The Initial Fire gives energy to the embers of steel, and the embers of steel give birth to all living beings. This is not always the case, but in the austereotypical cosmic worldview of the 'Atrium People', this is how they see the sun above their heads and the earth beneath their feet.

When the red moon takes off and lands in the sky for three cycles, when the stars in the galaxy reach the right position, a ritual calling for the great existence in the distant void begins in the atrium star.

Supreme Consul Mill Habs stood on the highest peak of the planet, the solemn and ancient temple platform, which was a huge temple built by the ancestors of the Atrium people 1,700 years ago, when the ancestors who had not yet left the planet and went to the vacuum of the universe relied on their own physical bodies and insignificant spiritual power to build a magnificent building that can be called a miracle on the peak of the 8,400-meter-high mountain range of the Atrium Star, which was used to enshrine the 'Void Sage' who descended from here and brought the entire Atrium civilization to its peak.

After this belief allowed the still divided Atrium people to put an end to the struggle for power among the many nations in the chaotic era, and a united theocracy unified the whole world, the Atrium people did not hesitate to step towards the stars and follow in the footsteps of the Sages who disappeared into the void.

The temple platform is a hexagonal tower with a base nearly two hundred meters in diameter, like a hill, and a pale silver, polished extremely smooth rock that forms its main structure, it is the apex of the man-made world, where you can trample the clouds and mountains, the earth and the sea under your feet, and stand alongside the stars and the sky. Millhabs stood on it, but instead of a sense of superiority over all else, he felt a deep sense of awe.

It was precisely because it knew that there were stars and other worlds in the sky, and because they had already entered the universe and established colonies on other planets, that it understood how incredible this temple was to the people of the Atrium at that time, if nothing else, the flawless façade of the tower, smooth to the point of almost zero friction, was a miracle that could not be explained with current technology, and it was also the source of the belief of all Atrium people.

If it weren't for the change of the supreme consul, or the discovery of a new intelligent civilization in the starry sky, the people of the Atrium would never use this magnificent temple, but Mill Habs came, not only that, but it also carried the sacred relics that were rumored to be the treasures left by the Void Sage back then, and were enshrined in the Grand Temple of the Capital of the Atrium, [Water Drops].

At the thought of this, Mill Habs couldn't help but look downward, and in front of its plant-like body, made up of roots, in the hands covered with gray plant fibers, there was a beautifully and ornately decorated transparent cylindrical vessel inscribed with countless words of praise and reverence, which represented the highest technological creation and spiritual sustenance of the people of the Atrium, and in the middle of it, a jewel-like object the size of an ordinary man's fist, in the shape of a cyan droplet, was suspended.

Because it is fixed by psionic energy and a powerful electromagnetic position, it is called ' In the Amber Pillar's vessel, time is stopped, where the temperature is close to absolute zero, and the matter does not move in the slightest, and only in this way can the smooth but indestructible water droplet that the Atrium Man has not known how it was made, which is a powerful proof of the Sage's faith, even if the Atrium Man has now entered the starry sky, using the most advanced tunneling microscope to scan the water droplets, he can only see the particles of matter that are tightly arranged without the slightest gap.

With the treasures left by the sage, he came to the most solemn and sacred supreme temple platform, the supreme consul of the atrium, Mir Habs, naturally could not be because of personal desires, in fact, at this time, its every move was broadcast and watched in real time by the atrium people all over the world using psionic communication, and millions of psionic users, that is, the priests of the temple, were also gathered at the foot of the mountain, in the universe, the flagship of the central starfleet of the atrium people,' The Precursor was levitating over the atmosphere with its own frigate, and the collective officers and soldiers, including the fleet commander, were also watching through the observation lens of the battleship.

Because Mill Habs is about to hold the most dangerous and sacred ceremony that has not been held in a thousand years, the [Void Gate].

A thousand years ago, the exploration fleet of the Atrium people finally found a planet suitable for their survival in the nearby galaxy, and they were happy to immediately start the colonization plan that they had prepared for many years, and the immigrant ships loaded with Atrium people and seeds came to the beautiful green planet through the huge psionic warp time and space, and perhaps because it meant that the Atrium people really became a starry sky civilization, the moment the immigration spaceship landed on the new planet, all the Atrium people felt their souls tremble- The psionic potential broke through the original limitations, and at this moment benefited all the atrium people, and after that, the psionic energy that could only be comprehended by priests and other high-level people completely became the standard configuration of all members of the atrium civilization, at most, because of the different individual qualities, there are high and low differences.

And the priests who were already powerful and the supreme consuls at that time, that is, the strongest psionics on the whole planet, they did not benefit from this transcendent ascension, but at that time, their realm was temporarily improved, and these powerful psionic psychics broke through the limitations of the planet and even the universe itself, and came into contact with it. The Void Veil's other side of the Void Curtain is perceiving that there is still a vast endless space beyond the universe, and in that space, there are some high-level beings whispering in their ears.

It's the Sage!

Whether it is a priest or a supreme consul, a commander of the technical department or a high-level of the Ministry of Defense, in the entire atrium civilization, the powerful psionics who can feel the whispering voice firmly believe in this without any doubt, they think that this is the sage's reward for their progress, so they mercifully let them hear his voice, these high-level officials in the atrium can even sense that the voice is telling them a secret method, which is to use the powerful spiritual energy to tear the void and make those high-level beings descend, this is the [Solemn Ritual · Void Door].

Taking advantage of the immigrant to the new planet and the upsurge of all awakened psionic powers, the entire Atrium civilization erupted with unprecedented cohesion, and they built a psychic condensation device that can gather the power of all psionics within a few months, a huge steel creation that imitates a star ring and revolves around the mountain peak, and the priests and psionics of the entire planet gather their psionic energy in this star ring, and then let the Supreme Archon guide this power to perform a ritual, tear the void, and let the 'Sage' descend.

The power of millions of psionic beings converged into one, forming a vast stream of light that pierced the void of the universe, and it penetrated through the atmosphere in one breath, spreading 400,000 kilometers towards the depths of the vacuum, even exceeding the orbit of the atrium star moon, even in the universe, it can be clearly seen that this incomparably powerful force has undoubtedly torn apart the void and made a high-level existence descend.

What's next...... It's a terrible tragedy.

At the beginning, because of the influence of psionic energy, this super life was very subject to the control of the atrium people, and because it was not the sage who came, the atrium people who were a little disappointed after a period of loss, began to happily study the powerful void life, through the study of the other party's carapace and energy core, the material science and energy dynamics of the atrium people have advanced by leaps and bounds, And the combat power of this void life is even stronger than their starfleet - it has even learned to use psionic warp space and can move with the fleet, which is equivalent to directly doubling the military strength of the Atrium people.

It can be that this crystal insect is the atrium people subordinate to the Void Sage is too careless, when the spiritual energy condensed by millions of people gradually dissipated, and finally disappeared completely, the docile and obedient crystal insect suddenly revealed a violent look, that is to destroy everything, devour everything, to turn everything into nothingness, the powerful super life attacked the defenseless Atrium fleet, and after completely destroying dozens of the most advanced frigates on the periphery, the crystal insect headed towards the already named ' Ye no Ting's colony flew away, slaughtering the colonists of the entire planet, and then draining them of their psionic energy and life force.

Life on a planet dies out as a result.

The shocked Atrium government immediately understood their mistake - they understood from the abnormal reaction of the droplets of the holy object, the crystal insects were not subordinate to the sage, in fact, the two were mortal enemies of mortal enemies, they summoned the family of evil gods, and naively thought that it was their own faith, and they almost made their world ruined. So, the vengeful Atrium Fleet took all the powerful psions, including the Supreme Consul, across the starry sky to hunt down the chaotic and crazy crystal insects, and the two sides fought fiercely in the Leaf Garden, which ended in the victory of the Atrium people, but at the cost of most of the originally beautiful and vibrant colonial stars turned into a wasteland and became a dime a dime of famine, and most of the high-level psionics and their inheritance were lost.

Since then, the ritual of the [Void Gate] has been completely sealed, and the devastated Atrium people did not have a second or third extraterrestrial colony until a thousand years later, which they should have done in a thousand years, but now, the Atrium people have once again built a star ring around the Holy Mountain, and once again gathered millions of powerful psionic beings, who want to restart the solemn ritual again, tear the door of the void, and call for the existence beyond the world to come.

Because the people in the atrium at this time are at a critical juncture of life and death.

In the 1623rd year of the starry sky calendar, the exploration fleet of the Atrium people encountered a large exile fleet while exploring the unknown star field, which was the one they used to communicate. The Folby people's main fleet and thousands of immigration ships, the Folby and the Atrium people are also a spiritual idealistic civilization that believes in the existence of gods, and the two sides have no border conflicts because of their distant territories, so the relationship is barely good, but in the last hundred years, the Folby people have rarely had merchants and communications, and because of the Void Gate incident, they are more exclusive, and the Atrium people, who are dedicated to colonization, have no time to communicate with the outside world.

Therefore, when the Atrium Exploration Fleet encountered the Folby Exile Fleet, they were extremely shocked, and they asked each other why they had to leave the home planet with all their civilization might, but they only received a strange answer.

"Darkness...... Darkness is coming...... They're catching up! ”

Leaving this clueless sentence, the fleet of the Folby disappeared into the far part of the universe, and no one knows what happened to them, but the loss of their home planet is equivalent to losing the foundation and pillar of civilization, and without a thousand years of recovery, they will always be just lost dogs.

And the people of the Atrium at that time did not understand this answer, but decades later, they did.

The creeping beasts that covered the sky and the sun attacked the third colony, the 'Court of Roots', the closest to the Forby Star Field, with plagues, rot and calamities, and these cosmic beings that could roam the void descended with pure destruction and slaughter, and the telescopes of the Atrium people turned around in grief, and then they saw super lifeforms with a diameter of at least hundreds of thousands of meters in the distance.

It was a strange spherical beast like a ball of flesh, with countless twisted heterogeneous vortices on its body, like eyes, and a huge gap across its entire body, like a grinning face, and countless tentacles stretched out around its body, dragging behind it, each tentacle was at least tens of thousands of meters long, and the dark green light flowed endlessly on it, releasing a huge power that was diametrically opposed to psionic energy, but could also distort time and space.

The endless herd of beasts takes this giant beast as the mother, shuttling through the starry sky, attacking one world after another, which sweeps among the stars, obscuring the darkness of the stars, and the huge chaotic things like moons warp space, shuttling through the galaxy, it is the chaos summoned by the Folby people, just as the Atrium people did a thousand years ago, but unlike that, the beings summoned by the Folby people are stronger, and they did not defeat each other, but fled from their home galaxy in embarrassment.

And now, it was heading for the Atriumite's home planet, and the colony fleet was on its way to stop it, but no one had any hope for their decisive charge.

"The Holy Mountain is here, our civilization is here, the Atrium people are not Folby people, we will never give up our home planet, we are the people of the Holy One, and we will never run away from the battle with the evil gods."

"However, only those who can fight against those who exist outside the void are those who exist outside the void."

"Even if it's a family member of an evil god, at least we can control one or two, and before it turns against us, that's our power."

Standing on the high platform of the temple, Supreme Consul Mill Habs recalled the conclusion reached at the psionic council, and closed its three eyes. The eye on the forehead is a proof of the atrium people's highly developed psionic energy awakening, it holds the pillar of amber and water droplets, standing in the center of the high platform, a silver-blue pillar of psionic light overflows from its body, forming a bright pillar of light, the pillar of light is surrounded by a thin dust mist in the sky, a few seconds later, with the release of more powerful psionic energy, within a radius of thousands of meters centered on Mir Habs, everything including air is repelled, and a vacuum bubble is formed above the entire temple platform.

And in the next moment, the endless spiritual energy gathered by the star ring followed the pale silver hexagonal tower, and converged on the body of Mill Habs in the vacuum, and then formed a huge halo, this silver-blue aura swept the clouds for hundreds of kilometers around the holy mountain, and then gradually condensed a pillar of spiritual energy light that was constantly spreading towards the sky, the atmosphere, and even the universe in the center of the aura!

The [Void Gate] ceremony was officially opened, and after that, there was no turning back for the people of the Atrium.

And in the center of the pillar of light, the abundant energy that made people feel like they were about to explode gathered on Mirhabs's body, and it felt like it was bathed in magma, but the Supreme Archon, the strongest psionic in the Atrium Star, did not waver, and endured the pain of being scorched by the high-energy radiation, it silently raised the amber pillar in its hand, and then let this huge energy converge on the holy relic 'water droplets'.

- If the last time the clan of the evil god was summoned from the void, it was because the people of the atrium listened to the whispers of those beings in the void.

- Then this time, I will use the Holy Relic as the coordinates to summon the existence on His side!

The fibrous cortex on the surface of Millhabs's body began to burn and peel off layer by layer, revealing its internal body as if it were composed of plant roots.

"I, using the ancient contract as a proof, summon a great being from the other side of the Void Veil!"

"O messenger of flames, bearer of steel, descendant of the sages who roam the void, listen to the call of our people, and covenant with the solemn platform and the holy droplets—"

"From the other side of the void, look at us, and then ......"

"Come here!"

And at the moment when the prayer ended, in the center of the pillar of spiritual light, the pillar of amber, above the water droplet that should have been completely suspended in time, suddenly lit up a tiny light, and this light mixed into the vast and piercing aura of psionic light, spreading towards the endless void.

A corner of the multiverse, a large and bleak world, suddenly lit up with a faint light. This light was so small that it was completely overshadowed by the brilliance of the Great Demon Tide, neither the ancient beings wandering in the turbulence of time and space, nor the Chaos God carrying endless resentment, did not care about this small light, but this light contained a trace of strange fluctuations, which traveled through a distant distance that could not be measured by words and numbers, and came to a space-time distortion point that surrounded the outer orbit of some world.

The huge space-time distortion point shook suddenly, causing all the members of the major forces on the edge of the Fairy Township and all the major forces who were still processing the information inside the camp to jump in fright, they watched this scene in shock, and then hurriedly contacted the legendary powerhouses in the half-plane, but the answer they got was 'There is no abnormality'.

In the Plains of Death, Joshua was still frowning, wondering where that inexplicable call was coming from, but after Nostradamus called him, the warrior came back to his senses, called Hotaru and Rin and the ball of light, which seemed to be comfortable, and followed the old mage's footsteps to explore the center of the half-plane.

And at this moment, in the half-plane, an ancient will that had been sleeping for a long time slowly woke up from the thousand-year-old dormancy, its soul was severely damaged in the war a long time ago, and even now it has not been completely repaired, and even continues to deteriorate, but even so, feeling the arrival of its own mission, it still awakens without hesitation.

"The will of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Ground is restarted, and the soul is self-examined...... 89% damaged, 17% repairable, and the Will to Rule is on the verge of destruction...... Detect the Void distress signal, pause self-healing, and set it as the first priority. ”

"Looking for the number one priority handler: Codename Sage. Failure to find, no correlation exists fluctuations. Look for the second priority task handler: Codename First Saint. The search failed, and the associated existential fluctuations have died out. Looking for a third ......"

After a long cycle of self-examination and corresponding processes, the ancient will finally went through its fourteen cycles with a slight pause.

"Looking for the Fourteenth Priority Handler: Codename Bearer. Success, there is a fluctuation of the number of 3. ”

"Begin the implementation of the [Ten Thousand Worlds Plan]."