ella, didn’t see it that way; almost depleted of her Divine Power by the constant superluminal travel, if not for Lynn withdrawing the fog of the dead at the critical moment, her consciousness and soul would have been worn away.
Lynn, on the other hand, was pondering the problem of time flow speed. Last time, he had noticed that the rate at which time passed on the spaceship did not match up with Einstein’s formula for gravitational time dilation, and there was a significant discrepancy.
This is probably because when the spaceship is traveling, the surrounding space-time does not radiate outward in all directions with a circular point as the center like a normal massive celestial body. Instead, it has a special structure where space-time contracts in front and expands behind.
Therefore, a new equation for the curvature of space per second is required to fulfill the computational needs.
“It seems that the alien civilization isn’t so impressive after all,” Rafael said with a smile, “their speed hasn’t broken the speed of light yet, right?”
Previously, when Rafael heard that the unknown civilization had killed the Moon Goddess Diana and could perform both space jumps and sub-light speed travel, it scared him quite a bit. He was on tenterhooks all the time, and some Wizards even pessimistically believed that the moment the enemy arrived would be the moment the Council perished.
Now, not only could they create space-time nodes, but they also completely surpassed them in speed, giving Rafael a feeling that the enemy wasn’t really that formidable.
The Wizards present all nodded in agreement, and the gloom that had been hanging in their minds dissipated instantly.
Seeing that Harrov and others were increasingly optimistic, even believing that they now surpassed the alien civilization, Lynn shook his head in speechlessness.
“The only reason we were able to build a superluminal spaceship so quickly is that we used some shortcut methods. Unless we can capture a second god, we can only produce one of such ships. However, the enemy’s spaceships are mass-produced, and they could potentially have thousands upon thousands of sub-light speed spaceships…”
Not to mention, the material they used to manufacture their spaceships was the technology of the adversaries from a thousand years ago, and issues like dealing with the light cloak and accurately locating enemies under superluminal flight still need to be addressed!
This is the downside of skipping directly to more advanced technology, as many things were cobbled together haphazardly.
But it was a necessary trade-off. Even with the support of the data banks within their intelligent brains, coupled with Magic Power as a miraculous source of energy, a few years were simply too short to leap from a magical agricultural civilization to an interstellar one.
Under Lynn’s explanation, the confidence of Harrov and the others that had been swelling gradually deflated back to square one, and they started to consider how to solve the issues they were facing seriously.
“Exactly how much time do we have left?” Aurora asked.
“Looking at the distance, roughly four to five years,” Lynn said hesitantly. The speed of the approaching enemy had begun to stabilize, and they had not made any long-distance space jumps during the time they were preparing to attack the foreign lands and build interstellar spaceships.
Four to five years is neither a particularly long nor short period of time, considering it has not even been eight years since they left Wizard Land to counterattack the kingdom.
“You just stay here well-behaved!” Lynn said, turning to look at Aella, who was trapped in the Klein bottle. He reinforced it again to prevent her from escaping.
After dealing with Aella, who had once been a formidable enemy, for the next several months, the Council focused on the spoils of the recent battle—an exotic land filled with abundant Magic Power.
This was undoubtedly another source of energy, but at the same time, it was a big mess!
Only after Lynn had expanded the divine domain to encompass the entire plane did he realize that the condition of the planet was far worse than he had imagined. The massive loss of material had turned the land into vast deserts, and the entire plane was on the brink of collapse, with the planet itself almost disintegrating.
The three positron cannons that had penetrated the core obviously worsened this situation, directly affecting the planet’s gravity and rotation. This plane would completely disintegrate within five years at most.
Even with Lynn’s current power, he couldn’t save a planet that was about to collapse; he could only delay the moment of disintegration as much as possible and instruct the engineering teams to hurry up, transferring some useful materials and as much Magic Power as possible into the Eternal Star.
During the new round of Council discussions, a large number of councilors quickly established a five-year plan to evacuate the exotic land after a series of deliberations. However, due to the difference in the flow of time between the two places, there weren’t actually five years, so they could only choose to move the most important things…
“Mining rescue is a top priority. We must survey the exotic land as quickly as possible to see if there are any rare minerals not found in the Eternal Star,” Vittorio suggested, such as the ore used to make the Corona Medal, which came from the exotic land.
Sanchez, an expert in Plasticity, also added, “And those magical beasts inhabiting the exotic land— we could drive them all to the Eternal Star. We could designate a special area for breeding them.”