Extraordinary Pedigree.

Chapter 857 The next target of the courtyard: the overlord of the star world!

When the Holy Machine of Gospel completed the final judgment on the land of Tunaras, the fleet war in the sky also came to an end.

Here the time goes back a little. At the moment when the Holy Machine of Gospel broke into the capital and ended the Lich Queen with the power of divine punishment, the joint fleet hovering outside Tunaras also launched the final encirclement and suppression operation.

The organization of the Combined Fleet is huge and strict.

The three-kilometer-long [Sword of Glory-class cruiser] led the vanguard, followed by thirteen Sword-class frigates. A Githzer flagship and thirty Githzer psychic frigates formed the core combat group, and the tactical formation formed quickly advanced.

Under the command of the navigator, this fleet broke into the Tunaras star battlefield at lightning speed and completely surrounded the remaining fleet of the Ghisyans, which had already been exhausted.

Today's Gis foreign fleet is already in ruins.

When the Holy Machine of Gospel broke into Tunaras, the Gis foreign fleet stationed in Tunaras urgently retreated to the core urban area and tried to provide support, but this move was tantamount to digging their own graves - they were caught by the joint fleet as soon as they broke away from the defense line.

At this moment, the Gis foreign fleet is already at the end of its strength. The only remaining flagship "Queen" leads the remaining three predator warships, seven frigates, and five destroyers to barely maintain the defense line.

However, what they faced was the Heavenly Kingdom's standardized fleet with overwhelming firepower.

The Sword of Glory-class cruiser, this three-kilometer-long steel behemoth, roared like thunder with its huge cannons on the battlefield, leaving behind trails of fiery explosions.

The Sword-class frigate cruises around the battlefield with high maneuverability and uses railguns to conduct long-range beyond-visual-range strikes.

The psychic warships of the Giszhe people also fully utilized their advantages. The ships were covered with blue psychic fluctuations. Every surge of energy was a precise psychic impact that penetrated the defensive barrier of the Giszhe foreigner ships.

The Gisyan fleet tried its best to defend. Their guns were burning, their shields were collapsing, and even their flagship "Blood Oath" was damaged in many places and its energy system was seriously unbalanced.

They have no way out.

"All ships ready to fight! For the Gis foreigners——"

The commander of the Blood Oath roared out his final orders.

However, before they could launch a desperate charge, a scene appeared on the tactical screen that made all the Gisyan commanders fall into silence.

On the surface of Tunaras, a huge crystal cross that reaches from sky to earth stands in the center of the city. The crystallized wave has swallowed up two-thirds of the city, and their Lich Queen and all their hopes have been buried in the glory of judgment.

——They lost!
Realizing this, the Gisyan fleet finally collapsed completely.

Under the relentless pressure of the Combined Fleet, the remaining Gisyan ships attempted to activate their jump engines and escape from the battlefield, but the hyperspace channel had already been blocked by the Combined Fleet, and the jump signal was completely intercepted by the [Psionic Jammer] before it was fully released.

Finally, when the remaining ships were collectively in desperate situation, the "Blood Oath" was pierced through the core energy compartment by the main gun of the "Sword of Glory", and then a violent explosion occurred, turning into debris all over the sky, becoming the final chapter of this war.

The battlefield fell into complete silence.

The Gis foreign fleet was completely destroyed.

The Gisyan Empire was defeated in this Ivy League War.

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Tunaras.

The huge Holy Gospel Machine was still suspended above the city, its triple halo slowly rotating, its divine light illuminating the land below which had turned into a crystal tomb.

In the cockpit of the Holy Gospel Machine, Xia Xiu gently stretched out his right hand, and a magnificent light appeared on the back of his hand.

Along with the emergence of light, a crown appeared, which looked like a circle of exquisite metal arcs, inlaid with twelve gems burning as brightly as stars. The crown slowly rotated around the obsidian star in the center.

With the appearance of the [Iron Crown], a virtual curtain suddenly descended, reflecting on the tactical screen of the Holy Machine of Gospel.

[The Ivy War catalog is being updated...]

Then, the cold and solemn Golden Law was proclaimed.

[The Gis people and Vlaakith have been completely annexed! ]

[The Midgard has achieved a decisive victory. The governments of the Gisyan and Vlaakith Empire have been dissolved, and their territories, fleets, and infrastructure have been incorporated into your rule. ]

[Official announcement to all Ivy League War participants:
The Githian people and the Vlaakith Empire—have disappeared from all the realms.

All its hubs and colonies now belong to the Midgard Courtyard.

The enemy fleet has been destroyed and its civilization can no longer exist as an independent force.

The expansion of the Midgard has been completed, and the ranking of the Ivy War Catalog has changed! 】

At this moment, the authority of the Earthly Courtyard was engraved into the history of the heavens and myriad worlds through the Ivy War Catalog.

The Gis foreigners were destroyed.

Queen Vlaakith, sleep forever.

The Gis Empire completely disappeared in the Ivy War.

When the announcement of the expansion of the Earthly Courtyard spread throughout the heavens and the worlds through the Golden Law, the expressions of many forces suddenly became uglier than eating shit.

Especially the giant and elf pantheons who invested heavily in this war.

The Earthly Courtyard is a subordinate force of the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Kingdom of Heaven is one of the archenemies of the Golden Court.

They once thought that with their support, Queen Vlaakis could become one of the chess pieces to balance the courtyard. Even if she failed, she could drag the courtyard into a long-term quagmire of war.

However, Vlaakith knelt so thoroughly that even his soul did not have time to return to the Lich Box.

If Vlaakith's soul returns to the Lich's Box, the Golden Court would not mind supporting him to set up a terrorist exile armed force to disgust the courtyard.

But the guy is already on his knees, and now they have to find another way to curb the expansion of the courtyard.

They indeed underestimated the Kingdom of Heaven, underestimated the earthly court, and even more underestimated Hugh Abraham.

The fourth sword-bearer used extremely fierce warfare methods and completely wiped out the Gisyan Empire of Vlaakith from history in just a few standard astral months.

Now, the gods in the royal court finally realized one thing.

The hand of heaven has completely extended to the star realm.

Xia Xiu looked at the "Ivy League War Directory" and saw that the ranking of the Mortal Courtyard had skyrocketed by more than 3,000 people in a short period of time. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and he took back the [Iron Crown] with satisfaction.

The mission of delegating the Kingdom of Heaven has been completed, and the first phase of the courtyard expansion plan has also been perfectly concluded.

The next step is to digest the dividends brought by this war and start preparing for the next battle - the war against the Soul Sucker Empire.

As long as the Soul Sucker Empire is defeated, the area of ​​[Depth 60·Astral Realm] will be completely under the control of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Xia Xiu was weighing the entire strategic layout in his mind, and then his eyes looked at Tunaras, which had been completely crystallized by the [Spiral of Heaven].

This fortress, which was originally made up of divine remains, has now become a crystal ruin.

But this does not affect its value. He can wash off these crystal clusters himself, but the cross crystal cluster that seals Vlaakith must be kept.

After all, Vlaakith is a lich. If he wants her soul to return to the Lich's Box, he will have to spend time killing her several times.

Xia Xiu looked at the cross crystal cluster and made a decision in his heart.

"After some time, it will be transported to Terra and sealed in the central storage room of Heaven." Tunaras can still be used after washing, and Xia Xiu plans to use it as the second base of the Earthly Courtyard.

The first base of the courtyard, located at [Odepapadopoulos] at depth 5, is the headquarters of the entire courtyard in the heavens and all realms.

The second front-line base, Tunaras, is planned to be directly transformed into a war fortress.

Xia Xiu was thinking about the future plan in his mind, and he muttered to himself:

"I heard that the Soul Absorber Empire has mastered more advanced fixed-end ether traction wave engine technology... If we can obtain this technology, we can create a new type of ether warp channel that is faster and more stable than the hyperspace channel."

"By then, we can build a double-ended warp channel between Odepapadopolis and Tunaras, completely opening up the navigation routes between Depth 5 and Depth 60."

"In this way, our fleet will no longer be restricted by the layers of hyperspace channels, and can greatly shorten the travel time, allowing us to quickly dispatch troops between the two places at any time..."

Xia Xiu has basically determined the next step for the courtyard. Their next short-term goal is to become the overlord of the star world.

As for the various conflicts with the Golden King's Court, these are not urgent.

It is impossible for the Golden King Court to remain unresponsive to the rise of the courtyard.

However, they will not engage in a direct war at this stage.

The reason is simple, behind the courtyard is heaven!
Even a behemoth like the Golden King's Court did not dare to easily increase the intensity of the war and push the situation into an irreversible full-scale conflict.

However, this does not mean that the Golden Court will choose to remain indifferent and watch the rise of the Courtyard.

All kinds of tricks, conspiracies, proxy wars... will be staged one after another in secret.

Especially the giant pantheon, the elven pantheon, the scaly pantheon and other forces. They had been supporting the Gis Empire behind Vlaakith. Now that the battle in the courtyard has wiped out Tunaras, all the resources they had invested before have become completely in vain. These forces will never give up.

But then again.

If the courtyard intends to deal with the Soul Sucker Empire, the Golden King's Court will really support it with both hands and feet.

In the eyes of most of the gods in the universe, the Soul Sucker Empire is an existence more disturbing than the abyss.

In the eyes of the Golden Court: the abyss (heaven) devours faith, and the soul sucker obliterates faith.

——These are two completely different concepts.

The expansion of the abyss means that faith will be distorted, alienated, and even stolen and used by the abyss demons.

But the expansion of the spirit suckers means that faith will completely disappear, be uprooted, and turn into a dead and silent blank area.

In a plate with faith in a deity, believers in the deity can feel the spiritual fluctuations of the area through the miracles of their believers. They can draw power of faith from the worship, prayers, and sacraments of their believers, consolidate their own divinity, and even strengthen their own godhood.

But if this area is conquered by the Mind Flayer, then the believers will feel:
nothingness!

The entire area seemed to be completely wiped out from the map of the sea of ​​faith. There was no worship from believers, no echoes from souls, and even enslaved believers did not exist.

This area completely evaporated from the gods' perception, as if it had never existed.

This is the most frightening thing about believing in gods.

In the system of belief in the Sea of ​​God, any believer, even if he is a heretic or a blasphemer, is still part of the system of gods.

But in the area devoured by the mind-sucking monster, even the blasphemer no longer exists. The entire area has been completely transformed into a "godless land" with no soul, no faith, and no trace of supernatural energy left.

This is more terrifying than the abyss!!

The soul sucker directly wipes out the soul itself.

In other words, the soul sucker has no soul at all.

This means that once any force is conquered by the Soul Absorber Empire, the gods of faith in that area will no longer be able to draw any power of faith from that area.

In the past, when that area of ​​faith was lost, the gods of faith could at worst reap the souls of their believers.

But the soul suckers were such bastards that they didn't even leave them a soul.

The spirit suckers are truly like leaving the skin of an animal when it leaves and plucking the feathers of a passing goose.

It would be better to be swallowed by the abyss. At least the abyss will either purify you or expel you.

Faith in God may allow one to save some things to fill the gaps between teeth, but the BYD spirit sucker does not leave even a single hair.

In other words, if a faith plate of a certain belief in God is infected by a spirit-sucking person, then the fertile land of faith that it has worked so hard to cultivate will be completely destroyed.

This is also why, no matter how much the Golden Royal Court hates the Courtyard, they will never support the Soul Sucker Empire like they support Vlaakith.

Because the existence of the Soul Sucker Empire is essentially weakening the entire theocratic system of faith.

Even the pro-war faction within the Golden King's Court could not come up with the plan of "supporting spirit absorbers to counter the Courtyard" because it was simply not feasible.

A true believer in God would never tolerate the existence of soul suckers.

Compared to the expansion of the Kingdom of Heaven, the expansion of the Soul Suckers poses a greater threat to the Golden Court!

So what is the best practice?
Let the Courtyard fight the Soul Sucker Empire!

Let these two forces fight each other!
Let them consume each other, tear each other apart, make the intensity of this war higher and higher, and it would be best if their brains were knocked out!

Whenever one side is at a disadvantage, they will applaud and then look for an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

For Xia Xiu, the war with the Soul Absorber Empire will be a war that will completely establish the Courtyard Star Realm's hegemony.

Since the troublemakers in the Golden Court will not intervene, it means that the court can focus on dealing with the spirit suckers and avoid having to guard against their secret mischief outside the battlefield.

This is undoubtedly a smooth start.

At least, Xia Xiu doesn't have to be distracted by dealing with the guys from the Golden Royal Court who are hiding in the Kingdom of God and planning how to kill someone with a borrowed knife.

After thinking about future events, Xia Xiu looked towards the third of Tunaras that had not been completely crystallized in the distance.

He did not allow the [Spiral of Heaven] to completely devour the entire Tunaras.

It’s not that he can’t do it, but he deliberately left some of it behind.

At this moment, the triple halo of the Holy Machine of Gospel still exudes the afterglow of divinity, and the huge body slowly floats above Tunaras, which has turned into a crystal sculpture city.

Behind him, two-thirds of the city had been swallowed up by the holy crystal clusters, turning into an immortal white miracle, while the remaining one-third was trembling outside the boundaries of the holy light.

That was the last "living" area of ​​the city.

Xia Xiu slowly pushed the control ball, and the body of the Holy Gospel Machine shook slightly, then broke through the air and flew towards the area that had not been swallowed by the crystal cluster.

There, was what he wanted.

——A branch of the exiled [Mi-Go] group.

These guys were originally heretics who split from the Soul Sucker Empire. They had fierce conflicts with the main body [the Mi-Go] and eventually fled to Tunaras, living there under the protection of Vlaakith.

Xia Xiu needs to obtain internal intelligence about the Soul Sucker Empire from these exiled [Mi-Go].