Chapter 50: The Lost Empire’s Quest

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“50 years.”

Just as the Duncan Race was discussing what 50 years meant, the same voice was heard from within the lost empire of the Watcher.

They seemed to have also entered the void realm and heard the same sound.

“My friend, are you sure we really want to do this? From the information recorded in the psionic file, the beings inside the void realm might not be gods…” Someone tried to persuade his friend.

“I understand,” The admonished person stood up and calmly looked at the speaker.

“We just need faith to gather everyone’s spiritual power. God can exist or not. He is only a stepping stone on our path forward. If there’s a need, we can also change it.” The person who was speaking was the high priest of the Watcher, who was also a leader.

He seemed to be having an argument with his friend, and they were patiently trying to convince each other.

…..

“Then you still…” The admonisher’s voice was filled with anger, unable to understand why the high priest would do this.

However, the high priest suddenly laughed and said in an erratic voice, “We’ve been stuck at this stage for too long. We need to find a way to go further. The Czeros had long since completed the great feat of becoming Saints, but we still had to suffer the pain of having our bodies… If they can do it, why can’t we?

“After trading with those things in the void realm, all of our psionic potentials have made a qualitative leap. Why don’t we continue to rely on the void realm? As long as we can reach the other world before the time is up, the void realm will only be a place responsible for providing energy…”

The admonisher was silent for a moment before continuing, “Our technology is enough to satisfy everyone’s desires, so moving forward may not be that important. We’ve already been silent in the Milky Way for so long, why do we still have to take the risk and do such a dangerous thing? I don’t understand.”

The high priest shrugged, a special expression on his face. “It is precisely because of this that 1 am the high priest. And you, have become the target of our faith, our Prophet, dear Zachlan.”

The admonisher known as Zachlan fell silent once more after hearing this, his eyes filled with disappointment.

“So, my identity as a Prophet is going to be used as a great excuse again? Just like how we were before we fell?”

“Of course not, Prophet.” The high priest smiled. “You are the spokesperson of God, and every word you say is a divine decree. All believers will fight for you. This is not an excuse.”

“Then I’ll be leaving. After leaving this starfield filled with psionic, my lifespan will return to normal. I’ll find a place to spend the rest of my life. As for the reason, you can just find one. Maybe after a few decades, another Prophet will be born?”

“Oh… Prophet, if you leave like this, countless of your believers will be disappointed.”

Zachlan shook his head and replied emotionlessly, “I’m just a machine used to issue missions. As for believers? I don’t have any believers, only a bunch of poor people who believe in the wrong God.”

After that, he left without looking back.

The high priest’s expression gradually returned to normal after Zachlan left, and the hall was filled with silence.

After a while, the people of the Watcher learned that the Prophet left to search for the chosen. They fell into deep sorrow, as if they had lost spiritual faith.

With the help of this mind-corrupting emotion and the powerful assistance obtained from the void realm, the Watcher entered a brief silence.

Perhaps it would not be long before they announced their return to the world.

The earth rotated, and the scene shifted to the territory of the lost robotic empire.

The research zone brought a piece of news to Li Wenyuan which they discovered when studying the gate builder.

[ The seventh analysis of the nanobot wreckage has found that we need to control a stargate from the gate builder in order to continue the next step of research. ]

“The stargate of the gate builder?” Looking at this message, Li Wenyuan began to go through the remarks in the star map, wanting to see if there was any galaxy that had what he needed.

The result was normal. He didn’t find the relevant galaxy.

There were many places that had stargates, but they were all built by the interstellar civilizations themselves. From the star map, no one had found any special stargate.

“This is a little difficult…” If he had a specific coordinate, he could go there directly. However, if he wanted to find an undiscovered special stargate in the vast galaxy, he might not be able to find it by himself.

However, he immediately recalled a piece of information that he had just learned.

The lost empire was not completely cut off from the galaxy.

Some lost empires were very keen on issuing missions to other young civilizations and giving these young civilizations who completed the missions generous rewards.

For example… The Observer.

Li Wenyuan had once thought that the lost empire was full of reticent people who would fight at the slightest disagreement and look down on others with their noses.

However, the Observer seemed to be a lost empire that was closer to them, and it was also the lost empire that had the most contact with the other civilizations in the galaxy.

They issued a mission all year round: To collect the unique lifeforms in the Milky Way.

The young civilizations could collect a certain number of strange creatures and Observers in exchange for rewards. Some civilizations even handed over their own race as strange creatures to the Observers and successfully obtained a considerable amount of resources for their civilization.

Some of the civilizations had become the favored civilizations of the Observer after completing many missions, and they were given a small lost empire fleet as a reward.

After this reward was exposed, it also attracted the envy of more civilizations. Therefore, collecting strange creatures in the Milky Way from time to time had become a compulsory course for every civilization.

Some civilizations had even formed specialized adventurer organizations to race against time with other civilizations.

After all, the observers didn’t want repeated strange creatures. They only wanted new strange creatures.

“Now that I think about it, I seem to be a lost empire now… It’s difficult for me to find the stargate of this gate builder on my own, but it might be possible to make progress with other civilizations…”

After roughly comparing the rewards of the observer and finding that it was basically no burden for him, Li Wenyuan decided to release a find the special ancient stargate’ mission to the entire Milky Way until it was found.

And so, the civilizations that had been keeping an eye on the lost empire’s movements all received a message from the Administrator.

“Eh? Why is there a new one…”

“Something big has happened! The Administrator has issued a mission! They seem to be the third lost empire to issue a mission after the Observer and the Voyager!”

“Good news! Instead of competing with those guys who are already very familiar with bootlicking, why don’t we seize the opportunity to make a name for ourselves in the Administrator?”

“Quick, take a look. What kind of mission is it?”

While the other civilizations enthusiastically discussed the new mission the Administrator issued, Craybow was the only one who appeared to be very sad.

“I thought we were special… As expected, it’s because we didn’t leave a deep impression on the Administrator!” Blenning wiped away his tears and called over the confused Mao Xiong.

“Let’s quickly discuss how we can quickly, perfectly, and impressively complete the mission issued by the Administrator….”