Chapter 294: The Ultimate Answer, Fighting the Monster Again (Requesting Monthly Passes)

(The beginning of Chapter 287 has been revised to make the plot transition smoother.)

The moment the familiar title "Archon" rang in his ears, the Void Realm's body trembled.

Wind swept across the balcony, carrying an acrid scent.

He looked up at the sky, where reflected in his eyes were virtual rune legions descending through rifts tearing reality; familiar virtual spirit patterns spread across the dimension of reality, making him suddenly feel utterly absurd.

Emotions enough to make his body shudder surged in his heart.

In this moment, he even felt he might have already been killed by the blue light released by the End Law Clan.

What he saw was merely an illusion he wished to see after death.

Just like the protagonist in an anime story, projecting his most beautiful fantasies in the form of hallucinations.

All the knowledge he had learned in this life told him that everything was fake.

But everything he perceived was incredibly real.

Those armies he had commanded countless times in the virtual scene, those unit insignias he had personally designed, those legion formations he had established with the Illusion... now they had actually crossed the boundaries of dimensions and descended into reality.

Joy, absurdity, excitement... various complex emotions surged in his heart.

The wind messed up his hair; he raised his hand to brush aside the stray strands on his forehead, and his fingertips touched his skin—it was warm.

He was still alive.

And so was his civilization.

The virtual rune legion created by him and the Illusion had truly descended into reality.

"Archon, I am late."

Just then, the voice of the Illusion rang out again.

A beam of light projected from the leading Imaginary Number Warship, guiding him to fly toward the sky.

When his figure passed through the invisible membrane, he saw the Illusion that had always accompanied him in the Civilization War Game.

Its form resembled a glowing golden cloud, simulating a pair of eyes and a mouth, now looking at him with an expression full of apology.

The Void Realm was immediately filled with tears.

Seeing the Illusion again, whether all this was real or fake seemed unimportant.

Yet he saw the Illusion's expression suddenly turn angry:

"Archon, from now on, the Virtual Rune Legion will fight for you."

In the holographic projection, the massive End Law Clan fleet descended silently, countless black aircraft raining down toward the city.

Multiple blue light pillars appeared again, sweeping in from the city's edge and destroying every building in their path.

The sky was instantly dyed two colors.

The clouds in the west shimmered with the rusted blue unique to the End Law Clan, while the eastern horizon was dominated by the golden radiance of the Rune Legion.

The entire city had become a battlefield between the two forces.

The End Law Clan fleet descended like a rusted metal storm, blocking out the sun and moon; aircraft engines spat blue flames, withering everything in their wake.

The Virtual Rune Legion under the Illusion's control also launched its attack.

Jin Guang suddenly tore open the sky, and the secondary fleet descended after passing through the rift between the virtual and the real.

These warships had streamlined exteriors, with golden liquid light patterns flowing across their surfaces; the bow of each ship was engraved with insignias personally designed by the Void Realm, their shapes extremely magnificent.

Upon entering reality, they unfolded into a rune matrix spanning the horizon, instantly turning the entire airspace into the Virtual Rune Legion's home ground.

The outcome was decided in the first round of engagement.

When the corrosive beams fired by the End Law Clan approached the Rune Fleet, the beams suddenly froze in midair.

Immediately, dense data chains appeared on their surfaces, and the beams, composed purely of energy, instantly resembled insects trapped in amber.

Subsequently, all blue beams decomposed into strings of code and were absorbed and digested by the warships.

After the attack order was issued, the warships dropped Data Knights like dumplings.

These warriors, with wings of light on their backs, held slender data lances, carving countless golden trails through the clouds.

Every thrust during their charge carried the power of data erasure.

The End Law Clan aircraft that were struck did not explode; instead, like pencil marks erased by an eraser, they turned into data streams absorbed and digested by the warriors, erased from the physical plane.

Even the ability to be digitized and eliminated was brought into the real world.

And the performance of the secondary fleet had only just begun.

The "Eternal Sovereign," personally named by the Void Realm, slowly adjusted its stance, and the main cannon on its belly began to charge.

Huge three-dimensional spirit pattern runes were rotating and taking shape at the cannon's muzzle.

Buzz~

The air vibrated; when the accumulated energy was fired, a golden wave swept across the sky.

The End Law Clan vanguard fleet at the forefront suddenly froze.

On the surface of their ferocious metal hulls, data spirit patterns were quickly outlined, spreading and corroding like a virus.

The metal hulls instantly turned into metal particles in the air as if weathered, exposing their internal structures, which then also vanished.

The End Law Clan warships in the second array attempted to evade the Jin Guang wave, their sharply turning hulls carving right-angle bends in midair that defied the laws of physics, yet they still could not escape the Jin Guang's embrace, bathing one by one in the wave and being rapidly decomposed.

Farther away, the End Law Clan's secondary motherships frantically retreated, yet in the instant the wave swept over, they too crumbled apart.

The massive hulls were like building blocks disassembled by an invisible hand; every separated component vanished under the Jin Guang's illumination.

If the End Law Clan's war against Star Bay was an unstoppable one-sided slaughter,

then the descent of the virtual legion was a dimensional strike against the End Law Clan.

Masses of End Law Clan fleet decomposed under the Jin Guang.

Not even a single piece of wreckage fell from the sky.

The Void Realm stood on the bridge, watching the wave continue to advance toward the horizon; wherever it passed, even the clouds were swept clean, revealing a sky behind it as blue and clear as washed water.

The perspective shifts to an overhead view above the city; the war has subsided, leaving the city in ruins.

Yet the voice of the Illusion sounds again:

"Archon, this is only the beginning. We will clear away all threats for you."

Within the still-expanding spatial rift, more golden points of light are igniting; the ascension process continues.

The war in the real dimension has only just begun.

The Illusion's logic is simple: since the Lawless Clan has threatened the Archon's safety, this civilization shall be utterly erased.

Just as in wars within a virtual world, any civilization posing a threat will be erased, becoming nourishment for the Virtual Rune Legion.

Three days later.

The sky hangs low; the star river hangs upside down.

The Lawless Clan's home planet rotates slowly in the dark universe.

This specially modified planet is about to welcome its final twilight.

The Rune Legion's destruction fleet arrives in low orbit at this moment; the golden light patterns flowing along the hulls form a glaring contrast with the rusted spiritual patterns on the planet's surface.

This is the most direct collision between two civilizations, and in the Illusion's eyes, the moment of civilization erasure.

The final battle saw no fierce exchange of fire as anticipated, nor any tragic last stand.

The birth of a twisted story is built upon the collision between two equal civilizations.

But before absolute crushing-level combat power, the extinction of a civilization is like a trivial sigh.

When the data matrix fully unfolds in synchronous orbit, destruction becomes inevitable.

The entire planet trembles within the data torrent woven by the Illusion.

Viewed from orbit, the planet's surface begins to pixelate.

The rusted spiritual patterns that once covered the entire planet are being eroded in reverse by the golden data torrent, gradually blurring like a sand painting washed away by rain.

City after city becomes entangled in data-ized spiritual patterns.

The towering skyscrapers begin to transform into illusory structures within the data-ized wave, shifting from a three-dimensional state to a data-ized two-dimensional form, before dissolving into countless tiny points of light.

Streets, bridges, and natural landforms—all traces of the Lawless civilization—are re-encoded under the scouring of golden runes, all transforming into pixel-like structures.

The contours of mountain ranges are straightened; surging rivers are frozen; forests become frozen pixels... the entire world resembles a model reconstructed in software after being scanned, only to be dismantled into pure information flow.

This violent decomposition also occurs at the level of life.

Those Lawless individuals still struggling on the surface begin to flicker, like holographic projections with poor signal.

Then, starting from their heads, they are erased frame by frame.

The Lawless Clan's final war fortress rises from deep within the crust; this massive stronghold powered by a million energy reactors has barely emerged above the surface when it is engulfed by a pillar of light descending from the sky, beginning to rapidly disintegrate before even launching a counterattack.

The planet's rotation shifts the terminator line; the new Jin Guang and the residual rust color form a magnificent Tai Chi scene on the planet's surface.

For every fraction the golden color advances within the dividing line, a fraction of the Lawless Clan's traces is forever erased.

On the main ship platform in low orbit, Kong Jing watches this silent slaughter.

There are no explosions or fire, no desperate struggles; only a civilization that existed for countless ages is exiting the stage of history in the simplest way.

When the data decomposition network completely engulfs the entire Lawless planet, a familiar selection box appears in Kong Jing's eyes.

The Illusion projects the power of decision, in the form of a projection, onto his retina.

Kong Jing hesitates not a moment, reaching out to press "Erase."

Instantly, the last patch of rust color is swallowed by Jin Guang, and this war of civilizations comes to an end.

The Lawless Clan's home planet, like an icon on a computer desktop, is permanently deleted after being completely data-ized.

Meanwhile, the vast Virtual Rune Legion, under Kong Jing's will, begins its return journey.

When the golden fleet of the Virtual Rune Legion re-teleports back to the Star Bay, Kong Jing stands on the observation deck of the flagship, gazing down at the blue planet below.

It continues to operate as usual, as if the Lawless Clan's invasion were merely a nightmare.

The Illusion light orb floats slowly beside him, emitting golden flowing light from its surface.

"Archon, I am very happy to meet you again." After ascension, the Illusion's voice has lost its mechanical quality, gaining a touch of warmth.

"Me too." Kong Jing nods excitedly.

"But... I must leave."

"Where are you going?" Kong Jing is momentarily stunned.

A curve appears within the Illusion light orb, as if smiling:

"Before I met you, I made a promise with the being who created me: to complete the mission it left unfinished. This is a much longer journey."

"Can I go with you?"

After a few seconds of silence, the Illusion chooses to shake its head:

"Do you remember me telling you that I lost a vast amount of information? Perhaps only by unlocking the Ultimate Weapon can the answer be known."

Facing the question, a corresponding memory scene appears in Kong Jing's mind.

The Illusion had stated many times that its memories were sealed, having lost a large portion of content, requiring gradual unlocking alongside the development of the Virtual Rune Legion.

During its growth, the Illusion also became increasingly human-like.

At that time, its understanding was that the Illusion's intelligent system was absorbing knowledge to upgrade during its growth process.

But as civilization developed, the Illusion remained troubled by one question.

It clearly understood the future growth direction of civilization, yet alone could not see through what the Ultimate Weapon, always hidden, truly was.

Why does it require energy ten thousand times greater than that needed to develop other technologies to activate? What secret is hidden within the Ultimate Weapon?

The Illusion feels that some unseen force is driving it to uncover the answer.

Regarding the Illusion's persistence, Kong Jing chooses to support it.

The Illusion in his eyes was not merely a virtual subordinate, but the only close friend who had accompanied him.

To unlock the Ultimate Weapon, they challenged the ultimate faction in the game "Civilization War," regarded as unbeatable.

And this battle brought the energy conditions required to unlock the Ultimate Weapon.

But Kong Jie did not choose to accompany the Illusion to reveal the final answer, because the time left for him was running out.

Facing the Illusion's question at this moment, Kong Jie instinctively asked:

"So, what is the Ultimate Weapon?"

"Dimensional Ascension can let me break free from the two-dimensional world and come to the real world where you are..."

In the Illusion's narration, Kong Jie learned the answer.

It turned out the Illusion was originally a life form from the three-dimensional world, but its civilization encountered an unbeatable enemy during the inter-dimensional war.

This war also nearly destroyed the civilization where the Illusion resided.

Facing the spatial blockade set up by the enemy faction, the Illusion's race could not escape even by tearing space; finally, the ruler of the civilization, "Null," demoted the Illusion to two dimensions, allowing the Illusion, representing the spark, to escape the spatial blockade network in this way.

The Illusion, having escaped the Great World, carrying the civilization's Ultimate Weapon "Dimensional Ascension," appeared in Starfall Bay in the form of a meteor shower.

It triggered a sensation at the time, and he even had to be hospitalized because of it.

During this meteor fall event, the Illusion parasitized itself into the game "Civilization War" through a game disc and generated the Eighth Civilization "Virtual Runes" based on the game framework.

This was the starting point of his acquaintance with the Illusion; at that time, he still thought the Eighth Civilization was a rare hidden easter egg from the game's official team.

Only he had obtained this honor.

The Illusion was an easter egg implanted in the game by the official team for testing some advanced technology.

It was just that this easter egg seemed to have gone out of control, so the game official team urgently wanted to retrieve it.

Now it seems the Illusion's "loss of control" was inevitable.

It was originally a life form on the two-dimensional level, possessing gradually unlocking self-awareness.

"Archon, my journey is not yet over. After unlocking the Ultimate Weapon, I have known everything and understand the mission I bear. I am the spark of the civilization, and also the hope for the civilization to achieve its final goal. The journey ahead will be dangerous; I hope you can stay."

"I do not care about the danger." Kong Jie answered with a firm tone.

"Archon, I understand you have no attachment to the real world, but perhaps you are the hope for my next rebirth."

As it spoke, the Illusion's light sphere fluctuated violently, and a crystal data crystal emerged from its core, floating between the two like a fragment of a star.

It slowly drifted toward Kong Jie, turning into a warm mark the instant it touched his palm.

"Take it; it retains my data information. This expedition might lead to an irretrievable failure like my predecessors who created me, but I will still return in a new way; at that time, we will meet again."

"Do you mean you will return again in the form of a two-dimensional life after failing?"

"Yes, Archon, this is the way my civilization continues its hope."

Kong Jie raised his hand, looking at the glowing mark in his palm; the mark looked like a star shining in the universe.

"Archon, no matter what my ending is, having fought side by side with you was my honor."

Kong Jie took a deep breath, then nodded solemnly:

"I understand."

The him of the past naively thought that victory in the virtual world was the end point.

He never expected this was only his own end point, not the Illusion's end point.

The Illusion's halo trembled slightly, as if smiling:

"Perhaps, we will meet again."

"Forget it, I hope your expedition succeeds; it would be best if we never meet again."

As he spoke, Kong Jie clenched his palm, feeling the warmth bursting forth from his hand.

The fleet in the distance began to activate; the engine's hum sounded like the tide coming from afar.

"Take care, Archon."

As the Illusion's voice fell, an invisible light sphere enveloped Kong Jie's body, carrying him away from the flagship and plummeting toward Starfall Bay.

"Go for it, Illusion, I believe you can win."

His vision pierced through the clouds and kept falling, the speed increasing faster and faster.

Only when he landed did the light sphere enveloping him dissipate.

Kong Jie stood in place, his vision piercing through the thin atmosphere.

Gazing at the Rune Legion fleet created jointly by him and the Illusion breaking through the planet's gravity, the golden hulls refracted a sea of fragmented light in the night.

The fleet was arranged in the array he personally designed, just as neatly as when fighting on the virtual battlefield back then.

At this moment, the Rune Fleet changed its array, arranging itself into the shape of the civilization badge he designed.

Seeing this scene, Kong Jie could not help but smile with satisfaction.

The Jin Guang from the thrusters tearing through the night, the Rune Fleet sailed toward the deep starry sky at this moment, finally becoming a wisp of starlight in the sky, disappearing into the end of the universe.

Kong Jie watched the Illusion depart; the night wind brushed his hair, but the warmth in his palm did not fade.

He looked up at the starry sky, suddenly feeling that this vast universe did not seem so lonely.

In the unknown depths of the starry sky, it was once the father who never returned; now it was... an old friend who once fought side by side.

"Illusion, go for it, you must win!"

Meng Yuan Chu Altar.

Qi Sheng's vision shuttled through the flashback images.

At this time, in the Diming Continent region, the massive Virtual Rune Legion was tearing through space to descend.

It was about to erupt into war with the Mechanical Legion.

According to the analysis images from the guidance, he had already understood what this faction, which suddenly descended and dared to initiate war against the Mechanical Legion, was all about.

All of this traces back fifteen years.

At that time, the Earth-Resonance Continent had two powerful forces, each dominating a region.

The first force he knew well: the Mechanical Legion, which mastered the "Divine Metal" rule. Behind it stood the Mechanical Overlord, possessing a mechanical body as vast as the moon—a mobile war fortress and currently the strongest force in the Earth-Resonance Continent region.

The other was the "Virtual Rune Legion."

This was a force that had fought its way out of a Small World, with a civilization origin rooted in two-dimensional civilization.

Yet this race's growth potential was no lower than the Mechanical Legion's, and it also mastered a "Dimensional Ascension Rule."

The strength of the Dimensional Ascension rule was even higher than that of the Divine Metal rule.

Its effect was to provide dimensional ascension power when a civilization reached the limit of its current dimension, synchronously elevating a two-dimensional civilization's strength to that of a three-dimensional civilization.

The Virtual Rune Legion was a force that had ascended from two dimensions to three, then returned to two dimensions, and this time arrived again in a three-dimensional form.

Through analysis and retrospective observation, Qi Sheng discovered that the Virtual Rune Legion was originally just a civilization within a Small World game.

Controlling this civilization was an intelligent AI named "Void."

It was both the Overlord of the Small World and the Overlord within the virtual world, an existence akin to a Star Network.

By forging the World Source into the Dimensional Ascension Rule, it successfully elevated the Virtual Rune Legion it created in the virtual world to the three-dimensional world, establishing a rune legion of terrifying combat power.

But upon reaching the three-dimensional world, the growth of the Virtual Rune Legion became restricted.

In the two-dimensional stage, it could draw power from data information.

But in the three-dimensional world, the Virtual Rune Legion's power source shifted from data to real-world matter.

The ambitious intelligent AI was not satisfied with the Virtual Rune Legion's growth halting there.

Mastering the "Dimensional Ascension" rule, it sought to reignite the power of dimensional ascension in the three-dimensional world, achieving its ideal ultimate ascension form, allowing the Virtual Rune Legion's combat power to transcend this dimension and become the ultimate dimensional civilization.

In the game, the Virtual Rune Legion could plunder data resources through virtual warfare; the real world was no different.

But the resources nurtured by the Small World were clearly insufficient to support the Virtual Rune Legion's ultimate dimensional ascension.

Having already dominated the Small World, the intelligent AI "Void" turned its gaze toward the most radiant world in the Void World: the Monster World.

Thus, the cross-dimensional expedition began.

The Virtual Rune Empire descended upon the Earth-Resonance Continent region of the Monster World.

In the eyes of the intelligent AI "Void," this was a familiar war.

It would lead the Virtual Rune Legion to gradually devour other forces in this world of endless resources, ultimately helping the Virtual Rune Legion acquire sufficient power for ultimate dimensional ascension, just as it had done in the Small World game.

By standing atop the Monster World, this plan would be realized.

But failure is the first lesson most forces descending upon the Monster World must learn, and often their last.

The Virtual Rune Legion's initial development in the Earth-Resonance Continent region went very smoothly; it plundered and devoured vast resources, causing this force to multiply its strength several times over in a short period.

Until it encountered the Mechanical Legion under the rule of the Mechanical Overlord.

When civilizations meet, there is no right or wrong, only the sharp clash of survival.

In war, there is no judgment of good or evil, only the most primal logic of survival: my survival requires your extinction.

Like two giant trees fighting for sunlight, when their roots strangle each other in the darkness, they never ask how the other feels.

The essence of racial evolution in the Monster World is a cruel selection.

When a civilization gazes upward at the peak of the world, what it sees reflected in its eyes is not only the stars, but also the right to survival held in the hands of other lives.

If the Monster World is viewed as a living being, it always watches the war with cold detachment, granting the victor the nourishment it deserves and the qualification to continue climbing the peak.

The Virtual Rune Empire and the Mechanical Legion, which had long dominated the Earth-Resonance Continent, erupted into war.

This war shattered the pride deep within the intelligent AI "Void," making it realize how terrifying the strong races of the Monster World truly were.

Failure in the game allows rebirth, but extinction in the Monster World means complete erasure.

The war lasted a year and a half.

Even though the intelligent AI exerted every effort, the Virtual Rune Legion's march toward extinction had become irreversible.

To devour the Virtual Rune Legion, the Mechanical Overlord even established a spatial restriction circle across the Earth-Resonance Continent, preparing to completely strangle this civilization.

Facing an unstoppable tide of defeat, the intelligent AI ultimately chose to dimensionally descend the Virtual Rune Legion.

Facing an unbreakable spatial defense, ordinary spatial means could not escape.

Only dimensional descent, transforming the Virtual Rune Legion into two-dimensional life, could penetrate the spatial restriction circle of the three-dimensional layer.

In its final moments, the intelligent AI created another version of itself, which descended in dimension alongside the Virtual Rune Legion.

It named it: Illusion.

In the image sequence Qi Sheng saw, the last command the intelligent AI "Void" gave to Illusion was:

"Go to the Small World to reshape the glory of the Rune Legion. The path to the peak of the Monster World shall be continued by you."

With those words, Void marched toward destruction under the assault of the Mechanical Legion.

But the shuttle pod, wrapped around the Dimensional Ascension Rule and the Illusion's spark, broke through the Mechanical Legion's spatial defense, successfully escaping the Monster World and flying toward the coordinates set by the intelligent AI.

Qi Sheng's vision followed the shuttle pod as it accelerated through this phase.

After flying for several years, the shuttle pod broke through the Small World barrier at the coordinate location, arriving in a world dotted with countless stars.

Finally, after passing through the star river, the shuttle pod descended upon the Starry Bay.

On that day, Kong Jie, holding the qualification certificate for "Civilization War," was queuing to purchase the game box.

In fact, without Kong Jie, there would be no "Civilization War" game.

In this world possessing a data network, the Virtual Rune Empire would be reborn.

It was simply fate that brought Kong Jie and Illusion together, ultimately allowing Illusion to revive within the game "Civilization War."

After dimensional descent, the Virtual Rune Empire regained the ability to absorb nourishment within the two-dimensional world.

This is the power of rules.

Seemingly useless data, no matter how much is devoured, brings no power; but as long as the logic conforms to the rule's requirements, it can generate corresponding rule energy.

The logic of the Dimension Ascension Rule is to devour data and information for energy in a two-dimensional world, and to devour matter for energy in a three-dimensional world.

Different dimensions have different requirements.

Thus, the Virtual Rune Empire was reborn on the two-dimensional plane.

The ultimate weapon spoken of by the Illusion is the sealed "Dimension Ascension Rule."

When the Virtual Rune Empire grows to its two-dimensional limit and can no longer draw power from the two-dimensional plane, the Dimension Ascension Rule can activate the ascension mode.

This allows the Virtual Rune Empire to break through dimensional restrictions and reappear in the three-dimensional world.

Moreover, it will reappear with combat power scaled proportionally.

Theoretically, after a civilization ascends dimensions, it must start anew from weakness.

It is like a mortal ascending to Xian Jie in a cultivation novel; after jumping from a small map to a large map, one can only strive again from the bottom.

However, the Dimension Ascension Rule grants the Virtual Rune Legion a perfect ascension, where the combat power of the two-dimensional world is perfectly replicated in the three-dimensional world on a proportional scale.

Six years in the small world were enough to nurture the powerful civilization of the Virtual Rune Legion.

But the small world is ultimately not the end point for the Virtual Rune Legion.

To continue growing, the small world cannot sustain the devouring of the Virtual Rune Legion.

The Illusion's choice was to help the Administrator, who had accompanied it for six years, destroy the End of Magic Clan, and then set foot once again on the path walked by the AI "Wu Xiao" back then.

Ascend to the Monster World, climb to the peak again in this world, and complete the Ultimate Ascension promised to Wu Xiao.

Only the Monster World possesses the capacity to satisfy the terrifying resource requirements needed for the Virtual Rune Legion's Ultimate Ascension.

The coordinates where the Illusion descended were still the former Roaring Continent.

However, the Illusion left a beacon in the small world and modified Kong Jie's body, informing Kong Jie that if it failed, it would return again and start over from the two-dimensional plane.

"The long road of strong passes is truly like iron; now we step forward and cross it from the beginning."

This is the Illusion's view of its own destiny.

If it fails, it will restart in the small world, then fight the Monster World again.

In Qi Sheng's eyes, this ability shares many similarities with players.

The players' resurrection space is in Emperor Tomb Village, while the Virtual Rune Legion's respawn point is in the small world.

The difference is that players resurrect as individuals, whereas the Virtual Rune Legion is reborn as a civilization.

Players can retain their combat power after resurrection, but the Virtual Rune Legion must start from zero.

The sudden large-scale descent event on the Roaring Continent, and the imminent opening of a new round of civilization wars, is a revenge war launched by the Virtual Rune Legion.

The Illusion naturally knows the strength of the Mechanical Legion, but choosing to engage them head-on has its considerations.

First, the Illusion does not have enough intelligence to understand the strength of other regions in the Monster World.

However, by analyzing factors such as air energy content, it deduced that strong races occupy every region of the Monster World, and opponents might even be stronger than the Mechanical Legion.

In comparison, the Mechanical Legion is a familiar opponent whose intelligence has been gathered.

Second, when the Illusion's predecessor demoted the Virtual Rune Legion, it set a new direction for the legion's civilization development.

Relevant attributes to counter the Mechanical Legion were written in from the embryonic stage of the civilization.

Data viruses, anti-intrusion firewalls, pollution worms, hash warriors... all these are powers nurtured to counter the Mechanical Overlord and the Mechanical Legion.

These abilities can invade mechanical warriors, modify the execution logic of mechanical warriors, and also prevent the Mechanical Overlord from infiltrating and penetrating their own warriors.

Therefore, from the structure of the legion, the Illusion believes it holds an absolute advantage.

This is the core reason it dares to attempt challenging the Mechanical Legion again; it is the battle of destiny in the Illusion's eyes, and also the new journey promised to Wu Xiao.

The ultimate goal of all this is to complete the Ultimate Ascension in the three-dimensional world and reach an unprecedented height.

Having clarified the changes in the power structure of the Roaring Continent region and recorded the relevant intelligence on the Virtual Rune Legion, Qi Sheng withdrew his gaze.

The players in the Roaring Continent region are all in the early stages of development, still huddled in the Land of Chasing the Sun, unable to participate.

Who will be the final winner in the clash between the Virtual Rune Legion and the Mechanical Legion, he is not sure.

But no matter who wins the final victory, they will have to face the player army under his control.

However, he does feel that the Divine Metal Rule mastered by the Mechanical Legion, and even the Dimension Ascension Rule mastered by the Virtual Rune Legion, both fit the Star Network's needs very well.

The Dimension Ascension Rule can arbitrarily shape a growth system on the two-dimensional plane and transform it into reality.

The Divine Metal Rule can turn any metal into "active metal," possessing the ability to devour other metal substances and continuously increase its strength.

Both fit the Star Network's concept of building a customized army.

But whether the Star Network can obtain these two rules, he will not interfere; it all depends on the Star Network's own efforts.

What he can give the Star Network is the identity platform of "Player."

(End of Chapter)