A Core Ship From The Start-Chapter 374 - 290: Soul Calming Star_1
Chapter 374: Chapter 290: Soul Calming Star_1
When the Star Alliance fleet arrived menacingly at the galaxy where the Soul Calming Star was located, Duanmu Huai and the others had already silently entered the interior of this planet.
As one of the Forerunners’ shield worlds, the Soul Calming Star was surrounded by a sturdy shell, accessible only to designated individuals. However, this was not a problem for Duanmu Huai. Just like the Spirit race could teleport through the net, Duanmu Huai didn’t even need to open the door to effortlessly transport his people into the interior of the Soul Calming Star via the same method.
Another advantage of this was that——while the Star Alliance fleet was desperately trying to figure out how to open up the planet from outside, Duanmu Huai could take his sisters for a relaxing, spur-of-the-moment trip within the Soul Calming Star.
Meanwhile, he also narrated the grudges and grievances between the Forerunners and the Empire to the girls.
“To be honest, I can’t even imagine how a race could construct a massive barrier to house an entire world inside…”
Greiya looked up at the sky——had she not seen the planet completely sealed from the outside before, she would have thought that it wasn’t much different from a regular planet.
Having traveled with Duanmu Huai for so long, the girls had a rough idea about the planets. For this reason, Greiya found it even more astonishing.
“Probably only a deity could achieve this.”
“It depends on how you classify the strength of the deity in your minds.”
Duanmu Huai shook his head.
“Every civilization defines deities differently, maybe if you went to some more backward planets, their civilization would regard you and Ann as deities too.”
“Ah? Really? So, Greiya and I can become goddesses?”
Hearing this, Ann came running over with a grin, holding Greiya tightly, while curiously looking at Duanmu Huai, who nodded in affirmation.
“Absolutely, becoming a deity is not as hard as you think——especially being recognized as one. You see, you can control magic, summoning powerful knights; Greiya can manipulate flames, burning everything. If you go to a primitive, backwards civilization and display this, they may instantly kneel and hail you as goddesses of light and flame.”
In fact, players in the game had done similar things before. A player once went to a backward planet where the alien race regarded him as a deity. He then enjoyed being the deity of that world, observing their ecology when he had nothing to do. He gave them all sorts of orders, watching whether they would do stupid things because of a deity’s will.
Well… when that race eventually woke up and wanted to rebel, the player got bored with them and directly initiated an Extinction order to destroy them.
At the time, this documentary caused quite a bit of controversy online. Some people watched for entertainment, some thought it was too cruel, some saw the blindness and fanaticism brought by religion, and others thought humans aren’t much different from these alien races, believing we might also be inexplicably exterminated one day if we don’t work hard……
In any case, that player became very popular because of this.
Notoriety is still fame, after all.
However, often times, what a race or civilization considers as a deity may not be a true deity. But for every race or civilization, that being is a deity. For example, the Star Alliance sees the Forerunners as gods, but to Duanmu Huai, they’re only worth it to shine his shoes.
For players, there are three types of deities in Star Ocean Online. One type is the Main Gods, like the Chaos Evil God whose influence spreads across the entire universe.
Another type is regional deities, like the lake fairy or the giant horned rat, whose influence is only within a specific area of a planet.
And the third type are Civilization Gods, like the Ancient Gods and the powerful interstellar civilizations like the Forerunners, who are recognized as deities.
Of course, if you want to define the difference between the three, it’s not that big. You say that deities can create things out of thin air, revive the dead. But advanced civilizations can also use 3D virtual printing technology or mechanize the human body to achieve the same effect. The difference between the two is basically indistinguishable for backward civilizations.
You say that deities can manipulate souls, but the reality is that among the advanced interstellar civilizations, there are many races that can control souls. The Mek Tribe, who were once part of the Demon Alliance, is one of them.
Generally, an interstellar civilization can suppress the local deities to some extent, and the local deities may also be able to put up a good fight against the interstellar civilization by taking advantage of the terrain. But neither of them are a match for the cross-galactic Main Gods. Otherwise, the Ancient Saints would not have fled at the sight of the Chaos Army.
“That’s pretty interesting. I’ve never felt what it’s like to be regarded as a deity.”
“Being regarded as a deity is not as good as you think.”
As a former Demigod, Lani provided a different perspective, raising her head to look ahead.
“And… to be honest, in front of such a grand existence, we are insignificant…”
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Lani was looking at an irregular metal body, hundreds of metres high and suspended in mid-air. It hovered above the ground, rising vertically into the sky, like a towering metal building. Even the Golden Clan might not be able to build such a thing.
