"Don't panic... Don't you still have that rice cooker I gave you? There's no need to fight it. Why not just seal it directly? Relax, the difficulty you'll be facing isn't this Emissary of Propagation." Chen Luo comforted Stelle.
"That's good... Wait, are you saying I'll have to face other difficulties? I'm still a child who isn't even a month old. You're sending me to do something this dangerous? How am I supposed to handle it? That's too cruel!" Stelle said indignantly.
"I'll add 100 merit points."
"Alrighty, Luo Luo. I knew you treated me best."
"Your attitude changed so quickly. It's laughable."
"Hey, with our relationship... I watched you grow up, you know." Stelle patted Chen Luo on the shoulder.
"...Chinese truly is broad and profound," Chen Luo remarked.
"By the way, you still haven't told me what the difficulty is."
"You'll soon be facing the Simulated Universe's second event, Gold and Machinery. If Propagation of the Universe recorded the fall of an Aeon, then Gold and Machinery recorded how the Erudition Aeon watched Emperor Lubbert go from death to life, then from life to death. Anyway... good luck! The Simulated Universe is something you can't avoid!" Chen Luo encouraged Stelle.
"...Emperor Lubbert. Oh, that Genius Club's twenty-seventh member who believed flesh was weak and machinery was ascension, right?" Stelle recalled the figure.
"There's machinery, but where does the gold come in?"
"Gold refers to the frontier trade wars caused by the company's colonial expansion and monopolies..." Chen Luo said.
"Expansion? Monopoly? Those don't sound like good words..." Stelle frowned.
"The Interstellar Peace Corporation was never anything good to begin with. Did you expect words used to describe it to be flattering?" Chen Luo laughed, then rubbed Stelle's head.
"If you ask me, the fact that the Interstellar Peace