Your Lord Has A Screw Loose?-Chapter 521 - 523 Agents of the Star Cluster Empire

Chapter 521: Chapter 523: Agents of the Star Cluster Empire

Chapter 521 -523: Agents of the Star Cluster Empire

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“A 7th-level Mechanic who has also artificially synthesized a metal affinity superpower, pity he lacks the aptitude to become a Spiritual Ability User.”

“No need for such trouble. Since it’s just a probe, we can just make up a random excuse. For example, after their agent finishes talking, we could simply ‘lose’ a Spirit Monster.”

“First, we’ll annihilate the Blue Song Civilization, then when the Star Cluster Empire cannot sit idly by and sends an 8th-level to crush us, I will capture their agent and take over all the terrains of the Blue Song Civilization. Then we can start quibbling and strike an arms deal with the Star Cluster Empire.”

“The opposition is aggressive, they are here to test us, and it must be the Star Cluster Empire’s idea.” Black Hand sent a report to Qin Muye.

“Then I’ll directly provoke them, let the Blue Song Civilization make the first move.” Black Hand knew that if they could not crush the opposition, they absolutely must not give them any leverage.

“Oh, you handle it.” Qin Muye didn’t even look up, deeming it inconsequential.

“A probe? Then let them probe, it’s a good chance for me to make an example out of them.” Qin Muye was completely unconcerned.

“Yes, Master. I’ll see to it immediately.” Black Hand understood Qin Muye’s intent, that making an example didn’t need considerations for the feelings of the proverbial chicken to be slaughtered. No matter how ludicrous the reason, as long as the fist is big enough, the other side has to believe even if they don’t want to.

“Tch, what an odd look.”

“Master, the Blue Song Civilization has come visiting, seems like they’re here to probe our foundations.” Black Hand reported.

Being a 7th-level isn’t enough to attract the attention of these major powers unless it’s an 8th-level, which is an S-ranked Transcendent.

The gap is certainly very clear, otherwise investing so many worlds’ resources into this and still not be able to crush an enemy of equal level would mean all his efforts have been in vain.

Apart from major forces like the Star Cluster Empire and the Holy Sect, and coalitions like the Alliance of All Things, there are numerous small civilizations and chaotic regions existing, especially the latter, filled with small factions, criminals, interstellar pirates, and the like, capable of disintegrating a person into countless pieces upon entry if not powerful enough.

Moreover, it allows for early recruitment of various talents. The only downside is it’s time-consuming, but time is essentially worthless to the cosmos.

As for who leaked his information, Qin Muye had suspects, most likely the Heavenly Demon God, with a small probability of the True Dragon Emperor.

As for the so-called Blue Song Civilization, he had never taken them seriously from the start; this group couldn’t even defeat Spirit Monster Heroes tending fields in the Endless Abyss.

What he planned to do was simple: let Spirit Monster spies infiltrate all planets under the command of the Blue Song Civilization, using them as anchor points, then teleport directly in to take control of the central hub.

After all, the Star Cluster Empire would benefit from the flesh, and the high command wouldn’t care what happens to the Blue Song Civilization.

Otherwise, how would he carry out the arms business, how would external infiltration and knowledge collection proceed?

Luckily, this peaceful evolution also benefits the Star Cluster Empire, not only does it provide an additional dog to bite on command during proxy wars, but once integrated, no resistance is likely, ensuring high loyalty among citizens.

Qin Muye is quite confident in Black Hand’s work, considering that even though it’s the Interstellar Era, human relationships haven’t changed much; it’s always the same old methods.

Those who join the Holy Sect are fine, but those who don’t will collapse from excessive faith, and recovery would only be possible after a generation of believers has passed away.

It doesn’t matter if the citizens of the Blue Song Civilization surrender or not, as long as the top tier does. Any resistance from the lower levels will be met with merciless death.

The highest level in the Blue Song Civilization is merely 7th; it’s not a big deal.

Lords have much more, and that’s because they are backed by the “Lord Era,” blessed with unique advantages.

The Star Cluster Empire was definitely wasting its efforts, but this was just a small piece of fat. In the matter of peaceful evolution and integration, the Star Cluster Empire targeted not only the Blue Song Civilization but all surrounding civilizations; therefore, it was not a major issue.

The appearance of Qin Muye actually did not cause much of a stir, because whether it was the True Dragon Emperor or the Heavenly Demon God, or that so-called Supreme True Person, they all declared Qin Muye as A-level, which is Tier 7. Thus, the three major forces would try to pull him in but would not invest heavily.

Qin Muye’s thought was simple, better to throw one punch to avoid a hundred; shouting slogans gets you nowhere, you have to beat them until they know they can’t mess with you and settle down.

After briefly reviewing the information about Blue Song Civilization, Qin Muye understood their relationship. Given another hundred years of evolution, Blue Song Civilization would become part of the Star Cluster Empire. Essentially, Qin Muye was cutting in directly.

Qin Muye glanced through and roughly understood that the so-called Blue Song Civilization was basically a puppet of the Star Cluster Empire. Their purpose in coming here was undoubtedly to try the carrot and stick approach to make Qin Muye, this sudden newcomer, submit.

While Qin Muye claimed not to care, he still needed to look at the intelligence. The Blue Song Civilization only had one Tier 7 entity, who had been educated and supported by the Star Cluster Empire. Thus, essentially, the Blue Song Civilization could be regarded as a vassal of the Star Cluster Empire, which could at any time be peacefully integrated directly into it.

That being so, Blue Song Civilization would rightfully become their territory, with a change of power and rightful ownership. After making the Star Cluster Empire realize that Qin Muye was not easy to provoke and beautifying the situation through public opinion, the problem would be solved.

Divine Artifacts, even in a Tier 8 server, were not found everywhere; one had to be at least a Tier 6 Transcendent to possess them.

Thus, Qin Muye needed to let them know that he was not Tier 7 but Tier 8, an existence that could sit at their level.

Therefore, Qin Muye was not worried that the Star Cluster Empire would go all out in retaliation after being beaten sorely; even if they did, Qin Muye was not afraid. Changing to a different power for collaboration would do as well, and after the situation cooled down, smuggling could resume — there would always be those in the Star Cluster Empire who loved money.

Being new here, the other party definitely would not think much of Qin Muye, especially since there were past precedents, three of them.

The Alliance of All Things pulls people into the league, just like the True Dragon Emperor, while the Holy Sect acts more bluntly, directly spreading faith to perform devastating attacks.

Empowered with Territory Traits, combined with his hybrid beast-man nature loaded with numerous fused bloodlines, and having a Divine Artifact as a base as well as exclusive Treasures, not even a Tier 7 could breach his defenses, unless the opponent possessed a Mythical Level Profession. Even the Spirit Monster Heroes tilling the land under Qin Muye would not be able to break his defense.

Since Qin Muye learned from the intelligence that the Heavenly Demon God was a puppet of the Star Cluster Empire, he naturally could see the chat channel’s situation. The follow-up would likely continue to investigate how many Divine Artifacts Qin Muye had sold to the True Dragon Emperor.

The universe itself is a Dark Forest, even though order seems to have been established, it’s only superficial.

Once they knew Qin Muye was also Tier 7, he certainly was not taken seriously anymore, as far as the Star Civilization was concerned, Tier 7 could be equated with weakness.

The method to demonstrate power would definitely be to make an example out of someone; the monkey is one of the three major forces in the Shining Universe server, and the chicken has to be Blue Song Civilization, which rashly bumped into them.

It can only be done through indirect methods, and when conditions are favorable, Blue Song Civilization would propose the merger into the Star Cluster Empire themselves. Once legitimization is established, they would go directly through the Cosmic United Court, and neither the Alliance of All Things nor the Holy Sect would be able to stop it.

This would be even less likely, as a vast empire is concerned not with so-called reputation, but with tangible, real benefits.

This sort of thing is naturally not only done by the Star Cluster Empire; the Alliance of All Things and the Holy Sect are also doing it, though their methods differ.

Once fighting starts, any reason will suffice.

Those who truly care about these things are probably just the citizens of the empire, but the higher-ups don’t care what the citizens think; they are the ones controlling the big picture, not the citizens.

But due to the Cosmic Convention set by joint agreement with the Alliance of All Things and the Holy Sect, they are unable to be too overt in taking action, otherwise dealing with this would not need to be so troublesome.

As long as there are benefits, factions can even laugh off bitter enmities, so don’t think that the empire’s higher-ups value these matters.

As for how to find the hidden Endless Abyss in the universe, Qin Muye does not intend to delve into it; if they really can’t find it, that would be the real issue.

As for making deadly enemies with the Star Cluster Empire?