Lords: From Civilization to the Stars.

Chapter 112 Natural Wonders: Demonic Rift

"What? Building a player city all of a sudden? Are the higher-ups crazy?"

"A tower built to imitate the South Pole fulcrum? Since this is the first time that players have obtained the blueprints of a magic building, we need to build it to try to reproduce the building environment? Try to see if it is possible to build a magic building in reality?"

"Doesn't that require the Negative Star's Psychic Lighthouse to operate successfully? Anyway, let's not worry about it for now, let's try and see if it can be done? Because in this way, even if we use the player's magic power, we can make delay-free calls within the solar system? No, no, no, the distance is too far, why don't you try the Earth-Moon System first?"

"So we decided to replicate a tower in the Antarctic environment? Do you know how much that would cost?"

"Huh? Everyone agrees? The church also supports it with funding? What church? What other church could there be?"

"The Church of the Star Negators? What the hell is that? Is this world crazy?"

Conversations like this are happening around the world.

The world will not stagnate because of someone's actions, nor will it advance madly because of someone's crazy fantasy. For the player's world, exploring another world is obviously a hot topic.

Especially when Edward began to bring about the blessings of the Chaos Gods, this discussion gradually fell into a frenzy. Because the real world is too depressing and boring, everyone is in a strong internal friction, trying to express their own personality and show themselves through various behaviors.

Therefore, the existence of players, another world, and a different life, almost creates a strong fanaticism in everyone.

There are live broadcasts of various worlds, various commercial activities, and large conglomerates and related industries are beginning to move in at a high speed. Even the so-called player cities are being built in full swing.

So, as the only player-friendly area, and even given a map of the magic building, the Negative Star Spiritual Spire was voted to be built, which was not too shocking news. But what was a little confusing and even a little weird was that the Spiritual Spire was finalized a little too quickly.

Although this is the first time that players have come up with something truly related to the magic system, to be honest, building it directly is still a bit too radical.

The big news that followed was that during a dance, a rich second-generation young man used some special methods to win over Edward, causing him to temporarily lose his ability to speak and become stiff. This incident immediately aroused public outrage, and various warning letters and threatening letters appeared one after another.

Of course, the ups and downs in the outside world do not really affect the players' lifestyle. Now the players have gradually divided into two obvious factions.

One of them is the assimilation faction who truly treats the other world as their own home and even wants to survive there.

The other is the Adventists who insist that they are players and that the other world is just their playground. The conflict between the two is actually due to Leon. After the attack on Leon led to some Adventists being convicted of crimes, a group of people claimed that this was a destruction of human rights, so a lot of messes were created.

As for how chaotic the situation was, what strange things were happening outside, and what crises were happening around the world, Li Ang actually didn't know anything. Or even if he knew, he didn't bother to care. He just sat in the cabin, looking at the sky covered with black snowflakes, and sighed.

"Ah~~~ It's really quiet now. The demons haven't sent troops to attack our gathering place. It seems to be pretty good. I thought it was a bit too late to build the Psychic Spire directly, but now it seems to be pretty good."

Squinting his eyes, he saw a faint golden light emerging from the darkness. It seemed that the light from somewhere shone on the spiritual spire. Leon squinted his eyes in satisfaction, enjoying this beautiful time.

The demons are a group of guys who are more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything. In fact, Le Ang still overestimated them.

Because someone has betrayed me, then a little scuffle is not a problem.

Because of the big melee, no one cared what was going on with the players on the beach.

The will of the Four Chaos Gods is of course the most absolute, but when their opinions conflict with each other, they naturally give priority to their own ideas.

You see, wasn't it the God of Joy who started it first? The big guy resisted a little and expressed his strong opinion. It didn't seem like a big deal, right? As for why so many demons died after expressing their opinions, it was because they were expressing their opinions.

The demons don't care why it turned out like this or what the deep reasons are.

These monsters who pursued their own natures were only immersed in their own plans. Now that the light of the Four Gods had been shattered, they naturally chose to embark on their own path of chaos.

Players could even see groups of demons roaring and killing each other in the valley. Although the culprit players were less than five kilometers away from them, these demons still chose to kill the demons of other factions dozens of kilometers away first.

Because the souls of the players are neither tasty nor beautiful to the demons.

Under such strange circumstances, the first psychic tower standing at the Antarctic landing point was quickly built, and the psychic shield designated by Leon began to unfold in the surrounding environment.

The pale golden light was like a flame, burning the surrounding soil, bringing layer after layer of golden light and shadow. Even if you look up at the sky within the range covered, you can vaguely see the Wound of the World far away at the North Pole, and the huge psychic lighthouse that looks like an eyeball.

The feeling of being in their own environment made the players feel much more at ease. With the development of routes and the assistance of the Elf Outpost, ship after ship of supplies began to be transported to this Antarctic landing point. The infrastructure and city defense construction projects began to be carried out in the entire area. The Negative Stars kindly solidified one area after another with runes, and even taught the players some convenient ways to create barriers.

Although these methods basically don’t make much sense without psychic abilities, for players, this kind of kindness being respected is really the first time in history.

All the players were basically living like street rats. Even the ratmen who were friendly at first turned their backs on the players after they sent their supplies and established a base. They ate all the players and supplies in the pit, causing tens of thousands of people to suffer mental damage and a large amount of supplies to disappear. Currently, the main activity areas for players in the old world are only Albion Island, Hope City, and the newly developed Antarctic Fulcrum. This may seem a bit shabby, but it is not bad for the controller.

Whether the players come or not, Le Ang has no opinion as long as they complete their tasks.

It is still in the preparation stage, and those demons are still unsure of what they are thinking, so there is no need to alarm them. Let the players build their own homes first, then expand step by step along the coastline, and finally take it away with a thunderbolt.

By that time, the demons would not have had time to react. Since those strange wonder components had been in Antarctica for such a long time, it was unlikely that they would be lost without any major stimulation.

So in this rare development period, Li Ang did not urge the players, but lay on the cabin with sunglasses on, lazily basking in the sun.

Just like a mature capitalist or an ancient tyrant, two elf sisters dressed very sexy, and a girl with golden rune stitching marks between her lips and teeth were serving Le Ang, looking at this golden man and talking about her views on demons.

"Of course they will not unite, because the meaning of life is to spread. Free thinking, free living, and unfettered expression of one's ideal model. This is the manifestation of the devil."

"..."

"But we are different. We represent their opposite, pure destruction and death. They will eventually encounter us. The reason why the Pale Army can horrify all life is because it is something that cannot exist, that is, living creatures without souls. Living meat."

"..."

"Are you asking me why I was able to create such a monster? Because I have always believed that the soul is something that should not exist. If it does exist, then many sacrifices, enlightenments, and ideas will become meaningless. If truly noble souls exist forever in the world, then why is the world still like this? So what exists must not be the soul."

"..."

"The soul has never existed in the beginning. It is just a shadow cast by human thoughts and actions in the subspace. The Pale Army I created is actually something like one-sided glass. It is scary for demons, but after careful understanding, you will find that having no soul is not something to be afraid of. The soul itself is an attached concept. Many people live without realizing their souls, so why should we be afraid of witnessing soulless people? It's just something like this."

"..."

"So you have to admire my craftsmanship, Edward. I saved you from the endless abyss, saved you from infinite emptiness and hunger, but all you need is to be loyal to me. You don't even need to do anything, nor do you need to respond to anything. This is my grace."

"..."

Edward, who was pale with light golden runes on his body, was looking blankly at Leon who was sitting in the cabin and talking nonsense, and gradually revealed an expression of deep contempt.

Edward was no longer pure purple. It was as if he had been flattened by a giant hammer and then reshaped. His originally perfect body was covered with golden cracks, and flames and marks occasionally emerged from it, then were suppressed in his shell again.

Strictly speaking, Edward is nothing at the moment. The Pale Army can't even describe this person's current state. The leader of the players can still maintain his reputation in the outside world, purely because the illusion that Leon mastered is basically no different from the reality change. No one noticed that the lovely girl in pure purple has been shattered into this state.

But no matter what, she survived. It is not certain whether she is alive or not, and it is not certain whether she has past thoughts or not. After experiencing pure destruction and ruthless baptism, this former Chosen God of Slaanesh still struggled to leave her body.

Leon was grateful to this individual because the analysis of this individual had brought the progress of the Path of Joy to the same level as the other three paths.

It seems that the God of Joy really cares about this naive player and even gives him quite high authority and attention.

However, this attention soon turned into a severe blow to the Antarctic continent's barrier.

But so what? Leon felt that the dark gods would definitely not be angry.

When playing games, of course you have to smile. Since your world is such a great game, why would you be annoyed by such an unexpected thing? Shouldn't you be very happy about this change?

At least Leon is very happy now. Because he has found the sources of many special phenomena in the player world and the current world, and his spiritual power has been greatly expanded. Even in the player world, he can reproduce the power of many miracles and wonders that he has mastered.

That was enough, he was already sure of many things.

And there is even better news. As the players' expedition team goes deeper and deeper, a series of news begins to come out from his message prompts.

Although a large number of players build their own homes in the city, there are also more players who do not like this restricted style, so they actively start to launch dangerous challenges towards the dark Antarctic continent. And yesterday, one of the challengers successfully got a bounty of 100 gold coins.

Because his discovery was even recorded in the prompts of Leon's civilization system.

'The units you hired are exploring Antarctica and relaying news to your psionic network.'

'The unit you hired discovered a planet-level natural wonder: Demon Rift'

(End of this chapter)