Star Iron, after using the mod to make the Big Black Tower dark, the game became real

The black swan was helpless.

"Alright alright."

"The 'family' entrusted you with news about the extinction scholar. Who exactly is it?"

"She claims to be a member of the Fifth Scale family named Hanabi, which is probably a fake identity, but I don't care. It's just a transaction."

Fireworks?

What kind of family member is this?

No wonder there was no news at all. Jiang Wei was wondering about it earlier, which is why he asked.

If a family wants to aid the Empire, they should inform him first, rather than asking the Memory Master to create a light cone. This behavior is usually done to gain trust.

Light Cone is a technology of Flowing Light Memory Court that concretizes memories into portable entities, ensuring the absolute authenticity of history.

After seeing off the black swan, Jiang Wei opened the [Power Struggle mod] interface and located the Extinction Scholar's trail in the surrounding star systems.

【Title: Extinction Scholar】

[Description: Destruction motivates them, intellect empowers them. They excel at using sophisticated weapons to inflict greater destruction, piercing stars with points of mass accelerated to near the speed of light, and undermining the foundations of a civilization with words. They do whatever they please.]

[Pay Attention/Ignore]

Click to follow Jiang Wei.

The star map immediately lit up with a white cross, marking where these extinction scholars would pass through.

Is playing the game with the entire map open considered cheating?

Jiang Wei pondered how he could directly see the enemy's current coordinates, their next route, and even what they were doing from the star map. In the context of interstellar warfare, this kind of function was incredibly powerful.

[Event: Efficient Destruction]

[Description: Our battle with the God of Destruction has begun. The first to enter the arena are the "Extinction Scholars," who have a dual destiny of destruction and intellect. They advocate efficient and elegant destruction.]

How interesting. We should punish them with the philosophy of empire, letting them know what a more efficient and elegant approach is.

【choose……】

[Let the show begin: Unlock "Factions"; We can create our own factions from the philosophy of imperial destiny, and rulers can project their power onto faction members to inflict terrible retribution on enemies.]

[Such weaklings are not worth the Empire's attention: Ignore the Extinction Scholars; they are too weak and pose no threat to the Empire.]

Chapter 73 The Silent Lord Who Was Used as a Knife to Kill

Unlock the "Faction" feature, form your own faction, and expand your destiny through possibilities.

Current faction limit: 2

Jiang Wei views the effect of the function.

Factions to the Empire are roughly equivalent to the distinction between the "Taishi" and "Yunqijun" in the Immortal Ship Civilization, but they are more effective.

The empire currently has no clearly defined factions.

Overt combat power relies either on messengers or on armed fleets.

Now, like other civilizations, they can form all sorts of factions to fill the void in their domestic affairs and make their destiny clearer and broader.

There are recommended options for creating a faction: "Golden Blood" and "Oracle".

[The Golden Descendants: Born from intellectual computation, they seek meaning in the apocalypse, ultimately drawing their swords bravely to embark on a path of fighting against destruction and perpetuating their own existence, even if it means being shattered to pieces.]

[Faction Monthly Rewards: Fate Path Expansion +1, Divine Dust +12]

"Expanding one's destiny" means facing the meaning directly; Jiang Wei checks the effect of the "Divine Radiance" entry.

[Divine Dust: The power of the sparks from the twelve Titans, imbued with the energy of eternal reincarnation and spiritual power, has given birth to incomplete divinity. Absorbing it can awaken a "Titanic Authority" similar to one's destiny.]

Jiang Wei was stunned for half a second.

The divinity of the Twelve Titans?

The twelve primordial Titans—the Pillars, the Creation, the Calamities, and the Destiny—are the cultural symbols of Onphalus.

They originally thought that leaving the Emperor's Scepter and merging with the real universe would require them to embark on the path of the Star Gods, leading to a transformation from humanism to theology.

Now there's no need to worry. The Titan Factor, created by imitating the Fate, has expanded the Fate of the Empire under the power of the Fate of the Empire, and has also become a true Titan power.

Jiang Wei recalled the method used by the God of Harmony to broaden his destiny: to revive the Great Ruler of Extinction, "Star Howl".

Understanding how to broaden one's destiny is a great gain.

The wider one's destiny, the less likely one is to be swallowed up by the star god, while one's power further increases, bringing only benefits and no harm.

All Golden Children on the Fire Chasing Journey can join the "Golden Children" faction.

As for the others, Jiang Wei tried it out, and they had to have a personality similar to that of the Golden Descendants.

Those who are not afraid of power, retain a gentle heart, and are willing to draw their swords to save the suffering can join the Golden Blood faction.

The conditions for joining the other faction are even more stringent.

[Oracle: Under the influence of the Lord of Paradise's projected power, the trajectory of destiny emerges from the hazy mist. The writers of the oracle issue prophecies, stirring ripples in the mortal world.]

[Faction Monthly Product: Fate Path Expansion +1, Dream Element +20]

If the number of members in a faction meets the requirements, it can produce some valuable resources each month. Currently, the minimum number of members is limited to 1.

Jiang Wei surveyed the empire for individuals suitable to join the Oracle.

Those who are connected to time, cause and effect, memory, and destiny are suited to join the Oracle faction and shine brightly.

Xi Lian, March 7th, Aglaia, leader of the Golden Clan.

……

"oracle?"

Xi Lian received Jiang Wei's invitation and curiously looked at the information.

Both she and March 7th are associated with "memory".

Furthermore, the Great Black Tower's investigation revealed the existence of "mysterious" forces and other destinies within the simulated world of Onpharos.

That's quite normal.

The Twelve Titan Factors of Onphalus are a variant of the philosophy of destiny, so it is not surprising that they attracted the attention of the Star God.

"You are best suited for March 7th. The memory path has the ability of time, and because it is related to me, the projection of the power of cause and effect makes you highly adaptable and meets the vast majority of conditions. Except for the ultimate path related to fate."

The world's destiny and fate are closely related to the "end," with the last king coming against the tide, representing the predetermined future.

"So, Xiao Sanyue and I are going to write an oracle?"

Can you understand this power?

"It feels okay."

Xi Lian closed her eyes, feeling a connection with Jiang Wei. He was like a blazing golden sun, his light giving her an indescribable power.

"Is this what time and cause and effect are?"

On March 7th, I first directly experienced Jiang Wei's abilities.

She had a premonition that, if she wanted, she could appear anywhere, like the Silent Lord, whenever someone called her name or thought of her, following the chain of cause and effect.

Jiang Wei also gained some benefits.

The expanded destiny granted by factions became intuitively clear.

The fate of the empire seemed to possess a power similar to that of "memory," squeezing out a sliver of possibility from the path of memory.

His abilities are somewhat different from those of Xi Lian and San Yueqi.

His greatest strength lies in his ability to anchor himself at all times, defining the material world through his mind, narrowing down possibilities, and gradually making the uncertain future clear.

This range can be large or small. When it affects a single person, it only requires a thought. However, for something like increasing the refresh rate of Storm Crystals, which involves galaxy-level manipulation, he needs to collect more causes in order to anchor the effect.

The oracle of March 7th and Xilian is more inclined to be specific to anchoring the future.

As the two attempt to comprehend the power of the oracle, fragmented images begin to appear.

The "Extinction Scholars" who roam around the Imperial Starfield.

And at the end of the causal chain is an executioner who walks the path of knowledge, but whose purpose is not to seek knowledge, but to solidify the circle of knowledge.

"The Silent Lord", Polka Kakamu.

At the same time that March 7th and Xi Lian saw her, the Silent Lord also saw them.

Their eyes met briefly, without causing any ripples.

To those who understand cause and effect, the Silent Lord's omniscient domain is not so mysterious.

It's more about overwhelming the opponent in terms of sheer numbers.

Because her omniscience domain is closely related to the Venerable One of Knowledge, it is particularly dangerous in the realm of knowledge.

However, when faced with the Empire's mind technology, the magnitude of the power offered her little help.

The Venerable Master only has two states: to participate or not to participate.

Without His intervention, the Silent Lord could only rely on the Circle of Knowledge He had given him to deal with the enemy.

However, the dream caused the materialistic rules to distort towards the realm of idealism, rendering all of the Silent Lord's knowledge useless, and the Omniscient Domain utterly worthless.

She could only suffer in silence.

"This is the power of divine intervention, I understand."

Xi Lian found the Silent Lord's reaction quite amusing.

"Me too."

March 7th seemed to have received a toy, and smiled brightly.

"Is that woman holding the scalpel the Silent Lord? For some reason, we can see her and know where she is at any time. She seems to have hostility towards the Empire."

This is an "ineffable" effect.

She will be exposed as long as the Silent Lord is hostile to the Empire.

The chain of cause and effect firmly binds the Silent Lords and the Empire together.

Add to that the soon-to-be-upgraded Chaos Machine, a creation that breaks through the boundaries of knowledge.

For the Silent Lord, who wanted to solidify her circle of knowledge, the Empire's actions—forbidding any genius from acquiring knowledge that was too dangerous and could thus damage the universe—were tantamount to defying the empire.

She wants to destroy the empire.

The Empire is currently engaged in a battle with the "Destruction" Star God, while the Extinction Scholars are at its gates.

Perhaps, she should take action.

Jiang Wei held the two girls in his arms and entrusted them with this task.

"Use the power of the 'Oracle' to make the Silent Lords and the Extinction Scholars slaughter each other, and let the civilizations watching this grand drama witness a spectacular performance."

Weaving destiny, manipulating cause and effect, altering time.

This will let the civilizations in the Star Sea know that the Empire is fighting against the Destroyer Star God because they are qualified to do so.

……

Lord Polka Kaka of the Silent Lord was filled with rage.

Her identity is extraordinary.

As an envoy of wisdom, there is a rumor that the Venerable Master of Wisdom has two completely contradictory ideas, with his left and right brains battling each other.

The idea of ​​"conservatism" led Him to try to master all knowledge in the world by any means necessary, to create a perfect model, to anchor destiny in the realm of omniscience, and to limit possibilities.

His "radical" ideas led him to pursue knowledge relentlessly, seeking unfathomable wisdom and striving to break through the boundaries of knowledge as much as possible.

Polka Kakamu, whose ideas are conservative, has a high degree of alignment with the intellectual insights of Vajrasattva.

Even if the Wise One were to lean towards the Great Black Tower and explore wisdom beyond the circle of knowledge, the Silent Lord would not do so.

She might betray the wise and stubbornly kill those who try to break out of the circle of knowledge.

She is said to be the black glove of the sage, but this is not very credible.

Forcibly assigning a black-gloved messenger to the Venerable Master of Knowledge seems somewhat one-sided, imbuing "Knowledge" with a touch of humanity. Knowledge is an absolutely rational, mathematically materialistic, and scientifically driven star god seeking to solve the unknown.