World’s End: My Keyword is One More Than Others
Chapter 608: Burn the boats

Kaska cast a puzzled glance at Du Ge.

"Kaska, I have to say, you've made several serious mistakes." Du Ge's face was stern. "When I established the Federation of Emperor Stars, I repeatedly emphasized that any alien living on the emperor stars must report to the Federation immediately."

"I don't know what was going through your mind when you didn't report. It was precisely because you didn't report to me that I found out about this spaceship, which unleashed the root of disaster and brought calamity to the entire planet." Du Ge pointed at the Seed of Humanity with a hint of reproach. "If you had explained the Seed of Humanity to me from the start, I would never have opened this spaceship on my own..."

"I thought you wouldn't find the spaceship," Kaska said awkwardly. "The imperial teacher told me that if you want to hide something, don't let anyone know."

"That's just one of your mistakes." Du Ge sighed and continued, "The second mistake was that you shouldn't have chosen to deceive yourself after the Seed of Humanity was exposed, pinning your hopes for survival on the Zorn God Clan not receiving the signal."

"What does 'deceive yourself' mean?" Kaska asked.

"It's like someone covering their ears while stealing a bell, thinking that if they can't hear the bell, no one else can either," Du Ge explained.

Kaska's face flushed red. Although he was reluctant to admit it, Du Ge made too much sense.

Wasn't his current approach just like closing his eyes and pretending the Zorn God Clan wouldn't attack?

"Kaska, a true warrior dares to face any powerful enemy." Du Ge looked at Kaska with unwavering determination. "We must prepare to fight the Zorn God Clan. Your planet was destroyed by them. You don't want to see another innocent planet follow the same path, do you?

Moreover, the disaster on the emperor stars was brought by you. Without the Seed of Humanity, over seventy billion innocent people on the emperor stars would have continued to live happily..."

"It's my fault." Kaska lowered his head in guilt. "At that time, my spaceship ran out of energy, and I had no choice but to crash-land on this planet."

"Kaska, you keep saying you're the strongest warrior of your race, but in my eyes, you're truly a coward." Du Ge shook his head. "Your last fellow tribesmen died covering for you, yet you didn't have the courage to perish with the Zorn God Clan. Even when crash-landing, you chose a planet with life..."

"I..." Kaska was tongue-tied. He wasn't good with words, so how could he argue with someone as eloquent as Du Ge?

"Kaska, although you've made many mistakes, it's not too late. We still have at least three months to correct them," Du Ge said.

"Kou Nan, tell me what to do, and I'll listen to you." Kaska raised his head again, clenching his fists. "The disaster on the emperor stars is my doing, and I'll take responsibility for my mistakes, even if it costs me my life."

"Kaska, no matter how the future disaster on the emperor stars is caused, the events have already happened, and assigning blame is pointless. What we need is to face it. You want revenge for your planet, and I want to protect the emperor stars. We now have a common enemy, the Zorn God Clan."

Du Ge spoke righteously, "Taking down the mighty Zorn God Clan is in all our interests."

"Kou Nan, I also want to take down the Zorn God Clan, but they're too powerful." Kaska shook his head in despair. "The Seed of Humanity is too important to them; they'll at least send a fleet. Compared to the Zorn God Clan, the emperor stars are like a toddler."

"We have this." Du Ge pointed again at the Seed of Humanity.

"The Seed of Humanity?" Kaska was stunned. "What do you plan to do with it?"

"Unleash its full power." Du Ge's eyes sparkled. "Kaska, if the Seed of Humanity can create one Zorn God Clan, it can create a second."

"No way." Kaska reflexively refused. "Taking the Seed of Humanity out will surely be discovered by the Zorn God Clan."

"Kaska, don't gamble on so-called luck," Du Ge said. "Instead of being anxious about whether the Zorn God Clan will arrive, it's better to openly use the Seed of Humanity and make it a fait accompli. Cut off all your retreats and fight to the death."

"What do you mean?" Kaska asked.

"When not fighting means death, everyone will fight desperately," Du Ge said. "Kaska, when the Zorn God Clan attacked your planet, did some people want to surrender, some want to flee, some want to fight, and some want to negotiate?"

"..." Kaska's eyes widened again. "How do you know?"

"Because of all these chaotic thoughts, you couldn't unite to resist the Zorn God Clan, and that's why you were defeated," Du Ge sighed. "If everyone on your planet had known that the Zorn God Clan would slaughter every one of your race, wouldn't everyone have picked up weapons to fight?

If you had the determination to bite off a piece of the Zorn God Clan even if you couldn't defeat them, maybe your race wouldn't have been wiped out."

Kaska's previously high spirits suddenly deflated, and his eyes filled with pain. "You're right. When the Zorn God Clan attacked, the whole planet was in chaos."

He shook his head, driving away the pain and regaining his composure. "Kou Nan, how do you plan to use the Seed of Humanity? Removing the isolation shield of the Seed of Humanity might allow more people to undergo genetic mutation, but three months is far from enough for these mutants to grow. To defeat the Zorn God Clan, we need stronger weapons and fleets..."

"Kaska, does your spaceship have external broadcasting capabilities?" Du Ge asked.

"Yes, it's a standard feature on every spaceship. If trapped in space, it can send coordinates for rescue," Kaska replied.

"We'll broadcast to the outside, telling everyone that the Zorn God Clan's Seed of Humanity is on the emperor stars. With the Seed of Humanity, another god clan can be created," Du Ge smiled. "As long as they arrive before the Zorn God Clan, we can give them the Seed of Humanity."

Such a familiar strategy.

Janice recalled the story of Selma's desperate quest for a child and sighed silently. The fox's tail was finally showing.

"You want to give away the Seed of Humanity? It's a divine artifact!" Kaska's eyes widened.

"What else?" Du Ge laughed. "Do you really plan to rely on the three of us to defeat the Zorn God Clan? That might be brave, but it would be a meaningless sacrifice, and in the end, the Seed of Humanity would return to the Zorn God Clan, and people in the universe might not even know they were here."

"..." Kaska fell silent.

"Kaska, my goal is to protect the emperor stars, and as long as we achieve that, it's enough," Du Ge said. "Do you know why no one helped you against the Zorn God Clan? Because helping you brings nothing but trouble, with no benefits.

But with the Seed of Humanity as bait, it's different. Civilizations capable of challenging the Zorn God Clan or their enemies will be drawn to it. You used the wrong method."

"What if we give the Seed of Humanity to another civilization?" Kaska, accustomed to Du Ge pointing out his mistakes, frowned. "Our actions would still anger the Zorn God Clan. If they can't get the Seed of Humanity, they'll vent their anger on us, and the people of the emperor stars still won't survive."

"Kaska, we can use the Seed of Humanity to have people from other planets take us away from this planet," Janice suggested.

"And abandon the people of the emperor stars?" Kaska said. "That's no different from when we fled! Besides, they might not accept us..."

"No, we're not leaving here," Du Ge shook his head. "We can send the broadcast a month later, then tell everyone that the Zorn God Clan will arrive at the emperor stars in three months."

Janice's eyes widened suddenly.

"What do you mean?" Kaska was confused.

"It means we want the fleets of other civilizations and the fleet of the Zorn civilization to arrive at the emperor stars at just the right time or close to it," Du Ge smiled. "As long as we can make them collide, we'll naturally have allies."

"How is that possible?" Kaska frowned deeply. "How could we possibly have allies?"

"Idiot," Janice said. "Because the broadcast we send will also be received by the Zorn God Clan. At that point, everyone coming to the emperor stars will be after the Seed of Humanity, and the Zorn God Clan will naturally see them as enemies."

"..." Kaska's eyes widened in shock. "My God, this plan is simply perfect. I once thought it would be up to the three of us to fight the Zorn God Clan!"

"Alright, let's study the time it would take for those advanced civilizations to reach the emperor stars," Du Ge turned back to the star maps. "Let's refine our plan and make sure those advanced civilizations can join the fun..."

...

The star maps were ready, and the spatial nodes were easy to calculate. It didn't take long for Du Ge to devise a very perfect bait plan.

In this plan, as long as two or three civilizations took the bait, Du Ge would be able to contend with the Zorn God Clan.

Du Ge excelled at blitzkrieg, followed by creating chaos, and then winning amidst the confusion.

The keyword chaos was practically tailor-made for him.

"Kou Nan, you're a wise man. If only you had been on our planet back then," Kaska said admiringly, his voice filled with melancholy. "Then maybe our planet wouldn't have been destroyed."

"Kaska, we will eventually defeat the Zorn God Clan and avenge your people," Du Ge patted Kaska's shoulder. "Come, my friend, let's see what the Seed of Humanity really is."

"Alright," Kaska agreed readily. By now, he no longer harbored any wariness towards Du Ge.

Kaska pressed a few buttons, and the floating light holding the Seed of Humanity's box disappeared. The Seed of Humanity slowly settled on the table.

Then, he began to carefully turn the runes on the box...

So there was a mechanism!

Du Ge muttered in his heart. If he had tried to seize it by force earlier, who knows what unexpected events might have occurred!

There was no way it would be like now, with Kaska willingly showing him the Seed of Humanity...

Sincerity in exchange for sincerity, truly the best way to make friends.

"The Seed of Humanity allows people to awaken a random superpower," Kaska said as he opened the box. "But no one can determine the strength of this power. Members of the Zorn God Clan return to their home planet upon reaching adulthood to touch the Seed of Humanity and gain this power. The heat rays from my eyes awakened after I obtained the Seed of Humanity..."

"People on the emperor stars gained superpowers without touching the Seed of Humanity," Du Ge noted.

"You don't have to touch it, but the awakening time becomes too random," Kaska explained. "That's why mutants have appeared sporadically on the emperor stars over thirty years. Using touch makes the awakening time more uniform..."

"Can everyone awaken?" Du Ge asked.

"Not everyone," Kaska shook his head. "There are many ordinary people in the Zorn God Clan. Awakening might depend on luck! After we stole the Seed of Humanity and escaped, over a hundred people were still alive, but only a tenth of them awakened superpowers."

"Only a tenth?" Janice was a bit disappointed.

"A tenth isn't low," Du Ge said. "There are seven billion people on the emperor stars. If a tenth awaken, that's seven hundred million people. Currently, there are only over ten million mutants on the emperor stars."

At this moment, the box was opened.

The true form of the Seed of Humanity was revealed to the three of them.

It was a pale green sphere, emitting a soft glow, with a faint mist swirling inside, giving a sense of vibrant life.

"So beautiful," Janice praised, turning to Du Ge. "Who goes first?"

"Ladies first," Du Ge smiled, gesturing. "Kaska, does the Seed of Humanity only have the function of awakening superpowers?"

"I don't know. I'm not a member of the Zorn God Clan," Kaska shook his head. "After we stole the Seed of Humanity, we kept it locked in the box and never opened it."

Janice closed her eyes, clasped her hands together, prayed for a moment, and then reverently reached for the Seed of Humanity.

Du Ge watched her intently.

At the moment her hand touched the Seed of Humanity, Du Ge vaguely saw a wisp of mist penetrate the barrier of the Seed of Humanity and merge into Janice's palm.

Janice clearly felt the change too. She opened her eyes immediately. "Kou Nan, I feel something entering my body... Ah!"

A painful scream interrupted her words.

Immediately after, she clenched her fist tightly, and her facial expression twisted in pain.

"Is this normal?" Du Ge asked.

"It should be. When I awakened my heat rays, it felt like my eyes were thrown into molten iron," Kaska said. "This is the awakening process, and everyone must endure it..."

Before he finished speaking, Janice had already calmed down. She extended her hand.

Then, under Du Ge and the others' gaze, her entire hand gradually became transparent and disappeared, followed by her arm.

"Invisibility?" Seeing this, Kaska smiled. "Janice, you're quite lucky."

"It's not invisibility," Du Ge shook his head. His perception was very strong, but in his senses, Janice's vanished arm was completely undetectable, as if it had never existed.

"That's right, it's not invisibility, it's intangibility," Janice restored her arm and smiled. "I can make my body intangible, and in this state, no one can harm me, but I also can't attack. This skill is suitable for being an assassin, like having a stealth skill..."

Stealth keyword, huh?

Du Ge glanced at Janice with a smile and decisively reached for the Seed of Humanity...