The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2442: Collapse of Mortis

2443: Collapse of Mortis

In Mortis, there is no concept of time. There used to be a distinction between day and night, but the change of day and night was caused by the constant conflict between the "son" and the "daughter".

However, after the death of his "son", the weather in Mortis did not become sunny. On the contrary, the weather became gloomy and made people feel extremely depressed.

But at this moment, in the place of eternal sleep, the weather has become extremely terrible!

The extremely powerful dark side force was like a terrifying black dragon, piercing the sky, even tearing the sky of Mortis apart. Wherever the force passed, the sky became fragmented and the colors became bizarre. Lightning, rain, hail, hurricanes, almost all possible weather appeared in the sky.

The lights around were of all colors, making this place look like a ghost town.

This terrifying force completely erupted from the body of his 'son', with a might that almost destroyed the world!

And it has been unknown how long since the Land of Eternal Sleep presented such a doomsday scene. Ever since Tang Xiao began his ritual full of darkness and death, it has never stopped.

During this time, the 'daughter' had been kneeling quietly in the place of eternal sleep with her eyes closed in meditation, with the Mortis dagger always in front of her.

Perhaps this terrifying explosion of the dark side of the Force that seemed to be devastating to others was just a very common thing to her.

I don't know how much time had passed, but the 'daughter' suddenly frowned and stood up abruptly from the ground. She turned her head to look behind her, twisted her body slightly, and turned into the beautiful griffin, flying in another direction.

Soon, she arrived at the central Mortis, the monastery built on a towering mountain that soared into the sky.

However, by this time, the once magnificent monastery had collapsed and turned into a meaningless ruin.

In the void, an old sigh was heard...

The daughter shook her head, knelt on her knees, prayed to the sky, and chanted an unknown language. Tears slowly flowed from the corners of her eyes, gathering more and more, and finally covered her cheeks.

"...'Father', is he dead?" A voice that the 'daughter' was very familiar with came from behind.

However, she did not react at all. She just continued to recite the prayer, then stood up and said without turning her head: "What is your condition now? Are you still Tang Xiao?"

"Son has completely disappeared. Your Taiyi's state is very strange. Seeing the current state of Father, I understand that from the moment of your death, your soul will completely dissipate, without a trace left. On the contrary, if it is an ordinary person, if his will is strong enough, the soul will even exist for a long time." Son said lightly, "Or, you Taiyi, have never had a soul. So, you don't have to worry about Son controlling me."

"What 'father' and I are worried about is that you will be corrupted by the power of the dark side and lose yourself," said the 'daughter'.

"What will happen to the Force now that 'Father' is dead?" asked 'Son'.

"Nothing will happen." The 'daughter' said with some sadness in her tone, "This means that the balance of the Force has completely gone out of control. Whether it will completely collapse is no longer something we can control. The future of the Force is in the hands of every living being in the galaxy... Do you choose destruction, or rebirth?"

"What you said sounds fair, but it is obvious that the influence of Darth Sidious on the Force is far greater than that of ordinary people. In other words, this will be a galaxy where the strong prey on the weak..." said the 'son', "barbaric, disorderly, and power is supreme. Unfortunately, the galaxy is now in the midst of war."

"No matter what the result is, it is the choice made by the life in the galaxy itself. I have seen too many civilizations rise and fall, and I can only say that destruction is the most likely thing to happen. But maybe this time, it will be the end of life in the entire galaxy." The 'daughter' shook her head painfully.

“If that’s the case, light is meaningless. Hehehe…” The ‘son’ sneered, and then his laughter became louder and crazier, “Hahahahahaha! Who would have thought that as a messenger of light, you would actually determine a destructive future for this galaxy! Hahahaha! Woo…”

The son suddenly fell to his knees in great pain, holding his head, "It's no longer possible..."

"I've said before that this power is something that you mortals cannot bear." The daughter's tone gradually became colder.

"Shut up!" The 'son' roared, and this roar contained such powerful dark side force that even the surrounding space shook!

He pointed at his 'daughter' with a ferocious expression, "Do you think you are gods? No! You are far from it!! You are just a few ordinary people who got lucky and gained extremely powerful powers! Apart from the power, you are no different from me!!"

As he spoke, he turned around and transformed into a hideous gargoyle, flying towards the place of eternal sleep. His flying posture was shaky, and it was obvious that the pain in his body and even his soul was almost unbearable for him.

Arriving in front of the building in the Land of Eternal Sleep that had also been turned into ruins by the extremely powerful power of his "son", Tang Xiao was seen leaning against the ruins of the building, sitting quietly on the ground without moving, until his "son" stumbled over and landed in front of Tang Xiao, and then a vague connection appeared between the two.

Then, Tang Xiao took a deep breath and opened his eyes. But his son's body softened and he fell to the ground with a plop.

"Cough cough cough cough... Oooooo..." Tang Xiao spat out a large mouthful of blood. The pain from the soul still made Tang Xiao extremely uncomfortable. He tried to stand up, but fell to the ground again.

[Forcibly controlling this body will only shorten your lifespan dramatically. My daughter is right. This kind of power does not belong to mortals, and cannot belong to mortals.] Lucien Dray said.

“Hehehehehehe…” Tang Xiao laughed strangely, “As long as I can control such power, eternal life… will be at my fingertips!! Hahahahaha! Hahahahaha! If I kill Darth Sidious, I will get everything! Everything!!”

[How are you now...? ] Lucien Dray asked.

"I'm better than ever...!!" Tang Xiao staggered to his feet. Although he looked very weak, his eyes were full of excitement and madness.

He rested for a while and finally recovered some strength. He picked up his son's body from the ground, but did not leave Mortis. He walked towards the monastery.

As he walked, the ground of Mortis began to collapse and crumble behind him, and then dissipated into an endless void. When he came to the ruins of the monastery, Mortis had already collapsed for the most part, but Tang Xiao found that his "daughter" was still standing there, motionless like a sculpture. It was not until he walked in front of her that his "daughter" turned her head and looked at him.

"It seems that you have found a good solution." The daughter said coldly, "However, this result is probably not what you really want."

"This is already the best result." Tang Xiao said lightly.

"This way, you are just controlling a puppet. It is of no help to the balance of the Force." said the 'daughter'.

"You are asking knowingly. A big man like the Force would naturally look down on a small character like me." Tang Xiao looked at Mortis who was collapsing in the distance, then looked at his 'daughter' and said, "Come with me."

"I'm just waiting for you." said the 'daughter'.

"Are you waiting to kill me?" Tang Xiao glanced at the Mortis dagger hanging on her waist, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

……

Maya Kovel, Model Sector, Kingdom of Dawn.

This is a desert planet, and because it is rich in various metal particles, the planet appears red when viewed from outer space. There are also several trade wind belts on the planet, which, after blowing up the dust, form seven everlasting yellow stripes in the atmosphere.

Such a natural environment makes this planet look very beautiful.

But despite its beauty, the living environment on Maya-Kovir is extremely harsh. Because the planet is very dry, there is almost no water on the surface, only deep underground water. However, Maya-Kovir does not have any underground space for more organisms to survive, so there is no possibility of underground organisms evolving here.

Fortunately, there is a kind of spherical algae on the planet. This plant relies on the thin water vapor in the cracks of the surface to survive. Once the water vapor in this place disappears, they will spray their plant spores into the sky and then fly along the trade wind belt.

When the moisture in the air in a certain area increases, the spores will absorb water and gain weight, and then fall from the wind, taking root and sprouting in the gaps where there is water vapor, continuing the next life cycle.

The spherical algae in the cracks are difficult to dig out, so their spores floating in the air become the best collection opportunity, allowing organisms to obtain water and nutrients from the spores of spherical algae.

So in such a special environment, the ultimate winners in the biological evolution process of the planet Maya-Kovir are birds.

As a result, one of the bird tribes evolved into intelligent creatures, the Ailu people. A race with lavender skin and colorful feathers, the female individuals are very beautiful when they are young, and they also have beautiful singing voices. The only drawback is that when their individuals get old, their beauty will decline rapidly, their skin will dry up and they will look like old witches.

When the Ailu people gained wisdom and developed their own civilization, they immediately discovered that the Maya-Kovir planet might be too harsh for a race to live on, but it had a unique environment for developing industry - because the red desert throughout the planet was rich in a variety of metal elements that could be easily mined.

For other races, mining means heavy physical labor, huge mining machines, deep pits, and dark mines. But for the Ailu people, mining means shoveling a shovel of red sand from the ground, loading it into a transport vehicle and taking it directly to smelting.

Therefore, the civilization of the Eru people developed very rapidly and soon entered industrialization. After some adventurers brought the technology of hyperspace navigation to the Eru people hundreds of years ago, the Eru people immediately expanded wildly.

What does not match their beautiful singing and appearance is the Ailu people's enthusiasm for expansion and madness for wealth.

It was precisely because of the harsh environment of the Maya-Kovir planet that they expanded wildly in the Model Sector, occupying more than ten planets in the Model Sector in a short period of time. They also defeated and enslaved several races including the Vasians.

The racial policy of the Ailu people is very harsh and extremely aggressive. Even the diligent and honest Vassian Zerg has erupted in many uprisings when they were ruled by the Ailu people. However, the Ailu people relied on their strong industrial strength to defeat all opponents in the Model Star Zone and continued to expand.

When they finally occupied the planet Annaji, they found that Gaia was a perfect habitable planet, so they began to migrate to Annaji on a large scale. They clashed with the human race that had arrived on the planet earlier and had formed a regime with hundreds of millions of people, and then defeated and enslaved humans as usual.

Eventually, the Ailu became the overlord of the Model Sector and joined the Galactic Republic in 50 BBY. Their representatives represented the entire Model Sector in the Republic Congress, which was officially recognized by the Galactic Republic.

However, 16 years later in 34 BBY, when the Ailu were expanding in the Kuna Cluster, they encountered another group of humans - a group of pioneers who claimed to be from the planet Dawn.

The arrogant Ailu people almost immediately clashed with Dawn, and then Dawn could no longer tolerate it and declared war. This war completely disintegrated the Ailu empire and instead enabled Dawn to expand rapidly. The Vasian Zerg also abandoned the Ailu people and became one of the most loyal races of the Fourth Civilization, and a super engineer and builder of large-scale and even mega-structure projects.

Afterwards, in order to resist the rule of the Fourth Civilization, the Ailu people also rebelled, but were ultimately brutally suppressed.

After seeing the war between the Fourth Civilization and the Galactic Republic, the Ailu finally accepted their fate, knowing that they would never have the chance to fight against the Dawn Planet again. From then on, they stayed on the planets they first occupied and contributed to the development of the Fourth Civilization. Moreover, because of their strong foundation, the Ailu became a top force in the Model Sector.

The Green Feather Heavy Machinery Company founded by the Ailu people also began to become one of the large military-industrial complexes in the Kingdom of Dawn, producing light fighter jets, individual flying vehicles and other weapons and equipment for the Kingdom of Dawn.

Maya City, the administrative center of the planet Maya-Kovir.

A priest in a gorgeous feather robe stumbled into the office of the planetary administrator and shouted before he even entered the door, "Your Excellency Archon! Your Excellency Archon!! Something big has happened!! Something big has happened!! The messenger of the Great Bird Spirit God... has arrived!!"