The blinding light that struck fear into the hearts was devouring the darkness, and it was spreading at an alarming speed. The planet closest to the Sun had already been swallowed up. A glimmer of the planet’s magic protective layer being breached was already faintly visible.
Fortunately, at this time, several councilors of the star gods had already arrived!
Aurora was the first to act. As the God of Optics, dealing with such light pollution was naturally her forte, but the force was simply too powerful, and not just pure light, but the manifestation of magic and will. What she could do was to reduce the strength of these rays as much as possible.
Vittorio, Anthony, Boulder, Sanchez, Ogg, and others entered the planets to reinforce the inner protections, while the most powerful, Harrov, had the most burdensome task. He needed to gather the weakened rays and eliminate them to prevent the star system protection shield, constructed from the seventh element and divine power, from being directly breached.
However, just when Harrov was about to make his move, the terrifying aurora beams suddenly vanished without a trace, leaving only an incredibly luminous point in front of them.
Harrov immediately realized what had happened and a smile of surprise appeared on his face.
After sixty-seven years, Lynn finally awoke from his endless slumber.
Of course, to describe it as slumber wasn’t quite right, because throughout these years, Lynn had not been idle for a moment, corrupting and assimilating the massive and violent energy within the Sun’s core.
This was by no means an easy task, to the extent that Lynn couldn’t even spare the attention to observe the outside world, being fully invested in the work of taming the star, until just now when he finally completed the last step!
He had become one with the star!
Now Lynn was the Sun itself, or rather, the star resided within him!
This was a sensation completely different from turning a planet into a divine realm; Lynn had never experienced such a powerful surge of energy, to the point where it was almost uncontrollable. He could feel an overwhelming power ready to pour out with just the slightest movement of his body.
However, Lynn was well aware that if this force were to go unchecked, the consequences would be terrifying. Therefore, he had been very careful during the corruption of the Sun’s core to control the outflow of energy, until the very last moment of fusion when an error occurred.
Lynn had restrained ninety-nine percent of the energy, but that leaked one percent was still exceedingly terrifying. As soon as he realized something was amiss, he hastily recollected that power.
After adjusting to his current state for a while, Lynn turned his gaze across the entire star domain.
Having merged with the star, his perception could now cover the whole star system, and he naturally noticed the changes within it. Aside from the Eternal Star, the originally barren four planets were now teeming with life, and their appearance had changed from the savageness of before, with oceans of azure and green forests occupying most of the areas.
What’s most crucial, the number of people linked to the magic network had reached one billion seven hundred million!
This was undoubtedly a huge number to consider, especially since the minimum requirement to link to the magic network was to become a Wizard Apprentice, and before he had entered the heart of the star, this number had been less than fifty million!
An increase of twenty times was an exaggeration!
It seemed that during the time he merged with the star, the whole star system had developed quite well under the leadership of the Council, even better than he had anticipated!
Just as Lynn was thinking this, he saw several streaks of light speeding toward him, the likes of Harrov and others.
"Councilors Anthony, Sanchez, and Boulder, congratulations!" Lynn’s gaze swept over the newly promoted star gods, pausing before he spoke with a smile. "I didn’t expect you few to ascend first; this does come as a bit of a surprise to me."
Following the legendary order of advancement, he had thought that Rafael and the others would have taken a step ahead.
Boulder was also very proud; he could be said to be the oldest kingdom citizen to become a Wizard in the old era.
In his forties, he was still a bard, and it was after the Wizard Council invaded the kingdom that he began to acquire knowledge and become a Wizard Apprentice.
Due to his exceptional talent and the convenience of the magic network, his promotion was rapid. It took him about twenty years to complete the transformation from commoner to legend.
Previously, he had even moved to the forefront of everyone by relying on his significant achievements in improving teleportation technology and obtained the qualifications for advancement.
Anthony and Sanchez also secured the rights to transform the remaining two planets in the star field into divine realms by advancing Projection Magic and Energy Life Technology.
As for Rafael, as the leader of the Council’s daily affairs, he had to deal with too many things each day, which actually delayed his advancement.
However, Rafael had already broken through to become a ninth-ring legendary Wizard, so his advancement was likely imminent.
In these sixty-seven years, the Council had built a total of seven hundred star system-class warships, and with the application of the Curvature Engine Technology from the geometric civilization, they no longer needed a deity as fuel.
Artificial black hole technology had also made breakthroughs; it was just that the materials within the star system and space were limited, so it remained in the theoretical stage for now.
"Has it already been sixty-seven years?" Lynn felt somewhat surprised. He had originally thought that fifty years would be quite ample, but it looked like he had underestimated the difficulty of fusing with a star.
"By the way, Chairman Lynn, where did the sun go?" Boulder suddenly asked.
They were currently standing in the exact position where the sun used to be, but the star had vanished.
"Now, I am that sun!" Lynn raised his eyebrows. Since the existence of a star is different from that of a planet, he had directly used this vast energy to recreate an even more powerful divine body to cope with the threats from the main world.
As a result, no matter where he went, it was as though he was within a divine realm.
Upon hearing this, the faces of Harrov and the others couldn’t help twitching—without the sun, what would become of the planets’ orbits and rotations?
The reason there were no problems now was that they were using Divine Power to maintain the planets’ rotation, trying to minimize the impact on the citizens within the planets.
But they couldn’t maintain this state forever with Divine Power.
After pondering for a moment, Lynn then said, "No need to worry, we just need to create another point of gravity."
No sooner had the words fallen than Lynn stretched out his hand. The space around him warped and compressed, soon forming a mass point.
Waves of spacetime ripples began to spread throughout the entire star field, centered on this mass point, simulating a gravitational pull similar to that of the sun. All the planets that had just left their star orbits quickly returned to their correct paths.
Afterwards, just setting up a super-large fusion reactor in the orbit of each planet to provide light would solve the problem.
Of course, this was a temporary solution. Later on, they could consider bringing another sun of similar mass and size over from another star system.