"How long has your race been in this plane?" Ian asked.
"That happened a long time ago," Queen Katula replied, "According to our historical records, it was around the 'High Elf Rebellion' period."
For Ian, this word is completely unfamiliar and full of mystery. Although he understands that High Elves is an ancient ethnic group that is nobler and purer than ordinary elves, and its status is extremely respected; what's more, even the so-called gods cannot resist the "Higher Magic" was actually named after them! However, other than that, Ian knows very little about the past history and the reasons for the rise and fall of this group of mysterious existences - they only know that they were once evenly matched with the powerful dragons, but in the end they declined inexplicably...
"I've definitely never heard of High Elf Rebellion," Ian admitted frankly.
"I can show you our historical data." Queen Katula was very generous and directly opened up to Ian the ancient historical records of their race dating back billions of years. Unfortunately, because Star-Skin Tribe fled across the galaxy, not all records have been well preserved.
However, many modern scholars of their race used various historical research techniques to deduce those missing historical fragments. Because of this, Ian finally had a fairly clear understanding of some major historical events that had occurred in Cosmic Faith Plane.
After Ancient Wizard Race suddenly disappeared, two major forces rose up to become the overlords of the universe: Dragons and High Elves. After a long battle, High Elves proved their absolute dominance, while Dragons had to enter a state of seclusion in order to avoid the fate of genocide.
High Elves ruled the entire universe. As one of the very few races that could break through to the Tenth Tier position without relying on faith, it was not difficult for them. During the period of their rule, the concept of "belief in gods" had not even emerged.
However, this also became the source of their ultimate downfall. The vast majority of creatures in the universe, limited by their own bloodline and soul limits, were unable to reach higher levels. However, they soon discovered that as long as they could ascend to the throne of God and absorb faith, this problem could be easily solved.
As more and more creatures became gods and broke through to higher levels, High Elves felt that their status was threatened, so they launched a war aimed at annihilating all gods and completely outlawing belief.
Unfortunately, High Elves is extremely xenophobic and arrogant at heart, and they even discriminate against their own sect - ordinary elves who they call "lower elves". This arrogance eventually led to countless races and creatures forming alliances, defeating them in a war called "High Elf Rebellion".
In the end, High Elves also had to hide in order to survive. Since then, Faith God has become the undisputed supreme ruler of this plane. They changed the name of this plane from "Galad", which was originally called by the elves, to its current name.
'Wizard Plane, Galad planes, and now Cosmic Faith Plane... interesting,' Ian thought to himself after analyzing the information. He quickly sketched an outline of the historical era of the universe in his mind:
Genesis Era: The birth of the universe. This may be the result of a big explosion, or it may be caused by some magical phenomenon. It is said that no living creatures existed at that time.
In that distant and mysterious era, known as Ancient Gods Era, the entire universe was still in the pre-development stage of Chaos. In this vast Void, a group of great beings quietly descended into the world, they are Ancient Gods. These ancient beings were bred by the universe itself, and can be said to be the first batch of creatures in this vast world.
Unlike other creatures, the Ancient Gods family is born with the extraordinary ability to control a certain kind of "Authority" power. This power allows them to easily control various elements, laws, energy fluctuations and other natural phenomena, and use them with great proficiency. Because of this, the Ancient Gods people were able to become one of the most powerful and noble races in the universe at that time.
However, why Ancient Gods was born has always been an unsolved mystery. Until later, after some in-depth research, Ian finally revealed the long-hidden truth: It turns out that all of this was due to the intentional actions of Planar Will - the legendary Kronai!
As the original consciousness of the universe, Kronai shoulders the important task of maintaining the order of the universe and ensuring the balanced development of all things. However, as time goes by, the new universe gradually becomes more and more complex and difficult to control; faced with such huge and tedious work pressure, even the supreme Planar Will cannot Feeling powerless... So, after careful consideration, Kronai decided to take a bold move - it voluntarily gave up part of its absolute control over "Authority" and gave it to the Ancient Gods family who had just been born in the world.
By doing this, on the one hand, you can use the innate special ability of Ancient Gods to help you better manage and maintain the operation of the universe; on the other hand, you can effectively relieve the huge burden you bear, so that the entire universe system can maintain a relatively stable state and continue to evolve forward.
Wizard Era: Ian It is not certain whether other races appeared in this era or at the end of the last era. All in all, this race named "Wizards", which was completely bred by pure magic, eventually turned into a group of crazy scholars.
They slaughtered Ancient Gods, conquered the universe, and expanded to other planes. Ian believed that Ancient Wizard Race had definitely conquered the entire Astral Realm back then. And the reason why they disappeared is because their entire civilization successfully broke through to the Twelfth Tier position, entered Void, and began the Omniverse expedition. The evidence to support this theory is the Void crack he discovered in the Rowena timeline that allowed him to master Omniverse Navigation Technology.
High Elf Age: Ian called this period an era rather than an era because it was extremely short-lived and had limited impact. This period was exactly the history he had just learned about the dragon, High Elves, and the rebellion.
Faith Era: That is the current era. It is ruled by a Parasite species that must rely on faith to maintain its power.
"Okay, the last part of the evaluation is indeed a bit subjective, but it doesn't hurt," Ian looked at the outline he wrote and commented in a low voice. "It seems that if I want to create Arcane Era, or even become the Twelfth Tier th civilization one day in the future, I still have a lot of work to do."
He put away all his thoughts and then noticed that there was another person beside him. He turned to look at Queen Katula and found that she had her mouth wide open.
"Did you hear what I said?" He knew that the queen would never understand the unknown language he used to record it. But she must have heard it.
"Okay, just think this is the nonsense of an ambitious lunatic." Ian stretched his body and then walked out.
At the same time, Queen Katula didn't know how to react at all: the man said those words in an extremely casual tone, which made his words even more convincing.
'The Twelfth Tier th civilization? Ancient Wizard Race is the most powerful civilization, and they are only the Eleventh Tier th civilization.'
A look of horror suddenly appeared on the Queen's face. 'Wizard, disappeared, No. Twelfth Tier... could you say?' She looked in the direction where Ian was leaving and wanted to rush over to ask. However, she knew that this kind of secret could never be revealed easily.
'Create a new era with your own hands? Build a civilization comparable to the ancient wizard clan?' A bright light flashed in Katula's eyes, and ambition filled her heart; at this moment, just taking back their former plane was completely unable to satisfy her. After all, they were only a ninth-level civilization.
'Is he deliberately revealing his ambitions to win me over to his side?'
Queen Katula obviously thought of Ian too complicatedly. Ian just let her guard down because of her gentle temper, and she accidentally let it slip. However, the development of things did seem to go according to his wishes.
Over the next few days, negotiations finally came to an end. The two sides settled on a date to announce the merger. Ian subsequently opened access to the Empire the Library and the online school to the Queen so that she could transfer to Arcane Rune System.
After handling this, Ian immediately rushed home, because Hermione had already returned from the expedition after receiving the contact.
"How is the battle going?" Ian asked. Everyone's eyes turned to her.
"It's terrible," Hermione replied. "The moment I landed, countless chains containing Authority's power suppressed Floating City. No matter how I tried, I couldn't take half a step outside the city.
"Even Void Main Cannon failed to cause any damage. The attack was banished to an unknown place. Golem Legion was also wiped out. It was a disaster."
"Is the suppression that serious?" Olivia asked.
"Yes, it has reached an abnormal level. Why is Cosmic Will in that plane so powerful?"
"Although we had expected this, I never thought it would be so bad," Pheobe commented.
"Have you expected it?" Everyone then showed her the copy of <Planar War Guide>.
"This makes sense," Hermione said with a sigh, "So, we need to confront Planar Will head-on to buy time. At the same time, use Reincarnation Magic to send people to sneak into that world and establish a sacrificial ritual inside."
"Until we develop the technology to ignore Planar Will, this is the best strategy," Olivia added.
"Unless force is used to push," Bellatrix commented.
"Indeed." With Tenth Tier and Floating City, they do have this option when facing Ninth Tier and below.
"Invasion guide, and sacrificial rituals... why is the culture of this universe always so dark and cruel," Hermione sighed. She is not a soft-hearted person, at least not anymore. After all, she has also done human experiments, killings and conquests. But sometimes, she still feels that this universe is too dark. She went on the expedition just to find a new dimension for exchange of ideas and culture - not to invade.
The use of force is the last resort.
"In that case, let's change our thinking," Ian said, and everyone's eyes immediately turned to him, "Let's go negotiate."
"Do you want to peacefully negotiate and conduct cultural exchanges with Planar Will?" Rowena asked.
"We have the technology to communicate with Planar Will. We can try peaceful methods first."