landbeastnovel Chapter 428 - 64: Constant Star Level, Authority of the Fiery Sun (Part 2)
Chapter 428 - 64: Constant Star Level, Authority of the Fiery Sun (Part 2)
Only a tiny fraction of it was dedicated to maintaining his rationality and cognition.
The vast majority, however, was constantly sensing the Power of the Law and calculating everything his Spiritual sense could perceive in his surroundings.
At this point, one could say that Lince’s terrifying Spiritual Consciousness scan could already encompass the entire Fixed Star System.
He could constantly perceive everything within the entire Fixed Star System—at minimum, everything within a one-light-year radius.
However, only the useful information from this perception was received by Lince’s rational consciousness.
All other sensory information—anything Lince was not interested in or found useless—was processed by his spiritual self.
At this stage,
Lince could be considered a true super-deity!
Lince could even destroy the entire Fixed Star System in an instant.
Now, possessing the ultimate Authority of the Fiery Sun, He only needed to guide the Sun’s Energy into one concentrated burst.
A terrifying solar storm would then instantly sweep across the entire Fixed Star System.
He just wondered how many times the Mana Will, in a world possessing Magic Power, could withstand such a sweep from the detonated Energy of a Sun.
But, without a doubt,
Lince now felt he possessed absolute Power.
Worlds below the High-Demon level would be absolutely unable to hinder Lince in any way.
After all, even if Lince didn’t devour a Sun to extinguish an entire world,
if He simply stood next to a planet,
the terrifying Fiery Sun Power emanating from Him, along with the forces of Space and gravity waves, would be enough to make an entire world scream in agony!
At this stage,
Lince had a much clearer understanding of his own power.
Worlds in the mid-Demon range and below could no longer hinder His Power at all.
As for High-Demon worlds...
Lince had never encountered one, so it was hard to say.
’But the Star Sea is vast, and anything is possible.’
’A Constant Star Level being like me has already appeared.’
’It wouldn’t be surprising if beings at the Nebula, Galaxy, or even Supercluster (Star Realm) level also existed.’
’But do such beings truly exist?’
’If they could destroy a galaxy at will, without any restraint, then even a Cosmos as vast as this one wouldn’t be enough to withstand their recklessness.’
’So, the higher one goes, the more difficult it must become.’
’In fact, upon reaching a certain level, suppression from various Laws would surely follow.’
’It’s just like how the Power of Deities is suppressed on a planet.’
’The Cosmic Star Sea would never turn a blind eye to even greater beings, especially those who threaten the operation of the Laws.’
Not to mention, Lince could already faintly feel a strange sense of suffocation.
This feeling was very faint.
He didn’t know where it came from, but an invisible pressure was gradually appearing.
Although the pressure had yet to manifest in any substantial way,
Lince had definitely felt it.
’Perhaps at the next Grand Tier, or the one after, I’ll start to be affected?’
’Or maybe... this is the end of the road after the Constant Star Level?’
Lince didn’t know.
But he could only go with the flow.
Speaking of power,
now that his Authority of the Fiery Sun had advanced, Lince could use the Sun’s Power to sense the positions of neighboring stars.
He could even use the connection between neighboring stars to make a jump at any time.
Therefore, if Lince were to devour a Sun now, he definitely wouldn’t devour the Sun of the Karte World.
’Never mind how many stars there are in the entire Cosmos.’
’Just one galaxy—take Blue Star’s Milky Way Galaxy, for example—is estimated to have over two hundred billion suns.’
’When you think about it that way, stars are really nothing in the grand scale of the Cosmos.’
’Besides, the presence of a sun, a star, doesn’t guarantee the existence of life.’
’So, I can just devour the suns of Fixed Star Systems that show no signs of life.’
’Just ten of them. That’s nothing.’
In fact, at his current stage, Lince wasn’t even dust compared to an entire galaxy.
Therefore, his current worries about his power exceeding its limits were actually meaningless.
"To think I’ve already come this far. It really feels like a dream."
Tearing through the Sun’s barrier,
the colossal Fiery Sun Dragon reappeared in the Star Sea.
However, at this moment, Lince had already appeared in another Fixed Star System adjacent to the Karte World.
This Fixed Star System was very desolate.
It was mostly interstellar dust, and the entire system had only three fully formed planets.
And they were all Death Stars with no signs of life.
Therefore, after just a rough scan of the entire system, Lince naturally wouldn’t let this sun go.
According to his calculations, this star was about three light-years away from the Karte World’s Fixed Star System.
Not too far, but not too close either.
But at least, this was a distance that ordinary Deities roaming the Material Realm’s Star Sea could not reach in a short time.
Looking at the sun before him and sensing its Energy that was neither weak nor particularly strong,
Lince naturally had no intention of letting it go.
However, before that, Lince also briefly sensed the passage of time.
’Over sixteen hundred years have passed?’
’That was a long nap. The fact that I could sleep this long must mean those Players have been doing a good job.’
Lince was genuinely surprised.
He had actually been able to sleep for so long.
Sixteen hundred years. Even on Blue Star, his home planet, where the flow of time was slowed by the Law of the True Game, that would still be one hundred and sixty years.
Not short at all.
One could imagine how peacefully Lince had slept.
To be able to sleep so peacefully, Lince could naturally surmise that the development of the entire Star Empire must have been smooth sailing.
Otherwise, He would have been awakened long ago,
instead of waking up naturally as he just did.
At the same time, Lince used his authority in the True Game to take a look.
But when Lince checked, he was rather stunned by what he found.
He discovered that ever since the Star Empire’s players with secondary authority had jointly captured a Barbaric Star, there had been no new gains in the past sixteen hundred years.
’But on second thought, it makes sense.’
’Compared to the entire Cosmos, sixteen hundred years is truly nothing.’
’It’s fleeting, insignificant even.’
As for why the Star Empire had made no new acquisitions,
it wasn’t that the True Game and the Giant Demons hadn’t found any New Worlds.
In those sixteen hundred years, new Life Planets in New Worlds had, of course, been found.
And not just a few—seven of them, in fact.
Unfortunately, of these seven planets, five were non-magical, which was already a disappointment.
Among these five non-magical planets, three had life still in its early budding stages.
’What use is a world like that?’
’At best, they could be used as colonies. They wouldn’t pose any resistance.’
’So that hardly counts as an acquisition.’
The remaining two were indeed Demon Worlds, but they were both Low Demon Worlds.
Worlds like these no longer held much attraction for the Star Empire.
So, to return the favor,
the Pantheon decided to give both worlds to the Giant Demon Empire as a reward, allowing them to rest and recuperate.
This wasn’t considered a loss.
After all, the output of the Barbaric Star was terrifying.
The Star Empire even gained thirteen subordinate deities of the Ancient Deities because of it.
The gains were so immense that the Deities of the Pantheon felt almost embarrassed by how much they’d profited compared to the Giant Demon Empire.
So, in the end, both Low Demon Worlds were given to the Giant Demon Empire.
As for the Star Empire itself?
Backed by the Empire’s immense industrial might,
the entire Star Empire had spent the last sixteen hundred years focused on frantically amassing its forces.
Therefore, including the acquired Life Planets and other developed Death Stars,
the Star Empire had occupied and developed a total of 113 planets over these years.
As for the population?
That had exploded even more.
Although nearly ninety percent of them were mortals, and nearly half of the Transcendents were genetically optimized Warriors,
that was more than enough.
Now, the population of the entire Star Empire had successfully broken the one hundred billion mark.
The total population was about 120 billion.
Starships plied the clear Star Roads.
Commerce flourished, leading to the establishment of more vassal states.
Everything was thriving.
But amidst this prosperity, Lince suddenly discovered an unresolved matter in the records of the True Game.
"Hm?"
’A human from Blue Star was stranded in an unknown world?’
’And that world even has methods similar to the True Game?’
Lince’s brow furrowed slightly as he looked at this long-buried piece of information.