In the eighteenth year of the Empire’s calendar, the Crown Prince Lindrick was assigned to the Northern Border for practical experience.
Although this matter concerned the heir of the Empire, it did not cause much of a stir within the Empire because Crown Prince Lindrick had been raised by Your Majesty since childhood. Although still young, he already had several years of practical experience.
Well… “The Children’s Law” may not be suitable for the royal family.
Of course, Lindrick was only assisting Your Majesty in handling state affairs, and he did not have actual independent experience, which is why he was sent to the Northern Border for practice.
Additionally, there was an even more important matter for the Empire at this time: the fleet that had been prepared to cross the Mist returned after eight years.
At that time, this fleet was said to have gathered all the Empire’s latest technologies, and some technologies that had not even been implemented in the military were included in this fleet, including a prototype small eternal well.
Moreover, the Empire had commissioned a whole ship of dragons for escort; it is known that these greedy dragons do not come cheap.
In addition to the dragons, there were many elven druids, who could even farm on the ship to ensure supply, allowing for a truly extended journey without landing.
All of this was to uncover that layer of mist.
Whether it was the M Continent or the nearly unified Solun Continent, there were almost no records regarding the Mist, and the only references were from experiences in coastal routes through the Mist; thus, although this journey was well-prepared, all crew members were armed to the teeth, and everyone boarded the fleet harboring a determination that they might not return alive.
And after eight years, the fleet returned.
When this fleet appeared in the nearby sea and signaled, the port director couldn’t believe it and immediately reported it. The matter was reported all the way to the Royal Palace, where Your Majesty the Emperor personally handled it.
After the Lars Knights confirmed that there was nothing unusual with the fleet and that the remaining personnel were mentally stable, the Sea of Consciousness was normal, and there were no strange phenomena on board, the crew was finally allowed to disembark and was sent to the imperial capital.
Of course, after confirming everything was normal, all crew members were immediately covered by major media outlets, and all those who survived were treated as heroes. Your Majesty the Emperor also awarded the crew with the Empire’s highest medal, which had not been issued in a long time.
This made many people curious about what discoveries this fleet had made overseas.
The one responsible for reporting to the entire fleet was the Gray Robe.
At this time, the Gray Robe, although very old, looked still vigorous, even more so than when Lind had first met him.
It was also because there had been little need for the Gray Robe’s assistance on Solun Continent for the past eight years that he volunteered to go to sea.
“Your Majesty, we searched for a long time on that continent beyond the Mist, but we didn’t find any intelligent life.”
Lind already knew this information through his new personal terminal, but hearing the Gray Robe say it made him pause, as if he was communicating with 550C.
Of course, just because there was no intelligent life found does not mean there were no traces of intelligent life, especially since the accompanying dragons seemed to have a nostalgic feeling towards that place; some even wanted to reside there permanently.
“However, that continent is quite vast, and at its highest peak, we observed traces of stone carvings. We spent extra time climbing that incredibly steep mountain to leave images and rubbings of the carvings.”
“That’s fine, as long as you returned.”
Lind truly hadn’t thought there would be any discoveries. Although numerous trials had been conducted in the nearby sea, he didn’t expect that the first long voyage would be successful; not to mention finding other continents, simply returning was already beyond expectations.
“Due to the large scale of the stone carvings, the rubbings are also quite sizable, so please prepare a space for us to spread them out.”
“I understand. How large of a space will be needed? Is there enough inside the palace?”
Of course, before spreading them out, Lind had already learned the content of the carvings through preview photos.
The characters on it were the ones Lind was most familiar with, each stroke and each character awakening memories deep in Lind’s mind.
As those familiar characters spread out in the open space, Lind felt tears welling up.
“People from other places, listen.”
“If you can see these words, it means you have gained enough strength to cross the Mist. Congratulations on surviving vigorously amidst the collapse of civilization and recreating the brilliance of the past.”
“The space of this continent is unusually unstable, but it has also given us different gifts.”
“Through these gifts, we have already left this beautiful homeland and left some gifts for future generations, hoping you can make good use of them. May we meet among the stars.”
This continent was personally named Pangu Continent by the Emperor, and the so-called gift was the tower on this continent—Tower of Heaven.
When the Empire finally stepped onto the Tower of Heaven, Lind realized what the so-called gift meant; the entire tower was not only wonderfully preserved and far superior to typical towers, but it had also undergone reverse engineering, with some permissions already cracked.
The entire Tower of Heaven recorded the complete history of this continent and many precious materials.
The exploration of a stable route to that unknown continent quickly made it onto the agenda and became one of the key projects promoted mainly during Lind’s reign because the route was extremely dangerous; chaotic magic and mist had caused some devices that operated through magic to produce side effects in certain sea areas. Thus, the opening of this route required not only experienced captains and sailors but also heavily relied on the development of the eternal well.
Your Majesty the Emperor and the Female Pope also wholeheartedly supported the opening of the route, even repeatedly contributing the latest prototype of the eternal well, which stabilized subsequent routes.
As the route stabilized and research on the Tower of Heaven progressed, the information regarding Pangu Continent grew more abundant.
The Dyson Sphere project divided regions on Blue Star, and each region was influenced differently by the “waves,” causing civilizations to develop in dramatically different directions.
For example, the magic produced on M Continent was due to the waves impacting material stability, while the impacts faced on Pangu Continent were even more extreme, with even space becoming unstable.
Pangu Continent also developed techniques similar to magic, and due to the significant instability of space, skills akin to magic had become even more exaggerated, surpassing what the mages of M Continent could imagine.
Indeed, Pangu Continent was a civilization of immortality, and the dragons were exiled from this civilization when it was still immature due to defeat. This civilization possessed an extremely developed system of cultivation, but aside from these systems, its technical level was quite difficult to describe—it was very extreme.
Currently, the dragons are not in their complete form; since space is more stable here on M Continent, the dragons can only achieve simple transformations. To be precise, dragons do not truly transform shapes, but replace them, a fact confirmed in previous studies on dragons. As for how the human and dragon forms originated, that would require a thorough study of this immortality civilization.
From the data in the Tower of Heaven, it can be seen that civilization on Pangu Continent evidently developed faster; they had already learned the truth and had used methods similar to ascension to break free from their shackles.
However, evidently, their methods of ascension were not universal and could not be referenced at all; it was entirely a different system. This is perhaps why this immortality civilization did not involve itself with other regions, but in any case, it saved Lind a lot of trouble; his greatest concern was that after crossing the Mist, he would have to go to war with other civilizations.
Of course, civilization on Pangu Continent also faced challenges, as the unstable space indicated more dangers. To cope with these dangers, civilization on Pangu Continent chose a path of extreme madness: actively plunging into the “waves” to gain more knowledge and information; during this process, the Pangu Continent even experienced erroneous ancient god worship.
However, halfway through, a powerful figure emerged who managed to redirect the erratic path of Pangu Continent, and it was thanks to that brave individual that everyone could ascend together.
Finally, with the aid of that hero and successive generations carrying the torch, Pangu Continent ultimately ascended. If M Continent is like a gentle firewood, then Pangu Continent is a raging flame.
But it must be said, it is indeed a warm civilization.
“May we meet among the stars.”
