For some reason, Sophia did not continue pursuing the question. Even though Xiao Ran had already prepared ten thousand excuses to bluff his way through, it was a good thing she did not press on. Xiao Ran was also worried that Sophia might mess around and come up with something like discovering the truth of the world. If she turned out like Renard, that would be quite troublesome.
No matter what, Sophia had now agreed to join the Burning Legion. For the time being, she had two tasks. The first was to improve the current linking equipment. The second was to return to Prometheus after this mission and research multiverse technology. Of course, the latter could only proceed once this world became Faction Territory.
However, Xiao Ran was already certain that Sophia was this world's core. It was not about why the world had developed into its current state, nor what had caused it to become this way. In the face of Sophia, the world's creator, such matters were too ordinary. If even the creator was not the world core, then what could be? Those Whispered? The Burning Legion had already packaged up more than ninety percent of the world's Whispered and sent them to the Moon, including protagonist-level Whispered such as Chidori, Tessa, and Renard. If that still had not triggered a world core prompt, then the answer was obvious. Nothing else on Earth was qualified to become the world core.
One day, while all preparations within the Burning Legion proceeded methodically with the passage of time, piercing alarms suddenly rang out across every warship in the legion. Red lights flashed across the ships and fortresses, and the legion entered combat readiness at once. Countless mecha flew from the warships, while one transformed Iron Man after another also entered