Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan

Chapter 549: Chapter 116: Space Ascends to the Constant Level, Beyond the Cosmos?

He could even forgo instigating conflicts within the spheres of influence of other Authority Level Ancient Gods.

To say the least,

Lince had no desire for himself, or the Star Empire, to become a public enemy.

Make more friends and fewer enemies.

Unite with those you can, win over those you can.

This was the guiding principle Lince had established for the Star Empire’s expansion.

However, this didn’t mean Lince required the Star Empire to retreat every time it encountered an Authority Level Ancient God.

He simply stated that direct conflict with an Authority Level being should be avoided if possible, strictly adhering to the rule of "not firing the first shot."

But if the other side fired first, then the Star Empire was certainly not to be trifled with.

Additionally, this policy had one special exception that had to be presented to Lince for a decision.

Namely,

if the Star Empire’s subsequent expansion encountered an Ancient God at the Peak of Authority Level.

Or even an Ancient God civilization with a large, unified population.

Then, such a civilization had to be reported to Lince immediately.

The reason?

It was simple.

Like the Dragon Race or the Titan Race.

If a race-based civilization of Ancient Gods appeared, its Potential for growth would undoubtedly be high.

They would even have a high probability of contending for a vacant Pillar God position.

The same was true for a single, powerful being at the Peak of Authority Level.

Therefore,

once such a being was encountered,

Lince would need to judge whether to exterminate them immediately.

This was to reduce the competition for the rank of Pillar God.

This held true even if the Laws of these Ancient Gods did not conflict with Lince’s own.

But what about the Three Gods of the Cosmos?

Lince had to consider them to some extent.

After all, the Three Gods of the Cosmos were currently Lince’s most crucial allies.

They had all made an agreement on this matter long ago.

Thus, Lince couldn’t possibly encounter a threatening entity and simply let it exist.

As for the Star Empire, these were all the arrangements Lince had made for now.

As for the Three Gods of the Cosmos,

the God of Thousand Faces was not far from achieving Unity.

According to the timeline given by the God of Thousand Faces, it would still take about four hundred years.

’Is four hundred years a long time?’

’Of course not.’

’At least, not for Authority Users like Lince.’

After all, over the past three hundred years,

Lince still hadn’t managed to step into the Peak of Authority Level.

His Fiery Sun Authority had, for all intents and purposes, been stagnating.

Lince gave his Fiery Sun Authority no opportunity to suppress the growth of his Space Authority.

Therefore,

for the past three hundred years, Lince had been exploring the laws of Subspace’s middle layer.

He used this to enhance the Power of his Space Authority.

He even dedicated all the Power He received from the True Game’s bonuses to comprehending the Space Law.

Thus,

under this deliberate control,

Lince’s Space Authority was now not far from the Constant Level.

However, the Space Authority could not grow through crude devouring like the Fiery Sun Authority could.

As a result, its progress was much slower.

Even so, Lince was confident that He would have absolutely no problem elevating his Space Authority to the Constant Level within two hundred years.

Once the Space Authority entered the Constant Level,

then His Fiery Sun Authority could also be naturally pushed to the Peak of Authority Level.

A balanced advancement of both Laws was what Lince needed most at this moment.

Lince had also discovered something else.

The difference between the Space Law and the Fiery Sun Law.

First of all,

the Space Law had no corresponding Lower-Rank Laws.

The Authority of the high-level Space Law corresponded to the entire three-dimensional Cosmos.

’How should I put it...’

’For a Space Law that hasn’t reached Authority Level, every minor stage of advancement is a qualitative transformation.’

It had even begun to touch upon the Time Law.

In this regard,

Lince found it quite understandable.

After all, take the space-freezing Ability Lince currently possessed.

The method it seemingly borrowed was ’the complementary structure of the Pressure Law and the Gravity Law, which are Lower-Rank Laws corresponding to the Matter Law.’

But in essence, it was already beginning to touch upon the domain of time.

Lince could already sense it.

Once the Power of his Space Law entered the Constant Level of the Authority Level,

this power to freeze Space would become a true time-stopping Power.

This meant He could truly stop time in any region within his capabilities, just as He willed.

Slowing the forward flow of time, and even stopping it completely, seemed to be all that Lince’s Space Law could offer for now.

As for reversing the flow of time?

’That’s nearly impossible without becoming a Pillar God, or at least without permission from the will that governs the Cosmos.’

After all, the implications of reversing time needed no explanation.

Reversing the flow of time was almost impossible.

Reversing the life state of a single being—like when the will of the Cosmos had previously reshaped Lince’s own, an act akin to returning to one’s youth—was still plausible.

But changing the timeline...

that wouldn’t be called reversing time.

That would be creating a new parallel world, a parallel cosmos.

Furthermore, if an entity that truly controlled the Time Law existed in this world,

if there was truly a being who could traverse timelines,

then, according to Lince’s current perception of this Cosmos’s Laws, it would mean that the entire Cosmos already possessed the Power to create different parallel worlds and parallel cosmoses at any moment.

Using the Power of his Authority of Space, Lince had actually already sensed the current state of the Cosmos he inhabited.

This Cosmos was not mature!

It didn’t even possess the Power to give birth to a Pillar God of the Time Law.