Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1295 - 492: When Fortune Smiles, Even Heaven and Earth Join Forces, Chosen One

Among the four nations, despite the fact that the human Empire may seem inadequate in Ren Zhong’s eyes, they actually possess the best diversity of thought and creativity, albeit relatively. However, the Empire’s rigid hierarchical system ends up stifling creativity, making it somewhat self-contradictory.

The Empire ranks second in population among the four major branches.

The Pilgrim is an evolved and transcendent version of a War Artist, capable of forming an army alone.

The cognitive abilities of a Pilgrim determine the size of the matter and the total Energy Level an individual can control.

Pilgrims are obsessed with developing individual strength, able to cultivate a Planet Level strongman capable of controlling planet-sized energy, and even Constant Star Level top-tier strongmen.

The "network" is an invention of the Pilgrims, primarily for auxiliary computing. Pilgrims can also transform themselves into a "network," infinitely amplifying their control, but they lose human diversity of thought, becoming rigid and lacking flexibility. However, Pilgrims possess astonishing abilities in battlefield fine-tuning, overall coordination, and virtual invasion.

The goals of the Sublimators are somewhat similar to those of the Pilgrims, but they achieve greater body size and energy control through biological science.

A core mother body houses the entire gene pool, which contains countless species. In a way, it is the ultimate version of Bai Feng’s Mistletoe ability.

The Mother Empress can differentiate and breed various soldier types. Whether it is the main body or the bred soldier types, they are both human and non-human. Different levels of Mother Empresses contain different numbers of gene pools and can catalyze different kinds and quantities of soldier types.

The Mother Empress can also upgrade, continually unlocking more gene locks to accommodate more genes, though the upgrade process is slow.

The reproductive abilities of the Sublimators are tremendously terrifying; for instance, some modified gene pools can, like fish, produce tens of millions or even billions of eggs in one go, instantly bursting into numerous soldier types. They can also consume massive energy to slowly nurture super-sized Guardian soldier types.

Within the Sublimators, there are both Planet Level and Constant Star Level strongmen. A special grade Mother Empress is equivalent to Constant Star Level. A first-grade Mother Empress is equivalent to Planet Level. Second, third, and fourth-grade Mother Empresses decrease in proportion accordingly. For example, the fourth-grade Mother Empress that Ren Zhong and others encountered earlier could control energy equivalent to 10% of a Source Star.

Among the four major branches, Sublimators have the largest population, thanks to their rapid production of soldiers.

The Spirit Demon Race possesses a physique similar to that of the Empire humans, with no reproductive isolation between them.

However, the offspring of Spirit Demon Race require reproduction among themselves to retain their psychic abilities, and they usually do not engage in intermarriage with other races.

This peculiar race focuses on developing brain power and also has Planet Level strongmen, approximately equivalent to Li Yang carrying a Super Assistant Brain, capable of controlling all other intelligent life within a range of ten thousand or even hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

There are even Constant Star Level strongmen whose range of influence can expand to a radius of tens of billions of kilometers.

Li Yang was initially mistaken by the old fogeys for a Divine Level Demon, thought to be a Planet Level opponent. However, above that is the Super God Demon (Constant Star Level).

Among the four major branches, the Spirit Demon Race has the smallest population but is the hardest to deal with, and their controlled combat capabilities encompass an amalgamation of the three other races.

Basically, once a Spirit Demon Race individual fixates covertly on someone and infiltrates to control them, unless the target is a Pilgrim Wise Man who has already completely digitized their mind, it’s very difficult to escape or resist.

In any case, the Mechanical Empire is a soft target among the four major branches, completely unable to withstand and should have been entirely eliminated long ago.

Indeed, over the nearly a hundred million years, the Mechanical Empire has repeatedly faced extinction crises.

The strange thing is that whenever the Mechanical Empire is on the brink of annihilation, some extraordinary individuals emerge to reverse the desperate situation.

For example, there was that young noble who single-handedly wrested the technology of the "network" from the Pilgrims.

This originally unremarkable ordinary noble was merely an inconspicuous reconnoitre on a suicide mission in enemy territory, but suddenly exhibited prodigious talent.

Whether due to luck or exceptional talent, he indeed piloted a mediocre reconnaissance vessel through layer upon layer of barriers resembling an Iron Wall, quietly approaching the Intelligent Machinery center of the Pilgrims. By sheer fortune, he found a data interface on the surface of the Intelligent Mechanism Planet that directly connected to the brain core. Normally, an Intelligent Mechanism Planet would never place such an important interface on the planet’s surface, but it was unknown what strange whim went through the mind of the top Wise Man at the time to do so.