novelraw Chapter 1119 146: Do You Think This Is Playing Mahjong?
Chapter 1119 146: Do You Think This Is Playing Mahjong?
Leoz touched his chin:
"Since you just mentioned God Embracers, can we make a big deal out of this and bring in the Narrative Union from the Border Abyss? Let them send a God Embracer to mediate."
"Mediate? What you're saying is truly civilized. This isn't called mediation; the Narrative Civilization comes over and every participant gets taken care of one by one. They only consider their own interests."
Rednaya shook her head:
"Moreover, this hasn't risen to the level of a Demigod; it's just another cursed Evil God combined with a High-Rank dragon race, not enough to attract the Narrative Civilization's attention—what conditions can you offer to make the Narrative Civilization interested? Or do you have some special status or background? Unless you can also speak English?"
"If we were in the Layer Abyss, I could actually pretend to be a Senator..."
Leoz shook his head.
With things progressing to this point, he was quite surprised himself.
Rather, no one expected that Evil God Vivace would quietly cross the entire prairie within half a month, which itself was very abnormal.
Rednaya's communication with Ranmalock showed that Vivace ripped open dimensional rifts and directly Fold Jumped over—far more absurd than a Fold Jump, in fact.
As a former [Lunar String Archbishop], Leoz still possessed the ability to span timelines, but due to the vastness of Starry Abyss's real world, even jumping along a timeline would eventually be corrected by the Cosmic.
Vivace's approach was like smashing open the floor and jumping straight to the bottom floor, simple and crude, without considering self-damage, and could cause serious harm to the entire Cosmic.
Where she tore open a rift, the flow of spacetime couldn't return to normal for hundreds of years; it would either be disordered or opportunistic invaders would break through barriers and invade Starry Abyss.
Compared to Rednaya, Leoz was more concerned with Vivace's purpose in doing this.
Vivace's storyline, though it might seem lengthy, isn't actually long; a normal player can complete it within half a month.
Complex, maybe not really, since there aren't many main tasks, and skipping the storyline doesn't affect knowing what happened.
In fact, the player database of "Starry Abyss" hardly bothers to record it.
After all, Layer Abyss is vast, teeming with myths, three major narratives vy for dominance, with Void, [Society], and Evil Gods lurking, the whole world in open and covert struggle, players long accustomed.
By killing Xides, formally obtaining the Talent of "From Star Abyss", Leoz understood more about the "past life" in greater detail.
Even so... Leoz was still unclear on what hidden circumstances had transpired.
Thus, he planned to take the opportunity to thoroughly review the entire storyline of Vivace.
Initially, according to the plot line, Vivace's story naturally occurs forty years after the Galaxy Eye Meat Grinder battle.
At that time, it was just as the Dragon Satellite storyline ended.
[Hey... now I think about it, it's perhaps because of Xides that the Dragon Satellite storyline was resolved ahead of time, with players not intervening.]
Speaking of which, "Zhi Xiang" Merid was originally just a neutral NPC, for players to follow hints, overthrow the Dragon Satellite's Void forces, driving back the Void's Vanguard Team to boost Merid's goodwill; only a small price would need to be paid to acquire [Weak Force] Sequential Arcane Energy.
Compared to Leoz's thrilling five years, the original storyline was quite mild.
It was precisely when the Dragon Satellite event ended, Void retreated from Layer Abyss, power reclaimed, that the Empire noticed security risks, began internal checks, ultimately uncovering the initial "Silent Disconnect" crisis, and exposing internal traitor spies.
The broad strokes of the Silent Disconnect story had been known before, but thanks to the Talent, Leoz understood it more clearly, especially the details, now fully recalled.
Vivace's story, originated from one of the Temple's "Silent Disconnect" crisis.
In Layer Abyss, due to the Temple's ancient stability, it held very high status within many underdeveloped and weak civil governments.
The Empire seeks conquest, land seizure, regime change, cultural imposition, forced conversion.
The Consortium is about colonization, product dumping, culture control, complete domination of local markets.
Only the Temple primarily abstains from interfering in non-religious affairs, possessing a vast array of religious scholars and various charitable institutions.
They do not directly overthrow native religions or spread their doctrines but support local religions, appease the populace, sow the seeds of idealism in people's hearts.
Moreover, they excel at localization, able to join rural locals for spiced hot soup or discuss national affairs in high-level meetings, this soft faith output enables many civilizations to interact with the Temple without any qualms.
This was demonstrated during the Azure Star-Maxwell Consortium conflict, the Obliteration Sanctum's appeal to weak countries and third-rate civilizations was terrifying.
Therefore, the true greatest victim of Silent Disconnect was the Temple.
As the Temple's Underwater Abyss Team got wiped out, a member's family—descendants from the Snow World Civilization, the Snow Family—felt especially furious, deeply disappointed by the official's evasiveness, persistently demanded accountability.