Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 717 - 328. Congratulations, it’s your turn to clean the gate.

Chapter 717: 328. Congratulations, it’s your turn to clean the gate.

In reality, he had a little personal thought.

Although having reached this point, Leoz didn’t need to think twice, as his immense strength had already surpassed Velazquez Corporation’s current control capability. Trying to find a chance to subjugate Leoz again might fall to the Underwater Abyss Team.

But Andrew believed that Leoz would definitely delve into the Starry Abyss, just not right now.

If Leoz were nimble with the information, he should also know about the crisis of silent disappearance... Over the years, the Underwater Abyss Team had barely been open to the outside, which gave them a new opportunity to re-plan the subjugation of Leoz.

In Andrew’s view, Leoz’s value at least reached the Omega Tier. As for whether he could ascend to godhood, that would be up to his own choice.

In the Layer Abyss, the Omega Tier (24) wasn’t meant for inter-civilization conflicts, not even those above the Kappa Rank (10). It was commonly accepted that they wouldn’t get involved in secular struggles, which was also a protection for the Starry Abyss.

The meaning of Omega lay in countering the "Society," especially the Predator Type "Society." Their Speaker had a very strong combat ability, and enough Omega Tiers were necessary to contend with them.

Currently, the "Society" was rampant, and the core narratives needed more Omega Tiers to hold the line.

There was just one thing he still couldn’t understand.

Why did Nariya, so calm and cruel, become like that whenever she faced Leoz?

Was it the power of divinity... or an unknown ability?

"Leoz, what a pity."

Andrew shook his head.

He had great respect for the heroic Leoz, who always gave it his all, but the results were usually not too favorable.

He could only say, for the time being, to let it go.

"By the way, Andrew, you can temporarily stop worrying about Leoz’s matter."

A subordinate said this, handing Andrew a black file:

"The people upstairs have spoken."

Andrew looked down and immediately noticed the light gold dragon-patterned signature at the document’s end.

"The headquarters executive council. This is the top level’s intention."

Andrew murmured, then opened the file and quickly skimmed through the contents. The more he read, the stranger his expression became:

"...It’s really strange. Silent disappearances in the Underwater Abyss Team have occurred one after another, and the three major narratives have already lost 327 Underwater Abyss Seeds."

Andrew pressed his temples, starting to ponder:

"Once is accidental, twice could be a coincidence, but more than three times, it’s definitely someone plotting in secret."

The document’s contents were simple. The Velazquez Corporation, now at its peak, had been tasked by higher-ups to investigate the silent disappearances of the Underwater Abyss Team.

This should be a good thing, indicating that Velazquez was climbing internally within the corporation, even if two accidents couldn’t obscure the massive overall profits.

But Andrew was more concerned about one thing:

"With such a big issue, were the narrative civilizations below all deaf? Not a single thing was explained clearly."

"Could it be... the lower Border Abyss narratives decided to break away from us? No, it shouldn’t be. Decades ago, they should have tasted the plundering from the "Society." There’s no reason they’d be foolish enough to isolate the upper Starry Abyss and endure passive attacks themselves."

"After all... the "Society" doesn’t need nodes; they can dive into and float up from the Starry Abyss at any time."

It’s quite laughable to think about it. As natives of the Starry Abyss, communicating among themselves was difficult, yet as the invaders from Beyond the Abyss, the "Society" didn’t need nodes. They endured the curse and could dive into the Starry Abyss from any position.

For this reason, when facing the "Society," narrative civilizations were like agrarian societies facing nomads: lacking mobility and the ability to pursue, they could only shrink back in their Inherent Time Domains most of the time.

Although the upper Starry Abyss had severe power suppression, relatively, the "Society’s" power was also weaker; the deeper you went, the greater the harm posed by the "Society."

So Andrew concluded that the lower narratives wouldn’t do this.

The frequent silent disappearances this time, if not the lower narratives throwing a tantrum—then there was only one possibility.

"Citizens of the "Society" infiltrated the narrative civilizations."

Andrew took a deep breath. Faced with this cold reality, his head started to ache.

This meant that the higher-ups intended to make him the bad guy and investigate everything.

Clearly, in the upcoming long period, he would definitely become a pariah, targeted and attacked by everyone.

Andrew painfully said:

"Luck with wealth is poor..."

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"Luck with wealth is great!"

Li Aozi, with bandaged ears, happily counted the spoils of his journey.

The destroyed intelligent battleships still had many valuable devices for research.

Nephis Cleopatra, experiencing freedom for the first time, was quickly sent back to Baizhu Star by Li Aozi.

With Dialan and Nephis, two Zeta Ranks, holding the fort on Baizhu Star, Li Aozi didn’t have to worry about his homeland being raided.

It was just that Dialan looked at him strangely, especially when looking at Nephis, with a subtle feeling.

This didn’t matter much; at worst, it was just a battleground of rivals. With his immense charm, it was natural for people to like and desire him.

Li Aozi wasn’t interested in choosing a partner. Even in the cosmos, talking about love seemed too small-scale.

Next, he planned to act alone for a long time. Sending Nephis there allowed her to slowly get used to Baizhu Star’s environment and settle down there.

The biggest gain this time was, of course, the ransom money Nariya swiftly transferred, a total of 940 million ammonium gold.

As soon as this money was credited, Li Aozi immediately invested it in the construction of the second phase of the expedition fleet.

Recently, X Fleet had been reporting victories one after another, soon to conquer the entire Red Pupil System. Once the first stellar system was completely subjugated and incorporated into their territory, Li Aozi could start dividing the spoils—allocating territories.

The players’ value had been increasing, and with version 2.0 coming up, the level cap for players could likely reach Zeta (6).

By then, Li Aozi’s 400,000 Undead Legion would effectively be equivalent to 1.2 million people, and they had no fear, never retreated, and didn’t even worry about supply shortages.

What concept was this?

The Crystal Tower, controlling five large star clusters, had a regular Zeta Rank force of just a million. In wartime, it barely reached 2.5 million, including grassroots Pathway Ascenders to Divinity.

This was the measure of a three-tier civilization in the Layer Abyss.

In the next version, Li Aozi’s power, at least in terms of combat strength, would quickly reach the level of a third-tier civilization.

It could even be said... that at this point, Li Aozi had managed to carve out a unified front, and the Baizhu Star autonomy could be assimilated into the narrative civilization and its Inherent Time Domain.

Of course, Li Aozi’s ambition wasn’t limited to this.

Players were inherently profit-driven, and Li Aozi needed to provide them with enough land to bind them tightly to himself, preventing them from being poached by other narrative-level civilizations.

The next version’s focus for Li Aozi would be on the direct confrontation with Lord Entropy, and the time left for him was actually not much.

At most five years, at the least, maybe only three years.

"Within these three years, I must delve into the Starry Abyss and return, and formally participate in the decisive battle against Lord Entropy as a "Bishop.""