From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 598 The Last Star Dragon
After passing through a series of disinfection channels and being scanned by several detection equipment, the archbishop changed into a heavy protective suit and put on a special mask.

As the last heavy explosion-proof door slowly opened, a cold breath rushed towards us, as if even the air was instantly frozen.

What unfolded before Archbishop Jules Mazarin was a spectacular and shocking sight:
In a faint blue light, a huge monster as big as a mountain lay there quietly, its body covered by a thick layer of transparent ice crystals. Through the ice, one could clearly see its huge body and extremely delicate scales.

Yes, these are the "remains" of a giant star dragon. According to human legends, it can soar in the universe, possess the mysterious power of "dragon power", and has almost eternal life.

The 'remains' of this giant star dragon that was frozen in ice exuded an indescribable sense of majesty even in its dead state.

According to the information left in the 'Final Dogma Zone', this giant star dragon is more than three kilometers long when it is unfurled - it is speculated that it is even only the length of a sub-adult, and even now that it is curled up, it still has a considerable size.

So rather than saying that the 'Final Dogma Zone' is hidden inside the Grand Palace and the mountain, it is better to say that it was built directly on the 'remains' of this star dragon, completely burying it.

Its wings are huge and graceful, and even in their frozen state, one can still feel the power they once possessed.

The folded wing membrane appears translucent, and there seems to be flowing starlight inside.

The edges of the wings are dotted with tiny gem-like crystals that reflect different colors as the light changes, from deep blue to violet to silver, like the ever-changing aurora in the night sky.

Even when it was still, Jules Mazarin could imagine that the wings had once torn apart space as they flapped, allowing this huge creature to use its physical strength to enter hyperspace and jump across the endless galaxy.

The long tail coiled around its body, with several larger stardust crystals still remaining at the tip. They reflected strange colors under the light, proving the dragon's former connection with the farthest corners of the universe.

The most eye-catching thing is the dragon's head, which is elegant, proud and majestic. These adjectives are perfectly stacked on the head of this cosmic creature.

The huge eyes were tightly closed, but they seemed to emanate an inexplicable power, like two sleeping stars, waiting to light up the night sky again one day.

There are slender horns on both sides of the head. These horns have a complex and elegant semi-spiral structure and are covered with fine lines on the surface, recording the ancient knowledge and wisdom possessed by this dragon.

The mouth of the star dragon was also tightly closed, but several sharp dragon teeth were still exposed under its lips. Even the cold and dead silence could not conceal its former dominance as the top predator in the universe.

Apart from the slight humming sound of the equipment required to maintain a low-temperature environment, there is almost no other sound in the entire freezer.

The air was filled with a faint chill and the unique scent of ancient creatures, which made people feel awe and curiosity.

A few small light sources were embedded on the surrounding walls, providing basic lighting for the room, and also gave Jules Mazarin the illusion that "this giant star dragon is just sleeping."

Inside the walls, there are a large number of automated processing devices that are used to maintain this huge freezer without anyone inside, maintain the temperature, keep the freezer sterile, and process excess frost.
When the underground facility was first built, in order to ensure that as few people as possible knew the secret, the Empire's design team abandoned the idea of ​​using a human team to maintain the facility. The original idea was to use a large number of autonomous robots to maintain the "Final Dogma Zone", but considering that robots also need human maintenance, if something goes wrong, it will cause even greater trouble, so this plan was quickly rejected.

In the end, under the advice of the founding emperor, the design team adopted a solution that combined automated machinery with a large number of preset "countermeasures."

Since no one enters or leaves the 'Final Dogma Zone' 99% of the time, it is basically kept closed for a long time, and only the low temperature environment needs to be maintained, so the core of the entire area is the 'environmental control component'.

In this case, the design team wrote about almost all the situations that could be thought of and encountered, as well as the relevant response plans and a series of detailed issues derived from the response plans. It can be said that they truly took care of every detail.

Use the simplest method to maintain the most important equipment.

It's just that the preliminary preparation work requires a little more effort.

And every 3-5 years, a group of maintenance personnel will bring maintenance components to carry out comprehensive maintenance of the "Final Dogma Zone".

Of course, these maintainers are "disposable" and "discard after use".
They didn't know that they were heading to the 'Final Dogma Zone'. After the maintenance was completed, they would not be able to leave alive. They would be decomposed and used for energy supply.
The final "destination" of these people will also be mixed into various official accident reports of that year.

The annual maintenance costs of the 'Final Dogma District' are also paid from the emperor's own secret treasury. This is why the five emperors of the Leon Dynasty so far have been extremely 'stingy' in court spending.

It's not that they don't want to pay, but they really have no money.
In this way, when the original designers and builders took the secret into the grave, as time went by, fewer and fewer people knew about the 'Final Dogma Zone'.

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In Frederico's lifetime, apart from this core figure, there were only the Archbishop, a three-person team responsible for the maintenance of the 'Final Dogma Zone', and two commissioners who were secretly responsible for various follow-up matters.

The five people behind would not have any contact with the outside world on weekdays. Their families seemed to be carrying some kind of "curse" and guarded the secrets of the "Final Dogma Zone" for generations.
Jules Mazarin stood in such a mysterious space, with complex emotions in his heart.

Faced with such a magnificent life form, even as the Archbishop of the Empire's state religion, he felt his own insignificance in the face of the universe.

Under normal circumstances, as the Archbishop of the Empire's state religion who believes in the Dragon God, his faith should be even stronger when he sees a real star dragon and feels the majesty of this creature.

Jules Mazarin once thought so too.

It was not until the eve of his succession as Archbishop that he came to the 'Final Dogma District' under the leadership of the former Archbishop that his understanding was overturned.

(End of this chapter)