Xyrin Empire
Chapter 444 - Chapter 444: 444 Chapter Genesis

Chapter 444: 444 Chapter Genesis

Three massive Star Fortresses formed a pin-shaped array in outer space, gradually stopped orbiting the Mother Star, and against common physical notion (hadn’t they always defied it?) hovered over the North Pole of the Mother Star, then slowly began to rotate around the polar axis of the Mother Star.

I really wanted to ask if Pandora got dizzy spinning around the axis so high up, but in the end, I dared not ask… that little girl would have head-butted me flying.

“Our will commands all, the power of the Empire dominates the Void,” the Arbitration Institution, now engaged in purely mechanistic thinking, repeated this message brainwashingly on every frequency, “The universe will be reborn…”

“Does the Arbitration Institution even do propaganda blitzes before starting a war?”

I asked Sandora curiously, to which she responded with a flash of her shiny little white teeth.

Did this girl mean she’d have me for dinner today if I acted up during this historic moment initiated by the World Arbitration Agency?

“Hot Restart initiated, information black hole established, confirmation of deployment approaching, command irreversible after initiation…”

“Deployment code confirmed, information black hole deployment complete, the process is now irreversible, the original Glory guiding us…”

The calm, multi-layered synthetic sound filled the hall, and this tiny cosmic prison began its destruction.

“First, mass and gravity were stripped away.”

As always, Sandora was giving me real-time knowledge explanations to help this science-illeterate understand what was happening right then, as for Qianqian and Big Sister, the two humans also from Earth, who knew nothing about such high-tech… The former’s leaps in thought had made Sandora completely give up on communicating with her, while the latter’s gentle smile could send shivers down the spine of Queen Xyrin, a terror-drenched presence, except me, theoretically, Lilina should also have received this high-tech education as she considered herself a follower of the Lady Goddess, refusing any teaching other than those of the Goddess with such fierce reasoning and thus escaped the hell of lectures. So was I the only unlucky one to endure Sandora’s force-fed knowledge?

Well, although having the usually austere and noble Queen Xyrin close by, introducing enthusiastically what she considered intriguing knowledge, was in itself quite enjoyable, but… Sandora, these concepts are too deep! How can your boyfriend’s mortal brain possibly grasp the conceptual theories of the information universe!

But Sandora was entirely unaware of my grudges, or perhaps she knew I wasn’t keen on these high-tech terms and thus was so thrilled to see my frustrated expression? Who knows, but it seemed that I had inadvertently triggered some dangerous switch in Sandora’s mind…

My high school teacher was never this talkative–oh, now I remember, my high school teacher was Sivis.

“We can still see these celestial bodies, but as we observe, their orbits have become highly irregular… uh, there, they’ve stopped now, we have deleted the ‘direction’, ‘path,’ and ‘motion’ and other information of this star zone…”

Although I couldn’t handle all the terms Sandora talked about, I was gradually captivated by the spectacle unfolding before me, something that should have been absolutely impossible in the universe: the motion of celestial bodies, had ceased.

Even without looking at the sea-like holographic projections monitoring the whole star zone, just one screen displaying the current near-Earth orbital situation made clear what was happening: two meteors on collision course across the screen, but just before they touched, both eerily froze mid-air, only a centimeter apart, never to collide–looking as desolate as Liang and Zhu.

It looked like a freeze in time, but it was even more terrifying than a time freeze: all descriptive information related to motion had vanished from this universe.

“Mass, gravity, motion, these three concepts are generally the first to be deleted during a Hot Restart, preserving the entire universe as a complete and stable snapshot, convenient for a final restoration. If the deletion order went wrong, the positions of celestial bodies would be chaotic, and then we would have to manually rewrite universal constants.”

Following the disappearance of motion, the next thing to dissipate from this piece of space was the temperature of the celestial bodies.

Absolute zero?

No, absolute zero is still a temperature. Even if the temperature is very low, one cannot say there is no temperature. Now, in the Kepulu Star Zone, the concept of “temperature” no longer existed.

I hadn’t had time to consider what a world without the concept of temperature should be like when the information black hole finally began its major collapse. The deletions, which previously occurred every few minutes, suddenly accelerated to every three seconds and then multiple times per second, eventually surpassing the limits of human thought.

Hardness, density, volume, reflectivity, strong interaction, weak interaction, quantum effects, charge number, brightness, historicity, futurity, temporal sequence…

The amount of information required to ensure the existence of a material in the real world is immense. Describing even a single atom in all dimensions could paralyze your home’s $20,000 collectible PC or even any world-class blade server boasted by network companies. But now, this vast amount of information was peeling off from the foundation called the world like land under a torrent, and an hour later, our universe had turned into a two-dimensional snapshot. Ten minutes after that, all that was left before our eyes were vast abstract lines and clouds of mist.

Then, there was Chaos.

The speed increased evermore, and this tiny universe of 160,000 light-years was rapidly turning into a singularity. Eventually, when space and time, as the last two attributes, were deleted, what appeared before our eyes was the Void.

This was the place before the birth of the universe: the Endless Void.

The blue Mother Star hung solitary in the Void, forcibly carving out its own space in a realm where space did not exist, conserving energy. The Imperial Fleet had also entered the Mother Star’s atmosphere or space folds to avoid the erosion of Void Energy. Besides that, the only thing left was the World Arbitration Agency still casting a faint glow above the North Pole, lending a bit of life to this cold and desolate place.

“Judgment, unstoppable.”

The tri-tone brainwashing command still echoed in the command hall. This time I believed it. Judgment was truly unstoppable.

“Create a singularity.”

I issued the order simply. Pandora and the others had become purely logical machines; only such succinct commands could be executed by them with utmost efficiency.

“For your Glory, the Empire governs the rebirth of the universe.”

Honestly, I really wanted to see what a singularity looked like, what the scene of a singularity exploding would be, but unfortunately, that was impossible…

A singularity is invisible; it is a “point” that contains all initial information, exists in one-dimensional space but has a concept of mass. This infinitely dense entity can only be described theoretically, and its explosion would not produce any conventional shockwave. If one had to describe what a singularity explosion meant for the Void… it’s like plugging a USB into a computer in an instant.

Lilina, clad in a solemn and sacred Priestess’s robe for some reason, floated in the command hall using magic power, her face alight with a soft and holy glow.

Under our puzzled gazes, the Fake Lolita Priestess slowly spread her arms, her voice as pure and majestic as an angel: “Let there be light…”

Then she was knocked down by a slipper I threw.

Hey, jerk, your Lord God hasn’t even spoken yet! Isn’t this the kind of thing that gets you into trouble with the Heresy Court… well, it seems she claims to also serve as the Heretic Judge…

“Ah ha!! Hahaha!! Fantastic, fantastic! Lilina did great! Dingdang wants to see it again!”

I had just finished complaining about Lilina’s act of Genesis in front of God when God actually showed up.

A cheerful and carefree voice rang out in the command hall, and then a green figure flashed across the sky and crashed directly into my arms.

“Ah Jun! Ah Jun!! Wasn’t Dingdang impressive?! Dingdang deserves half the credit for Genesis! With this, Dingdang can get an extra two points on the next Junior Creation Certificate supplementary exam! With these two points, Dingdang is only seventy-eight points away from passing! Dingdang will definitely make it!!”

…Could you dare tell me what the full score is for your Divine Realm exams? After all this time, you’re still eighty points away from passing, you dummy!!

“…Ah Jun, can you explain who this girl is?”

Just as I was about to interrogate Dingdang on whether her best score in hundreds of supplementary exams had ever surpassed twenty points, a sinister voice suddenly came from behind, accompanied by a howling cold wind of negative thirty-eight and a half degrees.

I slowly turned my head to face Qianqian, who was shrouded in black mist, Big Sister with a suspicious smile, and Sandora, who was looking playfully up and down at a certain God.

Then I slowly turned my head back, meeting a pair of beautiful, sparkling green eyes. The latter was completely oblivious as she buried herself in my arms, the touch from the inside of her arms unusually soft.

Dingdang, the enlarged edition…

You lethal little thing!!

As a result, while explaining the identity of this sudden beautiful girl, I missed the magnificent moment of the Big Bang in the universe… Well, it was just a strong flash of light; I don’t care at all, really, absolutely not…

It’s the Big Bang, you idiot! The Big Bang that cannot be recorded by any technological means due to the lack of logical laws!

Piercing through all tangible and intangible barriers, the initial flash enveloped us in the command hall, and Lilina once again heedlessly floated up, arms spread: “Let there be… Ah, the boss said no hitting the face! As a Loli, I rely on this face to live!”

Forget it, I’ve no time to deal with this terrible person anymore.

“Oh, she can still grow up …”

With ambiguous expressions, Qianqian and Sandora examined the still clueless Dingdang, making even Lord God start to shiver, and then the two girls exchanged glances and simultaneously exclaimed, “Threatening!”

You guys are over-imagining things!

“Ah, Ah Jun, Dingdang forgot to cancel her Divine Form!”

You’re just realizing this now?

Dingdang, in her girl form, swiftly changed back to her Three-inch Ding form and lightly landed on top of my head, happily greeting Qianqian and others–this guy is only second in carefreeness to Alaya and Silvia.

“A huge threat,” looking at Dingdang using her pet form as a cover, regally sitting on top of my head, the two girls suddenly seemed to associate it with something, and then intensely brainstormed, “A deeply scheming threat.”

Where did you see such cunning in Three-inch Ding? Does this guy really have the brain structure required for complex thought?

“Anyway, it’s all a misunderstanding…”

I helplessly grabbed Dingdang off my head, and he peeked out curiously from my hand, looking around.

“So this is what a Genesis flash looks like? Hmm, although a man-made singularity explosion is not quite the same as a real Genesis, it’s really quite informative, Ah Jun, Dingdang wants to see it again! Dingdang didn’t remember.”

You might as well make up for it until the end of time!

Meanwhile, Qianqian and Sandora, who had turned into deduction emperors, were still making their wild guesses. Despite the vast difference in their mindsets, they both spoke in unison as if telepathically linked: “And she’s a goddess, a big enemy!”

“Will you two ever stop!” I couldn’t help but give these two troublemakers a knock on the head. Did they really need to be jealous over a pet?

Well, although I wasn’t unimpressed by the girl-form of Dingdang, the problem is this energy-deficient dumb goddess has to maintain the form of Three-inch Ding 99% of the time. How could I treat such a three-minute girl as a normal girl…

Luckily, it seemed that Qianqian and Sandora quickly forgot about this matter, or perhaps Dingdang’s puzzling form was too distracting, causing the two girls to forget about this formidable rival as soon as they turned their heads. By the time I realized it, Qianqian and Dingdang, the big and small idiots, were already laughing and playing together, while Sandora came over and tapped me, “Alright, let’s see how things wrap up now.”

The pseudo-singularity explosion had ended, and we were now surrounded by a confusing white fog: it seemed harmless, but in reality, this fog could likely be space clouds with temperatures in the billions, whose internal reactions might even be more intense than those in a constant star. Normally, these would need millions of years of evolution just to simply differentiate the basic matter from the cosmos’s birth. However, under the interference of a predetermined law, this process was directly omitted. According to the snapshot of information we had recorded earlier, the original information black hole had now turned into an information fountain. It would rapidly reassign values to these white fogs, allowing them to skip the long evolution and directly turn into a replica of the Kepulu Star Zone.

The process, as simulated by the Arbitration Institution, required at least seventy years–just as we had estimated in the worst-case scenario, the natives of Kepulu would spend decades exiled in the treacherous outer space.

The remaining matters no longer required the involvement of the World Arbitration Agency; only a few outposts were left behind. The Imperial Fleet then disengaged from the “Kepulu Universe” that was emerging. Pandora and the other two, having just reverted from their large globular form, also transformed back into their Apostle Form. However, Gaia could not accompany us: after discussion, we decided to temporarily leave our Mother Star in this nascent universe. This would not only monitor the birth process of the new universe and collect a wealth of initial data, but more importantly, the Mother Star was quite safe here. After all, it was located on the same plane, and we had established a stable World Gate between us and the Mother Star, making it easy to visit Gaia.

This time, the World Arbitration Agency was, so to speak, forcibly activated. No matter how one looks at it, it was an old system that had been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years. Even though it was powerful in itself, beginning with tasks akin to “Genesis,” the system was still damaged. At least for the near future, we could not hope to activate this mighty weapon again. Therefore, finding a safe and resource-rich star system for the Mother Star to recuperate and proliferate became the best method to strengthen foundational power. This was another reason why we left Gaia behind. Compared to the desolate and remote Solar System, the Kepulu Star Zone was far superior in terms of location and resources–of course, the resources mentioned here are not usual cosmic treasures, but the weak Void radiation filling the space of the nascent “Kepulu World.” These substances, stronger than Ghost Energy and safer than Void Energy, are rare energy reserves. Gaia could cultivate the Unity of Heaven and Man here, absorb spiritual energy, and wait for the day of ascension…

In order to further enhance the security of the Mother Star in this universe, Lilina also devised a staggering “Scammer Plan,” which would be implemented over the ensuing decades. The targets of this plan were the native Kepulu populations currently exiled in nearby space. By enveloping them with the faith in the Life Goddess and using Dingdang’s cost-free miracles, along with precision-guided psychological changes induced by decades of refugee life, Lilina, history’s greatest scammer, would gradually establish an absolute theocratic system in this star zone. The core of their faith–would be the Xyrin Apostle.

“Decades of space exile might not be enough to erode the will of the Protos Natives, but it will definitely change humanity. In this process, we will gradually become gods in the eyes of these fragile lives who have lost their spiritual pillars,” Lilina said with an inscrutable smile, “The Mother Star will become the sacred land of the God of the Universe. The future Kepulu Star Zone will become a colony under the theocratic rule of the Empire. Human power may not be strong, but if the Mother Star really encounters any danger, they could at least serve as a buffer and alarm, which is much safer than leaving the Mother Star in a remote marginal land.”

In short, it was the process of turning the entire Kepulu Star Zone into a slave of the Empire using spiritual shackles.

Honestly, sometimes Lilina gave me the creeps. Even though I knew she wouldn’t oppose us, the thoughts in her head were often unsettling.

“Don’t worry, it’s just about having them help protect the Mother Star, and giving them a pillar of support amidst despair. Although in the end this pillar will become shackles, but getting something requires giving something in return, it’s a fair trade,” seeing my changing facial expressions, Lilina probably guessed what I was thinking with her “psychologist’s insightful eyes,” and approached with a seemingly innocent and cute smile, “Boss, smile! We are about to meet the survivors of the Kepulu Star Zone, and seeing your grumpy face might cause panic~~”

Forget it, why think so much? Just like Lilina said, it’s a fair trade. The humans need to give their loyalty to the Empire, and in return, the Empire will give them spiritual sustenance.

The massive Imperial Fleet gradually approached a minor star system far from Old Kepulu, where Reynolds and others were already waiting.

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