The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

With that thought in mind, she was finally off duty after a long period of intense fighting and working. She could take a short break before rejoining the interstellar squadron in its rescue and reconstruction efforts.

She may have all sorts of flaws, but she will still move forward according to the principles of the Starfleet.

After all, the Starfleet had helped him when his homeland was on the verge of destruction, and he would repay that kindness by dedicating his life to the Starfleet.

Unfortunately, he already had a faith before joining the Starfleet, otherwise he could have also worshipped the King.

She thought to herself.

Back in her own world, she had a whole day to rest. The nun immediately went to a shrine, which was her faith, her "Lord".

She wasn't a real god, but merely a local deity she imagined from her hometown, or even a fictitious god without a physical form, but that was her faith.

It is a vague and ethereal belief in "the Lord".

"O all-knowing and all-powerful Lord, your believers prayed to you, and we withstood the attack of the villains and began to fight back step by step. A friend named 'Xue Law' even took over the power of our leader and enabled our communications to be restored."

"Today I need to repent. When the enemy attacked, my first instinct was to be afraid and I did not go forward to fight them... I am guilty!"

"Almighty Lord, I need to repent!"

The nun's voice echoed in her small room.

She set up a soundproof barrier, so no one could know what she was saying. In fact, this kind of prayer was more of a habit she had before stepping into the extraordinary realm.

However, what she didn't notice was that the eyes of the wooden statue in the shrine seemed to move.

Meanwhile, deep within the subspace, in a spatial rift undiscovered by anyone, the "Lord of the Mist," who had transformed into a monster with six arms, silently heard this prayer.

Not only that voice, but all sorts of voices from the interstellar column entered His ears one after another. Some were chanting while performing shamanic rituals, some were praying and confessing like nuns, and there were also many people who simply had thoughts about various idols in their hearts.

All these beliefs and voices reached Him.

Whether it's "Almighty Lord," "Goddess of the Night," "God of Fate," or "Supreme God," all sources of faith without a master are intercepted by Him, becoming His eyes and ears, and ultimately the gathering place of faith.

Silently extracting information about the Starship Corps and the Mimic King, the Lord of the Mist smiled, a bewitching smile appearing on his face, which seemed to be hidden beneath a veil of tree bark.

"The final step to godhood, the last apostle, is you, the one who became the last person in the expeditionary force..."

"The Lone Ranger - Xue's Law"

The Lord of the Mist murmured in the Warp, about countless vast, ownerless faiths that were supposed to travel to the edge of the Warp to become Kings or snacks for other evil gods.

However, He intercepted them all, thus making them His eyes and ears to monitor the entire universe.

This is why He was able to understand all the movements of the Starfleet without any traitors.

Those people may never know until their deaths that the ethereal god they worship is actually just a figurehead of the Lord of the Mist.

……

On the other side, Xue Dinglu seemed to have fallen into spiritual vision again, specifically the spiritual vision belonging to the memories of the Lord of the Mist.

He seems to have arrived at an earlier point in time, when people had just discovered that terrifying void in the universe.

At first, no one took it seriously, regarding it as just another normal phenomenon in the universe, like black holes.

It has been named the "Great Quiet Zone" by astronomers, an unusual zone where even the cosmic microwave background radiation has completely disappeared.

But soon, people realized that this was not "silence," but "nothingness," an ever-expanding "cosmic void" where even the laws of physics were gradually failing.

And its expansion speed completely exceeded anyone's imagination.

Chapter 478 Expedition Team No. 13

Initially, no one paid attention to this small hole that suddenly appeared in the universe, thinking it was a normal cosmic phenomenon like a black hole.

For most civilizations, their lifespan will not even reach the day when the cosmic void descends. The universe will remain chaotic, and no one will care about the suddenly appearing void.

Although the speed at which this void is expanding far exceeds the speed of light, and it is a completely silent region where all physics fails, there are many things in the universe that cannot be clearly explored, and no one will care about this void.

Until one day, everyone in the universe was horrified to discover that a twisted hole had appeared in the starry sky.

According to normal physics, even if a large hole appears, people in other parts of the universe still wouldn't be able to see it because the speed of light is incredibly slow on a cosmic scale. Perhaps other civilizations would be swallowed up by the rapidly expanding void before they even see it.

However, this kind of physics is not suitable for the vast void in the universe!

If the cosmic void were to devour the source of light, then all the light emitted by that source billions of years ago, light that has already traversed billions of light-years, would be completely swallowed up, as if it were crossing the river of time, delivering a dimensional reduction attack on the entire universe in a way that completely defies the laws of physics.

As more and more civilizations gradually discovered, a huge void without any light appeared in the starry sky, like a flushing toilet, and it was rapidly swallowing up the surrounding light at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Every day, observations revealed that the vast void was growing larger. This expansion of the cosmic void, visible to the naked eye, plunged all civilizations into unimaginable chaos.

What's even more disheartening is that its expansion rate is not constant, but increases exponentially, like a tumor appearing inside the universe, causing the entire universe to expand rapidly from the inside out until it completely collapses.

By the time they realized what was happening and prepared to launch probes into the cosmic void, they were horrified to discover that all the surrounding galaxies had already been swallowed up by this cosmic void.

Within hundreds of millions of light-years, only this great void remains. And according to calculations, even when converted to the timeframe that Schrödinger's law can comprehend, the great void will completely devour the entire universe within a thousand years.

The universe today is like a balloon about to burst, undergoing its final expansion.

Fear instantly swept through all civilizations in the known universe. Under the organization of several advanced civilizations, the will to survive gave birth to the largest cosmic organization since the birth of the universe: the "Universal United Front".

From silicon-based mechanical civilizations to energy-based spiritual life forms, hundreds of millions of civilizations have set aside billions of years of conflict, pooling all their knowledge, resources, and hopes in search of even the faintest glimmer of hope.

Xue Dinglu looked at his dormitory room, which had a poster that read "The Establishment of the Global United Front".

On the screen, which seemed to blend into the wall, a host with an abstract appearance, resembling an octopus-man, said: "The Sixth Expedition has discovered a force that clearly does not belong to this universe around the Great Void of Space. We have temporarily named this force 'Magic Element.' Could this force become the key to resolving this global crisis?"

"Hey, what are you thinking about, Yishan?" A "person" that seemed to be a tree patted Xue Dinglu on the shoulder, which made Xue Dinglu pause for a moment.

He then realized that he could even see "himself" within this spiritual vision, and he looked at his employee ID card...

Global United Front staff

Name: Yishan

Race: Eldar

Position: Recorder

Xue Dinglu looked at the information. He didn't know why, but he had entered this spiritual vision again. This should be the spiritual vision of the Lord of Mist, or it should be what the Mimicry King said, to walk the path of the King again...

At the same time, Xue Lude sized up the person in front of him—a tree-man?

In short, it resembled the appearance of some kind of fungus or plant that had become sentient. Looking at the news anchor with the octopus-like face, Xue Dinglu thought…

Perhaps this is a normal phenomenon before the birth of the King. The whole universe is full of strange and wonderful things. Many of the Schrödinger's Laws can be roughly applied to what we recognize, but for many races, the Schrödinger's Laws cannot even be described in words.

Unlike later generations, where virtually every intelligent race was "humanoid," or at least somewhat human-like.

They can even tell how advanced the other person's race is by how pretty they are at first glance, because the prettier they are, the closer they are to being a king, and therefore the more advanced their evolution is.

"Six expeditions have already been lost forever in that great void..." the treant on the other side murmured.

Xue's Law saw its name tag, but this tree-man was a repairman, and Xue's Law also saw its name.

"Domini..."

Xue Law murmured the name.

However, he was only seeing a fragment of history through his spiritual vision. At this moment, "himself" spoke up: "Yes, six expeditions have already been sacrificed... and perhaps, their sacrifices were completely meaningless, just suicides..."

The recorder, "Isan," seemed to be a pessimist, and after he said this, both of them fell silent.

Faced with this vast void in the universe where physics has completely failed, the only option for the united front is to send exploration teams into this graveyard of physics to search for possible answers. This is not exploration, but a suicidal charge.

Currently, six teams have already paved their way to the front lines with corpses, yet have gained nothing...

Their mission was to use their lives to verify the boundaries of the void. The first team lost contact the moment they entered, only sending back a string of meaningless gibberish.

The second team advanced by "peeling away layer by layer," with the mothership releasing countless probes like moths to a flame, all in an effort to transmit data for just one more nanosecond before being annihilated.

The third team appears to have discovered an "alien object" that can exist within it briefly, but this is the last piece of intelligence they can send out.

Teams 4, 5, and 6 are all searching for the "foreign object" that can exist briefly around the cosmic void.

Finally, the sixth team found the object, and the last remaining survivor brought it back to the United Front.

The higher-ups named that thing "Magic Element".

It seemed they had found a direction, though they didn't know if it was right or wrong.

"Expeditionary force recruitment! Expeditionary force recruitment!" Not far away, there seemed to be people resembling recruiters starting to recruit expeditionary force members.

"Shall we go?" Tree Man Domini nudged "himself" with his elbow.

"No, I need to take care of my daughter." Ishan elbowed the tree spirit, and the two seemed to exchange a knowing smile before leaving as if they were best friends.

But the next day, when Ishan secretly submitted her information, she was surprised to see the name of the tree person "Domini" among the volunteers.

The two stared at each other blankly, and finally could only nudge each other with their elbows and joke around.

……

"The new hope brought by the magic essence, the logic core of the God of Myriad Machines burned in the magic essence, calculated the final geometric structure of the seven-fold joint ritual, and solved the magic essence law at the moment before his sacrifice."

We are about to succeed!

The news broadcast featured the good news announced by the host.

For a moment, it seemed as if the whole world had fallen into a relaxed atmosphere.

Meanwhile, in the vision, Ishan had grown from a young man who had just joined the United Front into a middle-aged man, and his daughter "Fug" had grown from the size of Ishan learning to walk to the size of six or seven years old.

After many years, the cosmic void has expanded several times over at a speed visible to the naked eye, and thus, a new great expedition has begun once again.

But this time, the sacrifice finally had a direction.

On this day, Ishan, holding her daughter and holding her wife's hand, along with her friend Domini the Tree Man, watched the live footage of the Seventh Expedition's departure together.

The ship, named "Eternal Watcher," sailed towards the Great Void, carrying the sole survivor of the Sixth Expedition. Amidst the anticipation and prayers of the masses, they arrived at a star system extremely close to the Great Void.

The ship's hull was torn apart, and everything was completely ripped apart by the influence of the vast void in space, making it impossible for anyone to see what was happening inside.

At that moment, people all over the world were worried, and when the United Front sent out the detectors again, no one survived.

The Seventh Expeditionary Force was completely wiped out!

But they suddenly discovered that the planet where the Eternal Watch crashed was no longer affected by the Great Void.

At this moment, the world was in an uproar, because it meant that the special particle they had just mastered, the Magic Element, was indeed not affected by the Great Void of the Universe.

This also shows that the seven-fold ritual equation calculated by the God of Myriad Machines is correct!

Because they had no other direction, they chose this path of sacrifice, which was destined to be paved with corpses.