Chapter 1420: Chapter 472: Like Victory (6k)

"Your Majesty, the statistics from this war have been compiled.

This time, Lord Fan Mao has killed a total of 31 Seventh Rank powerhouses. The number of demigods and divine creatures of middle and Low-tier is hard to estimate, but it’s at least around fifty to sixty thousand.

It’s a pity that Lord Fan Mao couldn’t retain that 8th Rank powerhouse, who ultimately escaped and destroyed the teleportation gate.

However, Lord Fan Mao seems to have a Space Series powerhouse, who is already analyzing the remaining strength and can soon lock onto the home planet of that civilization."

Although the envoy’s tone was a factual statement, the words also carried a hint of crediting Bai Yi.

The emperor on the other end of the communication, a crafty old fox who had lived for centuries, could certainly pick up on this.

But he didn’t care.

As long as what he needed was accomplished and there was still loyalty to the Empire, he didn’t mind if his subordinates had some private interests.

Whether it was the envoy or Fan Mao, who in the emperor’s eyes was almost considered quite close.

Besides, Fan Mao did exceptionally well in his mission this time.

His idea was naturally to hope to quickly crush this civilization, have his armies take over, and find what he wanted.

But none of this could be stated explicitly, not even acted upon openly.

On one hand, he needed to conceal all his intentions from Fan Mao, yet on the other, he still needed the other to act — a task not considered easy.

Even so, Fan Mao actually grasped what he wanted.

In just one battle, they eliminated so many of the opponent’s Seventh Rank, achieving such an impressive victory.

He didn’t think this achievement was done casually; the details of the battle report revealed heavy planning.

To do this much unwittingly, what more could he ask for?

It was this contribution that made him even more inclined to think about how to reward Fan Mao.

After all, it’s not a ruler’s place to have his people work without appropriate compensation.

And what Fan Mao wanted...

"Where have Hunter and the others reached?"

"Your Majesty, they are on their way, currently passing through the Star Gate, expected to arrive in 7 hours."

A voice beside him reported respectfully.

"Now immediately draft an ambush plan, find a location to set the ambush, targetting two 8th Rank powerhouses, where one is set as an 8th Rank mage.

Heh, since enough contributions have been made, the Gemini will definitely not treat them unfairly!"

This is also the foundation of the Gemini’s establishment; the compensation and rewards made from the position of the emperor may not be the fairest but definitely evoke the most recognition.

"Yes!"

The voice did not harbor any suspicion. Even with his wisdom as a counselor, he understood whom the Emperor referred to as enemies, yet as a counselor, he only needed to execute the Emperor’s orders.

As for the consequences, those were for the Emperor to judge.

"Just inform Fan Mao, saying that the Gemini Civilization will cooperate in the plan, and the ambush site will be provided before the scheduled time."

Turning his head back to the envoy on the other end of the communication, he paused, then continued to ask:

"How is the situation of those enemies?"

"They are all powerhouses within a faith system, mostly utilizing the belief of their followers on the colonization star and converting that Power of Faith into their strength.

However, these transcendent beings within the faith system possess a wide variety of transcendent abilities, many of which haven’t been seen in the Starry Sky.

Moreover, the effects are surprisingly good."

The envoy recalled the report he saw on the warship, combined with his observations, and one by one reported the data and judgments contained within.

But even upon just recalling, the envoy was somewhat in awe, feeling he had never seen such a rich variety of transcendent abilities.

"Just as expected, it seems... the research is not flawed.

This system’s transcendent does not possess fixed strength, it is entirely determined by belief itself. We previously excluded that portion of influence which may have been a mistake!

This civilization is indeed a treasure trove!"

The Emperor excitedly mused to himself, immediately linking this intelligence to secret research within the Gemini Civilization.

Their research on the essence of faith knowledge was essentially an attempt to find a path forward, a road to the Ninth Tier.

But such a path of advancement is like a technology tree; it’s never about researching just one level but must be built from the very foundation up.

Now, the research within the Three Great Civilizations was just stuck at a certain step in the middle, causing the research process to stall due to divergent directions of future development.

Like how the other two civilizations prefer to see it as an additional "weapon" or "impurity" needing exclusion.

While Gemini internally tended to see this "spiritual influence" within faith as a characteristic of itself, attempting to eliminate the influence on that basis.

But all along, there was no result, nor actual example as proof.

The tripartite cooperation in research thus became nominally dead, each could only start their own internal studies. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

And now, he finally found concrete evidence for his Gemini Civilization’s research direction!

Unlike the times with no direction, when nobody knew which path was correct and had to try all possibilities, finding the research direction now meant only needing to pour all investments and manpower toward that direction.