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Chapter 122 The Era of Great Collapse

In the year of Emperor Xiu 3232, the speech delivered by the high priest Zuo Yi after the prayer ceremony set a new future direction for the human race.

That is the legendary sea area.

But before advancing to the legendary sea, the human race needs to collect a large amount of information about the legendary sea, and then choose a force based in the legendary sea to challenge.

This is different from the multi-front push in the expedition plan.

It is said that every force in the sea area is terrifyingly strong. In the horizontal push mode, the human race needs to defeat many with one, which is completely a suicide attempt.

If you want to enter the legendary sea while minimizing losses, the best option is to collect intelligence in advance and then pick the weakest ones.

In terms of intelligence collection, the human race has found its former ally, the "Gold Coin Organization."

There are thousands of strange organizations in the outer seas, and the Gold Coin Organization is one of them.

This organization's business covers all sea areas, and it has recruited a large number of wandering forces who serve the gold coin organization to earn development resources through sea trade.

In essence, the gold coin organization is a neutral force.

After the tragic victory, it brought about explosive benefits of resources.

Information trading, resource exchange, resource sales, special resource purchase... In addition to not participating in war, the gold coin organization can provide professional services for all activities related to resource trade.

In the end, he won the victory at the cost of huge casualties and was successfully promoted to a legendary sea force.

Among the 36 legions, 16 legion commanders died. Among them, the Disease Curse Legion, the Wraith Legion, and the Divine Descendant Legion were almost completely destroyed, and the legions existed in name only.

The strangest thing about this force is that the headquarters and branches of the Gold Coin Clan are never located on any resource-based islands. This prevents the Gold Coin organization from being involved in the vortex of war. The only way for them to obtain resources is through trade.

These rumors may be true or false, but what is certain is that the Gold Coin Organization is very powerful.

The power of the Galaxy Clan has plunged the human empire into a bitter struggle.

Regarding these Gold Coin tribe allies who blocked the advancement of the expedition plan, the high priest Zuo Yi specifically asked the Gold Coin organization at first, but the reply he received was:

The bad premonition became reality in the following years.

He chose to send dead soldiers into the legendary sea area to make tentative contact with the Galaxy clan warriors.

But the price paid is also extremely heavy.

The number of warriors in the Human Empire plummeted by 800%, and nearly billion warriors lost their souls to the Imperial Cultivator in this battle.

Since the beginning of the Great Crusade, the human race has killed countless allies of the Gold Coin Organization.

At a huge cost, Zuo Yi obtained the partial map of the legendary sea area he wanted.

In the third year after the Human Race settled in the Legendary Sea, the Chilong Clan launched a challenge to the Human Race.

The gold coin organization only has trade allies, not war allies.

After the initial tentative fight with the Chilong Clan, High Priest Zuo Yi realized something was wrong.

In fact, as long as other forces are willing to bid for information related to the Human Empire, the Gold Coin Organization is also willing to sell it.

But the gold coin organization has never done this. They still choose to collect development resources and the power of belief in gods through trade.

This force has been stationed in the Legend Sea for less than 50 years. It just experienced a war 10 years ago and is in the stage of recovery.

Any overseas force that is willing to trade with the Gold Coin Organization can actually be a verbal ally of the Gold Coin Organization.

The war between humans and the Galaxy Clan broke out at the end of 3238, and the brutal war lasted for 27 years.

If you want, the gold coin organization can become the overlord of the legendary sea area at any time.

The three resource wells under the control of the Galaxy Clan have become the territory of the human race, and the pure divine power produced every day is enough to supply the assembly line-like batch output of divine weapons.

This time Zuo Yi contacted the Gold Coin Organization to look for information on the legendary sea area.

There are 103 forces on this chart, and each of them is a powerful force that is not weaker than the human race.

After making his choice, Zuo Yi did not act rashly.

Finally, in 3238, it was officially decided to launch a challenge targeting the Galaxy Clan.

During this period, 36 legions fought on the same front. This was the first time the legions' combat power was merged since the human expedition plan.

The Gold Coin Organization has been developing in the outer seas for thousands of years, and there are many rumors about this organization in the outer seas.

After many verifications and investigations, Zuo Yi selected the "Galaxy Clan" who had recently been promoted to the Legendary Sea as the target of the challenge.

It seems that the development of the human race is back on track, but in fact, a new crisis is coming.

Although they were allies, the Gold Coin Organization stated that they could provide information to them as long as the price was right.

Although the Gold Coin Organization is an ally of the human race, it should be more accurately said to be a "neutral force".

It is said that the Gold Coin God already has the terrifying power to settle in the legendary sea area, and the seemingly friendly members of the Golden Coin Clan also have the power to easily obliterate the original God.

With thousands of years of maritime trade, there must be many forces that are jealous of the Gold Coin Organization's huge resource inventory and challenge and plunder it.

The Gold Coin Organization is the only force that can obtain huge resource benefits through non-war methods in the outer sea where there are many demons and powerful tribes.

But so far, there has been no news that the island where the Gold Coin Organization is located has been successfully plundered, which is enough to illustrate the power of the Gold Coin Organization.

This reply has defined the diplomatic and trade model of the gold coin organization. They can help their allies in trade, but they will not send troops to fight for their allies.

Just as Zuo Yi expected, the Gold Coin Organization indeed has a lot of information about the forces in the legendary sea area. There are even many forces in the legendary sea area that have come step by step to where they are today thanks to years of cooperation with the gold coin organization.

After the Chilong Clan's strength was fully demonstrated, it actually had a stronger overall combat power than the Galaxy Clan.

At this time, the human race had just experienced a tragic war. The souls of the 16 legion commanders had returned to the Imperial Cultivator. They were all still in the stage of soul reshaping, but they were once again plunged into a bitter battle.

The subsequent legion commanders died one after another in the war, and the human empire had no choice but to withdraw from the legendary sea area and give up the resources of the legendary sea area that it had finally occupied.

But the Chilong Clan's attack did not stop.

After obtaining the legendary resource land of the human empire, the war continues.

The collapse of the human empire is coming faster than imagined.

The Chilong Clan suppressed the Human Empire's front line and crossed 13 sea areas before choosing to evacuate, but the war in the Human Empire was not over yet.

After the war with the Chilong Clan, only five battle groups in the Human Empire were left with fighting strength, and 28 of them had their souls returned to the Imperial Cultivator.

The once powerful human empire has become a declining force in the eyes of many overseas forces.

Scenes of ants eating elephants soon appeared in the territory of the human empire, and all border sea areas were invaded by foreign races from the outer sea almost at the same time.

Through the intelligence provided by the Gold Coin Organization, these overseas forces knew that the human empire had fallen into a state of collapse in combat power, and they unscrupulously occupied human territory and resources.

The remaining five legions are too weak to carry out a multi-ocean war.

This process lasted for more than 300 years.

In human history it is called the era of the Great Collapse.

The population that had exceeded one trillion dropped to less than 100 billion during this period. A large number of cities were destroyed by aliens. Hundreds of billions of humans became the dead souls killed by aliens outside the sea during the invasion war, or became alien food. A large number of resource islands were plundered. occupied.

The human empire can only continue to shrink its defense lines, but it cannot prevent a complete defeat.

During this period, the Imperial Church lost contact with a large number of island cities, and its territory became fragmented.

Perhaps the islands on the border and the Human Empire have not been devoured by the aliens and are still struggling to support resistance. However, when contact is lost, the Human Empire can only temporarily give up the idea of ​​​​evacuating the people and allow the main army to continue to shrink the defense line.

The once huge human empire has declined over the past 300 years. The ongoing war of aggression continues to consume the heritage of the human race.

In the end, the territory was reduced by 85.8%, and a large number of core resource islands and ordinary resource islands were lost.

In the first exploration of the legendary sea, the human empire paid a heavy price.

Fortunately, the "Imperial City", the core city of the human empire, was not affected by the war, and the technical data developed over thousands of years were also well preserved.

The time came to Emperor Xiu year 3869.

After more than a hundred years of recuperation, the number of legions in the Human Empire has reached 39. It is said that the legion commanders who died in the sea battle have also completed the soul reshaping and reorganized the legion strength.

A new Great Crusade begins again.

This time, the expedition's first priority is to regain the former territories of the Human Empire.

Many unexpected events occurred during this period.

3982 years.

The Famine Legion's frontline advanced to the "Blade Roar Sea Area", where the new generation of Famine Gods was surprised to find that the core resource island recorded in human history has not been completely occupied by aliens. There are still a large number of humans living on it, and the urban buildings are also completely destroyed. intact.

During subsequent investigations, they discovered that the survival of humans here is related to the special nature of this resource island.

In the era of the Great Collapse, a large number of alien plundering groups and evil gods descended on the island at the same time to compete for resources.

The fierce battle lasted for several months, and before the winner could be decided, the invasion of war forces came from across the country.

The plundering group and the Evil God's Advent forces are both small-scale groups, and they are difficult to resist in the face of the coming war forces.

At this time, the only choice before the plundering group and the evil god was to evacuate.

But the human city lord at that time proposed an idea to jointly exploit the resource islands under their feet and unite to resist the invasion of war forces.

Faced with the level 8 resources produced by the core resource island, the plundering group and the evil forces finally reached an agreement.

Resist war successfully and win.

In this way, humans on this core resource island survived.

Today, the arrival of the Famine Legion has brought new changes to the island.

After consulting the Imperial Church for instructions, the God-chosen warriors gave the predatory forces and evil god forces on the island a choice.

Leave directly or die!
Although the plundering group and the evil forces once coexisted and perished with the humans on the island, the new Great Expedition plan will not be shaken in the format of an island. The human territory does not allow alien forces to exist, and the willingness to let them leave is already in the eyes of the Imperial Religion Church. The greatest mercy.

Faced with threats, the plundering groups and evil forces that had occupied the core island for hundreds of years left one after another.

At this point, this core island returned to human territory.

During this period, the Famine Legion investigated and tested the faith on the island.

The result was a surprising discovery.

Because the new generation of humans on the island were born to live with alien races, there were believers in evil gods among them.

Although the Imperial Cultivator belief is still the main belief of humans on the island, some people, while believing in the Imperial Cultivator God, also offer their faith to the Evil God in exchange for the Evil God's power.

This discovery made the "Famine Chosen" who settled on the island furious.

In the eyes of the chosen warriors of Famine God, this is a blasphemy against the faith of the Imperial Cultivator.

As a human being, we can only have two beliefs, the belief in the Imperial Cultivator and the belief in the God of War.

Ordinary people do not participate in wars and only have imperial cultivator beliefs. On the basis of imperial cultivator beliefs, soldiers will regard the gods they believe in as their second faith.

All other belief in gods is an impermissible betrayal of faith.

When there is a stain on the faith, it needs to be purged.

As a result, the island underwent a great purge, and all believers in the evil god were gathered in the city square and beheaded by the divine punishment warriors who arrived later.

There was no protest from either the Famine Legion or the Divine Punishment Legion against the rebels who were also humans.

In the eyes of the warriors of the Human Empire, keeping their faith pure is the key to the unity of the Human Empire despite its huge territory. Pure faith is never allowed to be mixed with stains.

Just like soldiers of various major legions can die for their comrades on the battlefield, but they will also execute them mercilessly if their comrades are mentally contaminated.

Even if he is his own brother.

All soldiers know their position. They are the external war machine of the human empire, and faith is the fuel that drives the body and is also the program of action.

They can endure painful defeats, but they cannot accept the betrayal of their faith.

This is also the reason why a large number of evil god believers were directly executed on the core resource island.

As warriors of the Imperial Cultivator, maintaining the purity of the Imperial Cultivator's faith is their duty, and they need to protect it with their lives.

Those who blaspheme their faith must be executed according to the imperial laws.

……

Emperor Xiu 4230.

After hundreds of years of development, the human empire has regained 23.7% of its lost territory.

Although the major legions have not yet returned to their peak combat power, they have reopened a multi-front war mode to regain lost territory.

The new generation of human warriors in this era can only learn about the peak period of the human empire from history books.

During this period, a large amount of lost territory was recaptured, and weapons bases abandoned offshore were reactivated.

From these ancient historical relics, the new generation of human warriors saw the powerful strength of the human empire at its peak.

Trillions of people, billions of resource islands, and a border that can never be reached in a lifetime without using the teleportation square from the main city of Imperial Cultivator... These contents recorded in historical data shocked the new generation of warriors. At the same time, restoring the former glory of the human empire has also become their historical mission.

……

Emperor Xiu 6392.

The human empire has regained its population of one trillion.

For thousands of years, Ji Xiu, who was guarding the outside of the high wall, became more and more proficient in using the ability to divide his consciousness, and his self-recovery speed during the process of dividing his consciousness was also strengthened.

The speed of creating the Legion Commander accelerated.

As of today, the number of legions in the Human Empire has reached 112, with 112 worshiping gods.

All the resources and territories that were once lost have been recovered, but development has encountered a bottleneck.

This problem was also encountered by the human empire at its last peak.

When ordinary resources cannot provide assistance for development, mankind can only find new breakthroughs.

This time, the human empire once again set its ambitious sights on the legendary land that was regarded as the place where only the strongest forces were qualified to set foot.

The era of great collapse recorded in history books made the warriors of the human empire fear the "Legendary Sea".

But if we want to develop further, humans have no choice.

Returning again after 3000 years, the human empire challenged the legendary sea with a stronger attitude.

(End of this chapter)