Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 777 - 385. Void’s Face

Chapter 777: 385. Void’s Face

The moon receded.

Li Aozi slowly stood up, with a flip of his wrist, the gravity immediately dragged the surviving objects from the ashes over to him.

It was said that the Dragon Race had an internal joke. How did the Dragon Race, who spouted fire every day, differentiate treasures during a battle?

The answer was to burn it with fire. Precious metals could still be used after being burnt, with minimal loss. If it didn’t burn, then it was definitely something valuable!

Similarly, anything that could maintain its form under the 4,200,000-degree Celsius high temperature of the Shining Sword was undoubtedly something valuable.

What fell into his palm was Gaden’s mask, entirely green, with exquisite golden plant patterns etched on it, worth a considerable amount.

"From the blacksmith’s memory and Gaden’s words, the Knights of the High Table were not only powerful but also possessed such unique masks."

As for the material, it was unclear what it was. Even with the Eye of Truth, Li Aozi could only get the information of ’Void Creation.’

This wasn’t the Eye of Truth falling short; on the contrary, it being able to identify it as Void Creation precisely showed its effectiveness.

Items from the Void basically couldn’t be identified.

It was like the Spirit Maggot Li Aozi had once obtained. That thing itself was in the lower Starry Abyss, growing by absorbing Void Energy. When artificially implanted into the star, it had to co-exist with the planet, eventually being cultivated into a Stellar God needed by the Narrative Civilization.

Anything associated with the Void was like this, so Li Aozi wasn’t surprised.

"The Kingdom Parliament itself was established on collaboration with the Void to maintain dominion, similar to a fickle comprador government. But because of the unique existence of the ’King,’ its government’s legitimacy was quite high."

All dynastic governments in the world faced a legitimacy issue, the so-called orthodoxy. Usurper-type governments gained power illegitimately and had low legitimacy, unable to secure people’s happiness. The Kingdom Parliament, with its peculiar ’Nine Knights’ Council,’ was neither a constitutional monarchy nor a democratic assembly; the nine knights were indeed supreme rulers.

To put it plainly, the Kingdom Parliament was akin to a Warlord Alliance.

If not for the unique presence of the ’King,’ who could resist the Void and make the people completely at ease and submissive, such a warlord-oligarchy political structure wouldn’t last for years in other places.

Li Aozi wasn’t surprised. There were millions of ideologies, thousands of intellectual trends, and innumerable political systems in the Starry Abyss. Some civilizations seemed high and mighty but retained tribal chieftain and slave systems upon closer inspection.

You might think alien invaders would give you the "eight-hours-a-day work torture," but more likely, you’d be shipped off to the Eye of the Galaxy. If you were strong, you could be used to mend the lines, but if weaker, you’d obediently dig for meteorites.

History would prove countless times that only civilizations that were self-reliant and strong had a way out.

"However, the situation on Dragon Satellite was completely built on fighting against the Void, without entirely being transformed into an inherent temporal domain. Given the current situation, the Void would sooner or later swallow Dragon Satellite, turning it into an inherent temporal domain."

Li Aozi wasn’t overly optimistic about the situation.

Even though he was at the moment a Lunar String Archbishop, stepping into Iota Rank (9), he still didn’t have much faith in the future.

The reason was simple. Dragon Satellite was only so big, with a population of less than four billion. A group of Zeta Rank (6) civilians without any pathways wouldn’t survive thirty minutes in the Eye of the Galaxy—a proper Zeta Rank Ascender could at least last four hours!

The projection of the Void Overlord present here, along with the continuous Void Invasion, meant the intensity of the battlefield here wasn’t much weaker than the Eye of the Galaxy.

If the Eye of the Galaxy was a high-tech electric meat grinder, then Dragon Satellite was at least a windmill flesh mill.

"I can’t end this war, unless... I can align with the so-called ’King.’"

Coincidentally, he remembered Gaden mentioned that only by collecting the nine masks of the Knights of the High Table could one meet the ’King.’

Li Aozi pondered for a moment, then called up his panel and began reviewing his status, simultaneously investing the experience he had saved for five years into it.

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Name: Li Aozi

Species: Moon Zealot (Appearance Altered)

Gender: Genderless (Moon Zealots belong to the Starry Abyss Descendant lineage, without gender markers)

Age: 33 years

Template: Battle Maniac NPC (Damage Output Rate +300%, Ignore Hierarchy Effects)

Faction: None

Total Level: lv.240

——Main Profession: [Sovereign] Class——[Lunar String Archbishop] lv.180 (MAX)

——Secondary Profession: [Biochemist] lv.30; [Magician] lv.30

Lifestyle Profession: Forging Master

Health Points: 550,000

Energy Points: 620,000

Attributes:

Strength——1092

Dexterity——880

Constitution——1200

Charm——798

Will——140

Talents:

[Racial Talent - Demonic Fervor]

[Personal Talent: Object Resonance]

[Occupational Talent - Bishop’s Military Soul]

Specialty:

[Extraordinary Physique]———As an Iota Rank powerhouse, you have reached the biological limit of Layer Abyss creatures. Ordinarily, the weak attacks of Ascenders would only have 30% effectiveness on you, including physical armor piercing, spell penetration, and true damage.

When you target and perform attribute assessments against targets below your rank, they will be regarded as having 900% actual efficiency. (Iota Rank)

[Perpetual Love Hunting], [Perpetual· Willful], [Perpetual Vanguard];

(Upon promotion to Iota Rank, non-perpetual specialties were absorbed into the body, becoming instinct)