Just over ten minutes earlier, Xi Yan had smuggled himself into the Honkai: Star Rail Universe aboard an improved Horizon Needle.
"This universe is relatively old. Its various rules have already solidified, making it difficult for the Needle to alter its laws."
Research Director-General Caedhes delivered his report.
Even the Horizon Needle had its limits. Relatively speaking, the Needle was better suited to reshaping newborn universes whose rules were still unstable, rather than patching up a stable one.
"Try faster-than-light?" Xi Yan instructed.
Once faster-than-light came into play, it could destroy at least half the civilizations in the Honkai: Star Rail Universe.
Assuming Pier Point, the Interstellar Peace Corporation's headquarters, was an Ecumenopolis... that would deal a crippling blow to this superpower whose reach spanned the cosmos.
Sounds fun. Why not give it a try?
"Faster-than-light would only last for a year before this universe repaired itself. I'm afraid it wouldn't be enough to blow up an Ecumenopolis."
"All right." Xi Yan sounded a little disappointed.
The Honkai: Star Rail Universe was extremely wary of outsiders like them. Xi Yan could feel a force from the universe itself rejecting and suppressing them.
"What about the Aeons?"
"We have indeed detected intense energy fluctuations within a special space," Caedhes said as he operated the Needle's instruments.
"There are many powerful life-forms, though they fall far short of the gods that once inhabited the Shroud."
"But with the support of this universe's rules, they could even put up a fight against Poison Saint."
"So it all comes down to the universe suppressing us." Xi Yan clicked his tongue. "What about the Aetherophasic Engine? If we found a star here and built an engine, could we drain that energy and blow this place up?"
"In theory, yes."
Caedhes affirmed the proposal. "However, we