Extraordinary Pedigree.

Chapter 1245 My name is Kiriman, and I speak to the Gods on behalf of Utramar!
At this moment, Xia Xiu extends his great spirituality to the core of the Great Bubble World—the Battlefield of Five Hundred Worlds—through the [Book of Narrative].

It was far more complex than World 777. The flames of civilizations from hundreds of interstellar empires flickered deep within the red scars, with fleets, colonies, orbital fortresses, gateways, and Voidlings intertwined, like a starboard chessboard repeatedly torn apart by war.

At the same time, you can also see many strange and bizarre megastructures here.

Xia Xiu did not rush in immediately. Intervening rashly now would only attract the attention of more narrative interferers. Moreover, the new perfect embryo was different from Luo Jia. He had already experienced a long number of rounds on the battlefield of the Five Hundred Worlds.

He now needed to know what the new, perfect embryo had gone through, and with that thought, he raised his hand and placed it on the [Narrative Book].

The platinum pages turned layer by layer, and the [Upper Narrator's] abilities seeped in from the outer edges of the five hundred worlds, beginning to search for the narrative records left behind by the perfect embryo that had never been met.

Soon, a headline appeared.

[A record of the core narrative of the Five Hundred Worlds: Utramar.]

[Target: Killiann]

[Identity: Lord of Utramar.]

Current status: Alive.

Xia Xiu murmured softly, "Kiriman..."

The Book of Narratives continues to be turned, and the records about the thirteenth prince begin to be updated.

Utramar is one of the very few worlds among the five hundred that has preserved a highly civilized structure. Despite the long period of chaos, it has maintained sub-light-speed trade, starport industry, agricultural provinces, city autonomy, and a dual-governor system. It is a rare island of order deep within the Red Scars—a "barbaric civilization stronghold" undisturbed by other interferers.

[Kiliman was abruptly projected into this world. He entered because of four [unclear characters], who seemed to have accidentally [unclear characters] the perfect embryo. Thus, the thirteenth perfect embryo fell into a place called Lanis Valley in this world and was discovered by a noble hunting party.]

The infant radiated a golden glow, its body unmarked, while the outer shell of the embryonic capsule was engraved with inscriptions of celestial fragments that local scholars could not decipher.

[Note: It can now be confirmed that this perfect embryo is a successful individual evolved from the abnormality project during the Demon King's Army era. It subsequently fell into the hands of the Four Monarchs due to the Seventy-Two Hour Crisis, and then, due to [unclear], was placed inside the Red Scar.]

The hunting party presented the infant to Reto Atredis, the wisest of the two governors of Utramar.

King Leto had no children of his own, so he regarded this child who had fallen from the stars as a gift from Utramar, personally adopting him as his son and naming him Gilemann.

The records on the pages of a book are not just words.

Xia Xiu saw a white stone city unfold between the mountains and the sea, saw King Leto holding a golden-haired baby, and saw the Great Library, the Military Academy, the Council Hall, and the city's defenses take shape in the boy's eyes.

King Leto imparted his wisdom in governance, military knowledge, and political philosophy to Gilman.

By the age of seven, Killimann could already read the most complex tax, trade, and administrative documents in the Utramar Grand Library.

At the age of ten, he independently revised the northern city defense system, integrating the previously scattered fortresses, reservoirs, granaries, and beacon towers into a complete defensive network.

At the age of twelve, he led an army to quell a rebellion in a city-state. After capturing the leader, he did not choose to [raze the city], but instead [preserved it], redistributed the land, reduced taxes, built roads, and incorporated the previously rebellious mountainous region into the stable administrative region of Utramar.

[Killiman's primary awakened ability is not simply military force, but rather governance, order, rule of law, logistics, economics, and war coordination.]

He believed that the strength of a civilization came not only from its army, but also from just laws, stable granaries, a clear tax system, an educated populace, and an administrative machine that could continue to function after the ruler's death. Therefore, he earned the narrative perspective of the [Philosopher-King].

[The Philosopher King: Those who possess this title will always unlock a civic tree that is one or two generations ahead!]
Xia Xiu looked at these contents, his face showing deep thought. The thirteenth prince's municipal abilities seemed to be extremely strong, so strong that the rules of the Little Garden world directly regarded him as a rule anchor.

Besides King Leto, another woman had a profound influence on Gilman's upbringing.

Her name is Thalyss O'Tearn. She is the head butler of the Reito Royal Palace, the Palace Attendant, and Gilman's wet nurse, foster mother, and mentor.

Thalyssa, though of no noble blood, possessed an exceptionally strong will, clear judgment, and an almost austere sense of domestic order. She managed the Leto residence, oversaw Gilemann's studies, and supervised his etiquette, diet, rest, and social interactions. When Leto was preoccupied with state affairs, she personally taught him how to understand the fears, weariness, shame, and hopes of ordinary people.

King Leto taught Gileman how to govern a country, while Thalyssa taught him that one must not forget people when governing a country.

The scene shifts to young Kiliman standing in front of a long table, with tax records from the various provinces of Utramar laid out before him.

King Leto was teaching him how to read the grain tax curve when Thalyss pulled out a list of wounded soldiers' families from the side and asked him to read the names on it first.

Kylieman once asked Thalyssa, "Why does a ruler need to remember the names of ordinary soldiers?"

[Talissa replied: "Because numbers tell you how much more damage a country can sustain, and a name tells you why a country can't just be left with damage."]

Upon seeing this, Xia Xiu couldn't help but tap the page lightly.

So far, among the thirteen Calabash Brothers, the thirteenth brother is one of the few who has both parents alive and is not a filial son.

At least according to the narrative, King Leto was a responsible father who did not treat his thirteenth son as a tool or slave like the other adoptive fathers of his children.

And the foster mother, Ms. Talissa, was not the kind of mother who only spoiled her. What she gave Gilmann was exactly what a child who is too good at rules and order is most likely to lack.

The pages quickly turned to a new chapter.

[Another ruler of Utramar, Seyanus, was a greedy, cruel, and ambitious man skilled in factionalism.]

[He was jealous of King Leto's prestige and feared Gilman's talent. He secretly colluded with corrupt nobles, old warlords, and border merchants to plot a coup to overthrow King Leto.]

When Gilemann led his army to Illyriaon to quell the rebellion, Sejanus staged a coup, assassinated King Leto, and sacked the city of Utramar.

During the coup, Thalyssa O'Tearn protected some of the Consul's archives, military seals, and King Leto's last words. Instead of fleeing the capital, she organized the palace servants, veterans, and loyal scribes to hide the truth about King Leto's murder in three different sets of secret files, awaiting Killiman's return.

The city of Utramar is engulfed in flames in the footage.

King Leto collapsed in front of the council hall. Thalyss, clutching her blood-stained consul's cloak, stood in the dark room giving orders to several loyal scribes, her voice as steady as iron.

Upon learning of his adoptive father's death, Gilemann awakens his Sovereign avatar—Aeneas (Αινεα)—in a fit of rage.

He immediately led his army back to the capital, and within three days defeated the Seyanus rebels, recaptured Utramar, and executed all the traitors involved in the coup in accordance with wartime trial procedures.

[Talisa publicly handed the consul's seal left by King Leto to Gilemann, and asked him to remember that revenge could only end the rebellion, but governance could save Utramar.] Xia Xiu's gaze fell on the name "Aeneas"—the embodiment of a hero who carried the corpse of the old world forward, was forced by fate to build a nation, and whose personal feelings must always give way to the mission of civilization.

According to legend, after the fall of Troy, Aeneas carried his father and led his people to flee the ruins, far from their homeland, and established a second home overseas.

After the coup was quelled, the people of Utramar elected Kiliman as their sole ruler.

[Killiman abolished the corrupt aristocratic oligarchy, established an elite-based administrative system, and implemented land reform, universal education, legal revisions, industrial revitalization, and trade expansion.]

He institutionalized the governing philosophy left by King Leto, and incorporated the concept of "name and responsibility" taught to him by Thalisa into the first lesson of the administrative academy, requiring Utramar officials to simultaneously study finance, law, military affairs, history, and records of people's livelihoods.

Under his rule, Utralmar prospered at an unprecedented pace, becoming one of the most stable, wealthy, and administratively capable worlds in the 500-world system.

The narrative then moves into the true Utramar chapter.

After unifying Utramar, Gilemann was not content with the prosperity of a single world.

He judged that the five hundred world battlefields were in a state of mutual annexation and external contamination for a long time, and that even the most powerful and wealthy individual world would eventually be crushed by interstellar war or other advanced civilizations.

[Therefore, Killian began to expand into the surrounding worlds. During this expansion, he displayed great benevolence, preserving local autonomy for those willing to submit, and sending administrative advisors, military instructors, tax auditors, and engineering teams to help them repair their economies, eradicate corruption, and rebuild their defenses.]

[To a world ruled by tyranny, slavery, pollution, and warlordism, he would use his fleet and standing army to overthrow the rulers and establish a new governorate and a government governed by the rule of law.]

Over hundreds of rounds, Gilemann integrated hundreds of worlds, establishing a vast interstellar civilization centered on Utramar; as a "barbaric civilization" without interference, Utramar was the first nation to enter the era of interstellar hegemony.

Utramar possesses a sophisticated legal system, a well-developed trade network, an interstellar fleet, a standing army, an administrative academy, a unified culture, and a trans-world logistical system.

Not all of the hundreds of worlds under its control directly submitted to its military might; many more voluntarily joined the Utramar Common System after witnessing its order, prosperity, and security.

[Current Narrative Status: Utramar Five Hundred Worlds is under pressure from multiple fronts.]

External threat: The Voidlings have contaminated the star sector.

External Threat: The Remnants of the Gate Empire.

External threat: Unknown advanced interstellar civilization.

[Internal Risk: Some autonomous worlds resist the central tax system and conscription system.]

As Xia Xiuzheng was flipping through Utramar's narrative records, his fingertips suddenly stopped.

The platinum pages of the [Narrative Book] were turning normally, with the records of the five hundred worlds of Macurag, Reto Atredis, Thalysa Ottien, and Utramar unfolding layer by layer. But amidst those stable upper-level narratives, a line of red text suddenly squeezed out.

Hello, Gods!

The words look like they were forcibly carved onto the back of a book page.

It does not follow the format of a [narrative book]; the red ink dances lightly on the platinum pages, carrying a sense of abruptly prying open the observation layer.

The moment Xia Xiu saw it, the [Black Seal] within his body also fluctuated.

It wasn't that he was searching for the thirteenth prince by following blood ties, but rather that the thirteenth prince was tracking him in reverse through blood ties.

"Interesting, very interesting..."

The thirteenth brother actually broke through the fourth wall using the [Upper Narrator] ability.

Xia Xiu directly unleashed his great spirituality.

The golden-white light sank down the [Book of Narratives] into the depths of the Five Hundred Worlds, passing through the star sector boundaries of Utramar, the administrative routes, the orbital defense lines, and the main star of Macrag, finally landing in a massive facility buried deep within the planet.

It was a regular observation device. Its outer shell was made of black metal, blue and white lattices and a large number of arc-shaped rings. A slowly rotating transparent sphere was suspended in the core area. The afterimages of the rise and fall of civilizations, the destruction of fleets, the burning of cities and the death of people were constantly flashing in the sphere.

Around the device, hundreds of millions of death messages were displayed.

This device cannot truly rewrite the world of the giant bubble.

However, it can "question" the narrative structure of the red scar within a very small scope.

It was precisely because of this heavy record of death that could not be easily erased that Killiman was able to forcefully send a sentence from within the five hundred worlds onto the pages of the [Book of Narratives].

"My name is Kiriman, and I speak to the gods on behalf of Utramar!"

"My name is Kiriman, and I speak to the gods on behalf of Utramar!"

"My name is Kiriman, and I speak to the gods on behalf of Utramar!"

That phrase is still being repeated, over and over again, never tiring.

Xia Xiu's great spirituality continued to sink, and finally he saw the man standing in front of the core of the device. Gilman was tall and wore a blue and white commander's cloak with the ruling badge of Utramar on his chest. Behind him stood a group of silent scribes, scientists and legionary generals.

His face looked tired, but his eyes were bright.

That wasn't the look in the eyes of a fanatic seeing a miracle, nor the look in the eyes of subjects yearning for salvation. It was more like the look of a ruler who, after pushing the limits of disaster and war, finally saw another hand outside the chessboard, and decided to ask that hand a question himself.

Xia Xiu's great spirituality, through that rule-observing device, condensed into a humanoid figure that shimmered with golden light.

The figure did not fully enter the Five Hundred Worlds, but stood in front of the device's core as a projection, surrounded by a white-gold radiance, with a black sun faintly appearing behind it. The oppressive feeling from the higher narrative layer instantly caused all the instruments in the underground facility to emit a low hum.

The scribe, the scientist, and the legionary general all took a half step back, but Gilmann stood still and did not take a step back.

He looked at Xia Xiu without fear in his eyes, and did not immediately kneel down. Instead, he calmly asked the question he had been preparing for a long time, like a ruler facing an external variable that had finally appeared.

"Are you...God?"