The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2182: The Origin of the Harp of the Soul

However, even if the two sides of the civil war have temporarily ceased fire, the fundamental problem has not been solved - the Korok people have given up the fight against Mnggal-Mnggal. They just want to survive on their own planet, hoping that Lugubula can help them eat all the Mnggal-Mnggal who invaded the planet.

In addition, many Koroks wanted to seize the Normandy because the ship seemed to have a high-level hyperspace engine and could fly through the blockade of Mnggal-Mnggal and reach the outside world.

Shepard negotiated with the Elder Faction many times, but they all refused to lend the Mind Harp, and were even unwilling to let Shepard touch the artifact.

There was no choice, Shepard had to discuss it with Vishal.

Vishal is indeed an outlier among the Koroks. He has devoted his life to the extermination of Mnggal-Mnggal and has no interest in the conspiracies among the Koroks. He has done extensive research on Mnggal-Mnggal, but still has not found a way to completely eliminate it.

After discussion, Vishal told Shepard that no one knew how to activate the Mind Harp. In the thousands of years since the Koroks obtained the artifact, no one had been able to activate it.

But the problem is that after activating the Mind Harp, it can generate an isolation field that isolates all energy and signals on the planet, thereby cutting off the connection between all the clones of Mnggal-Mnggal on the planet and the core, turning those clones into real mud. Where did this statement come from?

And given the long lifespan of the Korok people, the person who originally proposed this statement might still be alive.

So, with the help of Vishal, Shepard began to visit everywhere. At this time, Shepard had become a tyrant on the planet Krakuul. They had a powerful spaceship like the Normandy, and the Koroks could not crack the cloaking device of the spaceship at all; they also had two ghost agents, Sen Luo and Death, excellent fighters like Ashley Williams and Kayden Alanko, and the elite of the Fourth Legion like Huang Yehao, and a legendary hero like Shepard.

During the journey to the planet Krakuul, Shepard also felt that her psychic powers were gradually awakening, which made her abilities more powerful.

In addition, the fact that she forcibly prevented the civil war made the entire Korok people fear Shepard. It was also because of this that she and Vishal were able to move freely and investigate everywhere without encountering any obstacles.

Finally, Shepard and Vishal found an old Korok who lived in a corner of the city and was unwilling to participate in the fight. He might be very old, but for the Korok people, there is no such concept as "old". "Old man" is what Shepard called him.

The old man told Shepard and Vishal that he was the one who found the Mind Harp. At the time, he sold the Mind Harp for a very high price, and the claim that the Mind Harp could isolate Mnggal-Mnggal was used to raise the price.

Because the threat of Mnggal-Mnggal had just emerged at that time, the Korok people were very actively preparing to eliminate this potentially deadly threat. Therefore, such an artifact that could target Mnggal-Mnggal was naturally very suitable.

"So, this artifact can isolate Mnggal-Mnggal from his clones, and it's just a lie?" Shepard was a little discouraged when he heard this. However, the old man shook his head and said, "It's not a complete lie, powerful human. I found the Mind Harp in a ruin."

"Where are the ruins?" Shepard asked quickly.

"At that time, the situation on the planet Krakul was not so bad, and there were occasionally some temporary hyperspace channels connecting us, allowing us to go to the dwarf star system where the planet Kamino is located, and then go to the outside world." The old man said that people in the unknown star region called the Milky Way outside the unknown star region the outside world, and called the place where they were chaos.

"So, at that time, I traveled in the outside world for a period of time and met many people. And for a few years, I traveled around with a group of explorers. One time, we came to a galaxy called Rafa." The old man continued, "The gravitational environment of this galaxy is very complex. There are eleven planets, but according to our standards, all eleven planets are uninhabitable planets. However, the most amazing thing is that there are a large number of ruins on all eleven planets."

"Remains of a lost civilization?" Shepard asked.

"That's right. A civilization called Sharu. This civilization conservatively exists 100,000 years ago, but they are not very expansive. When the Killik Swarm swept across the entire galaxy, they just lived in peace in a corner, did not participate, and did not become enemies with the Killik Swarm. And because of its remote location, the Killik Swarm probably did not really want to conquer it." The old man said, "But other than that, we don't know much more about this Sharu civilization."

"The Mind Harp, is that where you found it?" Shepard asked again.

"Yes." The old man nodded. The illusion he condensed was an old human who was about the same height as Shepard. "There are colonies of the Saru civilization on the eleven planets in the Rafa system. They should have a very advanced technology that allows them to settle on those planets with harsh environments. Then, on the fifth planet, we found a very huge pyramid building. The height of this pyramid building is even close to ten thousand meters, and it can be clearly seen from outer space. The Mind Harp is placed on the top of this huge pyramid."

The old man continued, "At the time, there was a Wookiee in our team. He was very reckless and flew over in a shuttle and took down the Mind Harp. I don't know what he did, but the moment he took down the harp, the entire planet was covered by a strange radiation. All signals and all energy were blocked! Even the radiation from the stars could not reach the planet!"

He still had some lingering fear when he said this. "And at that moment, we heard someone talking in our minds. He spoke very quickly and in Galactic Standard, but we didn't remember much. We only know that this thing is called the Mind Harp, and that they are from the Saru civilization. At the same time, this Mind Harp can completely protect a planet."

"And then you brought the Mind Harp back?" Shepard asked.

"The Galactic Republic soon noticed the anomaly on the planet Rafa, and they immediately sent an exploration team, so we ran away." The old man said, "Many things happened in the middle... In short, our team was split up, and they fought each other for the Mind Harp... But I won."

The old man in the illusion looked up at the sky, and said with some emotion, "Then, I brought the Mind Harp back to Krakuul and rewrote the words I heard in my mind. I told everyone that this was a million-year-old artifact that could isolate Mnggal-Mnggal from control. After that, I sold it at a high price." (End of this chapter)