Chapter 742: Chapter 619: A Century of Hard Work Goes Up in Flames!
Traveling through the vast and boundless space proved to be incredibly dull; besides darkness, there was only darkness, with only the occasional twinkle of a distant star, each point of light representing a sun, and this time their destination was a star system four light-years away!
Fortunately, Lynn had already advanced and broken through to the intermediate level of Divine Power, gaining more comprehensive control over space and dimensions; the spaceship’s speed also broke through to a new milestone, a full twice the speed of light!
But even so, it would take a full two years to reach the destination!
The only silver lining was the time dilation inside and outside the spaceship; for them, the wait wasn’t as long, and by Lynn’s calculations, it would take roughly a month to get there.
During this month, Ignar and the others didn’t waste any time, focusing their efforts on studying star charts. They were seemingly fortunate as the journey remained calm, except for one large vacuum meteor shower; they encountered no other universal calamities.
The faint starlight ahead, twinkling like a distant fire, grew increasingly large, signifying that they were approaching their destination!
The wizards inside the spaceship were thrilled, for they were heading towards a star domain soon to be theirs!
After closing in to the last hundred million kilometers, Lynn gradually began to decelerate, and the twinkling sun finally appeared before them.
Unlike the Sun’s orange hue, this sun bore a blue tint, indicating a surface temperature exceeding ten thousand degrees Celsius!
The innermost planet of the star system, due to its proximity, had its surface turned into surging lava, becoming an utter wasteland for any living being.
Of course, this star system was not just this; otherwise, the geometric civilization wouldn’t have had the guts to offer it as compensation. On the outer orbit of the system, another planet lay in the habitable zone, which the geometric civilization had transformed to be highly suitable for carbon-based life to thrive and reproduce.
The warship quickly docked at a station on this planet of life, and seven geometric beings had been waiting for a long time. Upon seeing Lynn and others emerge from the cabin, they hurriedly greeted them.
“Respected Governor, I am the manager of the Planetary Ecology and Control Office; you may call me Mony,” the leading geometric being conveyed with electromagnetic waves respectfully.
The order from their home world had been issued more than a year ago, requiring them to treat these visitors, who may come from a higher-dimensional civilization, with the highest courtesy. They were to meet any requests, provided they were not too outrageous!
This was a direct edict from the supreme leader, and Mony naturally did not dare to show any negligence. After welcoming Lynn and his party into the residence, they presented two spheres the size of human heads.
“Governor, these are coordinates to two additional star systems. Once activated, they will open the corresponding wormholes. The leaders had intended to dispatch a fleet to deliver them to you, but they didn’t expect that before they could set out, you had already taken action,” Mony said diplomatically, indicating that their concealment during the previous negotiations was not intentional and they were unable to deliver in time due to the great distance.
Although the Magic Empire had shown their ability to precisely transport over long distances without the exact coordinates, it wasn’t that others didn’t want them, but they couldn’t fail to provide them.
It was a matter of attitude!
“If it’s just a misunderstanding, then I’m at ease,” Lynn said with a smile, nodding in understanding. His previous assertive attitude and the subtle demonstration of his ability to disrupt communications and transport across long distances had successfully evoked a wariness in the geometric civilization.
With these two coordinates, there was no need for them to travel by spaceship to take possession of the other two star systems.
The universe was indeed vast; twice the speed of light seemed fast, but the distances that needed to be crossed were still measured in light-years. As soon as he left the spaceship, Lynn found that he could no longer use the intercepted communication coordinates to sense the communication stations set up on various planets by the geometric civilization.
This indicated that they had upgraded their communication system, meaning he could no longer open Space-Time Gates using the communication coordinates as before.
One could say they were quite timely; the things they delivered came just at the right moment!
Lynn extended his hand, and the two human head-sized spheres floated before him as if drawn by a force, then were disintegrated into fundamental particles under the effect of the Great Decomposition Technique.
He wouldn’t dare use the things that were voluntarily offered without caution, even though the geometric civilization had a very low probability of tampering with them.
And they only needed the coordinates, as they were not lacking in energy resources.
Mony stared intensely at the scene of Lynn casting the spell, vainly trying to discern something, but ultimately, he came up empty-handed.
In the two years it took Lynn and his party to journey from the Raven Star, the geometric civilization had also developed many speculations based on the intelligence they had collected. Having witnessed the strength of the Magic Empire, the leaders were even considering whether to direct their scientists to research the technology of energy ascension.
This process represented a complete transmutation of life forms; the power of the high-dimensional warfare weapons of the Magic Empire indicated that transforming oneself into an energy form would grant immense control over the microscopic world and space-time, performing miraculous feats without any instruments.
It could be said that one individual would be a mighty interstellar warship!
While pondering deeply, Mony didn’t forget his duties, continuing to brief Lynn and the rest on the interior situation of the star system.
This was a nascent life-bearing planet, numbered 1700!
The term “nascent” did not imply that the planet had just formed, but rather that it had recently undergone preliminary ecological transformation.
Before that, it was a barren world devoid of life, which they had towed from a light-year away with great effort using a comet of suitable size, directing it to crash onto the planet. They also scattered a thin-film substance in the sky to form an atmosphere that would prevent water from evaporating and shield from solar winds.
The final and most critical step was establishing an ecosystem. Even with the technological level of the geometric civilization, it took nearly seventy years to construct a basic ecological cycle on the entire planet…
And before they could even truly begin colonizing it, it was offered up as war reparations by the disk leaders, and Mony felt a profound resentment, as nearly a hundred years of effort had to be simply handed over.