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Ceasefire Universe - World Management Center Starfield

On a Zero planetary warship

"..." It was an ordinary day, and Xing was still doing some kind of exercise.

"So, do you have any ideas?" Elena asked.

“No, all the power of faith is gone,” Xing replied, shaking her head.

"Tsk, that woman really knows how to cause trouble. She stole your faith, no wonder she fouled you." Elena clicked her tongue in displeasure.

"Speaking of which... was it the universe I was originally in, and the game universe mode?" Xing asked, as if something had occurred to him.

“The game universes are still there, but their coordinates are extremely far away. It would take at least a hundred or two hundred years to find them again. As for the Collapse Iron Universe… it’s gone,” Elena said.

"That's...gone?" Xing frowned in confusion.

“Even a universe corrupted by the abyss cannot be saved, let alone life within it,” Elena said.

“Then…they…” Xing wanted to say something, but thinking of the nature of the Abyss, she opened her mouth but didn’t know what to say.

“Your game universe is fine. The safeguards I made before the accident happened activated when it occurred. The only thing that was beyond my expectations was that the merged player units actually separated when the merged universe disintegrated,” Elena said.

"What do you mean?" Xing suddenly realized something.

"Your own Ironclad game universe is expected to be fine. The only one among those game universes that was kicked by the Abyss was the Lagrange universe, but now that universe is too far away and I don't know what problems might arise."

"Finally, there are those territories and universes that belong to you." Elena looked at the stars.

"This outbreak was caused by an abyssal aggregate, and all ten territory universes were wiped out."

"...All gone?" Xing asked in shock.

"Yes, including the Ironclad Universe, which is considered your initial universe, it was completely wiped out," Elena said.

"So clean... I see, it must be Sylvia and the others." Hearing Elena's words, Xing thought of the two big shots, Sylvia and Bingmiao.

"Finally, your strength and everything you possess have suffered significant losses due to the aftermath of this Abyss issue," Elena suddenly said.

“Oh, the power has been weakened~ I know that, and also, my Fusion Sam Armor is completely gone,” Xing said.

"Uh... it seems that's really all there is to it." Elena paused for a moment after hearing Xing's words and said.

"Then there's no problem. As for your strength, I personally and forcibly increased it for you a lot. It's okay that someone is taking it away for a reward. Let me give you something to help you return to the level of a trainee demigod."

"Okay, I understand," Xingdian nodded in response.

"Let me see..." Elena immediately began searching through her system space.

"Found it, here you go." Elena tossed a stone-like object to Xing.

"What's this?" Xing asked Elena, looking at the stone in her hand.

“I found this in the remnants of a now-extinguished universe a thousand years ago. I thought it was pretty fun, so I took it with me. Now it’s yours. Absorb it,” Elena said.

"Are you sure it's okay if I absorb this?" Xing looked at the substance in her hand with a doubtful expression...

"Holy crap, where's the stone?!" Xing was so scared that she started looking around and checking her own body.

"Hmm? Let me see." Elena took Xing's hand and began to examine him. In less than a minute, she nodded to indicate that he was fine.

“It seems there’s still a lot I don’t know about this thing. It’s alright, it’s alright. It has completely merged with you, and your strength has returned to the demigod level,” Elena said.

"The benefits this thing brings you are actually greater than I expected."

"Hmm... okay then." Xing nodded in response to Elena's statement, seemingly lost in thought.

"Hey~ Look what I found~" A strange voice rang out, and before Xing could react, she found herself being hugged from behind.

"?" Xing, who was being hugged, looked completely bewildered.

"Huh? Isn't this planetary warship equipped with a space-blocking teleportation device?! How did you get here?" Elena asked, looking over.

"Sister Sylvia's warships do indeed have anti-space teleportation devices, but she also set up certain starship fortresses where only members of the council can freely enter and exit," the woman said with a smile as she left the starship.

"Ah~ Nice to meet you. I am Michelle Elstein, the host of the Council's 63rd generation system, Melina." The woman named Michelle introduced herself with a smile.

“Uh… Ah! My name is Xing, the host of the 77th generation system Elena of the Council.” Xing responded immediately.

"Elena, your little host doesn't look like much~" System Melina appeared behind Elena.

"Hmph~ I can't help it, I just went through a really tough battle and almost didn't make it back," Elena shrugged in response.

“The abyss, yes, it’s the abyss again,” Melina said.

"I never expected that the Abyss Children would manage to sneak into the Council's border region and launch an Abyss attack without the Council's knowledge. Was it some traitor from the fiftieth generation who did it?"

“Very likely,” Elena nodded.

"The World Tree and the Children of the Abyss are being targeted! The Supreme System, Lord Xingyuan, has personally spoken and recalled some of the main god-level hosts to resolve this issue," Melina said.

“No wonder. I was wondering why the hosts of the main gods, who should have been on the front lines of the fight against the Abyss alongside the five major pantheons, would be here.” Elena nodded to indicate that she understood.

“There’s something special about you, Xing. Do you have a chat system belonging to the ‘Starry Sea’ organization?” Melina looked at Xing, who was being played with by Michelle.

"Yes, there is, but due to an unexpected problem, the link between my side and that chat group is broken, and I can no longer connect to that chat group normally," Xing replied.

“Perfect timing, Michelle, hand over the chat group system that the council notified us about to her.” Melina looked at Michelle, who was still hugging and rubbing Xing.

“Received it~” Michelle stretched out her hand, and a faint ball of light appeared in front of everyone. Then Melina also stretched out her hand and placed the ball of light into Xing’s body.

“This is a chat group for the council. When this chat group is officially launched, there will be many senior members of the council. If you have any questions, just ask them in the chat group,” Michelle said.

“Oh, I understand,” Xing replied immediately.

“Now that Michelle is gone, we need to go find her group members and also meet with the people from Xinghai,” Melina said.