From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 376: A Thousand-Year Family Collapses Overnight

The Lionheart Empire lost its quenching furnace, which caused an uproar.

Although this quenching furnace was brought back from the Abyss World by the Knights of the Round Table, Grace Quenching Service Company has been in operation for a year and has a large number of cooperating quenchers and capital groups.

This quenching furnace no longer belongs only to the Knights of the Round Table. Capital from many countries, including the White Eagle Federation, has invested in Grace Quenching Services Company.

When we say we are investing in this company, we are actually investing in this quenching furnace.

Originally, there were only two quenching furnaces in the human world, one was owned exclusively by Daxia, and the second was the one in the Lionheart Empire.

Since many capital families of the ASE Alliance failed to successfully acquire shares in Fire Emblem, they finally concentrated on Grace Tempering Services Company in the Lionheart Empire.

In just one year, the valuation of Grace Quenching Services soared to the top 100 in the world.

It's really exaggerated. After all, this is a monopoly industry-level resource, and the money earned is from the psychics.

Mastering the quenching furnace is equivalent to mastering the future world pattern.

Therefore, when the quenching furnace of the Lionheart Empire was lost, not only the Lionheart Empire was devastated, but the whole world was devastated.

The loss of such a large item, coupled with the collective death of the core members of the Planta family and the sudden reversal of the media group's theory of the threat posed by Daxia's superpowers.

There is a connection behind all of this. Anyone who can understand the situation will know who took the quenching furnace without looking at the evidence.

This is also the reason why Lu Heng was too lazy to hide it in the beginning.

The quenching furnace must be taken away for use. There is suddenly an extra quenching furnace in the Quenching Fort. This matter cannot be concealed.

Since there is no way to hide it, just be open about it.

The day after the Lionheart Empire's quenching furnace was lost, Quenching Castle opened two quenching business lines.

The number of tempering masters arranged by Fire Emblem has doubled. It used to take a month to wait in line, but now it only takes half a month.

Therefore, the day after the Lionheart Empire's quenching furnace was lost, the whole world knew that this quenching furnace appeared in the Quenching Fort.

Based on this information, the ASE Alliance quickly found out who did this.

Lu Heng once again became a thorn in the eyes of ASE alliance members.

However, this time there was no public opinion war.

Because the fate of the Planta family has proved that it is useless to use public opinion to discredit Lu Heng.

In this era when order is on the verge of collapse, there is a group of people who are no longer bound by order.

In fact.

Before the abyss came, many members of the ASE alliance, including the Planta family, were not bound by laws and order.

They control vast amounts of wealth in the human world and can even control the lifelines of developed countries. In the past, they could do whatever they wanted and the law could not do anything to them.

In the Abyss Age, a new group of people emerged who were above the law. They were the ones whose combat power reached the peak.

If it were in the past, when Lu Heng killed the six core members of the Planta family, they would probably have been reduced to ashes long ago.

But then again, if it was before the abyss came, no one in the world could touch the Planta family.

Now, Lu Heng has no intention of hiding himself. All the families in the ASE alliance know what he has done. It is equivalent to killing the Planta family openly.

Not only the ASE Alliance knows it, the Daxia military also knows it, but is it important?

As soon as the incident happened, a report was placed on the desk of Li Guining, head of the Southern Theater Command.

After reading the report, Li Guining handed it to his adjutant and said only one sentence: "Top secret, never declassified without special reasons."

Never declassify, this is the attitude of the Daxia military towards this incident.

Every country’s military intelligence department has files that will never be declassified.

These files usually involve very high-level incidents.

There is another subtle point in this incident.

The special forces member used by Lu Heng to control the Planta family is Liao Zhenghong, who was from the Intelligence Analysis Section of the Third Intelligence Department of the Southern Theater Command.

In other words, this person was originally Li Guining's man.

Li Guining would not let the Southern War Zone intervene in this matter because it was not appropriate for the war zone to get involved in such matters.

Long Wei is a mercenary, so he has much more freedom when doing things than those in the military.

Now, Lu Heng controls the Planta family with the "sword" of Longwei, but in fact, he is backed by the Southern War Zone.

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As a member of the ASE Alliance, the Planta family suffered a major internal shock.

Anyone who knows a little about the situation can probably guess what happened.

No one knows what happened on the Margaret cruise ship except the special forces who boarded the ship to carry out the mission.

Among the various forces and branches controlled by the Planta family, only six of the seven family leaders died overnight.

Only the youngest, Warwick Edward, was left.

Therefore, there were many speculations about the internal turmoil in the Plantagenet family. Some people suspected that Warwick Edward killed the other six people in order to seize power.

Only the ASE alliance members who really know the inside story know who is behind this matter.

Since that night, Warwick Edward has begun to consolidate the power and wealth held by the Planta family, and his methods are ruthless.

There are also many factional divisions within the Planta family. Originally, the resources were controlled by seven people, but now only one is left.

The six deceased helmsmen all have heirs. It is not so easy for Warwick Edward to take over the power, companies, wealth and stocks from these heirs.

So this is a fight within the Planta family.

It is not accurate to say that it was an internal struggle within the Planta family. The truth was that Liao Zhenghong controlled Warwick Edward to purge the Planta family and control the huge wealth under the name of this family.

However, the Planta family has been passed down for ten centuries, and its relationship network is intricate. Although it is called a family, in fact many branches do not even have different surnames.

In fact, the Planta family is a general term for a force that originated from the Plantanite Dynasty, and there is not such a strong bond between them.

Therefore, even if Warwick Edward was one of the seven helmsmen, he could not control all the branches.

This caused the Planta family to break apart overnight, with some branches becoming independent and no longer identifying themselves as the Planta family.

Some branches could not resist Warwick Edward's tactics, and in order to preserve their wealth, they chose to join other ASE alliance members.

Yes, after the Planta family was torn apart, many branches chose to join other ASE alliance families in order to fight against Warwick Edward's seizure of wealth.

However, if even people from the same family cannot be fully trusted, how can other member families in the ASE alliance be trusted?
All of these branches that defected to other ASE alliance members were eventually wiped out without exception.

The ASE Alliance is just an organization with capital as its core. There is no friendship between them, only interests. That's right, the ASE Alliance is a group of capital families that have automatically united to protect their own interests and sit down to formulate world rules.

The world rules before the Abyss Age, especially the rules in the financial field, were formulated by level 33 families such as the ASE Alliance in order to protect their own wealth and interests.

This is a group of organizations united by interests and purposes, based on capital.

If a branch of a disintegrating capital family joins forces with other members of the ASE alliance, there is no other possible outcome except being wiped out.

After the Planta family was in trouble, it was not just the puppet Warwick Edward who was swallowing up the wealth of various branches.

Other ASE alliance capital families were also not idle, and they also used various means of coercion and inducement to swallow up the wealth of the Planta family.

This family that has been passed down for thousands of years is like a dying elephant, with countless wild beasts and poisonous insects lying on it and eating its flesh and blood.

In just a few months, the Planta family was completely devoured.

In the end, Liao Zhenghong controlled the puppet Warwick Edward and seized one-third of the Planta family's wealth.

However, these are only the obvious wealth that Warwick Edward knows about. It is difficult to calculate how many unknown assets the Planta family has in secret.

In the end, Lu Heng got a rough figure, an astronomical figure, which was higher than the current value of the Fire Emblem.

Of course, this figure cannot be converted into cash immediately because most of this wealth is in fixed assets.

What Lu Heng is most concerned about are the resources related to the abyss.

Among the list sent back by Liao Zhenghong, there was a list of crystal cores, abyss props, and various materials.

Lu Heng mainly looked at this list, and the first thing he wanted to find was a skill crystal core suitable for Su Muyu.

This time when returning from the Siren World, Su Muyu has one more skill slot, but he has not absorbed the skill crystal core yet, so the skill slot is still empty.

Since the original skill set level is too high, when adding new skills, it is natural to look for higher levels.

It is naturally difficult to find a suitable one that requires both a high level and appropriate skill effects.

The Planta family is such a large capitalist family with countless extraordinary resources at its disposal. It shouldn't be that difficult to find a crystal core suitable for Su Muyu.

Lu Heng printed out the list of A-level crystal cores and gave a copy to Su Muyu, asking her to take a look and find a suitable one.

The Planta family does have a lot of extraordinary resources, and the number of skill crystal cores is counted in the hundreds of thousands.

Of course, among the skill crystal cores, the most common are D-level crystal cores, followed by C-level.

The higher the level, the smaller the number, this is inevitable.

So all in all, the number of A-grade crystal cores is not that high.

A total of 106 A-grade crystal cores.

If this batch of A-grade crystal cores were put on the market, it would drive countless psychics crazy.

For ordinary psychics, a C-grade crystal core is a good crystal core, a B-grade crystal core is a dream to pursue, and an A-grade crystal core is basically only available in dreams.

This list of A-level crystal cores not only contains names, but also records the data of the crystal cores.

Lu Heng didn't need to look at the data of the crystal core in detail. He could basically tell what it was used for just by looking at the name.

Only a few crystal nuclei that have never been seen before require careful review of the data.

As Lu Heng looked at them, he marked them with a pen and ticked the useful crystal cores.

It's not that the crystal core is only allocated to Su Muyu. As long as the crystal core is useful to the team and the special forces, it can be transferred and distributed.

The crystal core can only play its value if it is absorbed by a mutant. If it is sealed up, it will not play its value.

Su Muyu looked through the list and asked, "What type of skill would be better for me?"

In fact, she has been thinking about this problem for a long time, but she has no clue.

Lu Heng was not sure either, and replied: "It depends on the situation. Your skill set is mainly based on auxiliary abilities, so any skills that can improve auxiliary abilities are optional. It depends on which ability you want to supplement."

Su Muyu counted on her fingers and said, "I now have invisibility skills, defense skills, spirit awakening skills, and trap skills... My attack skill is elemental arrows, but I haven't used this skill for a long time.

“My perception skill includes energy fluctuation perception. This skill is really useful. I can sense any energy fluctuations around me.

"Hmm... My mental power and perception are both relatively high, but I don't seem to have any mental skills at the moment. Do I need any mental skills?

"The Mental Control type seems good, but you already have one. If I want one too, it seems like the skills are duplicated and won't be of much help to the team."

She still hopes to make up for the team's shortcomings.

The team is originally a whole, and what skills each person adds should be considered in the direction of the team's development.

Lu Heng is a combat super soldier, Lin Zeyu is a sniper, Xie Shien is a psychic, and Su Muyu is a perceiver.

Since she has a unique number of skill slots, she has many auxiliary abilities.

She also likes this kind of combination, which can make up for the team's shortcomings and allow the team to go further.

"this is not bad……"

Lu Heng saw a good skill and hooked it with his pen.

"What skill?" Su Muyu curiously leaned over and saw that the name of the crystal core was [Media Control].

Just looking at the skill name, I couldn't understand what it did.

She frowned and flipped open her own list, found the page for [Media Control], and read the data carefully.

As she watched, her eyes began to glow: "This skill is so special. It can actually make the skill work regardless of the medium changes."

If you only look at the data, this skill has no attack power.

It's just an ability that can change the effect of the medium.

For example, [Energy Fluctuation Perception]. Su Muyu is very satisfied with this skill, but this skill also has a disadvantage, that is, the effect is different in different media.

In the air medium, the effect of [Energy Fluctuation Perception] is very good, and energy fluctuations within a range of two to three kilometers can be clearly sensed.

However, if the medium becomes water, the sensing effect will be much weaker.

Because the properties of water are completely different from those of air and it has a higher density, when energy fluctuations are transmitted into the water, the weak fluctuation energy will be absorbed by the water, making it impossible for the skill to sense it.

Therefore, when Su Muyu was in the Siren World, his underwater perception ability was not strong.

Most of the time, Jiang Shaoran was responsible for underwater reconnaissance.

Su Muyu pointed at the name of the skill core and asked in surprise: "If I have this skill, can other skills be used in water? The effect will not be weakened by sea water."

Lu Heng nodded and replied: "Yes, not just water, any medium will do, even vacuum. Because space itself is a medium."

(End of this chapter)