Chapter 1092

NO. 215: Can other agencies do this!

This so-called 'discussion' came at just the right time.

After all, Aomo just cleared the connection with the highest authority in the Star Alliance Standing Council civilizations—the leader of the Holy Terra Federation, the Heart of Terra.

To be honest, it's not difficult.

After all, as everyone knows, the Heart of Terra is a powerful AI on the path of evolution; maintaining the operation of the entire Holy Terra Federation is merely for it to acquire more material and observation opportunities.

For such an existence, the more observation-worthy groups, the better.

And the Faction Swarm itself is one of the creations of a dying interstellar civilization.

Calling it a relic of considerable archaeological value is not wrong.

Besides its archaeological value, the group itself is a highly exemplary Gestalt consciousness lifeform, also possessing semi-autonomous evolution; even though it is currently hostile to humanity, such a problem is not difficult to resolve for the Primordials.

Once resolved, it simply reverts to being a planetary environment-modifying lifeform.

With all these benefits, the Heart of Terra, such an AI, need not hesitate like humans and can immediately give the go-ahead.

As if they never considered the possibility that Aomo was just painting a pie.

That indeed does not need to be considered.

After all, the Corrupt Heart itself is the scribe of the will representing 'struggle' and 'exploration'.

You could hardly say that the directive to prioritize attacking humans was not written by It.

Although writing it is easy, revising it may encounter some resistance, such as possible conflicts of will among the other three nascent wills—but that is likewise a minor issue that is not hard to resolve.

On Terra, most organisms find dealing with the Faction troublesome, but when Faction faces Faction, the outcome is decided quickly.

—because they lose the advantage of the collective will, or put another way, under equal conditions the other three major nascent wills of the collective each have a fatal flaw.

The nascent will of Reproduction: the Unmelting Iceberg; its form is also the source of its name, because its appearance is a gigantic iceberg floating on the sea.

And the nascent will of Survival: the Primal Pulse, is a microbial collective spread throughout the entire ocean.

As for the last nascent will of Growth: the Spreading Branches, it is an entity resembling a deep‑blue tree, a deep‑sea giant tree with a diameter of several kilometers, but it remains immobile, merely continually growing.

One could say that, aside from the Primal Pulse being relatively hard to deal with, the other two nascent wills are like late‑stage cancer with its legs broken.

As long as you know where it is, it can be easily handled.

The Faction's protection?

They certainly have the Faction's protection, but the Heart of Corruption likewise possesses the Faction's protection and can even 'bull' the Faction under their command away from them.

The two characters "corruption" in the Heart of Corruption derive exactly from this.

The significance symbolized by the four nascent wills is naturally indispensable to the current development of the collective.

But if internal strife is to be waged, the Heart of Corruption undoubtedly possesses a natural and absolute advantage.

Even the seemingly invincible Primal Pulse, which cannot be eradicated unless you evaporate the entire ocean, is likewise in peril.

Because among the various forms of differentiation of the Faction, it is likewise capable of multiple evolutions against the microbial collective.

Once the Heart of Corruption grasps most of the collective will, it can press the Primal Pulse step by step into a desperate situation.

This is nearly an irreversible situation, because the Faction's mechanical nature destines them to lack the variability of ordinary organisms, unless human forces intervene.

In a tactical simulation using ordinary organisms, Aomo would still need to worry about the 'irrational hand' resulting from the organisms' own diversity.

Often there are surprises that force him to make extra preparations.

But using the Faction as a hypothetical enemy for tactical drills… then it truly becomes as straightforward as a board game.

Of course, organizations like the Deep Sea Church that have been touched by the 'human' element could possibly become a variable.

But provided no one overlooks them, the expression of that variable remains limited.

Moreover, Aomo did not let Ishamara handle everything herself.

He let Skathi accompany her, both to consider the necessity of spiritual wholeness and to mention the connections and position that Skathi herself represents.

This also gives humanity an opportunity to assist the Faction in leaving here.

Frankly speaking, this is even somewhat superfluous.

Because of the collective will's degree of information sharing, Ishamara does not even need to resort to rhetoric; she merely needs to open a hotspot and share information, and the Faction will likely follow, and even the other few nascent wills will do the same.

The opportunity to head straight for the sea of stars is right before us, and there are even confirmed planets that do not require lengthy exploration and can serve as habitats.

If you lay out such terms, which Faction would love to stay in the depths and wrangle with humanity?

Even Ishamara feels that Aomo does not need to make those tactical suppositions for her; she has full confidence in packing up the entire collective, including the other nascent wills.

This confidence is even acknowledged by Skathi.

Let Aomo lament that the Faction and the single‑minded deep‑sea hunter will ultimately not become human.

This may also be one aspect of an excellent matching mechanism.

Providing convenience to people always saves more trouble and avoids more hidden dangers.

Inside the Deep Sea Church there are many traitors, and many allied units also hate the Faction, wishing to add trouble; who knows, some genuine idiots, pure morons, might pop up inside.

Even if fighting the Faction is a sure‑thing board game, when everyone plays board games they still must guard against external factors such as game lag, computer crashes, player discomfort, etc.

For this reason, he originally also intended to contact Rhodes Island.

But he has to wait a bit, because…

Want to take a break, bro. jpg

Really don't want to move.

How exhilarating it is for Aomo to manually operate Bahamut, and how tedious it feels when going through procedures with the Heart of Terra.

If this expression is still not vivid enough, imagine—allowing Aomo, who always treats affairs with no laxity, like a perfectionist workaholic, to develop the sort of laziness desire that ordinary people have.

Such a large‑scale influx of otherworldly biological entities like the Faction collective indeed has, in the Holy Terra Federation together with the entire Star Alliance, a set of procedures that are processed very quickly, but the comprehension stage involves a high threshold and complex, lengthy statutes.

Theoretically it should at least be carried out by means of organizational docking.

Aomo is also pondering how to bring this up to Rhodes Island; beforehand, he first lets Skathi and Lauren Tyna return by themselves to communicate with their superiors and comrades there.

It serves as an emotional groundwork, making communication smoother.

But I didn't expect the response here to be just as swift.

— When he, with great difficulty, relied on his passion for cool monsters to rekindle his motivation to communicate with people, he didn't expect Miuerseisi to bring this up proactively.

His first reaction was "I don't want to play spicy!"

How the hell are we talking about work so fast!

His second reaction was "Forget it, forget it."

He ended up picking up the work anyway.

He also picked up that feeling only workaholics have: a slight relief at Rhodes Island's swiftness.

Is it the Doctor or someone else?

Rhodes Island's decision-making also has such efficiency-focused people, which truly puts his mind at ease.

The smooth progress of Isamara's hometown return recruitment also now has a more concrete guarantee.

Thus, he can also rest assured to make the final response to the node of the Heart of Terra.

This marks a deal for Linton Office that is the most special to date, and perhaps unsurpassable in the future.

No compensation.

But it has an astonishing rating.

It's so astonishing it instantly shatters the mercenary commission achievement record of the Mercenary Headquarters' office system.

It directly launches the name 'Linton Office' to first place on that commission ranking.

It prompts many peers to ask:

Who is Linton Office?