Extraordinary Pedigree.

Chapter 912: Soul Sucker Empire - Death
When the Golden Law officially declared: The Soul Sucker Empire has been conquered by Hugh Abraham, the Lord of the Courtyard.

The entire star realm held its collective breath in that brief moment.

Then, like the echo of a stone dropped into the abyss,
All the surface-level intelligence agencies, observation courts, sacred messenger corps and even the Grey World Shadow Report Society began to move frantically.

"The Lord of the Courtyard has completed the conquest of the astral world—!"

"The Golden Rule recognizes the victory of the Courtyard..."

"The Soul Sucker Empire... is dead?"

This message shuttled and spread between countless planes, like thunder thrown into an ancient well, tightening the nerves of countless onlookers.

No one expected that this epic war, known as the 'Battle for Star Domination', would be decided so quickly.

They had all thought that the war between the Earthly Courtyard and the Soul Sucker Empire would be protracted, a tug-of-war that would last for years, a game of attrition with civilization as the bargaining chip.

After all, one is an emerging astral hegemonic regime backed by the Kingdom of Heaven, and the other is a huge empire that controls the Council of Masterminds.

No matter how you look at the paper strength comparison between the two sides, the war between them will be a long, stalemate, and mutually depleting hellish quagmire.

And the result of this war that attracted the attention of all the heavens and worlds was...

Hugh Abraham—the terrifying fourth prince of the abyss, the lord of the courtyard, the golden tyrant, the spurned of the gods, the scourge of the heavens and all worlds.

The ambitious man had no intention of competing with the Soul Sucker Empire.

He joined forces with the remaining forces of the Mechanicus and launched a blitzkrieg in a way that caught almost all intelligence systems off guard.

He did not test or nibble away at the enemy line by line, but directly mobilized the main force of the courtyard, advancing all the way from the periphery of the Soul Sucker Empire and forcefully penetrating the [Hebrian Front].

In the face of the Courtyard Lord's blitzkrieg, they watched helplessly as the Earthly Courtyard tore open the flank of the Soul Sucker Empire within a few days, penetrated the main line of defense, and went straight to the [Hebria Hub], reaching the empire's capital [Narasius].

The most frightening thing is that he actually captured [Narasius].

He destroyed the Mastermind Council, contained the formatting weapons, destroyed the Empire's ruling nervous system, destroyed the core will of this old world, and then - stood under the crown and declared sovereignty.

The Golden Rule records the end of this war and the leap to the earthly courtyard.

With the annexation of the Soul Sucker Empire, the courtyard's ranking in the Ivy War Directory jumped into the top 500.

And this is just the beginning.

The territory of the Soul Sucker Empire has not yet been completely digested, and the major hubs and colonial planes are still in the stage of organization and reorganization. Once the full integration is completed and the laws are implemented, the Courtyard of the Midgard will once again - directly step into the top three hundred.

This is not just a number, it's a signal.

An alarm leading to the center of all heavens and worlds.

From today on, the Courtyard of the World is no longer just an emerging regional sovereign power, no longer just a frontier power hovering outside the Golden Court.

From today on, the Midgard Courtyard will become the true overlord of the astral world.

From today on, all astral political entities must face up to the will of the Courtyard in diplomatic negotiations and act in accordance with the direction of the Courtyard.

Hugh Abraham conquered the Astral Plane, which made the gods of the Golden Court quite uneasy.

This victory sounded the alarm for the gods.

The Golden Royal Court has never given up on suppressing the rise of the Earthly Courtyard.

They base their belief in divinity on themselves, claiming to be the managers of the origin of the heavens and myriad worlds. They regard themselves as gods and use their divinity to govern the myriad worlds.

They have always had a natural hostility towards new institutions from heaven, especially those like Hugh Abraham who hold power but refuse to kneel down and believe in the gods.

The courtyard is not their believer,
And the Kingdom of Heaven is not their ally.

At the beginning of this war, the Golden Court remained silent.

In their eyes, no matter how fiercely the fight between the Earthly Courtyard and the Soul Sucker Empire took place, it was nothing more than a dog-eat-dog fight.

The Mind-Drainer Empire represents the madness and abuse of the old times, and the Courtyard represents the coldness and oppression of the new order.

No matter which side wins, it is not worth blessing for them.

They were actually preparing for the victor's back-up plan, but they didn't expect...

The Courtyard won so quickly and the Soul Sucker Empire was brought to its knees so thoroughly.

Xia Xiu's blitzkrieg was really too fast.

It happened so fast that the inside line of environmental issues had not yet been deployed, so fast that they had no time to arrange various countermeasures, and so fast that their original plan of "sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight" turned into horror.

They now have to face the cancer of the abyss that the Kingdom of Heaven left in the heavens and all worlds in advance.

So, they started gathering.

In the high seat area of ​​the Golden Palace, divine light gathered like water.

In that sacred void without direction and concept of time, apostles, spokespersons, incarnations, and projections from different pantheons returned to the throne one after another, just like sleeping stars suddenly opening their eyes one by one.

"We can't allow the Midgard Courtyard to continue expanding."

"If left unchecked, Hugh Abraham would shake the entire chain of faith."

“The Kingdom of Heaven is bound to try to tear down the foundation of our throne. What these lunatics want is to bring all the heavens and worlds into the Kingdom of Heaven’s territory.

That group of lunatics wanted to transform the area of ​​the Ten Thousand Worlds into an etheric channel for the future Terran humans to use as the sun region in the current baseline universe after they break through the Crystal Sky.

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At this moment, messages about the collapse of the empire and the change of laws echoed in the spiritual network, amplified, repeated, and retransmitted by intelligence providers, detectives, and diviners, crashing into every layer of perception like a snowball, shattering all lucky fantasies.

While this information storm has not yet swept away, the battlefield in the distance is still burning.

The seventh sequence domain of the old spirit bone ring on the outskirts of the Hebria hub.

The most chaotic, fragmented, and difficult-to-clear border zone in the astral realm.

This is also one of the most intense frontal battlefields between the Soul Sucker Empire and the Courtyard.

The most intense battle took place at the Tuhana Hub.

It is the key hyperspace channel bridge from the heartland of the Soul Sucker Empire to the border. At the same time, it is the only bottleneck preventing the remaining troops of the entire empire from returning for large-scale reinforcements.

Stretching across the sky above this hub is the ultimate defensive barrier constructed from the blueprint left behind by the Mechanicus - the [Iron Wall].

It is a plane blocking device constructed with void folding technology.

Designed specifically to block hyperspace channels, it can compress any advanced jump path into an invalid structure.
Even the Nautilus fleet of the Soul Sucker Empire had to expend a huge amount of neural energy and drive spirals to barely tear open a path.

It was the existence of this [Iron Wall] that made Xia Xiu's blitzkrieg possible.

He used the [Iron Wall] to block the road, and then he needed to cut off the heart of the empire before the Empire's main brain called on the frontier forces and before the Nautilus Fleet broke through the Tuhana Channel.

When Xia Xiu led the main fleet straight into the heart of the empire, the [Iron Wall] on the front line had already been under continuous bombardment, cracks appeared, the internal normal structure became unbalanced, and began to show the critical edge of collapse.

Once the [Iron Wall] is completely broken, it means that the military forces of dozens of fleets and dozens of hubs on the periphery of the Soul Sucker Empire will march straight into the heart of [Hebria].

That would be a full-scale counterattack by the remnants of the entire Soul Sucker Empire against the invaders.

The Nautilus fleet madly crashed into the remnants of the [Iron Wall], like a spike in a storm, consuming itself at all costs.

The Astra Militarum in the courtyard was holding its ground in the rear, with several Sword-class frigates destroyed and several tactical nodes overheating.

Just when this line of defense was about to collapse and Nautilus' tactical singularity had begun to focus - the Golden Rule was issued.

It was like a sword of judgment, slashing down vertically from the top of the star realm, cutting off the entire game in one stroke.

The news of Hugh Abraham's conquest of the Soul Sucker Empire and the destruction of the Mastermind Council flooded into the consciousness of the remaining Masterminds like a flood, instantly tearing apart the Empire's final strategic will. Fear, calculation, and giving up.

The remaining masterminds made the most instinctive reaction - evacuation.

They were afraid that the Lord of the Courtyard would lead the main force of the courtyard to attack back and carry out a strategic liquidation against them, so they chose to run away first.

The Nautilus Fleet no longer harassed the Tuhana Hub, and all ships that could still be activated began to tear through space and jump to escape.

The traitorous fleets that had long lost hope in the Empire also took advantage of the situation and followed suit, dispersing in the darkness like a group of predators with their ropes cut.

The [Iron Wall] had not yet been completely broken, but the situation in Tuhana collapsed first.

The Courtyard Astra Militarum immediately pushed back its defense line, took advantage of the situation to break through the aftermath of the jump left by the remaining Nautilus fleet, and redeployed its defenses.

This important channel for the Soul Sucker Empire to provide reinforcements was now completely in the hands of the Courtyard, becoming a post-war strategic key.

The subsequent advancement was almost a natural progression.

"Lowell" and "Simu", two important hubs connecting the empire's rear support network,
After losing control, they quickly fell into chaos and were surrounded and blocked by the main force of the courtyard. After a brief exchange of fire, they were declared lost.

From then on, the Midnight Courtyard's conquest of the Soul Sucker Empire was completely completed.

Xia Xiu's blitzkrieg was like a clean long sword, slashing straight down from the sky above the star realm, and the final chapter was where it landed.

There is no lengthy tug of war, no gradual gnawing, and no protracted drudgery.

A civilization war that should have become a quagmire in the astral world ended quickly in his hands.

Clean and neat.

Just like his usual style.

In the astral world, there is no more empire of mind suckers from now on.

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the other side.

The conqueror himself remained at Naresia, the epicenter of the battle’s closing moments.

The former capital of the empire, the former power center of the mind suckers, is now just a cold ruin and a symbol of silence.

Above the earth, there is still residual light from the failure of the formatted weapon. Dust mixed with various faint divine embers has not yet completely dissipated. The earth is mottled, as if it had been baptized by blood.

The Holy Machine of Gospel stood at the edge of the city, kneeling on the ground with his palms flat, still maintaining the posture of the king descending.

It stood still, like a metal statue announcing the judgment, guarding the silent scorched earth.

The war was over, but Xia Xiu did not leave.

He did not join the army in the cleanup.

Xia Xiu chose to stay here, in the center of the most symbolic royal capital among the remnants of the Soul Sucker Empire, quietly guarding the flag in the courtyard, waiting for all the results of the battle to be returned.

He has ordered:

[Sword of Glory], come back to support.

Imperial Guards, come back to support.

Blood Oath Legion, come back to support.

The Assassin's Court and the four task forces have all returned to their positions.

at this time--

A slight vibration arose from his palm.

It is not a perceptual disturbance, nor a tactical prompt, but an automatic response from some deep structural authority.

The [Iron Crown] vibrated quietly.

There was no sound.

It was just like a wisp of law rising from the bottom of the universe and slowly flowing into his consciousness.

He was not surprised, nor did he move, but his eyes moved slightly, allowing the information to pass through the structure of the royal seal and flow into the center of his thinking.

One message after another unfolded concisely and steadily in his mind:

[Tuhana Hub, actual control has been completed——]

[Lowell, return to the courtyard——]

[Simu, return to the courtyard——]

[The front-line integration layer has been completed more than half, and the enemy's signals have been completely interrupted——]

Xiu stood in the palm of the Holy Machine of Gospel, looking at the last victory news coming back from afar. The string in his heart that had been stretched for too long finally relaxed quietly.

The Soul Sucker Empire is completely finished now.

Even if it still has a few masterminds and some retreating Nautilus fleets, they are nothing more than the foam left on the reefs after the tide recedes.

Come back?

That's not possible.

Without the signal core of the Mastermind Council and the system link to format the weapons, even if these exiles could escape, they would only be able to gasp for breath in the corners of the star realm, dragging their spineless shells.

They will flee.

Xia Xiu had no doubt about this.

The remaining masterminds will inevitably drive the Nautilus, carrying some hangars and altar nodes, and open up temporary shelters in the remote layers of the astral plane like a group of insects that have cut off their tails to survive.

But that's not important.

"Let them escape."

"I'll settle the accounts one by one after I've rested."

He had already made a plan in his mind. At that time, he would dispatch a dedicated mopping-up front, consisting mainly of the Astra Militarum's rapid reaction force, in coordination with the Blood Oath Legion's small tactical fleet, to search for the hiding places of these remnant forces one by one.

At this moment, he was finally able to withdraw from the front line of the war for a brief pause.

Next comes something more tedious and complicated than fighting: post-war reorganization.

Xia Xiu gently closed his eyes and began to clearly list the tasks that had to be dealt with next in his mind.

He has asked [Adam] to count the casualties and equipment damage of the front-line troops and reconstruct the combat organization; and the courtyard navy must be restored in modules and replaced in energy levels to ensure that subsequent combat effectiveness is not interrupted.

Next, the courtyard government system will be dispatched to take over core cities such as Naresias, Tuhana, Lowell, and Simu.

Eliminate the remaining parliamentary personnel, brain-colonizing believers, and faith minions of the Empire, implement the [Enlightened Despotism System] in each sovereign hub, and complete the replacement and binding of the old and new regimes.

It is also necessary to recast and repair the hyperspace channels of various hubs, repair and improve the mobile network originally occupied by the Soul Sucker Empire as soon as possible, restore ether traction, and allow the hyperspace channels to operate normally.

Next, we will investigate the remaining network of "spiritual suckers" and guide the people of the New Territory to complete the reorganization of their loyalty, especially the political re-education of the orthodoxy of the Kingdom of Heaven and the Enlightened Despotism.

The last thing is to monitor the movements of the Golden Royal Court. This troublemaker will definitely cause trouble later - Xia Xiu is extremely certain of this.

"However, the most urgent issue I may need to deal with is the matter concerning the Mechanicus..."

Now that the war was over, his relationship with the Orthodox Church began to become awkward.

Okay~_~
My work and rest schedule is still a little off.