Extraordinary Pedigree.

Chapter 973 [Spiritual Legion - Daughter Who Defies the Heavens (Weapon of Civilization Suppression)]

Vasak's figure stood like a towering tower, its shadow writhing and stretching, forming a dark, inky spiritual abyss—the guiding gate of the spiritual legion.

Containment, commencement.

The shadowy gate trembled violently, and a gigantic hand woven from causal threads reached out from the void, its five fingers spread wide like the palm of Hades, aiming to grasp the four weapon maidens in its palm.

They did not resist.

Because the master control has been transferred, all logic layers assume that Xia Xiu is the new executor.

Their skirts disintegrated into particles of light like wings, their divine structures gradually detaching and merging into the shadows summoned by Xia Xiu. Like four pillars of information piercing down from the sky, they were accepted, enveloped, and assimilated by the abyss of the spiritual legion.

[Master control command identification in progress...]

[Recognition successful - Permission ID: 42]

[Carrier Name: Hugh Abraham]

[Stable frame rate synchronization...]

[Formatting parameter response...]

[Host synchronization level: 97.2%]

[Mental structure integration complete]

【CR-13 Subunit Archive Number: LX-Δ4】

[Current Status: Containment Complete / Full Control]

[Checking for remaining unarchived Legion units...]

[Updating Legion Cluster Structure...]

[Spiritual Legion - Completion Progress: 11/26]

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【Civilization (Original Celestial Body) Suppression Weapon: Daughter Who Defied the Heavens (V1-V4)】

"The Daughters of the Rebellion" consist of four colossal humanoid weapons: Pallas, Judith, Rachel, and Arkin. Each individual's armed form ranges from 18.9 km to 23.5 km and possesses six enormous bird wings. They are humanoid in appearance, but their limbs have strikingly unusual features, including feathered hands and feet, claws, and snake tails. Each individual does not rely on legs for movement but instead floats and orbits the Earth.

The facial features of these individuals cannot be observed, and the collection of images or audio recordings would cause severe cognitive harm. Every word they utter affects those who come into contact with them, compelling them to follow the individual until they completely lose vital signs or are severely harmed.

Armament Module:

【V-1｜Pallas】

Codename: Chief of the Patrol - Memory Miller

The slogan for lifting the lockdown: "Follow God until your steps no longer belong to you, but to God!"

Unarmed mode:
Visual Recognition: Approximately 1.4 meters tall, with white hair tied in a flowing ribbon. Eyes devoid of iridescence and pupils, remaining only blank voids, engraved with a sequence of divine commands. She wears a flowing veil of faith, her long skirt woven from ashes, each step leaving a trail of burning marks. Six transparent wings, like sacred feathers, emanate from her, containing faint, shimmering light. She wields a broken-handled scythe, its hilt shattered, like a death warrant that should never be held again.

Ascension Power (Special Attack on Civilization as a Whole - Intelligent Life Forms):
[Natural Disaster Follower]: Those who come into visual/auditory contact with it will be unable to stop the urge to follow it cognitively, and will continue to float in the air until their life is exhausted or their body breaks.

[Dead Line]: Summons a line of grotesque, robed phantoms of old believers who whisper Pallas's words, infecting all intelligent beings with linguistic poison.

[Contaminated Displacement Body]: Allows for long-range intervention at any node on the battlefield through a circumferential projection, enabling a global power mapping.

"Note: Pallas is the slowest of the four individuals, taking 468 days to complete a planetary journey (based on the standard Terra planet)."

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【V-2｜Judith】

Code Name: Retrospective Singer - Light and Word Polyphony
The slogan for lifting the lockdown: "Go into that good night silently and gently."

Unarmed mode:
Standing approximately 1.45 meters tall, with a refined and pure face, she speaks without vocal cord movement, her voice echoing like divine pronouncements, reverberating in the mind with five layers of resonance. She wears a bell-shaped sacred robe, the hem of which resembles layers of bird feathers, floating motionless; her lower body is rarely in contact with the ground. Around her neck are several layers of "word-printed ribbons," on which the characters seem to evolve and grow on their own.

Ascension of Power (Special Attack on the Entire Civilization - Civilization Language System)

[Civilization Toxin]: Once an intelligent individual hears its voice, five stages of cognitive distortion will occur within three days, the language of civilization will eventually collapse, and it will eventually evolve into a state of "language martyrdom" (a unified writing system will inevitably be ravaged).

【Synchronized Words】: Its words can trigger echoes and imitations from surrounding believers, causing "ideological pollution across the entire channel" and triggering signs of the collapse of civilization's spread (the spread of knowledge related to writing, language, etc. will be destroyed).

【Cognitive Burning】: Once the chanting permission is activated during battle, the "conceptual regression" phenomenon can be applied to the enemy army formation, compressing the linguistic self and forcibly silencing the hostile structure.

"Judith is the fastest, completing a planetary journey in 416 days."

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[V-3: Rachel]

Codename: Orbital Suppression - God of the Dead

Slogan: "If you cannot escape God, then run to the end of eternity."

Unarmed form: Approximately 1.35 meters tall, with empty eyes and an expressionless mouth. His legs are bound by silver-white restraints, preventing his feet from touching the ground; instead, he glides in a wave-like trajectory, leaving a trail of black and white afterimages.

Ascension Power (Special Attack on the Entire Civilization - Orbital Suppression)

[Orbital Intrusion]: Any glimpse of its trajectory will trigger a visual pollution reaction, and any civilized device attempting to escape will need to break through Rachel's suppressive orbit.

[Speed ​​Stasis]: Her movements constitute a certain key structure, which, when activated, can construct a time curtain, causing the area to enter a state of stagnation.

【Wingless Bird】: Summons a floating army of followers affected by it, whose feet are worn away. The wingless birds will continue to circle the sky, hindering escapees and following them until they dissipate.

"Rachel is exceptionally lonely among the four CR-13s. Her influence is relatively small, but her existence poses a huge threat to civilization. With her irregular and unpredictable actions, all civilization's escape devices will be destroyed by her."

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【V-4｜Agni】

Codename: Reincarnated Being in the Flame Wheel - Gray-Clad Maiden

Slogan: "When language is ravaged, the soul will also be set ablaze!"

Unarmed form: Approximately 1.25 meters tall, with the most delicate body, resembling an obedient child, yet containing the most unstable core of flame energy. Her white dress is scorched through layers of black flame ash, and from the waist down, it is almost non-existent, merely trailing trails of flame mist.

Ascending Power (Special Attack on Civilization as a Whole - Cluster Strike on Undead)
【Prayer Ignites】: Arkini does not need to speak; she can trigger the burning of the soul of the entire civilization simply by touching and looking at it. The target will enter a state of continuous burning from the inside out (when the civilization cluster loses communication, she will begin to burn the soul of the individual).

【Civilization Formatting Program】: She can completely format and reset all structures containing beliefs and fears within the target area to zero.

"Arkini was relatively slow, but she was extremely patient; her presence almost silenced the entire world."

[Note: Enter number 42 for proper cleaning and use.]

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

After Xia Xiu took in the four unarmed girls, his soul was struck by a huge shockwave, and his senses became sluggish at that moment.

He gently closed his eyes and felt a terrifying power stirring within the four girls—this power did not come entirely from their divinity, but also from the genetic templates they possessed, and their flesh and blood were deeply permeated with some kind of uncontrollable supernatural ability.

Their inherent [genetic templates] are enough for him to combine his own genes with theirs to create four even more powerful flesh-and-blood enemy legions.

Moreover, these newly created legions will not only be able to control the original weapons in the future, but will also be able to operate despite their interference...

Xia Xiu unconsciously turned his gaze to the weapon's creator—Armond. His eyes became more cautious, and his tone more serious than ever before:
"The four of them clearly have a specific target... In other words, their existence has a clear enemy objective."

You once said that the initial goal was to create celestial suppression weapons to intimidate the stars, but now it seems that their characteristics have deviated from the original research direction.

Based on the Hand of God incident and the civilization purge plan you mentioned, I'm almost certain that you changed your research direction later on because of the implementation of the civilization purge plan. What prompted this change?

Upon hearing this, Amond did not refute, but instead nodded slightly.

"Your guess is correct."

"Initially, our goal was indeed to create a weapon that could intimidate the stars and suppress celestial bodies, and the four girls were the experimental subjects we used to achieve this goal."

He paused, then continued:

"However... our plans changed when the Taronu civilization was on the verge of collapse."

The collapse of the crisis sequence has made us more vigilant. The power contained in that world bubble cannot be ignored; in fact, it can be said that it is a resource that must be mastered.

You must understand that the bubble of worlds not only contains narrative forces we've never encountered before, but also conceals much crucial information from the enemy.

Armand's voice fell silent again, his gaze becoming deep and unfathomable, as if recalling that chilling past.

"Besides all the reasons mentioned above, there is one crucial point: the Fifth Church."

He paused for a moment, as if to process the weight of his words.

"The Fifth Church, that hidden power, is the real reason we changed our experimental target."

"They are the ones who caused our policy shift."

His tone turned cold.

"It was an early morning without warning... The Fifth Church suddenly appeared in everyone's sight. No one knew where they came from, but it was like a plague seed that had been dormant for thousands of years, which broke out overnight."

"Then, without warning, they declared war on the Kingdom of Heaven."

The air seemed to freeze, and everything around became eerily quiet, as the entire space awaited Armand to continue uncovering this unknown history.

Xia Xiu listened quietly without interrupting Armand.

Amund took a deep breath and continued:
"As I mentioned before, the cause of the destruction of the Taronu civilization was the combined effect of multiple crisis sequences, the most deadly of which was the AK-type crisis sequence—Civilization Madness, also known as the Mimu Crisis."

The source of this crisis sequence was the Fifth Church, which spread its influence.

Xia Xiu frowned slightly and continued listening.

Armand continued in a low voice, his tone laced with barely concealed hostility and malice:

"The rise of this church was so rapid that it was too fast for people to react."

"They are not traditional religions, nor are they institutions in the name of faith and salvation—they are a pathogenic entity of thought, an abnormal philosophical structure with an extremely strong ability to proliferate and contaminate cognition."

"Their very existence is like a time bomb planted in the very fabric of reality, ready to destroy all order and reconstruct all cognition. They regard the sacred as absurd and logic as rotten. One of their most insane goals is to challenge the foundations of heaven and shake the [Wall of Sighs]."

Upon hearing this, Xia Xiu finally moved his eyes.

The Wailing Wall—the ultimate defense system used by Heaven to isolate itself from the corruption of the Mother and the voice of chaos—has become the first target of the Fifth Church's declaration of war.

“When the Fifth Church declared war on us, their goal was very clear.”

Amund's tone began to become deep and powerful.

"The first point of attack they chose was the Wailing Wall."

“This is a war.” His tone grew increasingly chilling, “but not the kind of war you imagine, with soldiers lined up and fleets assembled. This is a head-on collision between Mother and Order, a massacre between the cognitive structures of civilization, a most secretive and brutal conflict unfolding beneath the soul.”

"They used infection, distortion, and a fundamentally undefinable philosophy of faith to drag one of our angelic comrades after another into the abyss, and to twist our most steadfast allies into an indescribable existence."

"And the outcome of this war..."

Armand sighed softly, a deep sense of melancholy in his eyes.

"It not only directly led to the failure of the religious reform originally led by the Kingdom of Heaven, but also ignited the spark of radicalism, plunging the entire Kingdom of Heaven into one of the darkest and most chaotic periods."

Amund stared directly at Xia Xiu, a cold hatred flashing in his eyes, as if his deep-seated resentment had been building up for a long time and had finally found an outlet.

His hands clenched unconsciously, his knuckles turning white, as if he himself was unaware of how intense his emotions were at that moment.

"At that time, our religious reformation, in addition to providing a deeper foundation of faith for the utopian program, had a most fundamental goal."

"We are trying to use the power of the secular church to build a super network based on the genealogy of the Kingdom of Heaven."

This is not merely an extension of faith, but also a technological innovation. It is our attempt to completely connect everyone's thoughts and information, allowing freely flowing knowledge and consciousness to transcend all constraints and form an absolutely unified system of consciousness.

"I call this series of goals the Human First Web Project."

He said this with a tone that conveyed both pride and a hint of regret.

"The core of the First Network Project is to connect various terminal devices and facilities around the world through the Heavenly Kingdom Lineage."

Armand's gaze grew increasingly profound, as if the unfinished blueprints from his memories were slowly unfolding in his mind.

"This is not just a conduit for information transmission, but a vehicle that enables the highest level of connection between human thought and spirit."

Whether it's culture, art, technology, or faith, all life forms and thought patterns will be perfectly integrated through this giant network, forming a seamless future society.

As he spoke, his eyes shone with a fanatical light, as if he still believed that it was the only way to save humanity.

That idealized scene lingered in his mind, yet he also knew that it was now out of reach.

“Every device, every flow of information, and every connection point will become an extension of our power.”

"Everything will be integrated into this network. It will be an ultimate interconnected network that allows everyone to access the knowledge they deserve, answer every question, transmit every idea, and even change the future of the world."

"This is the future of heaven, and the only way for us humans to move towards the future."

We must break through all constraints, liberate all life forms, and shatter all informational shackles—through this network, all knowledge and consciousness can flow freely, unhindered by anyone or anything.

"And this network is not only used to transmit information, but also to break all the limitations that trap us in a vicious cycle."

Through the Initial Network, we can make the world's processes more efficient and precise, creating a seamless, super-civilization without any delays.

"But... the Fifth Church destroyed it!!!"

A look of pain gradually appeared on Armand's face.

"You don't know the pain and hatred in our hearts when the Reformation failed, and everything we did was ultimately twisted by their betrayal and madness. When the ideals of humanity's primordial unity ultimately turned into a disaster."

“I can tell you clearly that the main reason I have survived in this form is because of my anger and hatred towards the Fifth Church!”

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P.S.: I went home and found out that someone from my hometown got into Tsinghua University. I joined them for a meal (a celebration banquet, quite lavish).