Chapter 1795: Saint Civilization
Zhao Chen was aboard a near-T7 Gold Saint Angel-class light interstellar cruiser.
It was originally the secondary flagship of the Emperor's personal guard fleet.
As for why it's the Golden Angel-class light interstellar cruiser instead of the Golden Scarab-class heavy interstellar dreadnought.
That's naturally because of the interstellar warship Zhao Chen was on; even if it encountered any crisis...
The first priority was naturally to ensure the safety of Emperor Xiaolong and to get him away safely.
Instead of fighting the enemy.
When it comes to escaping, no starship can compare to the near-T7 Gold Saint Angel-class light star cruiser.
If a near-T7 Gold Saint Angel-class light interstellar cruiser wants to leave, even five near-T7 Gold Scarab-class heavy interstellar dreadnoughts won't be able to stop it!
In terms of maneuverability and speed, the near-T7 Golden Scarab-class heavy interstellar dreadnought is indeed domineering.
This is why this starship was chosen as the secondary flagship.
Zhao Chen boarded the secondary flagship and set off for the original Devouring Civilization universe to visit the Black Goddess Empress, Black Lorin.
soon.
Black Goddess Empress Black Lorin received news that Emperor Xiaolong had personally visited her.
This sudden news was unexpected even for Black Goddess Empress Black Lorin.
Her first thought was, could it be that the Dragon Star Empire was preparing to deploy its fleet to support the cosmic battlefield?
However, upon seeing that only three hundred interstellar warships had arrived, they knew that was not the case.
There must be other reasons.
Black Goddess Empress Black Lorraine was well aware of her current status and immediately took a shuttle to visit Emperor Xiaolong's flagship.
Inside the office of the JF-17 Emperor flagship.
Zhao Chen met with the Black Goddess Empress, Hei Luolin, here.
"Black Goddess Empress Hei Luolin greets His Majesty Emperor Xiaolong!" Black Goddess Empress Hei Luolin, being of high status, immediately bowed upon entering.
"There are no outsiders here, so there's no need to be so polite."
I'll get straight to the point.
"I'm here to ask you about the Primordial Universe." Zhao Chen stared intently at the Black Goddess Empress, Hei Luolin.
Black Goddess Empress Black Lorraine recalled that not long ago, the commander of the interstellar transport fleet responsible for transporting strategic materials had sent a message.
I inquired about this matter.
She answered immediately.
Unexpectedly, Emperor Xiaolong would come to him personally because of this matter.
"I don't know, Your Majesty, what do you think of this primordial universe...?" Black Goddess Empress Black Lorin looked at Emperor Xiaolong with a puzzled expression.
"You really know about the existence of the Primordial Universe!" Zhao Chen was even more excited at this moment.
Black Goddess Empress Black Lorraine nodded.
"This primordial universe is of paramount importance to us right now."
"Tell me in detail where this initial state universe is located!" Zhao Chen asked, suppressing his excitement.
Empress Black Lorraine recalled and said, "That was about three hundred years ago."
At that time, the Holy Maiden Civilization was attacked by warp monsters.
Order has ordered us to dispatch a legion fleet to provide support.
At the time, in order to get closer to the Holy Maiden Civilization, of course... the main reason was to see if we could obtain some advanced technology from the Holy Maiden Civilization.
I personally led the legion's fleet to provide support.
We are fighting warp monsters.
Speaking of which...
Black Goddess Empress Black Lorraine paused, then looked at the Dragon Emperor: "Don't you know about warp monsters?"
"I've heard before that some strange creatures live in certain spaces."
But demons... I'm not so sure." ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) Zhao Chen shook his head.
Black Goddess Empress Black Lorraine explained, "Everyone knows about these kinds of creatures."
Most of them are called things like space beasts or dimensional beasts.
The descriptions are basically of the same kind of creature, which lives in the subspace or in spatial rifts.
Their lifespan is almost eternal.
They are like cells in the human body, maintaining the stability of space.
However, this has been accompanied by the development and utilization of space by numerous interstellar civilizations.
From the very beginning, it was about intergalactic travel and interstellar travel.
Then there are technologies such as subspace stargates and space jumps.
Now there are also inter-universe stargates, and even inter-universe clusters.
These methods of utilizing space are a huge disturbance to these organisms.
It will turn them from being peaceful to becoming irritable and belligerent, and will eliminate all those who cause spatial fluctuations.
This is somewhat similar to... cancer cells within cells.
They mutated and began attacking everything around them.
We call it a space monster.
There aren't many spatial monsters, but their average combat strength is above T6 level.
Therefore, in order to help the Holy Maiden Civilization clear away these spatial monsters.
We paid a heavy price back then, and it took us nearly ten years.
During those ten years, I also explored the Saintess Civilization universe, gathering some local information along the way.
By the way?
Zhao Chen was very skeptical of the word "by the way".
Most likely, she wanted to gather intelligence on the Holy Maiden Civilization first. If there was hope in the future, the Black Goddess Empress Black Lorin would also consider taking over the Holy Maiden Civilization.
Zhao Chen didn't expose Black Goddess Empress Black Lorin's idea and continued listening to her story.
"When I was drawing the portrait of Saint Mary, I discovered a primordial universe."
It was a universe still in its early stages of development, a universe where everything was in chaos, and starships entering it could easily get lost.
Even some rules and regulations have not yet been established.
The Holy Maiden Civilization directly designated the initial state of the universe as a forbidden zone.
That was the information I had at the time.
Black Goddess Empress Black Lorraine has explained everything clearly.
Good news, the Primordial Universe really exists.
Bad news, on the territory of the Holy Maiden Civilization.
"Could you give me a detailed introduction to this Holy Maiden Civilization?" Zhao Chen asked with concern.
Since this initial state universe is within the territory of the Saintess Civilization.
If Zhao Chen wants to come into contact with this primordial universe in the future, he will inevitably have to go through the Holy Maiden Civilization.
Therefore, while we have the Black Goddess Empress Black Lorraine as an intelligence source, we should acquire more information.
Prepare for the future!
"The Holy Maiden Civilization is a subordinate civilization supported by the Order; you should know this."
It's similar to how we devour civilizations.
However, they existed for a longer period of time.
Furthermore, their loyalty to order was the most fervent among the four civilizations we knew.
The reason why spatial monsters broke out in their territory was because...
A large part of the reason is that what they did to express their loyalty to the order was really crazy.
Over three hundred years, they directly invaded more than a thousand interstellar universes!
These thousand interstellar universes encompass three universe groups!
During those three hundred years, they were almost constantly at war.
From what I understand, at that time, they were even waging war against fifteen cosmic civilizations simultaneously.
At the time, our fleet of interstellar warships was greater than the combined fleets of the other three interstellar civilizations.
However, this also meant high-frequency space utilization, which led to the subsequent occurrence of space monster incidents.
It was also because of that incident.
The Holy Maiden Civilization's offensive against the outside world has gradually slowed down. Although there are still wars, they are not as intense as before.
The targets of the attacks will also be screened, and in accordance with the order requirements, wars will only be waged against T6 technology level civilizations and some potentially threatening T5 technology civilizations.
Before that, the Saintess Civilization completely disregarded this rule, and they were obsessed with bringing all civilizations and universes under their control.
However, there are also rumors that they calmed down because of the order to lower the level of order.
Despite participating in these events, the Saintess Civilization possesses the largest interstellar universe.
They are different from us.
After we devour civilizations and destroy those interstellar civilizations in the universe, we will build altars to attract order, allowing that order to devour the universe.
Meanwhile, the Saintess Civilization operates those interstellar universes, truly forming a cosmic civilization.
This is also the only authority that the Holy Maiden Civilization has been granted by Order.
As far as I know, the Saintess Civilization now possesses a complete universe cluster.
Furthermore, it controls a considerable amount of interstellar territory in the other six universe groups.
From a minimum of 5% to a maximum of 40%.
All things considered, the territory of the Holy Maiden Civilization is quite large.
However, in order to prevent the space monsters from attacking again, the Holy Maiden Civilization has very strict control over space travel, and has set a certain number of restrictions for each cycle.
It's important to know that the Space Monster incident back then directly resulted in the loss of one-third of the Saintess Civilization's fleet, and many of its cosmic territories suffered significant losses.
Even now, it hasn't recovered to its former level.
"And what about their political system?" Zhao Chen asked.
"They belong to that kind of parliamentary system."
First, their middle ranks are controlled by women known as'Saintesses'.
However, for some positions, local executives would be in charge of the actual power, and the saint would be more of a symbolic figurehead.
These saints formed a'Saints' Society'.
The Holy Maidens' Society is the central institution of the Holy Maidens' Civilization.
There is a strong class system within the Order of the Saints.
First are the Holy Maidens, who, as the name suggests, are actually reserve Holy Maidens. They are selected from various civilizations and sent to the Holy Maidens Association to study. Those who are selected can then become Holy Maidens.
The Holy Maiden is only considered a low-level figure within the Holy Maidens' Guild.
As for the Holy Maidens, they are consumables, even those at the bottom. If they offend the Holy Maiden, the Holy Maiden can execute them on the spot.
Above the Saintess is the Great Saintess.
The Great Saintess is the leader of the Saintess's group. They are usually military commanders who control a large legion fleet, with a scale of more than 100 million ships.
Or perhaps she is a great saintess who controls several universes.
Above the Great Saintess are the true power holders within the Saintess Council, who call themselves 'Title Saintess'.
As the name suggests, a title is an honor bestowed by the order.
For example, the War Saintess, the Judgment Saintess, the Death Saintess, and so on.
The number of saintesses is countless, possibly several thousand or even tens of thousands.
The number of Great Saintesses does not exceed one thousand.
The number of titled saintesses is even smaller, according to my understanding.
In the Saintess Civilization, the number of titled Saintesses that existed at any given time never exceeded thirty.
Among these titled saintesses, some are hereditary.
For example, the most famous one is the War Maiden.
Each generation of War Saintess will train her own successor and then pass on her title.
This led to the outside world's saying that there was a second-generation War Saintess and a thirtieth-generation War Saintess.
These titled saintesses, whose titles can be inherited, belong to the old-school forces within the Saintess Society and Saintess Civilization, possessing a strong foundation and greater strength.
While the newly emerging titled saintesses are also titled saintesses, they are still a level below these hereditary titled saintesses.
"And if there is any extremely important event in the Holy Maiden Civilization, all the existing titled Holy Maidens will gather together for a meeting to make a decision!"
So that's how the system works.
Wait a minute, why does this remind me of myself in some way?
"You just said that these saintesses are all women?"
"Does that mean the Holy Maiden Civilization is actually a matriarchal society?" Zhao Chen asked.
Black Goddess Empress Black Lorin thought for a moment and explained, "You can't say that."
Because these saintesses, despite having "woman" in their names, are not actually women.
They are more or less androgynous.
The selection of saintesses is not limited to women; men can also participate.
However, a baptism is required, after which the man will transform into a'saintly form'.
Once a woman becomes a saintess, regardless of her race, she will lose the ability to reproduce.
At the same time, their lifespan will not exceed three hundred years.
This is a technology that order has given them.
emmmm
There are also these strange and unusual technologies.
Transform men and women into a gender-neutral creature called'Saintess'.
But think about it, if you get selected, it's like standing at the top of the power pyramid.
Many people are still willing to abandon their original gender.
After all, power can often drive people mad.
How many interstellar warships does the Holy Maiden Civilization possess now?
Are they all similar to the interstellar warships that were previously dispatched to the Oath Duel battlefield? Zhao Chen still remembered the characteristics of those interstellar warships from the Saintess Civilization.
It is equipped with a large number of interstellar heavy artillery ships and also employs long-range fire suppression tactics.
"According to my latest information."
The Saintess Civilization currently possesses approximately three billion interstellar warships.
When I heard this number.
Zhao Chen admitted that he himself was startled.
"How many?
"Three billion!" Zhao Chen was stunned.
"Yes.
"And the quality is about the same as those interstellar warships you faced before." Black Goddess Empress Black Lorraine nodded.
Three billion... high-quality interstellar warships.
No wonder the Black Goddess Empress Black Lorraine just said that the Saintess Civilization is the strongest among the four interstellar civilizations.
This is indeed terrifying.
"However, although they have three billion interstellar warships, the universe they control is simply too vast."
Therefore, they can only actually mobilize one-third of the Star Legion fleets.
The remaining third will be stationed at various important star system nodes.
The remaining third is needed to maintain operations on all fronts.
Otherwise, what do you think?
Why is it that, in total, they only sent less than a hundred million interstellar warships towards us?