CHAPTER 936: CHAPTER 494: EXPANSION

The gains from the journey to the Divine Temple were quite abundant. In the final hall, they discovered a hidden storeroom filled with piles of Star Marrow, high-quality Sun Stones, Sun Crystals, and other precious materials, providing a critical replenishment to the Royal City’s warehouse, which was in dire need of scarce resources due to extensive expansion.

More importantly, they unearthed a significant piece of history, furthering their understanding of the existence of the Starry Kingdom and roughly clarifying the reasons for its downfall.

Of course, for them, there were still many doubts about this history, as if some very crucial information was missing.

Only Rod knew the whole story and was aware that humanity faced not only disasters and crises but also an ancient evil called Amon hidden within the human interior.

Rod was compelled to connect this with what he encountered in the battle of Starry Sky City, the person influencing Archbishop Horus’ soul was very likely him, which also explained why the Archbishop of Troli fell victim unknowingly.

Horus was half a step away from becoming a Commander. Although in Troli, he was considered one of the few strong individuals, throughout human history, those below the level of Commander were not noteworthy.

Even at the peak of the Starry Kingdom, Amon could assassinate the Master of Dreams. Although the dream had already shattered, with Heigao’er seriously injured, from the fact that he could create the "Heavenly Sphere Clock," it was evident that he was much stronger than the current Rod.

Although over a millennium had passed, Amon’s physical body had long been destroyed, and the ancient evil thought had reincarnated into a new soul and would no longer be as powerful.

However, from his actions of leaving a tablet mocking Rod over a thousand years ago, it is clear that his wisdom and ability were not comparable to Asa, who mistakenly worshiped the "King of Eating Feces" and even mistook dreams.

Thus, hiding in the declining Troli, assassinating an Archbishop who wasn’t even a Commander should not be particularly difficult, and there must be some way to achieve the effect he desired.

Rod inferred from this that the mysterious Leader of the Descender Sect was very likely him.

This was the greatest source of unrest hidden within the Trolian Royal City.

However, because it involved the Dream Realm, Rod did not directly tell them the full story, instead using another similar hypothesis to simplify the matter into a plot where doomsday believers framed human strong ones, ultimately leading to the fall of the city and the extinction of the Starry Kingdom.

Amides and others took this result very seriously and spent the entire night sorting out the whole event, sending the found tablets and other items back to the Royal City in secret.

The Royal City leadership took great notice, and the King, Archbishop Horus, First Elder Amendo, First Defense Chief Darin, Judgment Chief Lucian, and others immediately convened an important meeting, deciding to activate the King’s Holy Grail to elevate the prevention and purging of doomsday believers to an unprecedented highest level.

At the same time, the Royal City paid even more attention to the excavation of Starry Sky City. The history hidden within numerous secrets was extremely important to those walking alone in the darkness.

Support in materials and personnel increased further, with a large number of scholars, researchers, and archaeologists arriving in Starry Sky City one after another, and some schools even moved over entirely.

For them, the King’s city of a Human Kingdom was truly too important. Countless mysteries might be solved here.

Most importantly, they might find the direction to guide humanity’s path forward.

Troli now faced countless choices: in combat power development, the Fire Holder’s path, the Calier Taboo Shadow path hosted by Great Priest Megan, the magical beast mechanical body path decided by some great scholars, the endless Spiritual Power Cannon path, and the path of large war machinery like Floating Battleships.

There were also routes in the Mechanical Research Institute like the Steam System route, Lightning route, Gravity route, and even more intangible studies like Spiritual Matter Disintegration Explosive Bombs, Superheavy Singularity Devouring Domain, Annihilation Energy research, etc.

In terms of actions, the choice between expansion and consolidation, whether to construct the World Clock Tower, how to find surviving humans, how to avoid disaster and doom, and how to resist the advent of great terror.

And most importantly, what the Starry Queen warned them about, the imminent great calamity.

With so many directions and choices, but limited resources, how to allocate resources, which path to take, and how to proceed, all these major questions perplexing all the high-ranking leaders.

If these problems could be solved, then humanity’s chances of survival in the Dark Epoch would significantly increase, and tragedies like the Starry Kingdom could be avoided.

This is the significance of researching history and pursuing the past.

Therefore, the Royal City was finally willing to redeploy some First Level Combat Power back to Starry Sky City. Although the Star Source of the Star Chart was extremely important, the truth of the past was more important. Rod not only needed to guard the Holy Fire Sacrificial Altar but also needed to clear the entire Starry Sky City faster.

If they could find more clues and locate the reincarnation of this Amon, that would be more useful than thirty drops of Star Source.

After the arrival of new combat power, the speed of clearing Starry Sky City finally increased, no longer was it just Rod, Chucher, and Gale running here and there, fighting battle after battle.

The investment results did not disappoint the Royal City; they quickly unearthed many valuable items from the ruins.

The Starry Weapons that could still be barely used, including Spiritual Power Cannons, Enchanted Heavy Crossbows, Star Armor, Spiritual Weapons, Star Longswords, and so on.