novelraw Chapter 415 - 408: Interstellar Counterattack Launch Event
Chapter 415 - 408: Interstellar Counterattack Launch Event
"Next, I have other matters to attend to."
Ma Ran stood by the desk, with a chair right by his side, yet he did not sit down. Instead, he looked at the two Chuanke Princes with a calm expression and a steady voice, as if devoid of any emotional fluctuation: "You two, calculate the timing well."
"Report to me twice each Earth Month."
Though there was no hint of threat in his words, the threat was omnipresent.
Li Tang and Adam simultaneously lowered their heads, their eyes flickering.
They were well aware that if they disobeyed Ma Ran’s orders, the consequences would not be pleasant.
Otherwise, what purpose do the Emotional Tribulation and the condition-triggered Spiritual Bomb serve?
The young man from Earth before them, with his black and white hair, although handsome and gentle in demeanor, was inherently ruthless.
"Understood." Adam immediately responded.
After today, he would leave Earth to pursue Chuan Qi. After that, he’d return to the Chuanke Civilization to launch his strategies.
Compared to the Eldest Prince, he was the one who needed to be more mindful of the passage of time.
Indeed...
Within the vast cosmos, the speed of time passing is entirely different in different locations.
Should they miscalculate and trigger the soul-bound bomb, causing their soul to scatter, that would indeed be the height of foolishness!
However, with 160,000 years of development, the Chuanke Civilization is now prosperous, living in a grand era of flourishing flowers and blazing oils. Simple time conversions can still be perfectly controlled.
Li Tang’s response came slightly slower than Adam’s: "Rest assured."
They were all participants in the brutal battle for the throne, originally prepared for the possibility of defeat and downfall, unwilling to submit beneath others.
Yet the critical issue is...
To try any underhanded tricks beneath Ma Ran’s gaze is to be prepared for immediate death and the complete obliteration of one’s spirit and soul upon failure.
The two understood very well that Ma Ran was not one to discuss reason!
The Romantic Goddess Shana, who was killed on the spot and plastered onto the Traitor’s Wall, was the perfect testament to that.
Dying in a grand battle is a world apart from being slapped to death casually.
Adam and Li Tang were unaware that Ma Ran, who steadily deepened his mastery of Enchantment, preferred opponents whose resistance was not firm enough.
As long as the enemy’s ideology and beliefs softened a bit, choosing to beat around the bush and plot conspiracies, eventually their mentality would be altered, turning them into another of Ma Ran’s Chess Pieces.
After responding, Li Tang sighed inwardly.
Initially, coming to Earth and participating in the competition was merely a forced mission for him, never expecting to get involved in such affairs.
Crises often mean opportunity. Upon learning Ma Ran possessed the Soul Completion Divine Technique, he once fantasized about directly annihilating his third brother Adam and seventh sister Eve, and using the Star Destroyer Cannon to obliterate Earth, completely eradicating billions on Earth, taking only Ma Ran.
With the assistance of the Soul Completion Divine Technique, along with the technological tree the Eldest Prince had already mastered, even starting from scratch, he could quickly rise, having the capital to become a Chess Player, and contend with the Emperor of Chuanke.
Unfortunately, plans couldn’t keep up with changes.
The ideal scenario was beautiful, but the harsh reality was that Li Tang alone simply was not a match for Ma Ran!
The only possible route to victory was using the interstellar battleships and star destroyer cannon as deterrents, leveraging the lives of Earth Humans to coerce Ma Ran into surrendering.
However, the only possibility he saw had also been completely annihilated under Ma Ran’s operations.
"Anything is possible; though I’m now bound by Emotional Tribulation, forced to remain on Earth, I’ve also taken the initiative to assist in the construction of the Chinese Mecha System."
"As long as I continue to shine brightly, I can increase my influence, finding the possibility of regaining freedom!"
"Even turning the tables, subduing Ma Ran, isn’t a zero probability event."
Though Li Tang found himself on the same boat with Adam and was willing to help Adam become the zero sequence existence in the Chuanke civilization’s succession line, it didn’t mean he had given up trying.
He absolutely refused to place all hopes of regaining freedom on Adam!
Even within enemy lines, he sought to create possibilities from the impossible!
Everything splendid about the Chuanke Civilization was created by ancestors and predecessors. Li Tang respected them but wasn’t overly flattering.
In the vast cosmos, everything flourishes and declines eventually.
Since coming to Earth and downloading copious knowledge of Earth Civilization, Li Tang found himself greatly enjoying the line from Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "The general trend of the world is long split; it must unite, long united; it must divide."
Throughout Earth’s history, the Seven Kingdoms of the Zhou Dynasty contended before uniting under Qin, and after Qin’s fall, Chu and Han vied before amalgamating under Han.
This is almost a miniature of the history of the Chuanke Civilization’s unification 160,000 years ago!
Over 160,000 years of flourishing development, the Chuanke Civilization had not sailed smoothly, encountering many problems including rebellions, schisms, innovations, and external invasions...
Ultimately, the solution the Chuanke Imperial Family proffered was interstellar colonization.
By continually invading other civilizations, seizing technology and resources, they diverted internal star system conflicts and garnered public support.
Aside from this, coupled with slight insignificant propaganda and brainwashing tactics, together these forged the Chuanke Imperial Family’s reign spanning 160,000 years.
The Chuanke populace passed these tactics down through generations, singing praises, even incorporating them into textbook curriculums, requiring every Chuanke citizen to learn and write reflections over ten times from birth onward.
After undergoing countless trials, Li Tang, however, did not believe those tactics truly as glorious or great as penned in the textbooks.
Rather than inherit an existing family business, he preferred to start anew, reconstructing brilliance.
Even if the bloodthirsty initial phase demands a sacrifice of tens of billions of Earth humans, Li Tang views it as worthwhile.
In creating new glory, Ma Ran proved the biggest and most indispensable opportunity.
Li Tang thought he had figured everything out and believed he still had an opportunity to turn the tables, yet little did he know that from the moment they reported to Ma Ran, his destiny trajectory was already clasped firmly within Ma Ran’s palm.
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When Adam led the Three Major Interstellar Fleets away from Earth, chasing Chuan Qi from all directions, Li Tang had already taken up a nominal position at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, beginning to assist scholars in constructing the foundations of the Chinese Mecha System.
At this moment, in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, within the Extraordinary Museum, the crowds were massive, with throngs gathered for the spectacle, shoulder to shoulder in the noisy, bustling hubbub.
Why, you ask?
The reason was simple.
Following Burning Nightmare, Dong Huaiming Master’s second installment of the Guardian series, Interstellar Counterattack, was freshly released!
Since its IP debut of Burning Nightmare and the subsequent AAA masterpiece game themed on the counterattack against the Eternal Civilization, the Guardian series had become globally sensational.
Besides characters like Demon Child Zhang Kuang, Prophet Ma Ran, Martial God Su Qiangwei becoming familiar household names, figures such as Dong Huaiming, Wu Di, and Li Xing also rode the wave to great fame, basking in glorious popularity.
During the new book release conference, Xiao Ming introduced to the assembly the main writing concepts, sentiments, and visions of Interstellar Counterattack, when suddenly receiving a message, his smile broadened across his face.