Chapter 688: Chapter 380: What the Enemy Wants (2)
This rate of growth is completely abnormal.
Moreover, their internal information-security capability has reached a downright outrageous level.
During this period, the two sides have traded wins and losses on the battlefield, both have taken prisoners; under normal circumstances, some basic intelligence should already be known to each other.
Yet the Great Wind Empire discovered that they actually knew nothing about that so‑called Doomsday Civilization Mutual Aid Association.
Because the people fighting them themselves didn’t know.
If this really is training, then it means they are nothing more than tools to practice on.
It’s like two kids are fighting, and on one side there’s directly an adult standing by, just waiting until his child is about to lose, about to get hurt, then he’s ready to step in at once.
In such a situation, the kid without an adult on his side is doomed to lose.
Even if he agrees to the other side’s terms, he still loses.
But fortunately, their own goal was never to win the fight.
It was just to snatch away something in the opponent’s hand, and then immediately run.
Even an adult, when he doesn’t know what was taken, nor its value, definitely won’t give chase right away.
After all, it’s just kids fighting.
"Your Majesty, this old minister proposes that we might as well first take the Resource World." Someone in the think tank put forward his suggestion. "Restore the situation to before the other side occupied the Resource World. We can also continue developing ourselves, while sweeping away our internal problems, and then launch an all‑out attack on the Tower World."
This proposal did seem to be the most suitable decision for the Great Wind Empire at the moment.
In the final analysis, since the other side hadn’t followed their rhythm, they might as well go with the flow and swallow the Resource World.
With the Resource World in hand, the Great Wind Empire no longer fears the consumption of war.
In the end, the Great Wind Empire adopted this decision.
For a power of this level, they never rush to hunt down certain prey or seize what they want.
They tend to have a great deal of patience.
Thus, the frontline battlefield was indeed advancing according to the strategies of both sides.
The Association retreated while fighting in the Resource World; although they really did withdraw, they also left the other side with plenty of trouble and consumed a fair amount of strength.
They even carried out destructive harvesting of some resources.
As long as the Resource World could be taken back again, such destruction would actually be easy to repair, because the most precious thing in this world is in fact the foundation at the level of Law.
As long as that foundation remains, resources can be produced endlessly.
Meanwhile, all of the Association’s defensive power was gathered in the Tower World.
And during this period, besides further reinforcing the defenses of the Tower World, the Association had been probing one particular matter.
—What exactly does the Great Wind Empire want?
This question is actually extremely important.
If the Association can find this thing, and if it is movable, then the initiative on the battlefield will once again return to the Association’s hands.
The other side would fall into a very awkward situation.
The Association could directly use the Gray Mist to get the answer, but the consumption is not small; if they first conduct their own research, then even if they don’t find it in the end, they can still reduce the Gray Mist’s consumption to a certain extent.
All in all, many of the Association’s powerhouses—especially the many Shen Yu—had basically turned the entire Tower World upside down during this period.
"We can basically confirm that what the Great Wind Empire wants is related to the High Tower." Shen Yu saw that the retreat from the Resource World was basically complete and decided not to keep searching like this. He gathered the other Shen Yu one last time, intending to consolidate the developments of this period, and then directly use the Gray Mist to obtain the answer.
"The creation of the High Tower itself was to collect the souls of Extraordinary with different soul‑ranks." The intersellar world Shen Yu was the first to speak of his discovery. "That’s why the High Tower’s rules are extremely dangerous, with a very high mortality rate. All High Tower Adventurers who die in High Tower dungeons have their souls gathered and stored according to their Extraordinary Level. It’s just that we haven’t yet discovered how these things are used."
"I think so too. These souls accumulated over hundreds of millions of years are very likely what the Great Wind Emperor wants." Wizard Shen Yu likewise nodded, and even provided a side corroboration. "Not to mention anything else, the Great Wind Empire first found the Resource World and only then went looking for the Tower World. And the Tower World has been very well guarded by us; they didn’t obtain any intelligence. The only information that could have locked onto something within the Tower World could only have come from the Resource World. Both worlds were created by the Number Two power."
The intersellar world Shen Yu and the High Tower Shen Yu had indeed voiced what many Shen Yu had in mind.
It’s very likely that the Great Wind Empire once discovered some information left behind by the Number Two power in the Resource World.
And thus locked onto the Tower World.
If so, then in all probability, it is the High Tower itself.
Afterward, the other Shen Yu also spoke of some of their discoveries and speculations.
For example, what the Great Wind Emperor actually wants is the High Tower itself, which can help him strengthen his civilization.
Another example: there might be something else hidden in some place in this world that has never been under anyone’s control, such as the All Heavens Transformation Module. The Law patterns within this module are one of the Association’s "vacuum zones" in this world.
After all, its technological level is extremely high; merely controlling this world does not guarantee control over such Laws.
However, most of these speculations hadn’t produced any clues.
The explanation most widely accepted within the Association was still the one from the intersellar world Shen Yu.
—Those powerhouses’ souls.
"Tell me," Shen Yu suddenly narrowed his eyes and voiced a conjecture, "could it be that the Great Wind Emperor wants to scatter his incarnations throughout the entire Great Wind Empire, truly achieving ’one person is one civilization’?"
This statement made everyone pause for a moment.
Then all of their gazes sharpened.
"Indeed, that’s a possibility." The High Tower Shen Yu spoke slowly, and was the first Shen Yu to acknowledge Main Body Shen Yu’s idea. "Generally speaking, no matter what Extraordinary Level a soul is at, it will definitely carry a True Spirit of its own consciousness. This portion of True Spirit determines part of the personality imprint. Even in worlds that possess a Soul Reincarnation Law, this True Spirit is hard to completely erase in the cycle of reincarnation. It is the soul’s anchor, the basis that determines that this soul is ’me’. However, the souls in the Tower World lack such a True Spirit, because from the moment these Adventurers obtain power, their self, True Spirit, or anything that can represent that life itself has already been separated from their soul and from the rank their soul possesses. In other words, the souls in the Tower World are blank sheets of paper, unstained by anyone’s color."
These words truly reminded the other Shen Yu.
They almost didn’t need to use the Gray Mist anymore.
Everyone agreed this should be the most likely reason.
After all, many Shen Yu had infiltrated the Great Wind Empire as incarnations for a period of time. They had gained a basic understanding of the Empire’s development, the status of that Emperor, and how the Great Wind Empire aided the Great Wind Emperor’s cultivation path.
For the Great Wind Emperor, if he really could possess a vast number of incarnations that belong wholly to himself, and embed them throughout the entire Great Wind Empire, constantly reincarnating within the Empire, that would undoubtedly greatly deepen the connection between him and the entire Empire.
He might even truly refine this incomparably vast Empire into his own Divine Country.
Perhaps this still wouldn’t be a path to a higher realm, but it would allow for tangible growth.
For powerhouses at this level, any growth is of paramount importance.
