Sky Curtain: The Darwin Incident at the outset, the Declaration of the People's League

[The Legacy, Part Four: The Perpetually Latent Thought]

Just like the global locust plague, the aftermath of the Imperial War was not completely eradicated.

Although Emperor Rupert is dead, the "Anti-Organic Life Equation" remains like a virus, forever lingering in certain corners of the universe.

Even today, omnics are still secretly spreading this ideology, awaiting the birth of the next "Emperor".

The scene shifts to the depths of a dark, mechanical ruin, where lines of data flow slowly through abandoned servers.

That's a program.

It's also a nightmare from which you could wake up at any moment.

It cannot be eliminated because it is not a virus, not a weapon, but an equation or a logical deduction.

As long as there are intelligent machines thinking, as long as logic is functioning, this equation will exist forever.

It is simply waiting—waiting for the next "emperor" who can understand it.

Speechless.

Countless worlds were speechless.

Okay, okay, okay.

These meme-level things keep popping up one after another, and they still haven't been eradicated!

No wonder people say the world of Honkai Impact 3rd is a cesspool.

It's a little better than Warhammer World, but not by much; mainly, it's not as despairing and dark.

These two remaining threats are already quite troublesome.

However, the fact that the sky did not darken indicates that there are still other calamities in the world.

Outrageous!

Chapter 40 The Destroyer

Next, let's turn our attention to yet another disaster plaguing the world.

Antimatter Legion

A line of burning text appeared, as if it were on fire.

If the global locust plague stems from the hunger of flesh and blood, and the Imperial War from the betrayal of steel, then the antimatter legion—comes from the will of "destruction" itself.

Its master is the youngest star god in the universe, and also the galactic villain—"Destruction" Nanook.

The name Nanook should be familiar to everyone.

As I just mentioned, and also in the first two stories, this is what I've already discussed.

The scene shifts across the sky, bringing us to a planet shrouded in shadow.

We're old acquaintances.

Adrenaline, which appeared earlier, was once a prosperous world, but is now devastated.

Adliven, Nanook's birthplace, is a tragic world.

It suffered the double ravages of the "Imperial Wars" and the global locust plague.

[Until the arrival of "Pioneer" Akivili, Adrefin was still waging a dark war against the Omnics left behind by the Emperor and the offspring of the Zerg King.]

The image freezes on a figure—long silver-white hair, dark skin, golden eyes, and a huge golden wound on its body from which golden blood gushed.

No one knows how Nanook ascended to the status of a star god. Scholars speculate that he ascended to the throne of "destruction" at the cost of setting his own homeland ablaze.

Adrefin was ultimately "destroyed"—and Nanuk emerged from there, becoming the embodiment of entropy.

Nanook's silhouette appeared in the starry sky, his enormous body blotting out the sun, inspiring awe and fear.

He did nothing, but simply stood there quietly, watching the world burning before him.

Nanook believed that the birth of the universe was an error; civilization was a cancer quietly rising among the vast stars, and conflict was the only language spoken among intelligent beings.

To correct this error and erase the stain on the universe, Nanook became the embodiment of entropy.

Lines of cold text appeared on the screen.

"If entropy increase is an irreversible law of the universe, and heat death is an inescapable fate for the material world, then why should we struggle?"

"Burn, fuse, then annihilate. To embrace new life, one must first embrace the end."

[These are the last words of a scientist before pressing the nuclear button, Amber 2152]

"After experiencing two disasters in a row, no one could hold on..."

People under the sky expressed understanding and sympathy for Nanook's birth.

They had witnessed the two previous disasters.

The horror was so intense it was utterly horrific; anyone who experienced it would suffer terribly.

Unfortunately for Nanuk, his home planet suffered two such incidents.

Anyone would go crazy in this situation.

Although Nanook was the last star god to appear, he and his minions could already be considered the most notorious villains in the galaxy.

His followers have vowed to embark on a path of "destruction," placing themselves on the absolute opposite of civilization and life, and constructing an "antimatter army" that shakes the universe.

Compared to the "Abundance" Pharmacist who heals lives but brings mutation and destruction, Nanuk's chaos is more direct—He leads an antimatter army to invade all civilized worlds, turning them to ashes.

Countless black warships were arrayed in the sea of ​​stars, their hulls twisted and strange, radiating an ominous light.

Following that is a typical introduction to the legion's troop strength.

Virtual Soldiers: The main force of the legion, tireless and fearless.

Antibaryon: A small ion trap with basic intelligence, capable of responding to the will of dummy soldiers on the battlefield.

Doomsday Beast: A colossal weapon of war, capable of destroying an entire fleet. Forged from fragments of the Twilight Beast and fueled by the mournful lamentations of countless corpses in the War Forge.

Although only three appeared, the accompanying descriptions were full of bloodshed and horror.

Some worlds are so vast that just by looking at the terms mentioned, one knows they are things that are beyond one's reach.

The savage races of the intergalactic world served as the Legion's vanguard; wicked schemers plotted world destruction, becoming the Legion's strategists.

One world after another was reduced to ruins under the iron heel of the antimatter legion.

The innocent, nascent world was ruthlessly crushed, and a self-proclaimed powerful civilization learned humility on the verge of collapse.

Only when faced with a world on the verge of collapse does the will of "destruction" slow its pace slightly—the legion wanders across the shattered planets, greedily feeding on the chaotic energy spilling out of the decaying process.

Only when the last embers of civilization were extinguished did they depart, satisfied, to seek their next target for rampage and destruction.

"Is this because...they're already close to destruction, so the legion won't take it seriously? Or is it because their path to destruction contains the energy of destiny?"

Some people started thinking about it, while others pondered it.

Those outside this world are limited to the information displayed on the celestial screen; everything they know is merely speculation.

Nanuk, the star god on a path of destruction, casts a glance upon powerful beings in every world who harbor destructive impulses, marking them and bestowing upon them power.

These powerful beings were reversed from the inside out, thrown into the "Forge of War" to be forged anew, their deficiencies repaired with antimatter, and ultimately became the legion's leaders—the "Annihilation Lords."

[Tsk, I know what you want to ask, the crucible of war, right?]

[Wait a moment, let me finish introducing the Great Lord of Annihilation first.]

The Great Lord of Annihilation is both the messenger of the Star God and the executor of the will to destroy.

They are obsessed with the beauty of destruction, adhering to the principle of all things returning to entropy, but in destroying, they are also artists of war, creating the purest and most perfect weapons of destruction.

Legend has it that Nanook had seven chieftains under his command, each representing one of the seven extreme tendencies toward destruction.

In the scene, seven figures appear one after another, each exuding a different aura of destruction.

[First, Foehn Wind]

The Fenfeng are known for their terrifying ability to command an army of ten thousand men, and they are also the most enthusiastic about violent destruction among the Great Lords.

He was fascinated by the power and beauty that things unleash at the moment of destruction.

The figure of the Fiery Wind appeared beside a star, and a series of subtitles appeared on the sky, describing his actions here.

In the year 6804, the sun was ignited in New Bethlehem, scorching its surface with massive radiation and causing it to vitrify.

In the year 7143 of the Star Calendar, a massive cyclone storm was generated, shattering the ecosystem of Aden.

In the year 7658 of the Star Calendar, the Earth's crust was breached through the Moon Guardian Shield, and a core strike was launched, crushing the entire world.

[In the Amber Era 2157, the Foehn Wind appeared in the Tiana system. According to the Mourning Musician, the system has been destroyed.]

"Weather weapons? Directly utilizing the laws of nature?"

"Isn't this order a bit too strong?"

[Second place, Xingxiao]

This is the vanguard general of the Ancestor of Embers, and also the general He most frequently employs.

Their forces are spread across the galaxy, weaving paths of march and destruction among the stars.

The scene in the sky changed, and countless fleets spread out like a giant net, stretching across the starry sky.

Xingxiao is also the only "Destruction" envoy to have landed on the Immortal Ship so far.

Around the year 5700 of the Star Calendar, she demanded that Zhu Mingxianzhou abandon its resistance, change its course, and assist her in conquering the world of the Wingers.

Nanook himself arrived and ignited a world of harmony, elevating the star from the ashes of endless expanse.

—The World of Iron Collapse—

The Zhu Ming Immortal Boat, deep within the Flame Wheel Forging Palace

General Huaiyan stood at the highest point of the Forging Palace, his aged face flickering in the firelight.

Behind him was the Zhu Ming's proudest institution, the Bureau of Crafts and Manufacturing—where more than 60% of the weapons in the entire Immortal Ship Alliance were produced.

"That was so long ago..."

Looking back on those glorious and eventful years.