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Chapter 645 Even if this is a poisoned pie, we have to force ourselves to eat it!
The negotiations with Moni and others lasted for a full half month before they were concluded. With the concerted efforts of all the speakers, they accurately grasped the Geometry Civilization's eagerness to obtain magic power, and reached an agreement to exchange one thousand tons of element seven for ten kilograms of magic power.
That’s right…it’s ten kilograms of magic power!
Although magic is a kind of energy, it also has mass, but it is very light, so light that it can only be observed when it changes form.
Because energy is actually the amount of matter, which is a more microscopic substance. This is why mass and energy can be converted into each other. They are essentially no different.
For example, one kilogram of electricity can be easily calculated using the mass-energy formula to be about 250 billion degrees, which is enough to allow an interstellar spacecraft to travel for about an hour.
After the negotiations were actually concluded, Mooney even wondered if he was dreaming. The interstellar governor actually agreed to the request to exchange element seven for magic power.
Although the negotiation process was extremely difficult and the final result exceeded the bottom line by a hundred times, Moni was still extremely satisfied.
This means that he does not need to risk being killed while smuggling magic power, not to mention that this may also trigger a war between the two civilizations.
After getting Lynn's permission, Mooney couldn't wait to pass the good news back to the mother world.
The leaders of the disk had no hope for the success of the transaction and were discussing how to smuggle the magic power out when the next compensation was paid. Now they suddenly learned that the other party had agreed to exchange element seven for magic power. They were so shocked that they were speechless.
Mooney quickly took credit, saying that it was his superb negotiation skills that convinced the interstellar governor to agree.
However, this also represents a sad fact. The Magic Empire attaches great importance to magic power, a special energy source, but it is not as strictly guarded as they think. It is a general confidentiality level, not a top secret strategic material. Otherwise, it would be impossible for an interstellar governor alone to make a decision.
In addition, the Magic Empire is really interested in Element 7. Considering that they have the dimensional ability to control the flow of time, Meni even suspects that their research on Element 7 has reached a very in-depth level and may even surpass the geometric civilization!
Such a huge gap made all the disc leaders feel desperate.
At the same time, some Geometry people expressed doubts about this. Even though magic power is not a top-secret energy source for the Magic Empire, it is still a bit strange to trade it so rashly.
Because once we are able to master and utilize this energy, geometric civilization will inevitably usher in a technological explosion in just a few decades.
From their contact and understanding, although the Magic Empire claims to be a "high moral" civilization, it is not like a truly selfless civilization that is willing to help lower-level civilizations or even share some basic technologies.
"Maybe it's because of element seven!" a leader with an oval shape speculated.
"Don't you find it strange? Why did the Magic Empire suddenly appear in that star field, so close to the Geometry Civilization? According to the information we have collected, the several planets in that star field have not been developed at all..."
So he suspected that the Magic Empire should have just arrived in that star system not long ago. It was likely that the other party's probe arrived there and accidentally discovered the exploration fleet that crashed in the star system. They found the remnants of element VII inside. After research, they became very interested in this new element, so they sent a signal to induce them to receive it, intending to obtain it through war.
It was just that in that small war, they defeated the opponent's high-dimensional war weapons with artificial black holes, a cutting-edge technology developed based on element seven, which made the Magic Empire cautious. In addition, their almost humble attitude made the opponent completely lose the excuse to start a war, so they agreed to the request for this transaction.
This leader's imaginative speculation was soon confirmed by many of his colleagues, but there were also many people who opposed it. After all, there were a lot of loopholes in it.
Assuming that the Magic Empire doesn't care much about magic power, which is an incredible energy source, then why is it so interested in element seven?
It's impossible that the potential of element seven is more terrifying than magic power?
Moreover, if the other party wants to obtain element seven, they can simply offer other technologies in exchange. This was also the strategy they initially thought the Magic Empire would implement in the transaction. There are too many things that don't make sense.
"We cannot use the thinking of geometric civilization to measure the thinking of an energy life form..." The oval-shaped leader insisted that his guess must be correct, and the other party's brain circuit might be like this!
Colorful electromagnetic waves kept flashing in the conference hall. The supreme leader was not affected by these disputes. Instead, he maintained his original decision and completed the deal.
"Inform the interstellar governor that we plan to send the remaining 300 tons of compensation and the 1,000 tons of element VII from the transaction directly through the wormhole!" the supreme leader made the decision.
Now that the deal has been made, there is no possibility of going back on it. Otherwise, it will most likely anger the other party. Moreover, magic power is most likely related to the promotion of cosmic civilization. Even if this is a poisoned pie, they have to force themselves to eat it!
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On the other side, in the temporary residence, Harof and others were anxiously waiting for a reply from the Geometry Civilization. Although they had already reached an agreement with Moni, the final decision would still be made by the decision makers of the Geometry Civilization.
"What's the situation now? Do those Geometry people have any suspicions?" Vittorio looked at Lynn on the side. He felt that the other party should have almost finished the discussion by now.
"Yes!" Lin En nodded and said with a smile, "But they probably still don't understand why we agreed to the trade request."
Since the first meeting with the Geometry Civilization, Lin En has been creating the illusion that the Magic Empire is very powerful, and has reinforced this perception many times since then. The other party should now firmly believe it.
After all, they threw out real baits and demonstrated real techniques, which allowed them to confuse the other party.
"If everything goes well this time, there will be no need to expand the Planet Ranch for the time being. The Geometry Civilization should be able to help us accomplish this. As for the creation of the Godhead..." As Lin En was speaking, the smile on his face suddenly stopped and became much more serious.
He received a message from the Eternal Star that there was a problem with the black hole that the parliament had been monitoring!
Chapter 646: The Battle of Gods Outside the Black Hole!
Of course, Lynn was not the only one who received the quantum communication. Harof, Vittorio and others also learned this important information at the same time.
They didn't expect that Lin En's worries would come true so soon!
"Should we try to get the Geometric Civilization involved?" Aurora suggested.
Although the power of the parliament is much stronger than before, and Lin En has made another breakthrough, it is still a fantasy for him to fight against the gods of the main world alone. The only chance of winning is to bring in geometric civilization.
But this requires a suitable reason, such as a rebellion within the empire, in order to seek their help.
"No, it's better not to let Geometry Civilization interfere in this matter." Lin En shook his head and rejected Aurora's proposal.
They had just proposed an agreement to exchange magic power for element seven, which had already aroused the other party's suspicion. Now they said that there were troubles within the Magic Empire and even needed the help of a "low-level" civilization to overcome the difficulties. It would be easy for the other party to have some bad intentions.
"Things shouldn't be that bad. Judging from the report, the black hole has not disappeared. This may just be an attempt or a tentative attack." Lin En said comfortingly.
The wizard who was responsible for monitoring the black hole had reported several anomalies of the space-time gate. Under the influence of the black hole, the size of the space-time gate was shrinking all the time, but there were also several times when it suddenly expanded in the opposite direction, and strange matter could be seen gushing out from the inside.
Lin En guessed that it might be that the gods of the main world were experimenting on how to destroy or break through the attraction of the black hole, and this time the message they received was more urgent. It was obviously not an ordinary situation, so it was very necessary to go and see it in person!
After some discussion, Raphael stayed here to contact the Geometry Civilization and exchange materials, while the rest of the people rushed over through the wormhole to provide support...
The distance between the two places is very far, about fifty light years. Even at twice the speed of light, it will take a full twenty-five years to fly!
Fortunately, they placed a detector on the battlefield last time, which was used as the coordinates to open the wormhole. It only took less than ten minutes. On the contrary, it took a full day and night to fly from the location of the detector to the Schwarzschild radius of the black hole!
Dozens of Parliament’s warships had already been waiting here, surrounding it in a semi-circle.
However, it seems a bit ridiculous to say that they are surrounded, because under the huge event horizon of the black hole, the warships are as small as floating dust.
"What's the situation?" Lin En stepped into the temporary command room and asked directly without any nonsense.
It has been nearly thirty hours since they received the intelligence, and it was beyond Lin En's expectations that the fleet deployed here for protection had not been completely destroyed.
"This... is hard to say." The great wizard in charge of monitoring the operation looked hesitant and quickly recounted the whole story.
After swallowing up six gods and dozens of galaxy-class battleships fueled by antimatter, the black hole's event horizon has expanded several times compared to the beginning, and the edge has even touched the space-time gate, wrapping it in.
Due to the extremely strong gravitational pull of a black hole, not even light can escape, and the internal situation cannot be seen from the outside. However, this does not mean that they have no way to obtain information.
According to the dimensional theory proposed by Lynn, they can directly infer what is happening inside the black hole by observing the changes in the gravitational waves of the black hole.
A black hole is like a huge sphere placed on elastic cloth, causing the surrounding space-time to sink deeply.
As for the space-time gate on the periphery, a smaller sphere is placed on the edge of the already concave elastic cloth. The space-time depression in that area will be more obvious than other places.
In addition, the two gravitational sources will also affect each other. For example, they observed that the energy that maintains the space-time gate is being continuously sucked into the black hole, and its volume is slowly shrinking.
The previous reports were because the gravity of the space-time gate was suddenly detected to have increased, and it was suspected that the gods on the other side were causing trouble.
However, the situation now is even stranger. A third gravitational source has appeared inside the black hole's event horizon and is slowly moving outside the black hole's event horizon.
"This thing's speed is not that fast. When we detected it, it was several hours after the incident. According to the speed, it will leave the event horizon radius of the black hole in about another day..." the great wizard reported.
Lin En pondered for a while and immediately guessed that a god must have crossed the line.
When a god makes a full effort, the force of time and space he mobilizes is extremely powerful, enough to cause very obvious ripples in time and space at the edge.
I just don’t know which gods are coming.
The most important thing is that the battle cannot last too long, and the scene should not be too big, otherwise it is likely to attract the attention of geometric civilizations.
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On the other side, the God of Life and Creation, who is burdened with great responsibility, is wandering on the edge of the black hole's event horizon.
It is pitch black here, even deeper than the boundless void. Time and space seem to have lost their meaning here, and there is no such concept as up, down, left or right. However, it is always right to move forward in the opposite direction of the gravitational vortex.
When he first entered this world, the God of Life and Creation was nearly sucked in because he underestimated the strength of the black hole's gravity. Fortunately, the main artifact given to him by Moragos played a role at the critical moment and formed an anti-gravity field around him, which greatly reduced the impact of the black hole's gravitational vortex and avoided the tragedy of death before achieving success.
I don’t know how long I flew, maybe a day, a week, or even half a month, but light finally appeared in front of me... It was the light captured by the black hole from the outside world.
This also means that I'm about to leave this damn place.
The God of Life and Creation was not happy, because he knew that now was the most dangerous time.
After a few hours, the God of Life and Creation completely left the black hole's horizon, and what came into view was a dazzling sea of light... formed by the matter absorbed and heated by the black hole, huge and eye-catching...
There stood a human figure in the circle of light. Under the reflection of the huge halo, the figure appeared very blurry, but it exuded a strong sense of oppression.
Lin En was somewhat surprised that there was only one god entering the universe, and he had been defeated by him. However, he also knew that since the other party dared to enter this universe, he must have something to rely on, and he might not be easy to deal with. He immediately raised the gathered element No. 7 in his hand and spoke coldly.
"Low Dimension... Expand!"
Chapter 647 My name is [Oger], the ruler of life, the god of creation!
"Low Dimension... Expand!"
The moment Lin En finished speaking, the element No. 7 gathered in the palm of his hand expanded millions of times in an instant, covering everything around it!
The previous few times that [Low-Dimensional Expansion] was used were all inside the planet, and it was able to use the planet's own gravity and magnetic field to form a protective shield. But this time it was slightly different. It was in outer space, relying only on a thin layer of element seven as a shield, and the outside world was a vast quantum ocean.
The reason why the battle venue was chosen here was naturally to avoid the surveillance of geometric civilizations!
The God of Life and Creation stared at Lin En in front of him, feeling somewhat surprised. During the last battle, he could feel that the opponent's strength was similar to his own, both of them were of medium divine power. However, the sense of oppression now was far stronger than most of the gods he had ever seen, almost comparable to the great god Harriet.
However, he came prepared this time. At the same moment when Lin En unfolded the seventh element, the God of Life and Creation simultaneously took out the main artifact given by the main god Moragos.
That's... an eye!
It was as big as a human head, with a dark golden color all over, and streaks of blood spreading around the pupils, making it look very hideous and terrifying.
Rather than saying that this is the main artifact, it is better to say that this is a part of the body of the main god Morages!
Just separated by a universe, the connection between the two has become very weak.
"My name is [Oger], the ruler of life, the god of creation!"
Sound cannot be transmitted in the void of the universe, but Oger's words seemed to penetrate the barrier of distance and echoed directly in Lin En's mind!
Under the power of life and creation, the human-head-sized eye began to expand rapidly, and its size soon exceeded 100 meters. Strands of white feathers floated down from the void, and finally condensed into a pair of huge wings!
Hidden beneath the white wings is a densely packed polymer made up of countless eyes.