Poverty makes me capable of anything.

Aside from the limited living space and lack of internet access, life here is actually quite good.

"You can go now, I need to exercise."

See you tomorrow.

ヽ（≧□≦）ノ

……

Are you satisfied with this outcome?

"satisfy."

"That's good. Are you interested in joining our Time-Space Alliance?" An Ran asked.

Gerdeston fell silent immediately.

"Alright. Since you can't make a decision right now, take your time to think it over, and let me know when you've figured it out."

Anran sent Guedes away. She did have the idea of ​​recruiting Guedes. Guedes was very skilled in engineering. Bringing him back would definitely make the transdimensional defense system leap forward.

While waiting for Guedes to make a decision, Anran was not idle; she visited many places in the Great Ship Industrial Zone.

This shipbuilding and warship manufacturing base has too many technologies that she admires.

Complete destroyer manufacturing blueprints, blueprints for a new generation of psionic-driven reactors, blueprints for special-type cruisers, and some unfinished blueprints for new battleships... as well as many blueprints for high-powered naval guns and overall design drawings for the large shipbuilding and industrial zone.

In addition, there were quite a few warship manufacturing experts in the large ship industrial and trade zone who hadn't had time to evacuate. An Ran visited them all and persuaded them to join the Hyperdimensional Dimension.

This is the hidden benefit of war.

The looted money and the captured warships were far less valuable than these people.

During this time, Ella stayed close to Anran. Since they hadn't seen each other for several days, and after returning to her normal size, Ella stayed by Anran's side while eating and sleeping.

The task of integrating the fleet was left to Heloise and Iben, who did nothing and therefore received no vacation, which made Iben quite resentful.

Yes, it's that damn guy named Yates, right? Couldn't you be a little weaker? You're unbelievable!

Some experts joined the Time-Space Dimension directly, while others chose to join after repeated consideration. However, there were still some who expressed disdain for the Time-Space Dimension.

"My family has been loyal to the Empire for generations. My great-grandfather, my grandfather, my father, myself, and my son—our family has dedicated generations to shipbuilding. Our family has been loyal to the Empire for generations, and we are in excellent health..."

An Ran pulled out a sword and a Biru from behind her back: "I've said so many good things about you, and now I'm angry. You can choose between these two!"

The expert's expression immediately changed, and he quickly said, "What I mean is, we need more money! We have a large family, and this salary isn't enough to support us."

"Then let's calculate wages based on performance. The more you work, the more you earn; if you don't work, you don't earn."

An Ran neither looked up nor put her sword away.

A direct pay raise?

Sorry, this kind of operation is not available at Anran.

You want to squeeze money out of my pocket? Wait until you change your surname to An.

"That makes sense, that makes perfect sense." The expert nodded repeatedly.

That makes perfect sense!

I've decided to dedicate my excellent health to the grand project of shipbuilding in the future.

A few days later, the Great Ship Industrial Zone was peaceful. Geddes was still troubled by the past, but Anran had no time to wait there any longer. She left Ella on Newland Star to stabilize the situation, and Anran quietly left the Ship Bottom System on her spaceship, heading for Dolphin Star!

Half a month later, An Ran's figure appeared on the boundless sea of ​​Dolphin Star.

Juliana quickly realized that Anran had returned.

"Is there still one crystal missing? Let's go find it together."

The park offers free admission for two people.

After searching for almost a week in the Extreme Colors, Anran finally found a crystal the size of a fist.

"That's enough." She was extremely pleased.

That was true, at least until Juliana brought out that face-sized Stone of Void Faith.

"How can it be so big?"

“I was worried it wouldn’t be enough, but Zeta also performed very well.”

You're amazing, Zeta! You're practically a hermit master in the world of kidney stones!

An Ran sighed inwardly.

Now that everything had been collected, it was time to cook herself. After dismissing everyone around, An Ran quickly made a sturdy bathtub out of Heimdall alloy and then installed a psionic reactor underneath. Ordinary flames couldn't heat up Heimdall alloy.

Pour in a basin of clean water.

The recipe is as follows:

An Ran.

The Void Demon's core of power, the condensed energy crystal of extreme colors, and the Void Faith Stone.

The reactor is slowly cooking.

One pot stew.

It's done when it's almost cooked through.

In an instant, a wondrous force wove a net.

Chapter 53 The Future Takes Flight

The brilliant light leaked out from the gaps in the world.

The Void Demon's core power was created by the Void Panda.

The Void Faith Stone stores a different kind of Void power, an improved version of the Void.

Add some auxiliary items as well.

When the boiling temperature evoked a resonance between them, Anran, enveloped in it, felt a sense of déjà vu, as if she had been taken to the interdimensional space by a mission reward.

All of this seemed so incredible at first glance.

In the misty air, through the chanting contained within the Stone of Faith, a peaceful consciousness drifted back to a time long, long ago.

She observed a ritual from God's perspective.

A group of simply dressed humans were gathered around a campfire. There was no technological equipment in sight, suggesting they were on some primitive planet. People with bird feathers in their hair were performing a shamanistic ritual around the fire, chanting a language that An Ran couldn't understand at all.

Another group of people sat on the ground, echoing the birdman's words with strange shouts.

This is people in primitive society worshipping gods.

The sacrifice was supposed to end without any results, but something unknown was placed in the ceremony by these primitive people, and when the ceremony was halfway through, the sky suddenly darkened.

In an instant, the clear blue sky was covered with thick, dark clouds.

Then lightning began to travel through the clouds.

Upon witnessing such a miracle, the primitive people all knelt down and began to kowtow repeatedly, especially the person with bird feathers in his hair, whose forehead was bleeding from the kowtow.

After so many sacrifices, I never expected there would actually be a reaction today, and such a ferocious one at that.

Even primitive people believed this was the wrath of the gods.

An Ran, who was observing from above, noticed that a spatial vortex had suddenly appeared in the sky.

What emerged from inside was—

The Void Panda before it was transformed into a panda!

Is this the scene when it first came into this world?

Then the people below and this planet would all be doomed in the next moment, right? But then An Ran realized that she was wrong. What emerged was not a physical entity from the void, but merely a projection.

The void pretended to be the god worshipped by the primitive people and communicated with them for a period of time with a ferocious face.

Although An Ran couldn't understand what they were saying, after the void disappeared, An Ran discovered that those primitive people could actually obtain power through sacrifice.

"If it wasn't during the first invasion of the Void, could it be that it started bewitching the native inhabitants not long after it was sealed away?"

Primitive people gained great power through faith.

However, these primitive people were very selfish. After gaining power, they did not spread this method, but instead kept it as a secret of their small group.

They gained status and power through strength, ruling as kings on this primitive planet. Until someone's strength grew to the point where they could fly off the ground and beyond the planet, they suddenly realized how vast this world truly was.

One of the "wise men" in the small group, unwilling to continue such a monotonous life, quietly left under the guidance of the void and began to spread a new faith throughout the world.

Seeing this, Anran realized that this was the founding process of the Sacred Way.

The departing "wise man" became the first president of the Holy Church. Having grown up from ignorance, he was extremely ruthless in his methods, which set the tone for the development of the Holy Church.

As the scene shifted, Anran seemed to hear a crisp "click" sound.

Before she could investigate further, she found herself in another place. Anran immediately recognized this directionless place as the Gap Between Worlds.

But it must be a gap in the world from a long time ago.

After all, the void that suddenly appeared in front of them did not turn into a panda; it was sitting cross-legged, playing with "mud."

It's actually just fabricating Void Demons.

By combining his own power with the light spilled from the gaps in the world, and adding a core, he slowly created a Void Demon.

"No wonder the Void Demon looks so ugly; it turns out that the Void Demon himself, with his questionable aesthetic sense, created it step by step."

She already had a problem with her aesthetic sense, and with such a huge hand, she's even less dexterous when trying to hold things.

But it's meant to scare people anyway, so it's okay if it's ugly. It's incredibly effective at scaring people. I don't know whether to call it a stroke of genius or just a lucky accident.

Void threw the Void Demons it had sculpted into the Extreme Colors, throwing one out every now and then, until there were many.

I've been tinkering with Void Demons for hundreds of years out of sheer boredom. How incredibly boring.

The key point is that it doesn't develop new appearances; it just keeps looking the same no matter how you mold it. That's really impressive.

"Snap—"

Another soft sound.