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Initially, no one paid attention to this small hole that suddenly appeared in the universe, thinking it was a normal cosmic phenomenon like a black hole.

For most civilizations, their lifespan will not even reach the day when the cosmic void descends. The universe will remain chaotic, and no one will care about the suddenly appearing void.

Although the speed at which this void is expanding far exceeds the speed of light, and it is a completely silent region where all physics fails, there are many things in the universe that cannot be clearly explored, and no one will care about this void.

Until one day, everyone in the universe was horrified to discover that a twisted hole had appeared in the starry sky.

According to normal physics, even if a large hole appears, people in other parts of the universe still wouldn't be able to see it because the speed of light is incredibly slow on a cosmic scale. Perhaps other civilizations would be swallowed up by the rapidly expanding void before they even see it.

However, this kind of physics is not suitable for the vast void in the universe!
If the cosmic void were to devour the source of light, then all the light emitted by that source billions of years ago, light that has already traversed billions of light-years, would be completely swallowed up, as if it were crossing the river of time, delivering a dimensional reduction attack on the entire universe in a way that completely defies the laws of physics.

As more and more civilizations gradually discovered, a huge void without any light appeared in the starry sky, like a flushing toilet, and it was rapidly swallowing up the surrounding light at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Every day, observations revealed that the vast void was growing larger. This expansion of the cosmic void, visible to the naked eye, plunged all civilizations into unimaginable chaos.

What's even more disheartening is that its expansion rate is not constant, but increases exponentially, like a tumor appearing inside the universe, causing the entire universe to expand rapidly from the inside out until it completely collapses.

By the time they realized what was happening and prepared to launch probes into the cosmic void, they were horrified to discover that all the surrounding galaxies had already been swallowed up by this cosmic void.

Within hundreds of millions of light-years, only this great void remains. And according to calculations, even when converted to the timeframe that Schrödinger's law can comprehend, the great void will completely devour the entire universe within a thousand years.

The universe today is like a balloon about to burst, undergoing its final expansion.

Fear instantly swept through all civilizations in the known universe. Under the organization of several advanced civilizations, the will to survive gave birth to the largest cosmic organization since the birth of the universe: the "Universal United Front".

From silicon-based mechanical civilizations to energy-based spiritual life forms, hundreds of millions of civilizations have set aside billions of years of conflict, pooling all their knowledge, resources, and hopes in search of even the faintest glimmer of hope.

Xue Dinglu looked at his dormitory room, which had a poster that read "The Establishment of the Global United Front".

On the screen, which seemed to blend into the wall, a host with an abstract appearance, resembling an octopus-man, said: "The Sixth Expedition has discovered a force that clearly does not belong to this universe around the Great Void of Space. We have temporarily named this force 'Magic Element.' Could this force become the key to resolving this global crisis?"

"Hey, what are you thinking about, Yishan?" A "person" that seemed to be a tree patted Xue Dinglu on the shoulder, which made Xue Dinglu pause for a moment.

He then realized that he could even see "himself" within this spiritual vision, and he looked at his employee ID card...

Global United Front staff

Name: Yishan

Race: Eldar

Position: Recorder

Xue Dinglu looked at the information. He didn't know why, but he had entered this spiritual vision again. This should be the spiritual vision of the Lord of Mist, or it should be what the Mimicry King said, to walk the path of the King again...

At the same time, Xue Lude sized up the person in front of him—a tree-man?
In short, it resembled the appearance of some kind of fungus or plant that had become sentient. Looking at the news anchor with the octopus-like face, Xue Dinglu thought…

Perhaps this is a normal phenomenon before the birth of the King. The whole universe is full of strange and wonderful things. Many of the Schrödinger's Laws can be roughly applied to what we recognize, but for many races, the Schrödinger's Laws cannot even be described in words.

Unlike later generations, where virtually every intelligent race was "humanoid," or at least somewhat human-like.

They can even tell how advanced the other person's race is by how pretty they are at first glance, because the prettier they are, the closer they are to being a king, and therefore the more advanced their evolution is.

"Six expeditions have already been lost forever in that great void..." the treant on the other side murmured.

Xue's Law saw its name tag, but this tree-man was a repairman, and Xue's Law also saw its name.

"Domini..."

Xue Law murmured the name.

However, he was only seeing a fragment of history through his spiritual vision. At this moment, "himself" spoke up: "Yes, six expeditions have already been sacrificed... and perhaps, their sacrifices were completely meaningless, just suicides..."

The recorder, "Isan," seemed to be a pessimist, and after he said this, both of them fell silent.

Faced with this vast void in the universe where physics has completely failed, the only option for the united front is to send exploration teams into this graveyard of physics to search for possible answers. This is not exploration, but a suicidal charge.

Currently, six teams have already paved their way to the front lines with corpses, yet have gained nothing...

Their mission was to use their lives to verify the boundaries of the void. The first team lost contact the moment they entered, only sending back a string of meaningless gibberish.

The second team advanced by "peeling away layer by layer," with the mothership releasing countless probes like moths to a flame, all in an effort to transmit data for just one more nanosecond before being annihilated.

The third team appears to have discovered an "alien object" that can exist within it briefly, but this is the last piece of intelligence they can send out.

Teams 4, 5, and 6 are all searching for the "foreign object" that can exist briefly around the cosmic void.

Finally, the sixth team found the object, and the last remaining survivor brought it back to the United Front.
The higher-ups named that thing "Magic Element".

It seemed they had found a direction, though they didn't know if it was right or wrong.

"Expeditionary force recruitment! Expeditionary force recruitment!" Not far away, there seemed to be people resembling recruiters starting to recruit expeditionary force members.

"Shall we go?" Tree Man Domini nudged "himself" with his elbow.

"No, I need to take care of my daughter." Ishan elbowed the tree spirit, and the two seemed to exchange a knowing smile before leaving as if they were best friends.

But the next day, when Ishan secretly submitted her information, she was surprised to see the name of the tree person "Domini" among the volunteers.

The two stared at each other blankly, and finally could only nudge each other with their elbows and joke around.

...“The new hope brought by the magic essence, the logic core of the God of Myriad Machines burned in the magic essence, calculated the final geometric structure of the seven-fold joint ritual, and solved the magic essence law in the moment before his sacrifice.”

We are about to succeed!

The news broadcast featured the good news announced by the host.

For a moment, it seemed as if the whole world had fallen into a relaxed atmosphere.

Meanwhile, in the vision, Ishan had grown from a young man who had just joined the United Front into a middle-aged man, and his daughter "Fug" had grown from the size of Ishan learning to walk to the size of six or seven years old.

After many years, the cosmic void has expanded several times over at a speed visible to the naked eye, and thus, a new great expedition has begun once again.

But this time, the sacrifice finally had a direction.

On this day, Ishan, holding her daughter and holding her wife's hand, along with her friend Domini the Tree Man, watched the live footage of the Seventh Expedition's departure together.

The ship, named "Eternal Watcher," sailed towards the Great Void, carrying the sole survivor of the Sixth Expedition. Amidst the anticipation and prayers of the masses, they arrived at a star system extremely close to the Great Void.

The ship's hull was torn apart, and everything was completely ripped apart by the influence of the vast void in space, making it impossible for anyone to see what was happening inside.

At that moment, people all over the world were worried, and when the United Front sent out the detectors again, no one survived.

The Seventh Expeditionary Force was completely wiped out!

But they suddenly discovered that the planet where the Eternal Watch crashed was no longer affected by the Great Void.

At this moment, the world was in an uproar, because it meant that the special particle they had just mastered, the Magic Element, was indeed not affected by the Great Void of the Universe.

This also shows that the seven-fold ritual equation calculated by the God of Myriad Machines is correct!

Because they had no other direction, they chose this path of sacrifice, which was destined to be paved with corpses.

The Seventh Expedition, the pioneers, brought back this good news after the deaths of hundreds of elites, completing the first "anchoring ceremony" and proving that "magic essence" could be guided and utilized.

Meanwhile, through the recorder named "Ishan," Xue also saw that the United Front had begun to dispatch billions of small teams to set up anchor points in various galaxies throughout the universe, ensuring at least one anchor point in each galaxy.

Among these billions of records, Xue's Law suddenly saw the record of the Milky Way - Solar System - Dead Star as the anchor point.

Is it a coincidence?
Xue's Law even has a hunch that this "dead star" at this moment could very well be the future Earth.

However, this was just one of billions of records, and the recorder quickly moved on to recording more anchor points.

The success of the Seventh Expedition and the achievement of further experiments in utilizing magic essence enabled the United Front to begin a large-scale completion ceremony.

Soon, the 8th, 9th, and 10th teams followed the route drawn by the 7th expedition team with their blood, one after another, using the lives and souls of the entire fleet as fuel, to set up the foundations of a series of massive ceremonies on the edge of the vast void of space.

Like driving life-saving stakes into a flood, they anchored planets that would otherwise have been twisted and swallowed by the vast void of the universe, thus becoming the basis for one ritual after another.

In a very short time, the United Front organized even more expeditions.

The 11th and 12th expeditions, and even some of these expeditions, contained acquaintances of this "Ishan".

That was their Eldar God-King, and a member of the 11th Expedition.

The tree god of the Domini Treant race is the captain of the 12th Expedition.

Thus, the twelve teams, hundreds of millions of elites, and tens of thousands of kings who were deities in their respective civilizations all fell one after another. They exchanged their lives for a mere theoretical possibility and a beacon paved with corpses leading to the final battlefield.

The higher-ups haven't revealed to those below what kind of future this anchor point will create or what consequences it will achieve. However, Xue Lu, as an observer at this moment, may have guessed the outcome of this ceremony...

“Your Majesty…” Xue Dinglu murmured.

Thus far, the 12 expedition teams have paved a beacon path ahead, with the first 6 teams only bringing back the unusual particle known as "Magic Element".

The 7th to the 12th expeditions paved this beacon road with their lives and souls, and only the sacrifice of the last expedition is needed to complete this ritual.

As the recorder, Ishan could see that more and more massive teams, like fireflies, were spreading across galaxies throughout the universe. They seemed to be doing something futile, simply placing beacons in galaxies, as if they could just put them anywhere.

Countless people died on the road because of this, and "Ishan" recorded one death after another. He silently packed these records together and then sent more people on this road as if they were going to their deaths.

He had no idea that the information he was randomly selecting might kill countless people and countless teams.

He was a pessimist, as Xue's law could tell. Even though he always maintained an optimistic attitude in front of his wife and daughters, he was still a pessimist at heart.

Even after his wife passed away from overwork during this period, "Ishan" became extremely pessimistic. Xue Luding had a feeling that if it weren't for his daughter who needed to rely on him, he might have chosen to commit suicide long ago.

Until, suddenly, a secret message arrived.

“Mr. Ishan, you have been selected as a member of the 13th Expedition and will need to undergo intensive training... In addition, there is more than one 13th Expedition. In order to ensure success, the United Front has prepared a large number of '13th Expedition Teams', and you will join one of them.”

At this moment, looking at this news, Ishan, who had discovered that he might have unintentionally killed millions of people, was tormented by moral and conscience condemnation. He would have chosen suicide if his daughter hadn't been still young. Now, he seemed to have finally found his direction.

So, after making arrangements for his daughter, he resolutely joined the Thirteenth Expedition.

Whether by coincidence or not, his team had exactly 13 members, including his close friends.

Tree Man, Domini. (End of Chapter)