"Before you, there are two roads leading to different destinies: either, become Arcane Empire's business partner in the vast Astral Realm; or, completely lower your proud head and become an affiliated plane within our Empire territory."
Hermione looked down condescendingly at the three indigenous legends in front of him who had just experienced a severe beating, and spoke slowly in an extremely calm yet unquestionably superior tone.
"The operation mode of the first option is obvious. It will be a purely business exchange of interests: you pay enough chips to make us excited, and we provide the corresponding materials and technology, and vice versa. However, what must be made clear to you is that with the official Compared with the subordinate planes directly under the territory of the Empire, there are extremely strict barriers to this kind of cooperation - some trump cards related to the Empire's core strategy, no matter what price you pay, we will never sell them to outsiders."
"In addition," Hermione's eyes were as sharp as a knife, stabbing at the three of them, "If one day in the future, your plane is invaded by other powerful civilizations in the Astral Realm, as business partners, you must pay an extremely high war commission to hire us for protection, and Moreover, Empire reserves the right to refuse to send troops at any time. But if you are the territory under the Empire, the situation is completely different. Any enemy who dares to step into your plane will face a devastating blow from the Arcane Empire regardless of the cost!"
"This really surprises me. An advanced civilization like yours, which has absolute power, would condescend to give us weaklings a choice." Golden Paladin Marcus said with a look of surprise on his face, with a hint of disbelief in his tone.
"Marcus! Pay attention to your attitude!" Baiyin Guardians Elaine on the side immediately raised his voice nervously, fearing that his companion's rudeness would anger the terrifying queen again, "Your Highness, please forgive me--"
"It's okay, there's no need to be so nervous." Hermione waved his hand extremely elegantly, interrupting Elaine's apology, with a faint smile on his lips, "Actually, all this is a new strategic attempt proposed by His Majesty the Emperor for Plane War. In order to explore a better Multiverse ruling model, we will give you the right to choose here."
"Your Majesty the Emperor?" These three words were like a heavy hammer, hitting the hearts of the three of them. Just one queen already had the terrifying power to challenge the peak combat power of their entire plane. So what kind of extraordinary and holy taboo existence would this emperor who stood at the top of the Empire be?
Speaking of her husband, Hermione's eyes instantly flashed with unabashed enthusiasm and pride. "Yes, my husband is the supreme founder of the great Arcane Empire, Ian! He is a A true god-like existence, in less than a hundred years, single-handedly raised our originally weak homeland from a mere low-level civilization of Fifth Tier to the desperate peak of Tenth Tier!"
"This is absolutely impossible!" Marcus exclaimed as if he had heard the most ridiculous joke in the world.
Moreover, he was not the only one who was shocked. The eyes of Elaine and Fury were also full of horror. As legendary strongmen standing at the top of the plane pyramid, the three of them had read the world's oldest epic secret.
They know very well that Aquis Plane was just an insignificant Seventh Tier plane in the extremely distant ancient times.
It is those ancient knights with extraordinary talents who, through countless epochs of bloody battles, even invented the ancient plane travel technology, and madly plundered World Origin from other planes in the vast Astral Realm. E, which barely raised the upper limit of Aquis Plane's power, and pushed Knight Power System to the current level of Ninth Tier with great difficulty.
However, they know very well how long that dark and bloody ancient time spanned. In less than a hundred years, you want a civilization to complete a super leap of five major levels? This is simply a fantasy!
Faced with the three people's doubts, Hermione did not get angry, but patiently explained, "It must be clarified that at the beginning of its birth, our home star plane was a super plane with natural Tenth Tier background, and countless brilliant civilizations and races were nurtured within it. Therefore, we do not need to go to great lengths to improve the original rank of the plane like you."
"But even if this is the case, it would be too shocking to be able to unify the entire Tenth Tier plane in less than a hundred years, right?"
"I have long said that my husband is a stalwart man who cannot be measured by common sense." Hermione smiled slightly. Yan
From a technical perspective, if you add up the years Ian spent in other copies of the world and the time he spent in Time Acceleration's training room, his real training time has definitely exceeded six hundred years.
But even so, this kind of cultivation speed in the vast Astral Realm is still enough to make those old monsters who have lived for countless epochs feel ashamed. What's more, Arcane Empire is indeed less than a hundred years old from its establishment, so every word Hermione said is an irrefutable fact.
"You just mentioned that if you become a business partner, there are certain core technologies that are absolutely prohibited. I wonder if you can give us a specific example so that we can have a clear understanding?" Marcus swallowed a sip and cautiously probed.
"For example, our Empire is unique in the Astral Realm's 'Cross-Plane Precision Interstellar Navigation Technology'. This kind of strategic core that involves dimensionality reduction attacks is not for sale in any case." Hermione looked at them with a half-smile, "Of course, I can't say it so absolutely, but with all due respect, I highly doubt that your barren plane will be able to obtain a peerless treasure of equal value."
Hearing this, Beastfolk Federation's chief Fury finally couldn't help but step forward, with hesitation written all over his wild and vicissitudes of face, "Your Highness, I have to admit that your proposal is very tempting, but I still have deep concerns."
"Are you worried that your clan of war beasts will be enslaved and treated unfairly in the Empire?" Hermione saw through this old wolf's mind at a glance.
"Yes. In the long history of Aquis Plane, the relationship between our war beast clan and humans has been full of blood and hatred. I will never push my people into another Abyss." Fury gritted his teeth and expressed his worries without hesitation.
Hermione didn't waste any words, he just touched Void casually, and in an instant, ten volumes, as thick as granite slabs, and almost like they were made up of five oversized dictionaries, appeared in front of Fury out of thin air.
"These are the Anti-Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia Protection Laws in the Supreme Code of the Arcane Empire, which are specially designed to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of all citizens of different races under the Empire. Take it and see for yourself." Hermione said lightly.
Fury carefully picked up one of the books, instantly stimulating Beast Instinct in his body and the spiritual perception of the legendary strongman to the extreme.
Under the ultra-high-frequency precise Divine Power scanning, he was like a precise optical scanner. It only took him a few minutes to imprint this extremely thick code into his mind word for word. Then, he followed the same pattern and picked up the remaining tomes one after another until he had digested all the contents of the code.
When he slowly closed his eyes and carefully considered these legal provisions in his mind, a turmoil arose in his heart. The perfection of this code is simply outrageous!
It considers the living customs, historical origins, cultural beliefs and even the extremely unpopular traditional taboos of each race in extremely detailed and nuanced ways, and provides the firmest tolerance and compromise at the highest constitutional level of the Empire!
"All racial discrimination and prejudice Source often come from ignorance and arrogance of unknown things." Hermione looked at the unpredictable expressions on Fury's face and said slowly. "Therefore, under the Arcane Empire system, whenever a new race joins Empire family, Empire citizen network will immediately implement a compulsory online course specific to the cultural customs of this race. Moreover, the lesson plan for this course will be compiled by representatives of the newly added species and the Empire highest education department to ensure that all cultural details are absolutely accurate and free of any distortions and misunderstandings."
"In addition, with the help of the Empire's heaven-defying 'Full-Dive Virtual Reality Technology', citizens of any race can briefly put their consciousness into the body of another race to live. Only by truly putting themselves in each other's shoes and experiencing each other's suffering and joy can a truly unbreakable understanding and bond be established."
"Virtual reality?" Fury's eyes widened, confused by this extremely sci-fi term.
Hermione patiently explained the operating principles of this era-changing technology to these rural natives in detail using extremely easy-to-understand magic concepts.
"This is simply a miraculous idea... It is a breathtaking height of civilization." Elaine on the side listened with fascination and couldn't help but exclaimed in sincere amazement.
At this moment, the silent Paladin Marcus suddenly spoke up and asked an extremely sharp and fatal question, "So, may I ask the great Arcane Empire, what is your stance on 'gods' and 'religious beliefs'?"
"This is indeed an extremely thorny and sensitive topic," Hermione's eyes narrowed slightly, with a hint of coldness in his tone, "In the Empire, we have not explicitly outlawed religious belief in law, but the objective fact is that religion has become extremely unpopular in our society.
Since the Cosmic Faith Plane we are currently in is secretly controlled by the gods, not to mention that we are currently in a life-or-death all-out war with an extremely powerful Death God. Therefore, the word 'god' is not a popular word in the Arcane Empire."
"So, the high gods... are real?" Marcus's breathing became rapid in an instant. The Holy Light Papal State where he lived has been worshiping the illusory "Supreme Holy Light" as the only True God for generations.
When he was young and frivolous, he was also an extremely devout fanatical believer. Until he finally reached the peak of power in this plane after countless bloody battles, he discovered to his despair that the so-called Holy Light had no consciousness at all, and the so-called True God did not exist at all!
This cruel truth almost made him Dao Heart collapse and become completely obsessed. Since then, he has been trapped in an almost pathological and crazy obsession with the "realm of God" throughout his life.
Seeing the enthusiasm of Blink in Marcus's eyes, the corner of Hermione's mouth raised an extremely contemptuous sneer, "Let me answer you by quoting the original words of Emperor Ian: 'The so-called gods, they are nothing more than a group of extremely pathetic Parasite insects. They are like blood-sucking Leech, and must pitifully rely on the Faith Power provided by mortals in order to maintain their ridiculous strength and breathless immortality.'"
"They may have physical destructive power that can destroy stars, but at the level of soul and Truth, they have no value worthy of awe and worship!" Hermione's words were like a loud slap in the face, hitting Marcus hard in the face.
Marcus's facial muscles twitched violently several times, and finally he could only squeeze out a bitter smile and closed his mouth wisely.
"You can take some time to weigh the pros and cons, and don't rush to give me an answer right away. During this period, I will continue to conduct deeper mapping and investigation of this plane." After Hermione dropped these words, he turned around and left in an extremely cool manner, leaving only three indigenous giants who were deep in thought.
Cosmic Faith Plane, Earth, within the magnificent arcane supreme Archon Palace.
Ian sat quietly on the throne, looking very deeply at Luna, who was suspended in mid-air with his legs crossed and closed.
In front of him, hundreds of holographic projection screens emitting blue light were being refreshed at a dizzying speed, extremely closely monitoring every inch of Luna's subtle vital signs of his body and soul.
He hid the deep anxiety and worry in his heart, forcing himself to focus all his attention on the complicated data analysis in front of him.
'Those weird soul whispers have completely subsided a few days ago, which is obviously a good sign. But... why hasn't she woke up yet?'
Ian stretched out his slender fingers and swiped quickly on the holographic screen, but his fingers, which were usually as steady as a rock, could not help but tremble slightly at this moment.
'Calm down, Ian. It's not time to lose your mind yet.' He warned himself extremely sternly in his heart, and continued to check the massive data like peeling off cocoons. However, no matter how he repeatedly checked, the conclusions he reached were exactly the same.
Whether it is Luna's soul strength, physical activity, or the magic power reserves in his body, all indicators are perfect, and there is no sign of being possessed or cursed.
"It's best not to let me find out who is behind this. Otherwise... they will soon understand what kind of horrific disaster will happen when a Gao Dimensional Emperor truly goes into a rage!"
The moment he blurted out this whisper full of extreme murderous intent, the entire vast universe seemed to sense some indescribable terror and trembled extremely violently!
The high-altitude Planar Will Kronai suddenly and extremely keenly captured a doomsday Cataclysm aura in the void that was enough to completely collapse the entire plane and bring everything to ruins. However, this aura was as traceless as an antelope hanging its horns, making it impossible for her to pinpoint the source of the disaster!
At this tense moment of death, an extremely mysterious and powerful wave suddenly burst out from Luna's body, and then, her ethereal eyes finally slowly opened.
"How are you feeling? Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere?" Ian instantly restrained all the terrifying pressure, appeared next to Luna as if teleporting, and took her into his arms extremely gently.
"I'm fine, don't worry." Luna's face bloomed with the same ethereal smile as always, "I have completely figured out what those weird whispers are."
"Oh? What the hell is that?"
"That is a top-secret cross-dimensional encrypted message from 'Prophet Tower'."
"Prophet Tower? Isn't that the mysterious force located in the core area of the universe and famous for its extremely accurate destiny divination?" Lin An raised his eyebrows slightly. He had focused on this place when collecting intelligence on the central star field.
According to intelligence, the current Overlord of that tower calls herself "Lord of Prophets". What is even more terrifying is that she is the only supreme Divination prophet in the starry sky who has reached the pinnacle of Tenth Tier!
Looking at the entire universe, those high-ranking gods or the ultimate entities in the Tenth Tier position will humbly go to Prophet Tower to seek a chance of survival once they encounter an unbreakable disaster in the long river of destiny.
Because of this, Prophet Tower has an extremely transcendent, even Transcendence worldly special status in this crisis-ridden plane.
"Then the question is, why would a big shot of this level spend so much money to forcefully contact you?"
"Because it is... an urgent letter asking for help!" Luna said in a surprising way.
"Help?"
"That's right. That message is extremely brief and incomplete, but the core meaning is very clear: the so-called Lord of Prophets who is currently making waves in Central Star Domain is simply a fake who deceives the world! And the real Lord of Prophets, the person who sent this message, is imprisoned in a dark Jedi place for some extremely terrifying reasons!"
Ian couldn't help but snorted coldly after hearing this. His keen political sense immediately noticed the huge trouble hidden behind this. "Since she is imprisoned, why would she choose you among billions of living beings to ask for help?"
"Obviously, this is not an accurate single-point communication, but an extremely wide-area bloodline resonance broadcast. Only Divination divisions with extremely high concentrations of 'Seer Bloodline' flowing in their bodies can capture her cry for help in an extremely weak frequency band. In the past, because my level was too low, I could not clearly decipher this information mixed with cosmic noise."
"Very good, let's put this matter completely behind us. Until we have the absolute strength to crush everything, if she doesn't lie or harbor evil intentions, it won't be too late for us to save her in the future." Ian made an extremely decisive decision to strategically seal it.
Luna deeply agreed with this decision, and then changed the topic. "In addition to asking for help, she also left us an extremely fatal Prophecy warning."
"What warning?"
"She pointed out extremely clearly that the superior 'Seven Pillar Deity System' will become the first unavoidable disaster that we Arcane Empire will face on the road to its rise!"
"Disaster?"
"Yes, you can understand it as a catastrophe in destiny, a stumbling block that hinders our ascension, etc."
"Interesting. So, does this powerful prophet have any clever ideas to break the situation?" Ian's lips curled up with a touch of sarcasm.
"She suggested that we disintegrate them in an extremely insidious way from within. According to her, there are already undercurrents surging within the seemingly monolithic pantheon. The most precise breakthrough points she gave are: 'Goddess of Magic' and 'Dwarf God', which are the most fatal weaknesses in their seemingly indestructible alliance!"
"This information is indeed priceless. But compared to this, I feel even more horrified - a prophet who is imprisoned in an endless and distant star field can actually know the details of our Arcane Empire and the situation we are facing?" Ian's eyes Blink glowed with an extremely dangerous light.
"Yes, her Divination attainments are indeed unfathomable." Luna replied truthfully.
"So, after she offered so many sweethearts, did she also suggest that she would like to accept you as her close disciple?" Ian asked sharply.
Luna nodded obediently.
"Are you excited?"
"There is indeed one thing. All along, I have been groping alone in the dark on this extremely obscure road between destiny and Divination. Especially since I broke through to Fifth Tier, the road ahead has become simply difficult to walk."
In order to forcibly break through to Fifth Tier, Luna, like Ian and others, absorbed a flawless Aether Core extremely crazily, which gave her an extremely heaven-defying qualitative change in talent just like Hermione's Awakening Summoning Technique.
However, all her talents were added to her already unfathomable Divination ability. This should have been a great joy, but what is extremely sad is that it also caused the difficulty of her future training to increase exponentially, and she could not even touch the limits and ceiling of her own strength.
"You should be very aware of the fatal danger hidden in this, right?" Ian reminded extremely seriously.
"Of course I understand."
"Then we will adopt a compromise plan: Next, you can use your heaven-defying Divination ability to start a fantasy journey across Omniverse, to see the of other civilizations in the world. Divination system." Ian's mind instantly flashed through the animation and film planes filled with various "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception", "Clairvoyance" and Destiny Magic girls in his past life memories.
Those extremely bright Divination schools among Multiverse can definitely bring great inspiration to Luna. "After you have integrated the strengths of hundreds of schools, you can then decide whether you really need to worship that magic stick as your teacher."
"This is a brilliant idea!" Luna's eyes lit up instantly. Until now, she had never had the experience of roaming freely in the vast Omniverse. When this Plane War comes to an end and the situation in the Empire is completely stabilized, this will definitely be a perfect journey to broaden her knowledge.
After finalizing a grand blueprint for the future, the couple, who spend less time together and more time apart, decided to put aside all complicated government affairs and enjoy the hard-won world of two people with great understanding.
A few days later, just as they were immersed in the warmth, a top-secret battle report came from the front line that Hermione had completed the plane expedition and returned in triumph.