In fact, as the industrial buff of the Alpha Longhorn Whale constellation continued to level up, the experience on the faction panel had practically become inexhaustible.
Even if they gave that much experience to so many players, the faction's industrial strength could replenish it all in a single day.
High Engineer really didn't mind helping the players reach Level 90 ahead of time. After all, whether one had a boss panel or not represented two completely different levels of combat power.
Besides, if they were pursuing ascension, then the more species that reached max level, the greater the odds of ascension.
The reason he had given them "only" half a level was that he had also taken into account how the players might deliberately get themselves killed just to farm experience instead of properly exploring.
Thus, aside from "death rewards," High Engineer had also offered a large number of exploration rewards. For example, successfully exploring an unknown wormhole awarded one level of experience, while discovering a Void Dweller settlement awarded another level.
At this stage, giving experience was far more effective than giving equipment or money. After all, the players weren't exactly short on cash anymore.
"Something's not right."
As the number of times the players explored the wormholes rapidly increased, High Engineer gradually began to sense that something was wrong.
How should he put it?
If the constant birth and death of the wormholes had been calculated to contain a cosmic tunnel, and that cosmic tunnel was most likely connected to that "String Space"...
But after countless rounds of exploration by the players, High Engineer had no choice but to acknowledge a fact.
That "cosmic tunnel" was constantly changing.
And the change was such that it might still be a passageway in one stage, only to become widespread spatial