"Put another way... we have to take part in this plan?"
Qing's face turned iron-blue, truly living up to his name.
Mazda stood before the group, hands on his hips as he said to Qing, "That's right. I told you, once you learned all this, you could no longer stay out of it. This is an emergency. Civil law does not apply; military law does. So you have no choice... and neither do we."
The Transcendent Revival Plan was the joint decision of the Multidimensional Unified Government's upper echelon—namely, nearly all the fifth generation members.
Wu Pifu and Qing had to join the plan as well.
"But your Transcendent Revival Plan is about throwing people outside the thirteen zones!" Qing shouted.
An elderly man in white research institute attire stepped out from beside Mazda. Holding a light tablet, he tapped at it as he said, "Because transcendence cannot be achieved within the thirteen zones. Due to the judgments of the thirteen main control systems and their continual consumption of spirit particles, the thirteen zones are a completely magicless, stable reality. You may also consider them the Absolute Real World. Transcendence cannot be achieved here, even if there truly are paths that grant power. After all, we inherited the legacy of the multidimensional universe. We have already catalogued over eighty million transcendent paths, yet none of them can be realized within these thirteen zones."
In the two-odd days since Qing had arrived at this Transcendent Revival department, he had crammed himself full of confidential information about the Multidimensional Unified Government of the multidimensional universe. He understood what the head of the research team meant and immediately cried out, "Then why not select the safest ones and have the main control systems create environments suited to those forms of transcendence?"
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