Xyrin Empire-Chapter 115 - : Legend

Chapter 115 -115: Legend

I had thought Ding Ling had already forgotten about this matter…

The continuous discovery of Xyrin Empire artifacts in this world had caught both my and Sandora’s attention. Initially, we thought the occasional Xyrin items were relics accidentally left on Earth by a Revenge Army warrior of the past, a notion that would make sense if no further Xyrin items had been found. But now, this possibility has significant flaws.

If it were just the relics of a single Xyrin warrior, then the number of artifacts would be too great.

According to what Lin Xue had told us earlier, the underground pyramid ruin that had turned to vapor contained up to a hundred Ghost Energy Core Crystals!

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For Xyrin Apostles, Ghost Energy Crystals are mere emergency energy sources; their real power comes from Energy Reactors located in their own private dimensional spaces. They would only use this abundant but non-recyclable emergency resource if the output of the Energy Reactor became insufficient or malfunctioned during high-intensity battles. Therefore, a Xyrin Apostle would normally not carry too many Ghost Energy Cores—just one or two in case of emergency would be enough.

Even for energy consumers like Pandora, who used a significant amount of energy, these many crystals would be unnecessary (as for Sandora, she controls a certain amount of Law Power as an ultimate Xyrin unit and can draw energy directly from the Void, thus not needing ordinary sources like Ghost Energy Cores. Alaya is a bit special. She utilizes mystic and arcane energy, a unique superpower of Xyrin Apostles, with an energy system entirely different from Pandora’s, also not needing such crystals). Therefore, these hundreds of exhausted Ghost Energy Cores could not possibly be relics left by that long-lost Revenge Army warrior.

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This means that a long time ago, a large number of Xyrin Apostles must have come to this planet and engaged in high-intensity battles here—if it were just routine activities, there would never be a need for emergency backups like Ghost Energy Cores.

If it had been before the collapse of the Empire, when the Xyrin information network was still intact, we could easily find out which part of the Xyrin Expeditionary Army had come to this planet over the past thousands of years. Unfortunately, ninety percent of the entire Xyrin Empire is still sleeping, and whether those Mother Stars and Colonies even exist is questionable. Naturally, the Empire’s vast and complex information network had long ceased to function. Pandora once tried to connect to the Empire’s database nodes scattered across the universe. The result was Little Loli listening to a whole day’s worth of noise and various advertisements before decisively choosing to give up…

Things were even worse for Sandora. At the very least, I had a Mother Star that, though distant, had begun to operate. She had nothing beyond her own direct troops. Compared to me, she had even less data that could be directly accessed.

Therefore, despite our best efforts, both Sandora and I were unable to trace the origins of these Xyrin items on Earth.

So our only hope was placed on the Superpower Team where Lin Xue belonged.

The Superpower Team had been researching these odd and strange things, which naturally included various Xyrin items that were unfathomable to humans. Perhaps they really possessed some critical information. As a result, Sandora and I reached a consensus: to cooperate with the Superpower Team!

Originally, I was worried about how to approach the Superpower Team, but Ding Ling’s rich imagination provided an excellent way for us: contacting them as another neutral, small organization was just perfect.

After all, although Lin Xue was a high-level leader of the Superpower Team, if we wanted to get more data, official contacts were still necessary.

Hearing Ding Ling’s question, Pandora immediately took out a Ghost Energy Core we had prepared earlier and handed it to Ding Ling.

“You can’t see, can you?” Ding Ling took the crystal, suddenly surprised that the blind Loli in front of her could so accurately hand something over to her.

…Had Pandora actually made such a low-level error?

Luckily, before we could answer, Ding Ling explained herself, “Oh, I see, it must be related to your superpowers, right? Then I won’t ask.”

Once again, I was thankful to God for giving Ding Ling a rich imagination and a brain adept at filling in the gaps!

Ding Ling took the crystal, observed it carefully for a while, and then said, “That’s right, this is the strange crystal that has recently caught our attenton, and according to our hypothesis, the ruin’s explosion is related to this kind of crystal—where did you get this thing?”

“An abandoned mine,” I lied with a straight face, while thinking whether I should send those idle Commanders, who dealt with urban management all day, to some godforsaken desolate place to build a similar mine to satisfy Ding Ling’s potential digging deeper, “We found a man-made cavity that had been buried, full of many such things, but we have never been able to figure out what use these crystals have.”

This was the truth, even the most adept Xyrin Technician couldn’t possibly find any use for a Ghost Energy Core that had exhausted its energy. Once depleted, it was nothing more than an incredibly hard but utterly useless stone, good for nothing except perhaps fitting it on a stick to cut glass.

“We’re in the same boat,” said Ding Ling, nodding her head. She finally calmed down when talking about serious matters, “Lin Xue must have mentioned to you that our research on this crystal is just getting started as well. We know nothing about its functions. However, regarding the origin of these crystals, we might have a clue.”

“You know where this thing comes from?” Sandora and I were both very surprised, and even Lin Xue looked puzzled – it seemed that she was also unaware of this matter.

“Yes,” Ding Ling nodded to Lin Xue, “This is a breakthrough we just made two days ago; it’s normal that Lin Xue isn’t aware.”

“These crystals may be related to a certain human legend.”

“That sounds very mystical…” I said, a bit disappointed. Legends were inherently enigmatic, and using legends to explain something already shrouded in mystery would truly be the height of mystique.

“It’s not necessarily like that,” Lin Xue interjected, “Some legends are actually real records from the Ancient Era. It’s just that due to limited human understanding at the time and the passage of so long a time, they have become mythological stories. If we have sufficient data, some legends can indeed serve as valuable historical evidence.”

“Just like Little Xue said,” Ding Ling agreed, “Moreover, our organization deals with these mysterious matters all year round. Many things that outsiders see as mere legends are actual facts to us. Speaking of which, do you know the Atlantean legend?”

“Of course!” Qianqian, my sister, and I said in unison.

The story of Atlantis was just too well-known, with its related legends having various different versions. This legendary civilization from the Ancient Times, possessing advanced technology even modern humans can hardly imagine, has always been a popular topic in various literary works and films. People have all sorts of speculations about this civilization, most of which agree on one consensus: whether Atlantis existed or not, there was indeed a super civilization that far surpassed current human society in the Ancient Times on Earth. This mysterious civilization might even have developed to the extent of exploring the secrets of the universe. However, as great as it was, it suddenly disappeared without a trace as if it had been wiped out overnight.

Just like the powerful Xyrin Empire, which had collapsed in one night.

Could it be that the Atlantean civilization was actually the Xyrin Empire? Or rather, could Earth have been a colony of the Xyrin Empire, and when the entire Empire fell into slumber, the Atlantean civilization also collapsed suddenly, leading to various legends about an ancient super civilization now?

This speculation popped into my mind, but I quickly dismissed it.

Leaving aside why the Xyrin Empire would establish a colony in this remote star system, far from the imperial borders, just the fact that humans have no clues about Atlantis at all was enough to negate this speculation.

The technological power of the Xyrin Empire was astounding. Such advanced technology could change the form of a star system in a short amount of time. These fundamental changes were not as easily erased by time as human relics. Just like that Xyrin Mother Star, which I had only reached in dreams, despite being dormant for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, the enormous Star Fortress hanging in its sky and the semi-metallic land had not changed at all.

Pandora had also mentioned to me that the Xyrin Empire would first transform the local environment or even the structure of celestial bodies whenever they added a new colony. This race, born for war, had no concept of subtlety or restraint.

If Earth really had been a colony of the Xyrin Empire, then this planet would definitely bear obvious traces of modification, and even the entire Solar System would show clear signs of adjustment. It was possible that even now, there would be a Star Fortress hanging above our heads.

But the fact is, despite various speculations, humans have so far failed to find any traces of a super civilization left on Earth; even Pandora’s sensors have not detected anything similar within the Solar System.

That is to say, although it’s very likely that the Xyrin Apostles came to this planet a long time ago, the possibility of Earth once being a Xyrin Colony is very small. So, what exactly is the story behind the legend of Atlantis?

If not the Xyrin Empire, then whose traces could this glorious civilization of Atlantis be?