Above The Sky

Chapter 2132 - 56: The Correct [Guidance]

It carries the authority of the entire Steep Ridge Fortress, is the true soul of this land, the real ruler.

It is the Apocalypse Armament · Dawn.

Comparable to mountains, a mechanical creation, a man-made God of Sparks, part of the Terra Dragon Project’s body. It is the most powerful man-made weapon in the entire Terra Cradle!

"Is this... the Apocalypse Armament?"

Aina stared closely at this colossal entity, murmuring: "Even though I’ve seen pictures, no one told me it’s this big..."

Endless streams of aether light swirled around the Apocalypse Armament, while azure lightning formed patterns, flickering within its armor’s inner layers.

Not only that, this lightning also penetrated the earth and spread throughout the entire Steep Ridge Fortress territory.

Aina watched this scene, and suddenly his eyes widened.

Because, he saw it.

He saw countless souls gathering, following the lightning from every city within Steep Ridge Fortress territory.

He saw the ground and the sky filled with pungent electric currents, which were not a form of attack, but rather a signal.

Countless, innumerable signals of the ’people of Steep Ridge Fortress’!

[Gone, gone]

[The Archduke is calling us, Dawn is calling us!]

[Let’s go, at last we can completely merge into Dawn... to operate part of its machinery]

[Let’s go, we can finally leave this land]

One will.

Countless souls.

In a collapsed building nearby, an iron machine was exposed, within which lay an impossibly emaciated human corpse, now deceased.

At this moment, Aina finally understood where everyone in Steep Ridge Fortress had gone.

"Soul upload, mechanical ascension..."

The Sunbird murmured, observing the Apocalypse Armament gradually standing up: "That Bokaang guy turned everyone in Steep Ridge Fortress into pilots of the Apocalypse Armament!"

"Indeed, this is the most secure way to ensure national safety, and this is also the path all citizens are most willing to choose—to become part of the most powerful creation on Terra, part of the strongest Fifth Energy Level!"

[There are tens of millions of weapon systems within the Apocalypse Armament that require individual control, and everyone can unite under the regulation of the True Aether Furnace]

And the Apocalypse Armament stood, its shoulder and northward jets gradually lit up with a ghostly blue radiance: [Trying to defeat The Empire, defeat the enemy through industrialization, is impossible, even if the average lifespan of the citizens is squeezed to under forty years]

[Since that’s the case, there’s no need to struggle anymore, wars that are bound to be lost, we will absolutely not fight]

[Mechanical ascension, only apocalypse]

[Ian Silverpeak, I agreed to your condition—to go to New Moon? I’ll go right now!]

The mountain-sized iron Giant, ignoring any astonished clairvoyance that came, directly activated, transforming into a straight stream of light, rushing up to the firmament, leaving a curved arc in the sky, and after adjusting the angle, headed straight towards its destination, the Terra New Moon!

[Ian Silverpeak again?!]

[What did he do? Why did Bokaang, a guy as stubborn and smelly as a stone in a pit, get persuaded by him?!]

[Apocalypse Armament... a key hand capable of destroying Terra, has now departed from Terra...]

[Ian Silverpeak, he is step by step removing dangerous elements on Terra, what exactly does he intend to do?]

No one could give an answer.

No one knew what Ian Silverpeak truly intended.

No... if it were his companions, perhaps they would know the answer.

But following this, a series of events on the Terra Continent once again shocked the numerous Fifth Energy Level powerhouses.

The Eastern Empire Emperor, Carlos Sertar, accepting the heritage of one of the five Ancestral True Dragons, the Skyrule Dragon, chose to head to Dragon Island to strengthen the seal, becoming a Dragon King that is not a dragon.

The Western Empire Emperor, Alegria Sertar mysteriously disappeared. Who could guess where a Sunbird would go? Her sudden disappearance made all Fifth Energy Level powerhouses nervous, fearing an attack.

Thus, The Empire temporarily lost two individuals capable of swift action in the Fifth Energy Level.

But this wasn’t an issue because The Empire still had two—counting Archduke Nanling and the recently inexplicably resurfaced Duke of Sorin, there were four—Fifth Energy Levels.

No need to worry about the empire’s safety, but the undercurrents causing these Fifth Energy Level powerhouses to act were the matter everyone was most concerned about.

Moreover, not only that.

As the majority focused their attention on the sudden departure of Steep Ridge Fortress from Terra, and the loss of two Sunbirds by The Empire, in Southwest Thera, within Silverpeak Domain, the seeming source of everything, quietly launched a world-influencing move, an entity capable of altering the world.

Its name is ’Ascender Currency System’.

And that creation, named Spirit Crystal, can also be referred to as Spirit Stone, Magic Crystal Stone.

When Silverpeak Domain announced this news, most people didn’t understand its significance.

After all, ’Ascender Currency System’ sounds grand, but in reality, what could be more effective than bartering?

Each Sublimator needs different materials, even different nutrients, the Swiftwind Flying Mantis and Giant Rock Island Whale require different materials, eat different foods, the ingredients of alchemical potions differ, they don’t even live in the same place.

Among them, there’s no ’commonality’, there’s no wealth they can exchange, they can only establish contact through intermediary exchanges.

This is the trouble caused by the Thousand Stars Spark falling into Terra: many different ecosystems forcibly merged, causing many species to lack their original food source and go extinct, or ingesting creations from other ecosystems leading to mutation, losing their original efficacy.

Many civilizations and ecological spheres lost key technologies and critical evolutionary nutrients due to this, turning into lesser Magical Beasts, while those more complete Magical Beasts have Fourth and Fifth Energy Levels, widening the gap with others.

The implication is simple: between Ascenders, there is no ’universal currency’ for trade, even Elemental Crystals don’t suffice, because not every Ascender needs to operate an Aether Armament.

However, when all factions understood the true nature of Spirit Crystal, they were all astounded.

For it wasn’t a true ’material wealth’.

It was ’tangible computational power’!

Using pure Source Quality Crystal as a carrier, engraved with unique patterns, it can directly link to a supercomputing core within the Domain of Void, thereby obtaining ’computational power support’!

Possessing Spirit Crystals of corresponding value allows one to acquire equivalent computational power from the Domain of Void, and it is also a pure Origin Quality aggregate, any creature consuming it can gain a certain degree of primordial replenishment.

For those low-level cultivators on the Arcane Pathway, possessing a Spirit Crystal accelerates time considerably, allowing them to condense more sublimation structures—while the pure origin obtained strengthens the body or condenses sublimation structures, overall, it is never wasted and highly valuable!

Not only that, high-grade Spirit Crystals are said to connect to the ’database’ of the supercomputing core in the Domain of Void, gaining ’experiences of previous cultivation’, thereby obtaining various insights!

This state of insight is referred to as ’Resonance of Truth’ by people in Silverpeak Domain and can also be termed ’Enlightenment’.

This is the true effect of Spirit Crystals!