Chapter 41: Echoes of the Void
Far away, endless clusters of worlds, multiverse galaxies.
The multiverse galaxy is the largest galaxy cluster in the currently observable multiverse, if a strong person observes it in the void, it will be found that its shape is an extremely regular circular disk, and countless world galaxies are neatly arranged in order, forming this huge world cluster structure beyond imagination.
The closer the World Galaxy is to the inner side of the Multiverse Galaxie, the higher its energy level will be, and the closer the world will be to the molten form at the beginning of the birth of all things. Although rich in resources, such a world is not suitable for the vast majority of intelligent life to multiply, but in the halo disk near the outer side of the disk structure, a large number of intelligent civilizations have been born.
And in a cantilever bulge at the bottom right of the multiverse galaxy, in a fringe world galaxy, there is a civilization that has risen in the last thousand years and is thriving and expanding in the void.
The intelligent life that claims to be the spirit race is a bee-like insect through the soul to obtain self-will, thus developing the existence of civilization, they were originally just a kind of social large omnivorous insects on the 'origin home planet', the social structure is similar to that of bees, no individual in each group except the insect mother has intelligence, but due to a large-scale geological change in the origin of the home planet, the magic energy veins contained in the ground are exposed on the surface, and the large-scale 'magic power recovery' phenomenon caused by it causes the bee colony individuals to get souls and appear wise.
Surprisingly, they are bee-like insects, but the spirits did not merge into a giant swarm consciousness after gaining wisdom, in fact, they formed a monarchy with the mother emperor as the core, and in a series of social reforms, the government system was confirmed as a virtual monarchy similar to a constitutional monarchy.
Calm and obedient by nature, the Elves have developed a complex but efficient bureaucracy to manage the intricacies of world-class nest communities, and they have always been extremely curious about otherworldly life forms due to the absence of other soul-awakened intelligent beings on their home planet.
In fact, the spirit race is also lucky, the world galaxy where they are located is extremely remote, because of the lack of high-energy environmental catalysts, there are no other high-level void civilizations in the same galaxy, and those notorious natural disaster civilizations are also not very active in this galaxy due to lack of resources and other reasons, and the closest dangerous high-level civilization to this world's galaxy is the fleet civilization called the 'knowledge receiver', and they wander within the scope of the entire multiverse galaxy.
The Elven civilization didn't know that those knowledge collectors had indeed discovered them, but because the Elven were too backward at that time, they didn't bother to get close.
Therefore, today's Spirit Civilization is equivalent to monopolizing a world galaxy, they have expanded greatly in the last thousand years, and the technological level has also improved by leaps and bounds, and now there is a vague climate of a large interstellar empire, and everything can be said to be smooth sailing.
Except for the surprise attack three hundred and fifty-one years ago.
It all started with an anomalous space-time fluctuation, the central brood received an emergency alert from the edge star field, and a first-class mining world ready to be developed was suddenly attacked by an unknown race, and in just one night, eighty percent of the mass of the entire world was stripped away, and the remaining wreckage was the worst and worthless sediment.
Most of the elven individuals who guarded the world died in the dramatic upheaval, and only a few technicians in the Void Observatory survived, all of whom were greatly stimulated, as if they had seen some strange existence, and in the fragmented words, they could only be heard repeating the word 'behemoth'.
But this is not the end, but only the beginning - soon, after the first alarm sounds, the second, third, or even a dozen alarms go off one after another, and one after another world that is ready to be developed, under development, or already developed, is suddenly attacked, and the quality is stripped away, and not only that, but many uninhabited and invaluable worlds are destroyed, and the water resources of several ocean worlds are also drained.
If you look at the star map, it is a huge shadow constantly invading the territory of the Spirit Race from the edge of the galaxy, and the place it passes through is barren, like a grass that has been eaten by locusts.
At the moment of crisis, the Spirit Race gathered all its fleet strength - but because there were really no foreign enemies, the strength of the Spirit Clan's fleet could be said to be invulnerable compared to the size of the entire civilization, with less than a hundred small and medium-sized warships, but even so, the Spirit Race still sent this only fleet to the periphery of the World Star Field, which was about to invade by the Shadows, ready to resist an unknown strong enemy.
Then they knew what the so-called 'behemoth' meant.
It was a vast and mighty cluster of Void Behemoths with a total of nearly forty, covering the sky and the sun, and even the stars could cover the Cancer-shaped Void Behemoths advancing silently, and the combined fleet of the Spirit Clan was not as good as the bulge on a single joint of these Behemoths, and the space-time turbulence caused by their advance would even affect the orbit of the world.
Not accepting communication, not accepting communication, not accepting resistance, the huge fleet of behemoths responded to all the communication and battles of the Eldars with silence, they didn't even care about the suicide attacks launched by the Elven fleet, they just plundered the resources of one world after another, and then flew forward like this, destroying one world after another.
That attack did not cause devastating damage to the Spirit Clan's civilization, and all the densely populated worlds on the trajectory were evacuated urgently, and the Void Behemoth Fleet simply moved forward in a straight line and reserved all the resources that could be reserved, and did not pursue the Spirit Clan's evacuation fleet.
They weren't attacking, they were simply passing by, but the damage caused by a giant stepping on an ant's nest was too large for an ant - fortunately, after walking halfway through the Spirit Civilization Circle, these giant beasts seemed to have enough resources, and instead of continuing to destroy the world, they just flew towards the end of the world's galaxy.
The disaster that occurred at that time led to the death of tens of millions of spirit individuals, and the impact on the spirit civilization was very great, and they finally realized that in the huge world galaxy, there are other powerful civilizations, and these powerful civilizations sometimes cannot be described as 'friendly' and 'malicious', because if they don't reach enough height, let alone communication, the strong can't detect the desperate counterattack of the weak.
'They' just passed by and disappeared at the end of the galaxy that the Elvens couldn't observe, and whether the consequences were destroyed or helped was none of their business.
Because of this, today's Spirit Civilization vigorously develops Void Technology, focusing on the battle fleet, after hundreds of years of continuous development, the Spirit Civilization has not waited for the powerful existence and enemy they are vigilant against, but the development of the fleet has become a deep-rooted tradition of the entire civilization, and now, the Spirit Race's huge Void Fleet has been formed, and they firmly believe that even if they encounter the Void Giant Beast Legion of the past again, at least they will not fall behind, and they have no power to fight back like they did at the beginning.
And out of vigilance in the event of a sudden attack hundreds of years ago, the Spirit Civilization has been collecting information about the surrounding star fields and world galaxies as much as possible, so as to avoid being attacked by the giant beast fleet without warning but without warning...... Of course, they have not gained anything in the last few hundred years, after all, the Spirit Race isolated by the Offset Galaxy does not know how anxious the situation in the entire Great Diverse World Galaxy Cluster is at this time, naturally it is impossible for any civilization to waste time and send a fleet to explore the edge galaxy at the end of this world.
And just when the Spirit Clan itself began to slowly slack off, and no longer paid attention to the information about detecting the surrounding galaxies.
One from a monitoring post on the edge of the Spirit Empire's territory sent a vague emergency notification to the central brood of the Origin Planet.
“…… Respectfully, in the name of the Great Mother, the twenty-fourth generation of the Awakened Keroya, Frontier Monitoring Post No. 937 has detected a very faint fluctuation of magical energy......"
“…… Leaping and forth through the depths of the Silent Void at extraordinary energy levels, our technicians and instruments are unable to trace the source of the wave......"
“…… It's not a miscalculation caused by the aging of the instrument, it's indeed some kind of anomalous magic energy fluctuation, mixed with some strange psionic energy flows, and we apply for advanced testing equipment......"
At first, this urgent bulletin did not attract the attention of the entire empire, and although the local technicians repeatedly reiterated that it was not a miscalculation caused by the aging of the equipment, such vague reports and almost isolated data could not be used as evidence at all, and even the top of the technical department suspected that it was just an excuse made up by the local monitoring station to ask for more money.
Originally, this kind of thing was like a pebble thrown into a lake, and it couldn't make much waves, but to the surprise of the entire Spirit Clan's higher-ups, similar emergency notifications came one after another from all the frontier monitoring stations in the entire empire.
“…… Our instruments sensed some kind of extremely strange energy fluctuation that was completely different from the system we were familiar with......"
“…… Our monitoring station has picked up a strange subspace echo coming from the unknown depths of the silent void......"
“…… It has been confirmed that the echo is initially very faint, but is gradually getting stronger over time, and it seems that something is approaching our galaxy......"
“…… Its source is in the depths of the Silent Void, but we are unable to correctly judge its range, and the current explanation is that the Silent Void is usually too calm, resulting in a huge range of resonant waves as long as there are any abnormal energy fluctuations in its depths......"
“…… The technicians could not explain the reason, this strange phenomenon has never been seen before, but we are still analyzing the available data and hope to be supported by advanced equipment......"
The contents of the notices from the different monitoring stations are mostly different, but the essence is the same - all the monitoring stations located at the edge of the world's galaxy have detected corresponding strange fluctuations, the origin of these fluctuations is unknown, they occur in the depths of the silent void, and the cause of their occurrence is unknown.
For the spirit race living at the edge of the multi-star galaxy, the void facing the inner side of the world galaxy is a normal void, and the void facing the outer side of the world galaxy is called the silent void, because there is no other world outside, so the silent void is extremely calm all the time, without a large number of space-time fluctuations.
But now, the Silent Void was no longer silent, which immediately sparked a heated discussion within the Empire's technical department.
Not only that, but the news about these fluctuating signals has now become all kinds of bizarre speculations in the mouth of the media, such as the birth of a new world galaxy on the other side of the galaxy, and the fleet of giant beasts that inexplicably disappeared in the past is returning from silence...... The steady development of the Spirit Empire suddenly appeared a craze for speculation about external signals.
A large amount of advanced equipment has been provided to these monitoring stations on the frontiers, the Spirit Empire has begun to mobilize fleets, prepare for exercises, the arrival of their new friends, and be on guard against possible future enemies, all in all, they will be ready for all communication and threats.
However, after all, the Spirit Race is only a new empire, and they may not be backward in terms of technology in the Void Battleship, but they are a little too weak in terms of information monitoring and transcendent power systems.
The multi-world galaxy, many civilizations that are also located in the fringe regions, powerful transcendent individuals, and one after another super civilizations that are prosperous and prosperous across multiple galaxies have detected the corresponding strange signals, and they can all hear the energy fluctuations and subspace echoes from distant galaxies.