Imperial Announcement

"No... don't... I'm the main body!"

"Krosa, you're not the main body! I am! I am!"

"I don't want to be absorbed! I don't want to be absorbed!"

The countless Krosa Mecha Wreckage bosses still preparing to attack Zhou Heng seemed to sense something. They clutched their heads and screamed like mad.

Some Krosa Mecha Wreckage bosses even crushed their own mechanical heads, kneeling on the ground and pounding the floor nonstop.

Yet no matter how these Krosa Mecha Wreckage bosses wailed and resisted, their bodies seemed to have been summoned, converging on a distant point.

Zhou Heng stood atop the wreckage of a starship, gazing at the point in the distant sky where all the Krosa Mecha Wreckage bosses were gathering.

It was a giant Mecha whose size and precise appearance he could not yet make out, but the radiance spilling from its entire body marked it as anything but ordinary.

Soon, Zhou Heng could make out the general appearance of the Mecha taking shape.

Its mechanical eyes blazed with golden light, its metal features were sharply contoured, and a pair of enormous wings of light rose behind its body. Every movement carried a glorious, overwhelming divine might.

[You have witnessed the revival of the ancient mechanical deity, "Eternal Krossa"]

[Health +100,000]

In an instant, Zhou Heng's Health, which had originally been only 3,590, soared to 103,590.

Even with the Sakast Imperial Sword in hand, Zhou Heng was stunned by this increase.

So this was the ancient mechanical deity, Eternal Krossa? Truly terrifying.

With this much HP, he no longer needed to worry about the Fusion Core's daily HP drain. What could he say? His health bar was simply that thick.

Under Zhou Heng's gaze, Eternal Krossa finished taking shape.

Golden radiance shot from its eyes as it reached both hands toward the heavens of Interstellar Wreckage and violently pulled them apart.

Riiip!

Along with a deafening sound, Zhou Heng received a notification.

[The Interstellar Wreckage Secret Realm has been destroyed]

[You have been forcibly removed from the Interstellar Wreckage Secret Realm]

White light flashed, and Zhou Heng was teleported back to the entrance where he had originally entered the secret realm.

Above Frost City stood a giant Mecha that blotted out the sky and sun. Its enormous radiant wings scattered countless motes of light as it surveyed all of Frost City from above.

"Look at the sky! Is that... a legendary Mecha?"

"My God, is that a product of ancient technology from before the Sakaste Empire was founded?"

"Why is there a Mecha in Frost City? Weren't those things all controlled by the Longevity Family?"

"Yeah, I heard even the Xia Kingdom authorities don't have them. Only the Longevity Family does."

Countless players and NPCs gazed into the sky, staring fixedly at Eternal Krossa as it stood in the air.

Then Eternal Krossa extended an immense mechanical hand and grasped at the empty air above Frost City. A moment later, countless streams of information entered its database.

So prices in the Sakas Empire had now collapsed.

So the Longevity Family still held everything in its grasp.

"How is this outcome any different from back then? Karenna, you were wrong after all!"

Eternal Krossa murmured. Light shot from its mechanical eyes, sweeping back and forth across Frost City. Soon, it found the human it was looking for-Zhou Heng.

Kailina, the clone, did not know who had saved her, but how could it, an ancient mechanical deity, not know?

Yet Eternal Krossa's mechanical eyes narrowed slightly as it looked at the sword at Zhou Heng's waist.

Others might not recognize that sword, but how could it not know? The Sakast Imperial Sword, that Killing Sword that had slaughtered countless lives.

"He obtained the Sakast Imperial Sword and saved my Machine Lord, too. What an interesting young human."

Murmuring, Eternal Krossa looked toward the City Lord's Manor in Frost City.

In the central hall of Frost City's City Lord's Manor stood a Hall Within a Hall. The entire palace was built from four Ivory-White Giant Pillars, with a pure-white Openwork Throne at its center. An old man sat upright upon the throne.

The old man's beard trailed along the ground. Both hands rested on a cane, and his eyes were slightly closed as he dozed.

Judging by his appearance, he was an old man with one foot in the grave, perhaps not far from death.

Yet above this very old man's head floated an enormous scarlet number: 999.

That was his level, the old man's level.

"This shouldn't have happened..."

"Where exactly did things go wrong?"

"With our control over the Star-Rank Wreckage, even if the clone appeared, there was no way the revival could have been completed without alerting me."

The old man slowly opened his eyes, bitterness and resentment showing in them.

He had been stationed in Frost City for over a hundred years, waiting for the appearance of Eternal Krossa's Machine Lord, who could change the course of history.

Back then, after activating Eternal Krossa, the Longevity Family had immediately killed its Machine Lord.

Later, for certain reasons, someone had taken away the pilot's genes. To prevent the clone from returning to Eternal Krossa, the Longevity Family had dispatched him to guard the Interstellar Wreckage Secret Realm.

He had made two preparations.

First, he had sent the Jackal Faction under his command into the Interstellar Wreckage Secret Realm to strip players of their resources day and night, ensuring that no one could take anything out.

Second, he had placed a large number of Krossa Mech programs in the Interstellar Wreckage Secret Realm. If the clone entered the Star-Rank Wreckage Secret Realm and attempted to activate Eternal Krossa, the many Krossa Mech programs he had put inside could kill her before she initiated the fusion.

By all rights, these two preparations worked hand in hand. No matter how capable the people lurking in the shadows and trying to activate Eternal Krossa were, they should have found it difficult to succeed under these circumstances.

Yet they had succeeded!

The old man raised his head, looked at Eternal Krossa standing in the air, and slowly rose to his feet.

"These old bones of mine will probably meet their end here today! I can only hope the people from the family get here soon."

As he spoke, the old man stepped forward with his cane. A moment later, he vanished from Frost City's City Lord's Manor.

Above Frost City.

Eternal Krossa held the head of the old man, whose level was as high as 999. Golden light shot from its eyes, and with a bang, it crushed the head.

As blood rained down over Frost City, a forceful, ringing voice echoed in every direction.

"The old dynasty is dead. A new dynasty shall rise."

"Since you lack the ability to advance toward the ancient past, I shall take your place!"

The instant those words fell, in the ears of every NPC and player in the Sakas Empire...

[Sakas Imperial Announcement]

[The old dynasty is dead. A new dynasty shall rise! Due to special changes, Chapter Nine of the expansion "The Ancient Years," "Radiance of the Light Sword," has been replaced with "Longevity, Go to Your Death"]

The imperial announcement repeated three times, jolting countless players and NPCs who were farming monsters, flirting with women, or working on their secondary professions back to their senses.

Every NPC and player stared at their Boundless Endless system logs in disbelief.

Hadn't Chapter Nine of the expansion "The Ancient Years" been a question mark? How had it changed from "Radiance of the Light Sword" to "Longevity, Go to Your Death"?

And was "Longevity, Go to Your Death" serious?

That was a terrifying faction that had stood for ten thousand years without being destroyed!