"Your Highness the Prince certainly has a big mouth. By seniority, I'm still your elder!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. My elder? Even Space Principal observes the proper rites between ruler and subject when he sees me. What are you, a mere king of the Denuo Civilization, going on about? Do you think you're more important than Space Principal?"
"Even Holy Keisha speaks to me as an equal. You're only the king of one civilization, yet you act more important than the King of Gods. You have two choices: either stand down, and I'll pretend none of this ever happened, or I'll go back and send the Heavenly Base Legion to wipe out every Denuo survivor. Oh, and Prince Cheng Yaowen, too."
Su Xinghe gave him no quarter. Of all the God-level Civilizations in the Super Seminary series, Denuo was the one he despised most. Without Space Principal's help, they would have been no more than an Aerospace Civilization, unable to defeat even the Yiren Civilization. After all, the Yiren Civilization stood at the peak of the Aerospace Civilizations.
If he really tried to stop him, then too bad for him. Su Xinghe would kill him, no questions asked. This was a small matter; he only had to explain things to He Xi. Even if Holy Keisha wanted to intervene, she would have no good excuse. This was an issue between two Main Gods, and the Order of Justice wouldn't interfere in conflicts between civilizations that had Main Gods. Otherwise, Keisha would have stepped in during the war between Denuo and Lieyang, rather than waiting until it was over to clean up the mess.
Was it because she couldn't win? No. If she couldn't handle even the Lieyang and Denuo Civilizations, she wouldn't be Holy Keisha. In that case, He Xi's Heavenly Base Legion could take action against the Denuo survivors in a personal capacity.
"You... Holy Keisha wouldn't do that."
"Right, Queen Holy Keisha wouldn't help me do it. But you know that you and I are both Main Gods, and we belong to different civilizations. So you should understand that Holy Keisha's Order of Justice won't interfere in the affairs of civilizations with Main Gods."
"So Holy Keisha won't get involved. But Heavenly Base King Holy He Xi is my Guardian Angel, so the Heavenly Base Legion can help me in a personal capacity. Think carefully about what you're going to do."
"You win!" He was only a string of data. He had no way to suppress a powerful being like Holy He Xi. It wouldn't be good if she really wiped out his entire people.
Watching the data construct disappear, Su Xinghe sneered. He had thought he'd have to fight it, but it seemed he'd overestimated the situation. Denuo was the weakest of the God-level Civilizations. What powerful means could they possibly have?
He continued on, arriving inside a small golden planetoid. A colossal Tech Tree supported the operation of an artificial star system. There were no stars near the planetoid to provide a natural gravitational field and energy for its development. The residents here could only rely on a massive Celestial Computer to draw in stars from elsewhere and keep their artificial star running.
"You've arrived, Your Highness the Prince. I'm Gerrry, the chief elder and chief scientist here. I've been waiting for you a long time. Only when you've grown strong can you help our Shenhe Civilization escape its current predicament."htt
"I imagine you came here because you've encountered a problem you can't solve as you've grown. Please tell me what it is. Perhaps this old man can help."
"Senior Gerrry, I wanted to ask about something recorded in the Super Seminary archives. Death God Karl once studied the Black Hole Engine project. If the Black Hole Engine were successfully developed and fell into the hands of an evil person, would there be any way to deal with the artificial black hole it created?"
"The Black Hole Engine?" Gerrry hesitated. He knew about it. Space Principal had forbidden the project back then because it was too dangerous. He hadn't expected Su Xinghe to ask about it now. Had Death God Karl managed to develop it?
"Your Highness, the Black Hole Engine is extremely difficult to build. It requires Void matter, which can only be obtained by detonating a black hole. Then, with the help of Void Energy, it can be constructed."
"If it really were successfully built, then all I can say is this, Your Highness: a black hole is a special kind of barrier. On the physical level, there's no solution with our current understanding."
"But an artificial black hole isn't quite the same as a real one. If we could, we might also be able to obtain relevant data by detonating a black hole. But that would require many experiments. Even if I finished my research as quickly as possible, I estimate it would take twenty or thirty years. Still, the Black Hole Engine is also a type of Void Engine, so it can be suppressed with a Void Engine or a large Celestial Computer."
Suppressing it with a large Celestial Computer would be difficult unless someone like He Xi intervened personally. After all, even later on, Angel Yan relied on the Heavenly Base Computing Group and still couldn't suppress Hua Ye's Black Hole Engine.
No solution on the physical level. It seemed Holy Keisha had said something similar, too. Time wasn't the issue. The issue was how to get past this cheat-like power.
"Then research it. Time isn't a problem. The Shenhe Civilization should still have the resources to do this. Even though it lost the Great Clock, its most powerful Celestial Computer, Shenhe has many Celestial Computers after all these years. I believe you still have the means to do it."
"Very well. We can research ways to counter the Black Hole Engine for you, Your Highness. If one appears during that time, you can ask the King of Gods, Holy Keisha, for help. Her Holy Knowledge Treasury contains a way to suppress a black hole temporarily. She may even be able to suppress the wielder of the Black Hole Engine directly, preventing them from using it."
"Also, regarding your Fourth Generation God Body, I have a relevant plan. I'll send you the information shortly. When the time is right, you can have the Angels upgrade you to a Fourth Generation God Body."
Su Xinghe nodded. He really did need that kind of cheat. Only after reaching the Fourth Generation God Body could he equip himself with a large Celestial Computer. Less than a month remained until Holy Keisha's fall, and less than three months until Hua Ye arrived on Earth equipped with the Black Hole Engine. Time waited for no one.
He wasn't some invincible cheat user with a system, either. Although he'd started far ahead of everyone else, he still had to take things one careful step at a time.
[New information detected entering the system: Shenhe System, Divine River's Lord Fourth Generation upgrade plan. Receive?]
"Receive!"
[Receiving Fourth Generation God Body upgrade plan... receiving...]
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[Receipt successful. Storing... Storage complete.]
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