After listening to Gladys's explanation.

Zhao Chen finally understood why the Order had tried so hard to instigate a large-scale war in the Dragon Empire universe.

Because large-scale wars lead to casualties, and these casualties generate a large amount of soul power.

Thus, they created 'ink' to enter this universe and ultimately achieve their goal of invasion.

"etc.

Before that, in our universe.

We also found some people who believed in order.

"They're the ones creating wars, so what's their relationship with order?" Zhao Chen recalled what had happened before.

Gladys was not surprised by the situation, and simply explained, "What you're talking about."

I know that something similar has happened in our Holy Elf Empire.

These 'corruptors' were even discovered within the High Council.

"The Invader?" Zhao Chen murmured the unfamiliar name.

"The 'Eroders' are, simply put, intelligent beings whose souls have been corrupted by the order."

Although initially protected by the cosmic barrier, neither the Order nor its dark legion fleets could enter the target universe.

But order possesses a special ability.

It can directly enter the target universe and the minds of some intelligent beings with extremely weak will and whose thoughts are on the edge.

Their ideas will spread in the form of dreams.

Although the success rate is not high, most intelligent life forms will only regard this as a dream.

However, if even one person out of a thousand accepts this idea...

That is success.

This person will be called an 'Eroder'. As they hear the words of order repeatedly in their dreams, they will gradually come to believe in order and abandon their original beliefs.

These people were the original believers who established order in a universe.

These believers will gradually spread their faith in order and establish different forms of organizations.

Most of the time, they operate within the framework of local religious organizations, developing in a shady manner.

They will only reveal their fangs when they get the chance.

This method, though slow, allows the Order to destroy a universe from within with minimal effort.

Even if it ultimately fails, the ensuing internal war could cause enormous casualties.

This generates a large amount of soul power, which can be considered as indirectly achieving the goal that Order desired.

I never imagined that order could have such power.

It seems I also need to be careful about whether these 'corruptors' will appear within the Dragon Empire.

"Then why must a civil war break out? Why can't these invaders gradually climb to the pinnacle of power in this universe?"

Wouldn't that be more effective?

Moreover, the Order only needs to disseminate some cutting-edge technologies to these invaders.

These invaders could defeat the vast majority of T5 and lower-level technological civilizations with absolutely no difficulty. Zhao Chen then thought of another question.

Gladys explained, "Our senior researchers have also studied this issue."

We also questioned some of the corruptors we captured before.

We then discovered...

The Order rarely imparts top-tier T6-level technological power directly to these invaders; at most, they provide them with near-T6 technology weapons and equipment.

Just as you just said.

In most parts of the universe, T6 technology is already at the pinnacle, capable of overturning all interstellar powers in that universe.

Why doesn't the order do that?

We made a conjecture.

That is, the order does not trust these eroders.

They also worry that raising tigers might become a problem.

As I just mentioned, those who become eroders are often people who are emotionally fragile or have extreme ideas that they cannot realize in reality.

These people believe in order, mainly because they yearn for power or the immortality of the ideology of order.

Now, suppose that some invaders possessed the T6 technological power obtained from the Order and established a unified interstellar empire in their own universe.

He himself became the strongest being above all living beings.

"Then tell me, would this invader still be willing to offer all of this to the order, to integrate itself into the order?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Chen suddenly understood.

"greedy!

Greed is also a powerful force. Order, as a conscious entity, should be well aware of this. Greed is a double-edged sword for intelligent beings.

Having greed can make these corruptors work for the order.

However, these greedy order-makers may also covet power and declare themselves kings!

"I estimate that Order has most likely encountered something like this in its previous history of development!" Zhao Chen said.

As the saying goes, "A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit," so while the order nurtures these invaders, it also keeps a secret weapon in place.

Then all the details make sense.

"Besides the Dark Legion fleet, I also discovered that the Order side has other military forces."

There are interstellar Zerg and undead-like legion fleets.

"Are you familiar with these things?" Zhao Chen asked.

"We know about the interstellar Zerg."

Even the interstellar Zerg possess consciousness and a soul.

Moreover, compared to conventional intelligent life, the Zerg are easier to control, as you only need to control their strongest Zerg king.

Before this, we had also fought against the Order-controlled Zerg.

Order Zerg – this is the name given by the Holy Elf Empire to the interstellar Zerg race controlled by order.

"As for the undead legion you mentioned?"

We have never experienced that.

However, I suspect...

It is likely that when Order invaded other universes, it discovered certain war-loving races. These interstellar races, like the interstellar insectoids, are very well-suited for warfare.

For this type of interstellar Zerg, the Order will try every means to control them.

To develop it into their own military force.

Because the Dark Legion fleet is directly controlled by the Order, your Dragon Legion has also clashed with it.

The combat characteristics of the Dark Legion fleet should be clearly understood.

In terms of combat power in terms of the same number of ships, the Dark Legion fleet may have suffered some losses due to its hasty response at the beginning, when there was no way to deal with it.

However, once you get used to fighting the Dark Legion fleet, you'll find that they are just regular interstellar legion fleets, with only a few near-T7 level Dark Legion warships occasionally appearing.

And that they can be resurrected.

Apart from that, they have no other combat characteristics.

And it also has significant limitations.

For example, they have no physical form.

After invading a planet, they can only destroy it, not take over it.

This is similar to the Order Zerg, but the Order Zerg can devour all life on that planet to expand their fleet.

In addition, the Dark Legion's interstellar warships are incorporeal, so they are more resistant to attacks that are physical.

However, energy-based attacks often cause greater damage.

Therefore, by focusing on developing interstellar fleets that utilize energy attacks, an advantage can be gained when engaging the Dark Legion fleet.

Once you're familiar with it, you can even win when outnumbered.

Gladys's words indicate that the Holy Elf Empire has already accumulated rich combat experience in its battles against the Dark Legion fleet.

"Therefore, the Order also took into account the diversity of military units and began to organize its subordinates."

With the Order Zerg and other Order Legion fleets.

"The undead you mentioned are probably one of them," Gladys said.

Zhao Chen nodded slightly.

Judging from the appearance, this Order Undead is a new underling that the Holy Elf Empire gained after it got rid of the threat to Order.

"Your Majesty, we are about to arrive at the Holy Elf Empire," Gladys said happily, glancing at the time.

"One last question for you."

"How is your Holy Elf Empire's research and development progress on T7-level technology?" Zhao Chen asked directly.

Upon hearing this question, Gladys shook her head somewhat awkwardly and said, "We have been developing the T7 for a very long time."

But for some reason, there has been no progress.

"Are you aware of the existence of other T7 technological civilizations besides Order?" Zhao Chen asked.

If there is a second T7 technological civilization in this universe, then perhaps relying on its own strength to overcome the established order is no longer the only option.

After all, in the current situation, it would take a lot of time to overcome the order by relying solely on one's own strength.

Before that, if we could find a way to make contact with another T7 technological civilization, perhaps we could find a new direction.

Gladys shook her head and said, "So far, our Holy Elf Empire has not discovered any other T7 technological civilizations."

Our researchers speculate that perhaps within the current universe we inhabit, there truly is only one T7 technological civilization: Order.

Otherwise, how could other T7 technological civilizations not step in to stop such a frenzied cosmic devouring behavior by Order?

That would mean either Order is the only T7 technological civilization, or within our current pool, Order is the only T7 technological civilization.

The other pools are far away from us, so we have no way of contacting other T7 technological civilizations, nor can we access the Order itself.

Gladys's analysis did indeed make some sense.

But is true order only the sole T7 technological civilization?

Zhao Chen had no answer in his heart.

This reminded him of the Covenant universe he had encountered during his time travel, and he wondered how far that favored young woman had developed her Covenant universe.

Does this mean that even with such methods, the Covenant universe has not developed into a T7 technological civilization?

Do I still have a chance?

Perhaps, long ago, the Covenant universe was already destroyed by Order.

This is a mystery to Zhao Chen, a mystery that he may never be able to solve in his lifetime.

Just as Zhao Chen was pondering these things.

The white mist outside the starship's porthole dissipated, revealing a star field scene before my eyes.

In the pitch-black outer space, two stars and several planets can be seen in the distance.

Zhao Chen glanced at the scene before him.

It seems that, although they are different universes.

But the situation is the same throughout the universe.

A group of Xiaolong-class interstellar warships had already arrived here before Zhao Chen's flagship.

And with this place as the center, a battle formation was directly formed.

Although this trip was by invitation to negotiate with the Holy Elf Empire.

However, one should always be wary of others.

Marshal Akame, who had arrived here first, was well aware of this, so he couldn't be without any precautions.

Zhao Chen also saw the welcoming party.

That was also an interstellar fleet, but it only had about three thousand interstellar warships.

Although the number was small, they were all T5 and T6 level interstellar warships.

Like the elven interstellar warships under Gladys's command before, these interstellar warships are all very beautiful in appearance.

Zhao Chen had actually noticed long ago that the materials used in these elf-type interstellar warships were somewhat different.

After he asked Gladys several times, Gladys finally told Zhao Chen.

Within the Holy Elf Empire, there exists a unique raw material that is not found in the universe of the Wraith Dragon Empire.

That is known as the World Tree!

According to Gladys, this seems to be a belief of the Holy Elf Empire, just like the Elf God they often mention.

Furthermore, it is a special kind of raw material.

However, Gladys was unwilling to elaborate on the details of the World Tree.

Zhao Chen could only try to learn about this existence through subsequent contacts with the higher-ups of the Holy Elf Empire.

"That's the Elven Legion fleet that's there to welcome Emperor Xiaolong," Gladys explained to Zhao Chen, pointing to the Elven Legion fleet in the distance.

Gladys then received the message.

She immediately looked at Zhao Chen: "Your Majesty Emperor Xiaolong, I just received a communication from our Elf King."

These are the two Elf Kings who have come to welcome you.

They were in that elven legion fleet.

The Elf King wishes to communicate and meet with you.

Gladys was seeking Zhao Chen's opinion.

Zhao Chen nodded.

Gladys immediately got to work, and soon two holographic figures appeared before Zhao Chen.

Two elves, one male and one female.

A handsome male elf with green hair and dressed in clothes that looked like they were woven from plants.

Even though he looks like a middle-aged man, he still has a handsome and charming appearance.

The other was a woman with flowing red hair, whose entire being exuded an aura that was somewhat different from the elegant demeanor of the elves.

Those eyes were also red.

At this moment, the woman was looking Zhao Chen up and down with curiosity, completely disregarding their respective identities and the special occasion of their meeting.

Let me introduce myself.

This is His Majesty the Dragon Emperor of the Dragon Empire, from the Dragon Empire universe, who has been invited to visit our Holy Elf Empire.

"These two are two of the five Supreme Elf Kings of our Holy Elf Empire."

"The Emerald Elf King, Mansfield Emerald." The green-haired Emerald Elf King nodded slightly, his eyes filled with an air of nonchalant arrogance.

"This is the Flame Elf King, Salamander Flame."

"Hello." Salamander, the Flame Elf King, greeted Zhao Chen with a smile.

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