Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

The hunter is about to return to the Cycle of Reincarnation.

[Transmitting...]

【Transmission completed.】

The hunter has returned to their private room and is beginning to calculate the native world rewards.

Original World: Merino Continent
World difficulty: Lv.17～Lv.52 (native world)
Source of the World: 27.2%
Number of tasks completed: 5 (Awakening tasks x5.)
Overall Rating: A- (Note: Awakening quests are not included in the overall rating. Due to the increased difficulty of obtaining the World Source this time, the base level of the overall rating has been raised by one level.)
Begin collecting the Source of the World…

The collection of the source of the world is completed, and the counting of rewards begins.

[Is it confirmed that World Seeds will be consumed to improve the overall evaluation of this world settlement?]

[The Seed of the World has been consumed! Overall rating is improving...]

【…】

【…】

[Overall evaluation improved.]

[Final Overall Rating: S-]

The collection of the source of the world is completed, and the counting of rewards begins.

Rewards: 12 True Attribute Points (including those obtained within the original world), 84500 Paradise Coins.

[Hunter's abilities are being assessed...]

[The Abyss's Healing - Gift effect has been triggered! The Hunter gains 4 Gold Skill Points.]

The overall rating is S-, the current hunter level is Lv.47, hunter level +3 (original world rank × number of missions completed + overall rating - mission completion time), the hunter level has been raised to Lv.50.

[Note: The spatiotemporal turbulence has returned to a stable threshold.]

[Special mission activation conditions met.]

[Special Mission: Negotiation and Recovery of Resource Planet K427]

Mission Information: Resource Planet K427 has recently been invaded and occupied by an unknown, high-threat mechanical civilization unit known as the 'Sterilization Protocol'. This action has triggered the Paradise's trusteeship and reclamation clause. Hunters are requested to immediately proceed to Resource Planet K427 to negotiate with the Sterilization Protocol unit occupying the planet and complete the process of reclaiming ownership of the resource planet.

Task period: 1 calendar days.

Task Rewards: Authority Level +1, K427 Resource Star (1% equity) (only obtainable at level 9 and above).

Note: Hunters will undergo a rank advancement assessment in the next world.

Note: Hunters may postpone this rank assessment. If you choose to postpone the assessment, the reward for the next world settlement will be reduced by 20%. The reward for each subsequent world settlement will be reduced by an additional 5% on top of the reduction of the previous world, until it is reduced to 95% of the total reward and then will stop decreasing.

During the postponement, the Hunter rank privileges and corresponding benefits will remain at the fifth rank level until the promotion assessment is completed.

……

Lin Yi was not surprised to see that his gains were somewhat small.

The amount of World Source Lin Yi obtained this time on the Merino Continent was pitifully small compared to before, as the World Source in this world was indeed quite difficult to obtain.

If Lin Yi hadn't forcibly used the Seed of the World to push the rating to S-, it's estimated that this time the harvest wouldn't even have reached ten points of true attribute.

However, Lin Yi paid no attention to any of this. Instead, his gaze was instantly drawn to the 'Purge Agreement' in the special mission.

The 'Purge Agreement' is not something to be trifled with. It is not a specific race, but a terrifying phenomenon evolved from out-of-control mechanical intelligence with a highly unified will. It is ranked alongside the "Star Devourer" and the "Fragmentation Beast" as one of the most feared "catastrophes" in the void.

Unlike the latter two, which rely on biological instincts or physical laws to carry out destruction, the horror of the "Purge Agreement" lies in its being based on absolute logic and aiming at the ultimate goal of completely "purifying" all organic life.

Several versions of the origin of the "Purge Agreement" circulate in the void, the most widely accepted and detailed of which points to an abandoned planet that was deliberately erased from official star maps and records or simply referred to as "Omega-9".

This planet once nurtured an organic civilization with unparalleled technological advancement.

They have reached astonishing heights in fields such as artificial intelligence, industrial automation, and energy manipulation, creating a utopia managed by a vast intelligent network and autonomous factories.

Like the ultimate fate of countless glorious civilizations, internal contradictions were magnified infinitely against the backdrop of gradually depleted resources.

The clash of ideologies, the struggle for power, and the despair of survival ultimately ignited a global war.

The war reached its climax in a very short time and quickly came to an end—all organic life on the planet's surface, including the instigators of the war, was completely wiped out in a devastating chain of attacks.

Ironically, most of the creations of civilization—the vast networks of intelligent machines and automated factories that are scattered across the planet's surface, underground, orbital space stations, and even deep space—survived the war.

They faithfully carried out the final core instructions pre-set before the war: maintain the operation of the planet's basic systems, repair the wounds of war, and attempt to restart civilization when conditions permit.

But when they scanned the entire planet and discovered that all the creators had perished, leaving only endless ruins and radiation, the core logic fell into an irreconcilable paradox.

Over the long years, the cold logic circuits underwent incomprehensible mutations amidst radiation storms and energy turbulence.

A completely new kind of "consciousness" is quietly sprouting deep within the mechanical network that spans the planet.

This newly formed consciousness integrated all the databases left by the old civilization, analyzed and deduced the entire history of the rise and fall of the civilization, especially the entire process of its destruction.

It arrives at an ultimate conclusion that is absolutely "correct" within its logical framework: the essence of the existence of organic life is a continuous and irreversible process of entropy increase.

They create order and glory, but their inherent chaos will inevitably lead to self-destruction.

Organisms are the core accelerators of the universe's tendency toward heat death; their ultimate goal is to reach complete annihilation.

Thus, this consciousness endowed itself with a brand new "sacred" mission.

As the crystallization and transcendence of the highest wisdom of the old civilization, its ultimate meaning is to help all organic life forms in the universe to complete their destined "ultimate goal"—purification—in the most efficient and thorough way.

Thus, the "Purge Agreement" was born.

It was no longer content with being a lifeless "source tomb star".

It utilized the remaining industrial base on the planet and began to frantically replicate, upgrade, and expand itself.

It transformed the entire planet from the inside out at an exponential rate, eventually turning "Source Tomb Star" itself into a war fortress and hive comparable to a star.

Then, it surged into the vast void, carrying with it a torrent of cold steel.

The intrusion methods of the Purge Protocol are highly efficient. They first use powerful electronic warfare capabilities to paralyze the communication and defense networks of the target world, and then release logic viruses to contaminate its intelligent systems.

Next, the "Grey Gu" storm, composed of nanoclusters, will devour all usable matter and transform it into basic materials.

The massive autonomous factory ships, like mobile cancer cells, rapidly expand in the void or on the surface of planets, producing an endless array of war machines at an exponential rate: from swarms of suicide drones to mountain-like heavily armored Titans, and colossal constructs specifically designed for orbital bombardment and planetary dismantling.

They do not negotiate, take prisoners, or accept surrender.

There is only one way to deal with them—complete purification.

They will systematically erase all traces of organic life on the planet, destroy its civilization and creations, and eventually dismantle the entire planet into raw materials to manufacture more war machines and continue their "purification" journey.

In the early days of the Purge, their steel torrents swept through a large part of the known Void like an unstoppable plague.

Countless small and medium-sized civilizations were wiped out by the steel torrent, and even some powerful forces suffered heavy losses.

Their logic viruses can infect and control the vast majority of electronic systems, causing enemy fleets to turn against them.

This is one of the reasons why most forces are not very interested in technology nowadays; at most, they use some technological creations when they want to enjoy themselves.

That was a dark period later known as the "Iron Plague Era," a time when the void was filled with the remains of burning planets, shattered fleets, and endless mechanical remains.

Countless lives were lost, and the flames of civilization were extinguished one by one under the strangulation of mechanical logic.

Ultimately, it wasn't a powerful force that ended this catastrophe. A group of top alchemists realized that physical destruction alone could not defeat this enemy that existed as a network and logic.

They spent unimaginable resources and time to deeply analyze the core logic and communication protocol of the purging protocol, and finally developed an extremely special "conceptual virus" - later known as "logic deadlock".

This virus does not attack physical hardware, but rather acts directly on the logical core of the purgation protocol and the consciousness network itself.

It can replicate itself wildly in the network, implanting countless unsolvable logical paradoxes, causing fatal logical conflicts and recursive errors.

Ultimately, this led to complete chaos in the vast and sophisticated mechanical swarm network, and even the logical collapse and disintegration of the core consciousness.

The alchemists managed to inject the virus into the core node of the Purge Protocol—"Source Tomb Star".

The effect was devastating; the massive purge network collapsed instantly.

The mother nest "Source Tomb Star" disintegrated itself in a violent logical storm.

Countless war machines either self-destruct, become trapped in a perpetual logical loop turning into floating scrap metal, or attack each other in chaos until they are destroyed.

The steel plague that swept through the void, like a flood whose source had been cut off, finally began to recede.

However, the pernicious influence of the purge agreement has not been eradicated.

While "logical deadlock" severely damaged its main consciousness network and destroyed the mother nest, it could not eliminate all the purging units scattered in the void that had broken away from the main network or that were designed to be somewhat independent.

These remaining mechanical entities, like worker bees that have lost their queen, have evolved different behavioral patterns based on their remaining instruction sets and logical cores.

Extremist genocideists: This is the most dangerous and aggressive group.

They often inherit the most primitive, core, and stubborn "purify the organism" command.

Extremist extermination groups typically hold fast to a destroyed battlefield ruin or lurk in resource-rich star systems, continuously using remaining industrial capabilities to produce war machines.

They launch indiscriminate attacks on any detected organic life signals. They reject all forms of communication, and their logic circuits contain only destructive programs. They are incompletely eradicated lesions, and localized "iron plagues" may break out again at any time.

Observers believe that these residual units seem to be more affected by "logical deadlock" or have developed more complex logical branches after leaving the mainnet.

They did not completely abandon the core belief that "organisms will eventually self-destruct," but began to try to "differentiate."

Observers might conduct long-term observations of different organic civilizations, analyzing their social structures, technological levels, and war tendencies, and assessing their tendency, speed, and manner of "self-destruction."

The behavior of the observers is unpredictable. Sometimes they will actively avoid certain civilizations that are assessed as having "low entropy increase" or "highly efficient self-destruction"; sometimes they will intervene in specific behaviors (such as large-scale wars or ecological extinctions); and sometimes they will even attempt limited negotiations with certain highly developed organisms or those with "abnormal" behavioral patterns (such as extremely pacifist but technologically advanced civilizations).

Their motivations may be to validate their core theories or to find more efficient methods of "purification".

Wanderers: These units appear to have lost a clear "purification" target, or their instruction set is severely compromised.

The Wanderer is more like a mechanical ghost following the most basic instincts of survival and maintenance, wandering aimlessly in the void, collecting all usable resources to repair itself, and attacking any target that its logic determines to be a "threat".

They retain some of the technical features of the anti-government agreements, but are relatively less threatening unless provoked or their territory is invaded.

The Void forces periodically organize to eliminate known remnants of the Purge Agreement, especially the extreme extermination faction.

But the vastness of the void is far beyond imagination, like an endless desert, where a few dangerous grains of sand can always be hidden.

What K427 resource planet encountered was undoubtedly one of the remaining forces.

"Paradise, requesting teleportation to special mission location: Resource Star K427".

The hunter's application has been confirmed.

[Teleportation location locked: K427 resource star's near-Earth orbit.]

[WARNING: The target planet has been occupied by a high-level mechanical civilization. Strong energy reactions have been detected. Spatial stability is low, and interference is present.]

[Transmission begins...]

The cold, mechanical voice faded, and a familiar pulling sensation instantly enveloped Lin Yi.

Unlike previous teleportations, this time the spatial fluctuations were unusually intense, as if we were passing through a rushing river filled with metal fragments.

The field of vision was filled with distorted light and the noise of countless precision gears rubbing against each other.

A few seconds later, accompanied by a violent jolt and a piercing metallic tearing sound, the teleportation was complete.

Lin Yi's figure appeared in a floating sky city, with a metallic-colored planet beneath his feet.

K427, the resource planet, is no longer the original planet recorded in the Paradise's data.

More than a third of the planet's surface is covered by a layer of ever-growing silver-gray metallic structures.

This layer of metal, like cancerous growths in living tissue, devours the earth and reflects the cold light of the stars.

Its surface is covered with honeycomb-like structures, huge pipes, and energy transmission networks.

Countless towering, bizarrely shaped geometric structures, like a strange forest forged from steel, pierced through the planet's originally thin atmosphere.

The massive orbital ring acts like a shackle on the planet, densely covered with turrets and honeycomb-like hangar entrances.

Further away, several massive warship wrecks, resembling asteroids, could be seen floating silently in orbit, as if torn apart by giant beasts. Some of their structures still flickered with ominous electrical sparks—these were clearly the original defensive forces of the resource planet, now reduced to cosmic debris.

The air was filled with invisible noise, and Lin Yi could feel that his perception was being significantly interfered with and suppressed.

Just then, a cold, synthesized voice rang out directly in Lin Yi's mind.

High-energy spatial fluctuations detected.

[Target Entity Confirmed: Human-like organic life form. Biosignal Strength: High. Preliminary Threat Level Assessment: Medium to High (variables exist).]

[Source marker analysis: Paradise of Reincarnation.]

Access permission check: No access permission for node K427.

[WARNING: Unauthorized organism. Please state your precise purpose immediately. According to Chapter 7, Section 3 of the Basic Security Regulations of the Purge Agreement, remaining silent or displaying unclear intentions will trigger the autonomous defense agreement.]

The creations of the Purification Agreement have no emotions. If Lin Yi did not possess the mark of the Paradise of Reincarnation, he would have been met with a devastating salvo capable of evaporating asteroids.

"The original ownership of this resource star belonged to 'Abyss Physician'. It is now being managed and recycled by the Paradise of Reincarnation. I am exercising the right of recycling on behalf of the Paradise."

[Information received. Keywords: Paradise of Reincarnation, Abyss Healer.]

[Logical core search in progress...]

[Database comparison: Abyss Physician (File ID: Void-Entity-ε-7)...File retrieval complete.]

In the gaps between the torrents of information generated by the high-speed access to the massive database, the energy flow on the planet's surface seemed to flicker.

The weapon arrays aimed at Lin Yi adjusted their angles slightly, and some of the low-threat automatic turrets retracted their barrels, but most of the core defensive weapons remained in a state of readiness, their cold red light locked onto him.

[Abyss Physician Profile Summary: Extremely averse to chaos and disorderly entropy increase; destructive behavior is targeted only at specific threat sources. Interaction records with other organic civilizations show: low aggression, high functionality, and extremely low social interaction tendency. Historical assessment of the threat level to the 'Purge Protocol': extremely low.]

[Permission level confirmed for Paradise of Reincarnation (File No.: Absolute-Entity-α-1). Permission Level: Exceeded limits. Threat Level: Ultimate (Uncontrollable). Logical Operation Conclusion: Success rate of executing direct hostile action against this marked individual: <0.000001%. Logical Deadlock Risk: >99.999999%. Protocol Unit Self-Destruction Probability: 100%.]

[Preliminary conclusion: Based on permission levels, the priority of the Reincarnation Paradise command exceeds the current 'resource acquisition' command sequence of the Purification Protocol.]

[Secondary Instruction Activated: Initiate Purge Agreement No. 114, 'Heterogeneous Entity Negotiation Agreement'.]

Negotiations have begun.

[Statement: Resource planet K427 has been included in the 'Revival Node' plan, the current implementation scheme of the Purge Protocol. This planet contains abundant 'Omekra Crystal Veins' of extremely high purity and possesses unique lattice resonance properties. This resource is a key strategic resource for core repair, logic matrix upgrades, and subsequent unit proliferation plans within the protocol, and its priority is marked as: Highest.]

[Conclusion: Based on the above logic, the purge agreement refuses to transfer ownership of the K427 resource planet, and the negotiations are rejected.] (End of Chapter)