I am a godslayer, not your hero.

Therefore, despite being imprisoned, Baltoshik's existence still has great significance to the Galaxy.

Following Isabella onto the second-floor balcony, I saw an old man, as withered as a dead tree, sitting on a rattan chair in the shadows, his eyes empty and distant.

"Long time no see, Professor."

Isabella greeted politely.

The old man stood up slowly, his voice hoarse.

"...Now don't call the old man professor, or you'll want to cry."

Just by looking into his eyes, Claudia understood.

This man is hopeless.

Those dirty eyes no longer felt any life, as if all the vitality had been blown away by the wind.

An old man who has given up everything, is trapped in despair, and lives in the past.

I have been detained here since the "Emerald Twilight" incident, and this kind of life has lasted for more than thirty years.

He once created powerful pure star weapons such as "Valda Vaos", "Pandora" and "Lyra of the Far North", and single-handedly promoted the development of pure star weapon technology for half a century. He was hailed as a man who "will go down in history", but in the end he was defeated by time.

"I haven't talked to anyone in a long time. What do you want from me?"

Baltosik looked up at the sky, and his tone became subtle.

"If it's the 'Moon of God' in the sky, I have no idea."

Isabella said calmly: "It's not me who is looking for you, but my daughter who asked to see you."

“Your daughter…” Bartosik looked as if he had just discovered Claudia and raised his eyelids slightly. “This school uniform really makes me miss her.”

"Nice to meet you. I'm Claudia Enfield."

Claudia introduced herself and took out the engine of "Pandora" from her waist.

"Now I'm this kid's partner."

"Oh, Pandora. She was the most troublesome child of mine at that time." Bartosik smiled and nodded in response, "I'm afraid you've had a hard time."

Bartosik's eyes were distant and blurred. He was not looking at Claudia and Pandora. He seemed to be looking through them into the distant past.

"Ok!"

Baltosik's gaze suddenly froze on the engine, then he suddenly picked it up and looked it up and down.

The next moment, something incredible happened.

Snapped!

A crisp slapping sound was heard, and Bartosik's old face seemed to be hit, and then "Pandora" flew back to Claudia's waist by itself.

"..." Balutosik was silent at first, and then he couldn't help laughing: "Hahaha, this is really an unprecedented and interesting thing."

Isabella's eyes became serious.

Claudia smiled and said, "As you can see, this child has become something that neither physics nor Falling Star Engineering can explain."

"It's indeed impossible to explain. This involves the realm of philosophy." Baltosik took a deep breath, and his originally dull eyes took on an inexplicable color.

"A long time ago, there was a guess."

"As for the origin of the falling star rain, there was a speculation that the universal element came from a higher dimension, that is, the world of thought."

"The human mind is nothing more than a projection of a higher dimension."

"The universal element that can respond to human thinking naturally comes from a higher dimension."

"However, this theory has been proven wrong."

Balutosik spoke calmly. At this moment, he did not seem like an old man dwelling on the past, but seemed to have turned back into a scholar full of vigor and vitality.

He said: "Now it seems that this theory is not completely wrong. There is indeed a higher-dimensional spiritual energy, but it is not the universal element."

Claudia said: "The universal element comes from the movement of celestial bodies, but it is the movement of celestial bodies in a parallel world."

"Valda Vaos thinks it is a god." Bartosik continued, "But in my opinion, it is more like a fairy. However, it is not an elemental fairy, nor a fairy of trees, buildings, mountains and rivers. It is a fairy born from the planet."

He pointed his finger at "Pandora".

"This child is also a demon."

Isabella couldn't help but interrupt: "The professor said it is no longer a weapon, but a life."

"It's still a weapon, but it's alive." Baltosik said, "According to the Jielong, it has become a spirit, a spiritual weapon or something like that."

Claudia smiled and said, "Professor, if there is a God in the multiverse, what does God look like?"

Balutosik was silent for a long time and then said something meaningful.

"It seems you have seen God."

"You haven't answered my question yet."

"If God really exists, then He can wipe out all the stars in the sky by standing on the earth. When you see the stars in the sky disappear, the star in the universe also disappears."

As soon as this was said, Isabella directly questioned: "What the professor said is totally inconsistent with physics."

Barutosik shook his head: "If God exists, then physics has no meaning. It can even be said that the existence of high-dimensional spiritual energy has destroyed human science."

He looked at Isabella, a woman who had undergone strict mental adjustment and had no personal feelings at all.

“Do you know about the white rat faith experiment?”

Isabella nodded slightly and said, "You are talking about the experiment twelve years ago, where a large number of mice were raised in a miniature model and food was delivered to them at a fixed time and place every day."

"Many mice developed 'ritualistic' behaviors. Some mice would gnaw on a tree three times and then wait for food to fall. Others would jump, and some would expose their bellies..."

"Until one day, the scientists changed the time when the food was released."

"The mice went into a frenzy and kept repeating their ritualistic behavior until food was delivered again."

Barutosik said calmly: "This is faith."

"It's like the rain-making behavior of ancient humans, who performed meaningless dances on the ground and held meaningless rituals, thinking that it would rain."

"But these 'rituals' have no logical connection with 'rain'."

"It's like a virtual window terminal. When you wave your hand, a virtual window will appear. However, there is a 'logical chain' created by human technology from 'waving your hand' to the appearance of the 'virtual window'."

At this point, Bartosik paused for a moment before saying, "High-dimensional spiritual energy is essentially a 'logic chain'."

“By forcibly linking two things that have no logical connection, ‘ritual’ and ‘rain’, together, a ‘logical chain’ is created.”

Isabella said coldly: "It sounds like magic."

"It's magic." The corners of Bartosik's mouth curved into an arc. "So, if there are gods in this universe, then logic is for the gods, not for mortals like you and me."

Claudia said slowly, "I promised to put the interests of the Galaxy first, so I have to ask, how can we make humans with divine power willing to help us defeat our brother civilization?"

Isabella's expression changed slightly, and her eyes were fixed on her daughter.

Claudia took it in stride.

Barutosik closed his eyes, as if thinking about something, and then as if he had an epiphany, he said: "Power, so this is how logic serves God? If so, then kneel down and beg him, maybe he will be happy to help you."

Claudia stood up and bowed gracefully. “Thank you very much, Professor, for clearing up my confusion.”

……

The six major integrated business conglomerates hold a "general meeting" every few years.

It brings together the top management executives from various integrated corporate conglomerates.

This time it was an impromptu meeting.

On a luxury passenger ship on the crater lake in northern Kanto, a feast of interest adjustment unfolds.

This passenger ship is not far from the hexagram.

Adjustment of interests.

Behind these four words, there are countless business wars and clashes of strategies.

Although there is fierce competition among these consortium companies, they will choose to join forces on certain things to jointly cope with the changing market situation.

In this world where the strong prey on the weak, the assets of eliminated integrated enterprises are often ruthlessly divided up by other conglomerates.

This is the only absolute economic means.

It is undoubtedly an effective tool for the expansion of this world.

Therefore, the matters adjusted through the "general talks" are limited to those major issues that may lead to devastating struggles.

War as an economic tool.

If properly controlled, it can generate corresponding benefits.

But once it exceeds a certain range, it will inevitably get out of control and cause huge losses.

Fortunately, since the "Falling Star Shower", mankind has not experienced a world-scale war for a long time.

Although there have been several examples of people going to the brink in the past, such as the armed conflict over the meteorite between the two now-defunct integrated corporate consortiums...

It was also due to the demise of two integrated corporate conglomerates.

Let the integrated corporate conglomerates begin to avoid direct armed conflicts.

Although the merged companies and conglomerates still want to seize the gaps between each other and cannibalize each other, they are also afraid that the balance between them will be broken.

Therefore, the six major conglomerates gathered on this luxury cruise ship with this contradictory mentality.

If there is only one chance to eliminate this contradiction.

That is when a consolidated corporate asset becomes a complete minority status quo.

That is to say, once the situation becomes five to one.

This integrated corporate consortium no longer has the option of resorting to war.

It will be divided into pieces by other consortiums.

To prevent this from happening, these consortiums of integrated companies need to maintain mutual interests.

That being said, minor conflicts continue to occur around the world today.

These conflicts were handled without state intervention, but by the Military Department, which was directly under the Integrated Enterprise Finance Department.

Although direct confrontations are rare, terrorist attacks against integrated corporate conglomerates are common.

At this moment, thirty men and women were sitting around a huge round table.

They are the top management executives of each conglomerate.

Ages, genders, and races vary.

Yet they looked like the same person, without any emotional fluctuations, like robots specialized in calculating the pros and cons.

Because all these cadres have undergone the highest level of mental adjustment procedures.

Although the top executives of the six major integrated corporate conglomerates are gathered here, even if all of them die in a terrorist attack, it will not have any impact on the world.

Because the control of the integrated corporate conglomerates is as absolute as a rock, and people can only accept that it has changed the world in this way over a long period of time.

If there wasn't the moon above our heads.

"...In summary, there are other parallel universes outside our universe." Isabella gave this conclusion: "The specific reason is unknown, but our world does gather many beings from other worlds."

Two virtual windows light up.

It was exactly "flipped moon" and "Australian language".

"My elder brother's civilization, claiming to be a castaway from a parallel world, plans to occupy our world and has proposed a reservation plan. They are currently using the moon to spread the universal element to change our surface environment. Their purpose is unknown."

A virtual window lights up.

It was a being wearing exoskeleton armor, a purple armored being, seemingly a woman, holding a snake staff.

One of them was wearing scarlet armor, standing on a huge manta ray, flying freely in the air. It was the knight who had never been seen in Mingxian before and was killed by Ophelia.

"The Knights' War, the origin is unknown, it is said that it was a star god from a parallel world, who, for his own hobby, created a different dimension in our world, gave weapons to the people on the hexagram, and watched them fight... just like the 'Star Martial Festival'."

Then a new virtual window opens.

The scene above clearly shows the falling star shower disaster.

"The Universal Element comes from an observable parallel universe. The Star Lord of that world is sending spiritual energy to us. The Universal Crystal may be a fragment of the Star Lord's thoughts. Its purpose is unknown, but it is speculated to be something like a detector."