New Legacy
The power of civilization was neither mysticism nor some method by which an enlightened master split open the heavens and earth.
It was developed from countless blueprints based on the most fundamental knowledge, then built into mechanical structures that worked together across fields. In the end, they produced an "additive effect" that outsiders could scarcely imagine.
Take the so-called power of the Mechanist civilization—Ten Trillion as One.
It sounded incredibly exaggerated, and its effects could only be called miraculous.
With a single breath, it could create a mechanical planet. After a few more breaths, the initial mechanization of an entire star system would be complete.
If gods existed, this would absolutely be a standard act of creation by a mechanical god.
In truth, however, its principles were not complicated. They were even fairly simple.
It was nothing more than concentrating the productivity and computing power of fifty star systems, one thousand planetary computers, and countless space structures and superfactories—all these mechanical structures—in one place. Quantity led to a qualitative change, ultimately producing a "world-modification mode."
Just as the system's introduction to "Ten Trillion as One" stated:
Ten Trillion as One (Power of Civilization): When the repeated breakthroughs of machinery pass a critical point, quantitative change is no longer a simple accumulation, but a qualitative change resembling a chain reaction.
When combined with certain specialized knowledge chains, such as nanotechnology and string theory, this "qualitative change" could create all kinds of miracles.
Creating something from nothing, sculpting planets with one's bare hands, plucking the sun and moon from the sky, concealing the heavens and earth.
It could be said that as technology developed, humanity's fantasies of immortals and gods were gradually becoming reality—or even being surpassed. The feat before them, for example, would be at the level of a