With the battle concluded, Pei Guang's system log began firing off a stream of notifications.

[Congratulations! Player's faction achieved victory with zero casualties against a powerful enemy.]

[Player Pei Guang has completed the occupation of the tutorial planet. Keep up the good work!]

Just this one victory was enough to make the Company think twice before taking further action. The Company was still newly established, and its internal power dynamics were complex.

Pei Guang's flawless win meant it would be a long time before they could send effective reinforcements.

For Pei Guang, it was a perfect victory.

The fleet had been taken down shortly after completing its warp jump. Even the higher-ups at the Company would need time to reconsider—days, at least.

But from Pei Guang's perspective, this win was only natural. After all, if an event instance doesn't let players pass through the stages, that's just a design flaw.

Of course, completing the instance is one thing. How you complete it is another.

Many event dungeons in games are designed so that all players can eventually earn all the rewards. But players with ambition can always take on special challenges.

Pei Guang was taking on such a challenge: no-death completion.

And clearly, for this first large-scale battle, he pulled it off.

Looking at the detailed battle report, Pei Guang nodded with satisfaction. "Not bad, not bad. First big fight and not a single unit lost. Absolutely perfect. All that time grinding traits wasn't wasted~"

The units he deployed were all top-tier four-trait units that he had meticulously crafted.

The weaker or lower-tier units? He sent those off to mine.

"Now then…"

After reviewing the combat data, Pei Guang started thinking about his next move.

He looked at the star map and was irritated by the different colors marking various star sectors. How could a map have so many clashing colors? It was just unpleasant to look at.

And so, Pei Guang had an idea: to unify the color of the entire star map.

First was the home base.

No matter what, he couldn't lose the home base: this was the planet he was spawned on. As long as the people under his rule didn't rebel, Pei Guang would absolutely protect the humans on his own turf.

Players might do a lot of morally questionable things early on for the sake of efficiency, but most of them were just talking big.

They'd say things like, "The pet's sick, just toss it and get a new one," but when the pet actually got sick, they'd sell off everything they had or trek across mountains and rivers to find medicine.

In all kinds of training and simulation games, players were often quite sentimental.

As long as it didn't hinder progress, many would even treat the early-game characters they got with great reverence.

Just like with Pei Guang's current planet: backed by unlimited resource farms and a large number of machines, Pei Guang had already drafted a plan for universal welfare.

Naturally, this welfare also included the machines.

In Pei Guang's eyes, whether bystanders or machines, they were all NPCs. These machines fought and died for him, even managing to take down an entire small fleet without any losses, so of course he'd give them the best treatment.

Of course, a player's kindness only extended to their own people.

Toward enemies, or potential enemies, their cruelty would once again shock the entire Memory World. Even the existences watching the Memory World livestream fell silent when they saw what Pei Guang did next.

Time in the Memory World flew by rapidly.

As Pei Guang kept making decisions, his system log continued to flash nonstop.

[Player has chosen to receive the blessing of Abundance. After constructing a sufficient number of large-scale starships, he will seek out the Aeons of Abundance and Propagation and their offspring.]

[Player requested a blessing from the Merciful Medicus. The Merciful Medicus bestowed upon the player his Blessing. Player has acquired the trait "Emanator of Abundance."]

[Emanator of Abundance: Can wield partial power of the Abundance Path. Able to move freely through space using the physical body.]

After obtaining the 'Emanator of Abundance' trait, Pei Guang proceeded to do something that sent chills across the entire galaxy: mass-produce Emanators of Abundance.

While Pei Guang was mass-producing Emanators, his entire fleet returned at top speed to his starting planet, which had already gone to war with the Company's main forces.

The battle had initially been at a stalemate, but still winnable.

That was until the sky-darkening fleet arrived—then the Company immediately surrendered.

[Upon witnessing an uncountable number of Emanators of Abundance, the Interastral Peace Corporation surrendered. Aside from the Aeons themselves, no force could stand against such overwhelming numbers.]

There were many across the galaxy who had received powers from Aeons. But even if every living being in the universe banded together, they couldn't produce Emanators faster than Pei Guang could.

What's more, Emanators were only one kind of trait. Pei Guang's units could still receive other kinds of power as well.

[Player Pei Guang discovered xxx, gained the trait "xxx."]

[Player Pei Guang…]

[Discovered offspring of Propagation, gained the trait "Propagation."]

Pei Guang amassed a huge number of Path traits.

Each unit had four, and by fusing them together, he managed to create what could be called truly top-tier traits.

And when the Permanence trait appeared, Aha, who had been watching silently in the Memory World, suddenly appeared before Pei Guang. "My turn to play!"

"Nope. If you want to play, have a kid with one of my subordinates first."

Pei Guang hadn't expected Aha to make such a request, but then again, if the other side was offering help, why not take advantage?

As for letting him play later? He could do whatever he wanted.

Aha agreed to Pei Guang's condition and casually picked a robot to have a child with.

A new unit carrying the Aeon of Elation trait was born.

On that very day, the Aeon of Remembrance felt a massive jolt, because in the real world, not even a single day had passed, and yet in the Memory World, aside from a few Aeons, every living being had become aligned with the Aeon of Elation.

At that moment, the Aeon of Remembrance felt overwhelmed and fell into thought.

As for Aha, upon seeing the scene unfold in the Memory World, every mask on his face twisted with envy.

The whole world had become Aha.

It was certainly an interesting choice, but sadly, he couldn't actually experience it himself.

All he could do was watch another version of himself mock him while turning the entire world into an extension of Aha.

Permanence Elation, Destruction Elation, Preservation Elation… every Path trait now bore the mark of the Aeon of Elation.

However, the Aeon of Remembrance also came to a firm conclusion: under no circumstances could a player who had cut all ties with restraint be allowed to join forces with the Aeon of Elation.

If that happened, the world would be doomed.

At the same time, Pei Guang's two performances in the Memory World made Fuli confirm something else: the presence of emotional bonds and the "game" mindset had a significant impact on the player's choices.

At this moment, Aha, watching his painted-over version of the Memory World, felt Fuli's gaze.

The mask on Aha's face took on an innocent expression, as if to say: "Look at him, not me. I'm not even that good-looking!"