Lords: From Civilization to the Stars.

Chapter 137: Antarctic Tower, Leaker

Even for the Negative Stars, the Antarctic Tower is still a huge and almost hopeless project. Endless wars are burning in the old world, and almost every Negative Stars is advancing on the battlefield. It seems that only the players and some of the last Negative Stars who have retreated are building the giant tower in Antarctica.

For the players, the news they know is that the entire giant tower is a huge psychic node, which will complement the North Pole's World Wound, and deploy a huge psychic network over the entire old world to destroy all the demons in one go. After all, most players really don't know what those elves who are missing limbs but trying to survive and are even recovering are writing.

Negative Stars have no sense of confidentiality. Their way of survival and thinking logic predestines their actions to be very aboveboard. Although the players' construction requests were rejected due to psychic power, they were still allowed to do so. Of course, all the players were asked to do for free was to constantly copy the countless runes on the Antarctic Tower. There was nothing to refuse for the Negative Stars, so they readily agreed. This process has been going on for several months in this demon wave.

With the powerful counterattack of the Negative Stars, and the continuous counterattack of the Chaos Demons by the Order side after they began to react, the scene looked very good for a while. Countless spires rose from the continents of the Old World, and a golden veil began to cover the sky.

The catastrophe fire that fell from the sky and the silver knights that followed have become a kind of benchmark, making all players and creatures on the ground feel excited and safe.

It seems that everything is moving in a good direction, and players are beginning to gradually decipher and learn the runes on the Antarctic Tower.

However, as the research gradually deepened, some players inevitably discovered some problems.

Their people started disappearing.

Some rune research experts in reality sometimes appear very confused and frightened, or even a little anxious. After contacting some researchers, these research experts did not even make any external contact in a short period of time. So far, they have disappeared.

Whether it is the so-called learning faction that is close to the Chaos Demons, or the research experts on the Negative Stars side, they all seem to be a little uneasy, because their research seems to have fallen into a dilemma.

There is also a giant tower of the same scale in the South Pole of the player's planet, because according to their cognition, this kind of thing must also be studied and experimented in order to achieve normal operation and development. However, recently, the researchers of the Negative Star Church refused to open the South Pole spire and began to turn to secret research and construction. Coupled with the disappearance of the rune researchers, it seems to always hint at something.

A kind of pressure, an indescribable pressure began to permeate these rubbing and researchers. Although they were in the deepest part of the world of the Negative Stars, theoretically there would be no problems, but everyone instinctively felt that the research on this psychic rune would cause big problems in the end.

Even if they have a premonition, the research still needs to continue, because these studies do not represent their personal interests, but the interests of the countless companies and state agencies behind them.

There was no way they would give up their research just because of some rumors. After all, the higher-ups were still helping to find their companions.

To this day, they are still studying the runes engraved inside the Antarctic Tower under the care of a group of players. These towering load-bearing columns are hundreds of meters wide and thousands of meters high. They are reinforced with psychic energy and runes to create a network that allows will to flow.

Although it has not been officially put into operation, the pale golden runes and the traces of carving on it prove that this is a ritual site that the Negative Stars value very much. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a wonder.

The entire Antarctic mountain range was uprooted, and the never-extinguished Chaos Wind was used as a furnace to build this giant tower that was almost 30,000 meters high and covered an area that was almost larger than that of a country. This huge project seemed so long and stretched even with the power of the Negative Stars that the Negative Stars had to use the power of the players to help build it.

But even so, with the combined efforts of countless laborers, intelligent creatures, machines, and negative stars, the tower has only just reached a height of 5,000 meters. This is also the best time for players to copy the core runes on it. Because their team is responsible for the construction of internal pipelines to prevent the leakage of psychic energy and the laying of anti-magic metal. In the process of laying, as long as the task is completed within the time limit, you can take the opportunity to appreciate the great rune art of the negative stars here.

While using the automated runes provided by the Negative Stars to lay the anti-magic bricks, these player researchers used the subtle psychic power brought by their belief in the Negative Stars to start mobilizing the ritual to continuously record the runes on the huge structure. However, the more they observed, the more they found something wrong.

Although at the grassroots level there were some very common basic runes such as strengthening, extension, and resonance of power, as the pipeline continued to move upward and reached a height of 5,000 meters, they found that the runes began to change.

Some unfamiliar runes and some marks with very obvious directions began to appear in the pipes, and they showed their existence openly and without any concealment.

"The runes here... represent the power of tampering."

The player who was placing the anti-magic metal was imprinting the runes on it, and blinked in confusion, as if he couldn't believe the meaning of the runes he saw.

"This is a dual direction to the soul and the body, and it spreads, spreads, spreads... and here, it points to the symbol of the Lord of Negative Stars. If I am not mistaken, this part of the rune should be within the diffusion range of this Antarctic spire, pointing something to the Lord of Negative Stars..."

Pointing to the Lord of the Negative Star within the diffusion range?
It sounds like there is nothing wrong, but I always feel like something is wrong...

Looking at the huge pillar in front of him, the player placed the anti-magic metal while continuously rubbing the runes on it. However, as the metal continued to pile up, it seemed that there was a problem with one of the rune bricks.

After the anti-magic metal was placed, the first layer of bricks pointing to the Diffusion and the Lord of the Negative Stars actually produced a little inexplicable energy spark, which then flickered for a moment and disappeared into thin air. The players looked at each other silently, and then tacitly began to pull apart the broken bricks to expose the deeper runes inside.

"...Everyone, have you finished making the rubbings?"

"It's almost there, but this is not what I imagined..."

Looking at the runes that appeared inside, the player used the taught branding technology to continuously copy the characters, but faced with those terrifying rune marks, he felt that he seemed to have found some information that was absolutely unfavorable to the current situation.

All the runes that actually exist inside the surface are clearing commands. All intelligent creatures, all wills and ideas, all personal thoughts and souls will be cleared by the power of the Lord of Negative Stars. After activating the Antarctic Giant Tower, this 30,000-meter-high giant tower will use the infinitely smooth planetary shield to transmit the condensed shock waves and psychic fluctuations to every corner of the planet.

At that time, all personal will and all self-thoughts will be destroyed in an instant. Because the Lord of the Negative Stars believes that the soul is unnecessary, and the only way out is to be soulless.

'Erase the souls of all intelligent life.' 'Erase the self-awareness of all individuals.'

'Eradicate all concepts and psionic powers.'

'Eliminate all magic and defenses.'

'Eradicate all life.'

"..."

Those demons didn't lie.

Looking at the densely packed dark red characters under the spreading rune, the player's breathing quickened and he felt the blood rushing to his forehead.

He didn't care what these runes were. After all, this world was just a completely real game. Even if something went wrong, it would be a minor problem at most, not a big deal. But psychic technology was real.

If, as the legend goes, the Negative Star Sect is accepting the Negative Star's guidance on a one-to-one basis and building the Antarctic Spire on the player's planet, then inside that 300-meter-high spire, are there also runes that will cleanse the entire planet and restart it all? You know, the instructions on it mean that the Lord of the Negative Star will die whether he believes them or not!
The player who recorded the video was almost buzzing with the hidden meaning of the runes in the video. At this moment, some tall but mutilated figures appeared in the room.

"Everyone, please stop what you are doing."

The voice was clear, but the blue-haired elf with one eye blind and wearing an eye patch looked at the players who had stopped their work and said loudly:
"There is a crack at node 72 in area 431521. Because there is magic waste in the forging elements that needs to be corrected, we are here. We will replace this part of the external bricks. Please stop your work to avoid danger and accidents."

"..."

The players quickly stopped what they were doing and watched these elves with missing limbs carrying a rune brick and walking to the edge of the load-bearing column.

All of these elves are the negative star survivors who have survived the cruel battles against demons. Their body regeneration has not yet been fully applied, and their energy replenishment is not enough. They are temporarily doing some installation and monitoring work around the Antarctic Tower. But looking at the single-eyed blue elf, the player who saw the leak couldn't help but speak out and expose the truth he saw in front of everyone.

"I just saw it. I saw the runes inside your broken bricks! Why didn't you tell us that you actually planned to cleanse the entire world! Is it true that you want to kill all living things, whether they are demons or other intelligent creatures! Are you really going to destroy the world?"

"Destroy the world? Of course not."

Slowly adjusting the position of the bricks, the one-eyed elf looked at the player in front of him with an innocent face and shook his head innocently.

"We never intended to destroy the world. We just wanted to use the power of unity to make those demons retreat. We have always hoped that everyone can stand with us and fight against the demons in their own way. Fighting against the demons is the most important cause, and it is not enough to rely on ourselves."

"Then, those runes are..."

"It's all true."

Looking at the player who was speechless for a moment, the elf smiled sweetly and admitted the fact in the shocked eyes of all the players.

"Your academic performance is very good, and the runes you copied are all correct. These runes are used to expand the power, cover the entire realm, and then connect people's hearts together. We do intend to destroy everyone's soul and body."

"W-Why?! Why are you doing this!?"

"That's strange. Aren't you very clear about the reason? I should have already told you."

Looking at the angry players, the elf with clear eyes tilted her head, and a hint of confusion flashed across her pretty face.

"To destroy all demons and enemies. Because intelligent creatures and humans are too deeply entangled with demons, souls should not exist. Only by destroying all souls and replacing them with the purest biological essence can the pollution of demons be completely purified."

"So we built the Antarctic Tower to solve all troubles and attacks from demons once and for all. Gather everyone's energy together, pray to the Lord of Negative Stars, and use the power of the Antarctic Tower to spread our blessings to the entire world. All souls and bodies will dissolve, and all demons and sins will dissipate. After seven days, we will usher in a new life and a new beginning."

"Of course, you players are also right. But I believe that you can understand this great sacrifice and blessing. After all, all of this is also due to you, right?"

Looking at the players whose faces were pale and who felt as if they were falling into an ice cellar, the elf smiled and delivered the final, decisive blow.

"After all, you have even replicated our achievements in your hometown. We are also very moved by your awareness and determination of your ideals. Please continue, for our ideals and glorious world, such a great future and beautiful results will only take less than three months at most."

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