Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'-Chapter 1364 - 284: Void Route: Toward the [White Wolf] Ending (9)

The Twilight Duke Ira Dasko tore open the curtain and turned to say to Leoz:

"Suddenly I remembered, I have someone here who might be useful to you. I'll hand him over to you."

Leoz descended the steps and entered a closed dimension, with the oppressive atmosphere around him even feeling somewhat suffocating for him. He touched the wall of the dungeon:

"This feels a bit strange, isn't it material?"

"Prime Number Brick, a closed concept created using prime numbers, the characteristic of the void is to transform originally abstract ideas into an existence that is neither material nor fantasy."

Ira still wanted to explain a few sentences, but what came after was already indescribable in language or words. Leoz understood but didn't know how to express or remember it.

He didn't ask more and continued walking down.

"Using this sort of thing to build a dungeon, the people imprisoned here must certainly be extraordinary."

"What else would you expect? We are not like you, Great Commander Leoz, who dares to physically eliminate opposition directly. The void has everything, yet it lacks everything, especially missing various individuals with self-awareness and independent personalities — such entities are difficult to be born in the void, so we can only corrupt and plunder from the outside."

Leoz understood:

"No wonder you're so fixated on launching wars against the Border Abyss and Layer Abyss, their populations are truly a necessity for you."

"Not just a necessity, it's already reached a red line."

As Ira led the way, she casually remarked:

"Your warriors and those indestructible Descenders, in a sense, have also eased the urgent crisis."

"How did such a problem arise?" Leoz was surprised.

"Blame Pialinus for that."

Ira explained:

"After the Imperial Monarch passed away, although he passed the Chief God's divinity to me, Pialinus took advantage of the situation, assisting many individuals who had once joined the void to break free from the nihilistic trend of thought and, under his persuasion, fled to the Mass Abyss."

"The Heavenly Venerate has such ability?" Leoz was slightly surprised.

"He holds the Chief God's Godhood and can always communicate with the Will of the Starry Abyss in Spikect's form. Once communicating with the Will of the Starry Abyss, his thoughts can cross the Starry Abyss and send messages to the people he chooses."

Ira calmly said:

"In fact, Sorao Piarinus has maintained his dominion through these means for years, and even though his power and influence are far less than before, his impact is, in some respects, stronger than Lai Anding."

Saying this, she glanced at Leoz:

"Have you turned against Lai Anding? Now, the people on the Pathway of Redemption can't provide treatment to your people."

"No problem, I have my own way." Leoz was not concerned; after accessing the private server, he could adjust the data to restore the normal resurrection mechanism and life recovery for the players.

Moreover, as a conqueror of the void, Leoz now happened to choke the throat of trade exchanges between the lower three layers and the upper three layers of the Starry Abyss. All information and goods have to pass through his hands before being transmitted.

The Starry Abyss Side holds a generally optimistic view on the conquest of the void, because the void has long been the rebellious child in the Starry Abyss family, eager to kick whoever they see. Being dealt with by Leoz now has finally let out some pent-up anger.

More importantly, now that Zhou Yuan is in Leoz's hands, at least Leoz will not, like past void regimes, casually close passages and conduct messy invasions and infiltrations.

On this foundation, Leoz just conducted some simple lenient reforms on the Underwater Abyss Port and the customs, reestablishing the review mechanism, which has already garnered the Favor of the Narrative Group.

The conquest of the void also established a base for the Primordial Abyss Federation power, dealing a far more serious blow to the Lai Anding side than it appears on the surface—the majority of players can't comprehend the maneuvering behind the scenes.

What they see is very simple:

Leoz brought 1.29 million Expeditionary Army and took down the void, and now not only does Lai Anding allow cheats to run rampant, but they have also weakened community benefits, and yet the official server players still have to work for the Narrative Civilizations.

While you are still following rules, diligently cleaning toilets, delivering packages, and performing gigs for Narratives to complete tasks, the private server players have already turned the game from "Call of Duty" to "Iron Will"!

The propaganda machine of the True Martial Party took the opportunity to exert force, beginning to infiltrate the group chats and forums of the official server players on a large scale, promoting the benefits of the private server, while subtly implying that the Cognition Filter hinders players from knowing the truth of the game.

After wooing a batch of wavering players, the Night Fighting Sword would take them to reality, namely the Primordial Abyss, to recruit people physically, removing the filter and restoring the warrior stance.

Among them, one cannot but thank Shilovkin, who sacrificed back then, also known as Caramel Snail, and their friend Xia Yubing.

The data on over two hundred million players collected by Xia Yubing back then was mostly the reincarnation of Spiritual Warriors, Slave Labor, and Cannon Fodder Deity, in other words, the kind of decent people most needed by the True Martial Party. Once these individuals had their Cognition Filter removed, they could instantly transform into the finest warriors, with some radicals eager to attack Qiqiao Network Company immediately.

Over the months, the membership of the True Martial Party has expanded rapidly to 280,000 people. As the party leader, Oshen has gained immense power and prestige, transforming the mobilization capabilities of the Federation fundamentally.

Also, because of Oshen's absolute loyalty to Leoz, Leoz thereby secured complete control over the federal and parliamentary system.

The Federation is nominally led by the Great Commander as the highest executive and military leader, with the ruling party leader serving as the government Prime Minister, whereas Parliamentary seats are distributed according to the vote proportion of each party's representatives. But when both the Commander and Prime Minister are his own people, Leoz does not need to care about the opinions of other councilors of Narrative or Species Origin.

The entire Federation operates efficiently under his will, like a nuclear fusion engine.

When legislation encounters controversy, a glance from Leoz can decide whether it passes.

When reforms face difficulties, Leoz's voice leads others to raise their hands.

Short on money? Then borrow it from Redd Gold.

Lack of manpower—this issue currently doesn't exist, players on the private server are more energetic than those on the official server.

Moreover, with the full activation of the True Martial Party's propaganda machine, more players have at least been swayed to the neutral camp.

Some protested that the game benefits are insufficient, bluntly threatening to not log in or cancel their accounts—although losing some potential talents and existing combat strength makes Leoz feel pained, at least the players have started their own struggle.

Game companies often fall into a naive and arrogant mindset: players will feel bored and unable to live without their games, and will eventually return.

However, the reality is that the relationship between games and players is a mutual choice; especially when a second competing game appears on the track, players, even if not entirely burden-free, will at least start trying the competition.

The game updates and services are numerous, but players' time is limited.

Within the same game time frame, if they perceive that one game provides a higher emotional value and tangible benefits than another—not requiring much, just a 20-30% increase—players are likely to invest more time into the more cost-effective game.

Most new private server players aren't exactly loyal to Leoz, they mostly play half-official half-private, logging in occasionally for a monthly card, then heading to the Void, linking to the private server, or encountering cheats, decisively switching to the private server to battle against cheaters.

It's proven that cheat players in competitive games not only have light household registers but are also a bit technically inept.

The private server's buff amplification isn't much, mainly to prevent instant kills by cheats, forced offline, data tampering, and privacy protection, but even so, in several encounters, cheat players were still beaten by the united private server team.

Under such circumstances, more players have now firmed their belief: I may not play private, but I can't do without Leoz's private server link.

In order to prevent Leoz's power from expanding further, physically blocking the Void, Lai Anding can only urge Plyer to provide more cheats to players.

On the one hand, for sale, Qiqiao Network can reclaim some resources.

On the other hand, one cheat player's colonial progress on Border Abyss, Layer Abyss is equivalent to thousands of regular players.

Even Leoz can't deny this point.

Yet still, the ratio between private and official servers starts tilting, although most veteran players are trapped, many casual players have become disgusted with the official server environment and start switching to private.

At this rate... Lai Anding might become even more radical.

Leoz is actually considering whether to let the True Martial Party's guerrilla team tone it down a bit recently.

If too much stimulation to Lai Anding forces strong mobilization of players for an expedition, both the Federation and Void Province will suffer considerable damage...

"Arrived."

The Twilight Duke's words pulled Leoz back to reality, he raised his head, looking into the pool ahead: A man with a bare upper body and disheveled hair came into view.

Strangely, even without any shackles, he couldn't move.

Leoz looked up, suspended above the man's head was a purple-black magic cube.

"Spikect's divinity."

Leoz was surprised:

"You're directly suppressing with divinity's power—so willing? Who deserves such importance from you?"

Who would have thought upon asking, instead the Twilight Duke was taken aback:

"This should be your man, don't you recognize him?"

"My man..."

Leoz muttered, suddenly realizing something, he walked to the shore, looking at the man trapped in the water prison, he asked:

"Caramel Snail? Or Gio Zieou?"

"Or perhaps..."

"Both, perhaps?" 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Like entering the correct password, under heavy pressure, the man slowly raised his head, revealing a weary and numb face.

"You..."

The man looked at the Supreme Ruler and Twilight Duke in front, consciousness fragmented, mumbling indistinctly.

"It's me."

Leoz extended his hand:

"Leoz, also Li Aozi, Xides—sorry for deceiving you before, but it's no longer important."

"I didn't expect you to still be alive, since that's the case, your sentence is now declared over."

Without waiting for Gio Zieou's reaction, Leoz happily announced:

"From now on, the strongest warrior on the former Beyond-Abyss Battleground will serve me."