Planet Master

Dian was accepting the words his Planet Spirit had said and informed Him about the happenings on the planet in detail.

A few days had passed while they were out at the Frontline hunting the Outer Beings. Although the process had attracted reinforcement as well as Nobility-class Outer Beings, overall, the situation was still under control.

Dian nodded in understanding at what had actually transpired on the Cerulean Planet. Tall buildings of one hundred floors were the standard for the civilization now. Different from the past, when seventy floors were the standard.

This was due to the development of a new manufacturing process which caused materials to be slightly cheaper but still as sturdy. Even the spaceship procurements became easier due to this.

But what Dian was most happy about was something else.

He led Tatsumi and the others to hunt for the Outer Beings, slaying them in large numbers.

The result of that…

[You have slain a Soldier-class Outer Being. You have fulfilled the requirement for advancement.]

[Do you want to advance?]

[Reminder: You have overfulfilled the requirement. Additional rewards are due to your effort.]

[Only after you advance can the reward be taken.]

[You have slain 1234 Outer Beings. You have exceeded the requirement of slaying one Outer Being.]

[Do you want to advance and settle the requirement?]

Dian then willed it and advanced his rank and settled the requirement.

[Congratulations, you have advanced to the Fourth Rank Planet Master.]

[The requirement can be settled. 1.240.000.000 energy points have been rewarded to you.]

[Your existence power has increased dramatically.]

[There has been a change in the advancement for the Fourth Rank Planet Master. Please read the announcement update or the Planet Master Service Center for more information.]

Dian felt something inside him change on a fundamental level. He felt that his sense increased from the Virya Star System to beyond that and reached for another Star System. He could feel the surrounding star systems since he knew that His location was in the galaxy that spun around.

Furthermore, he looked at the energy points, which were increasing so much. For the current him, this number was so much that he felt overwhelmed by it. Although he knew how to spend it. He needed to advance the Technology and the Transcendent Tree so much since his civilization lacked that the most.

Specifically, the Interstellar capability of the civilization. Although the Transcendent Tree was already at a sufficient level, the technological level was not sufficient for another promotion.

Therefore…

“Looks like I need to wait for some time before I begin to look for the promotion method. I believe that the promotion method is a different kind of Star Battle.” Dian said while he looked for the new announcement in the forum.

[Star Battle for the Fourth Rank Planet Master.

Regarding the mode of the Star Battle, it is decided that the Star Battle for the Fourth Rank Planet Master will be in the form of ‘Galaxy on Fire’. Several Planet Masters will be sent to a galaxy to conquer most of the galaxy. There will be obstacles and calamities that appear there so Planet Masters need to pay attention to them other than other Planet Masters.]

Dian blinked and noted this down.

“Galaxy on Fire. Looks like we will be forced to conquer a galaxy. There are so many Star Systems in a galaxy since it is formed of many stars.” Dian murmured.

He could imagine the way his civilization would conquer the galaxy but he needed to pay attention to the words ‘obstacles’ and ‘calamities’. Those two words were of concern to him.

Just as Dian thought about the two words, the others finally noticed that Dian had returned.

“You are back!” Frie was the first one to greet him.

Dian nodded and sighed. He could not contain his excitement due to the large number of energy points he had acquired. With it, he could be financially free.

Then Leif, Ghylea, Chikara, Arowana, Mazdari, Goliath, Smirth, Cisor, Halden, Olza and Asta were gathering right in front of the throne.

Seeing them and their races under them made Dian satisfied that he could diversify his race’s options.

“It is good that you are back. We were almost arguing if you were not here for an extended time.” Leif said while forcing a laugh.

“I believe that you can make a good decision even without me.” Dian replied.

Then he had a long talk with them. Talking about the matter of the civilization as well as the environment of the planets themselves.

-

Year Three Hundred Twenty-Five of the Father God Calendar. Charlene and the other scientists and engineers finally unraveled the method of improving the Warp Engine by leaps and bounds, the life support system of the spaceship, the navigation system as well as making the civilization now capable of interstellar travel.

Meaning, they could start to travel to another star system around theirs. The space program now added a criterion, to be able to endure interstellar travel.

Several proposals were offered, from cryosleep to a faster and more effective Warp Engine. Charlene chose the latter since the former was hard to achieve even now.

For the civilization, this meant that the potential resources increased and were celebrated. Several people were chosen for this program.

Year Three Hundred Thirty of the Father God Calendar.

A new spaceship, which was capable of interstellar travel, was finally completed and was able to do its maiden voyage.

The voyage was streamed live through the internet as well as on television. Even children knew that the first interstellar voyage was ongoing.

The estimated time of arrival was actually just one whole day. The crew was able to carry much more food and drinks sufficient for three whole weeks.

This was also the test of the newest manufacturing process for the entire spaceship since Charlene brought those ideas from the Machina Race’s Mothership.

Who would have thought that the voyage itself was filled with dramatic flair of its crew. That become the slight entertainment that the watchers had.

But the biggest prize was about to be revealed. The voyage was half done when they arrived at the nearby star system with a blue star and several planets orbiting the star as their sensors detect them.

[***: So beautiful. So the nearby star is this big.]

[Jokesonyou: Look at the detected planets. Although they are not life planets, but we can terraform them and even send mining bases to those planets to dig for minerals.]

[Squeezy: The Interstellar Travel age has arrived. Our history books are going to be filled with additional content from this point onward. How helpless.]

There were comments from the livestream which the moderator read and filtered. Of course, those vulgar chats were directly banned from participating because this livestream was for all ages.

The crew were looking at the distant star and realized that they truly were reaching this place within a day at most. Then they planned to land on the outermost planet first to make an outpost.

-

After staying on the Cerulean Planet for some years, Tabitha wanted to visit the other territory of the Hinon Federation. But she wanted to see it for herself without her mental scan. This was because she wanted to see for herself what kind of civilization the humans had created.

“Are you sure you want to leave alone?” Tatsumi asked her. He knew that her range of mental scan should be so far that it enveloped the entire universe but to visit each life planet and space outpost, Tatsumi had to make sure that this was what she wanted.

“It’s fine. Nothing in your civilization can threaten me. I will be back in a couple of years.” Tabitha replied while shaking her head.

“If you are fine with it, then there is no reason for me to hold you back. Just beware that every civilization will have its dark sides.” Tatsumi reminded her with a knowing smile.

“I’ll go now.” Tabitha then stepped forward and disappeared from view. Tatsumi blinked and felt like he had witnessed something amazing.

“One step to heaven…that is achievable, huh.” Tatsumi pondered as he looked at the sky and wished that Tabitha could objectively point out the weakness of the Federation.

“Is she gone?” Ame asked as she went to Tatsumi after sensing that Tabitha was gone.

“Yes. She likes the human race, so it is no wonder that she will want to look at other territories of the Federation.” Tatsumi replied with a helpless smile.

Although he knew the very weakness of humans, but he did not tell Tabitha about it. Experiencing it herself would make her understand that there was no perfect living being. They were necessarily flawed in some ways so that they could improve upon it.

“I guess that is true.” Ame nodded and understood that too. For an outsider who was plagued with the threat of the Outer Beings, seeing a race that could assimilate them so easily would cause curiosity to be born within the outsider’s heart.

-

Tabitha went to numerous places on the Cerulean Planet first. She visited many cities and hallmarked places where the history of the human race and the other races unfolded.

She also used her innate ability to view the past of the entire Planet.

“So this is the human race homeworld…there are so many events that I start from the earliest past where the very first human had appeared.” Tabitha murmured as her eyes turned into brilliant light.

She then viewed the history of the human race right from the very beginning. The strain of doing that was lower than seeing the uncertain and changing future. It was on the level where she could view the past as she pleased.

The first humans were not even able to create their own tools; they relied heavily on the available things around them.

But that changed when they encountered the first fire in their lives. They felt scared, unsure how to proceed since the source of fire came from lightning that hit the branch of a tree. That branch caught fire and spread to the entire tree.

But from it, they felt warm as well as increased their sight in the night. But the problem they faced became much worse since they did not know how to preserve the fire.

Therefore, the first fire died out and the feeling of once having the warmth and the sight at night drove them to try to visit every place struck by lightning.

Then they preserved the fire as much as possible. Tabitha nodded as she was able to witness the first form of civilization. Then she sped up the view and the civilization started to form more.

As she watched this, she also enjoyed looking at the surroundings. Especially the Thebes Royal Palace and the Undead Palace, where the entrance to the Undead Secret Realm was located.

“According to the Past Sight, this is the legacy of the Second Star Battle. But the firearms I have seen were modeled after the Dwarf Race. The human race incorporates the best of each race and emulates it on their own.” Tabitha murmured as she viewed the past in different categories.

The first was naturally the form of the past civilization.

The second was actually the First Star Battle.

The third was the Second Star Battle.

She was more than capable of viewing past events simultaneously. To her, that was as easy as flipping her hands, almost effortless.

“Furthermore, they have extreme fortune. They can turn the tide in their favor despite facing disadvantage.” Tabitha summarized the civilization's experience in the Star Battles.

“No wonder the Human God is having to go to the Frontline as a requirement. It is because they are needed.” Tabitha sighed as she realized that even the Planet Master System was biased when it came to the human race.

“What makes them so special, though? They are like the agent of chaos, causing destruction and perverse desire. But that has been controlled by their own selves. No, the Afterlife also got involved.” Tabitha naturally could perceive the existence of the Afterlife Model that the human and the other race under them had.

“Instead, they developed so much to the point of being scary. Is this the synergy between the living and the dead?”

Tabitha took one step and she was in a different place. This time, she was at the top of Mountain Poniponi.

‘This place is the central place for diplomatic issues since this is a neutral place.’ Tabitha thought while still watching the past events through her Past Sight.

After roaming around the entire Cerulean Planet, even to the depths of the sea, Tabitha guessed that the Human God and His subordinates were watching over the environment, flora, fauna and the situation of the planets under their control.

‘And their governance is good too. They truly cared for their civilization to make an effort like this.’ Tabitha thought again.

But what surprised her was the strand of link that wanted to connect to the Afterlife. Tabitha did not reject the connection and soon was connected to the Afterlife.

“Ah! It looks like someone great has been connected to the Afterlife.”

A voice then appeared from the depths of her very being.

“Hmm. You must be one of the deceased from the past.” Tabitha could already guess the newcomer.

After all, she had experienced the entire history of the human race and their civilization. So she knew the most insignificant to the most influential characters.

“Yes. I am Meno. I like to explore and usually scout things in the Star Battles.” Meno introduced himself to Tabitha.

“I am Tabitha. I am here as a guest with permission from my deity and your god.” Tabitha said to herself.

“Nice to meet you, then. Now, I am very curious about your ability. Can you at least teach me its workings? At least the most superficial ones, that are enough.” Meno knew that for transcendent, their core abilities were the most guarded secret while the most superficial ones were the things that Tabitha could learn.

Even then, the most superficial things from her would be priceless treasure for the civilization.

“Just a trick, alright.” Tabitha said before showing Meno a trick of her own. Meno was analyzing the workings of the trick. The trick was to expand the space and then fold it so that the transcendent could reach their destination faster.

‘Yes, it is possible to fold space given enough transcendent energy but to fold it so efficiently like that. The details are actually a secret of the highest order, isn’t it?’ Meno commented.

“Hehe, yes. That’s right. So you need to repay me.” Tabitha chuckled and said.

“How about introducing you to our concept of Afterlife. I know that you are the guest from another civilization and you must be interested in our Afterlife too.” Meno commented slightly loud.

“That will do.”

-

On the Universe Market. The golden palace which was connected to the Universe Market.

At this time, Tritis was returning after settling things in her civilization before coming to her residence.

She then passed by the guards who nodded respectfully at her. Tritis then finally returned to her palace and then sat on the throne in the deepest part of the palace.

Then she also placed restrictions around her to prevent any spying attempt. Then she used the encrypted channel which was given by the Planet Master System itself. This was why Tritis became so secretive.

Then the connection was established.

“Are you the one who knows more about the newly emerging human race?” Tritis spoke as she answered a certain message in her system windows.

“Oh, to think that Your Excellency Tritis is the one who investigates them. No, I should’ve expected it.” A hoarse voice could be heard on the other side of the connection.

Tritis’ eyes narrowed as she recognized the voice immediately.

“Why…is it you?” she asked in complete surprise.

“What’s wrong with me? I set the thing automatically when someone first tries to investigate the human race. By your response, they have truly been reborn anew.” The hoarse voice said.

“You are a respected figure even for Venerables. What is your connection with the human race, Cardmaker?” Tritis asked the most important question.

“My connection, you ask? Well, it is not wrong to see me as someone who has seen the Sovereign Race from afar. Even then, I am not qualified to know what the Sovereign Race is exactly doing.” The one who was known as Cardmaker answered.

Tritis realized that there was a time when the human race was known as the Sovereign Race. But she could not even see what had happened to them in the past, regarding them as under a veil that could not be penetrated.

Although the past was easy to watch but the Sovereign Race was able to veil their past from the prying eyes of those who could use time power to investigate.

Furthermore, the one known as Cardmaker was actually the one who erected the Auxiliary Pagoda and created the Auxiliary Ability Card.

That was why even Tritis’ position and title as Venerable were not enough to be on the same standing as the Cardmaker.

“Just how great is this Sovereign Race that you look up to them so much? I don’t even know that you can be quite talkative.” Tritis spoke the truth.

She had never heard the Cardmaker speak so much about the Sovereign Race, which turned out to be the distant human race.

She also knew that the human race of the past was not the same human race she had found. The two could be said to be two different things now.

“Doesn’t matter, does it? What matters is that the human race has been reborn and now seeks to improve their standing and power in the Universe Field.” The Cardmaker said the fact as if he knew the condition of the current human race.

“I only request one thing from you since you are the first one to investigate this matter. I expect you to help them if possible.” The Cardmaker said with a strong tone and his voice became clear.

“I already did that.” Tritis said.

“Good. But keep these things to yourself. Don’t even spread it to anyone. I suppose some of the other Venerables are starting to pay attention to the human race now.” The Cardmaker said.

“Yes. What should I do to them?” Tritis asked.

“For now, keep an eye on them. Observe and note their stance on the human race.”