Chapter 1 Feasibility

Having determined the feasibility of the plan, the two split up to gather recruits.

Han Xiao was only well-acquainted with the three old-timers from the Empire among the Peak Super-As, with most of the others being acquaintances he had made through fighting.

In comparison, Mannison knew more people. He was responsible for persuading those from Guanghui, Xuling, the Interstellar Black Market, and the neutral Peak Super-As.

Since his connections were indeed inferior to the other party, Han Xiao did not stop Mannison from doing more work. He had already decided to compete in other areas.

Only the Empire's side was Han Xiao's responsibility. He sent the Development Federation proposal to Old Long and Kang De, inviting them to join in the grand event. As for Dark Emperor, Han Xiao did not invite him.

Thanks to the consensus reached at the God's Table Conference, most of the Peak Super-As readily agreed, approving of the construction of a Super-A platform in the form of a Development Federation. A small number hesitated, worried about the reactions of the three Great Civilizations, but overall, it went smoothly.

Super-As directly under the advanced civilizations were not on the list of invitees of the initiators. Only when the Development Federation was completely established would invitations be extended to this group of people. After all, most of these direct experts placed their affiliated civilizations above their personal interests. While they were respectable, they were not on the same path as everyone else.

Kang De and Old Long were both allies, and in addition to accepting Han Xiao's invitation, they also expressed their concerns.

"Black Star, your relationship with the Empire has finally eased up a bit. Now you're taking the lead in forming a Super-A association. The Empire will be unhappy with you, right?"

"No ruler wants to see unstable factors in their jurisdiction banding together, but there's no way around it. Everyone has different positions, and it's impossible to please everyone in everything we do," Han Xiao nodded.

Kang De instructed, "You have to be careful. Mannison's goal is to seek benefits, wanting to tie the Super-A class together as his bargaining chip. You're still young, don't let him use you."

These Peak Super-As actually knew that Mannison intended to use them, but precisely because they saw more long-term benefits in it, they did not reject this plan.

"I know his intentions, but doing so is beneficial to the Super-A class. If the vision can really be realized, it can reduce the infighting among Super-As caused by factional affiliations." Han Xiao, on the one hand, wanted to preserve the living forces, and on the other hand, wanted to intervene in the Super-Ability Calamity as a chess player.

"If you ask me..." Kang De remained noncommittal, lowering his voice, "If the Super-A Association fully takes shape, it can solve the problem of excessive individual power by itself. Whenever the Super-A class grows to a certain extent, we will internally cleanse it, kill some of the non-Order camp guys, and actively balance the ratio of individuals to the collective. This is better than the three Great Civilizations taking action themselves."

Hearing this, Han Xiao couldn't help but take another look at him.

This was to seize the right of cleansing from the hands of the three Great Civilizations, using some ordinary Super-As as the price to maintain the status of the Peak Super-As.

If things developed normally, the Super-A Association could indeed evolve into this form. When the Super-A class was strong enough, and after successfully raising its status, the association would actively control the number of Super-As, preventing the class from growing too large and attracting a bloodbath from the three Great Civilizations...

The Super-A Association would prune the branches, keeping the number of Super-As at a level that posed a certain threat to the three Great Civilizations but not enough to force them to take action. In this way, they could decide who to kill, how many to kill, and take the initiative. Naturally, the losses would be much smaller than if the three Great Civilizations took action.

It was estimated that among the Peak Super-As, there were not a few people with the same idea as Kang De. It was not a new thing to climb up the wall and then kick away the ladder… After all, when the number of Super-As reached a certain point, further expansion would gradually change the nature of things, and the risks would far outweigh the benefits for most Super-As.

Sure enough, although these Peak Super-As agreed to join, their respective plans were different… Han Xiao narrowed his eyes and said nothing.

Overall, there were no twists and turns in recruiting people, and it was quickly put into action. The forces of many initiators cooperated, mobilizing materials, planning to select a site in the Shattered Star Ring, and build the Development Federation's base.

And such a big commotion naturally could not be concealed from other forces, and many initiators themselves did not want to hide it. After all, the nature of the organization was not a secret society, and it was originally intended to be known by the three Great Civilizations.

As a matter of course, the news also reached the ears of the Empire.

…

*Pa!*

"Black Star is really taking things too far!"

In the Chief Executive's office, Beikaluodi slammed the table with an angry expression.

He pulled a few hard-line executives and denounced Han Xiao in front of Ulanruier, his tone very intense:

"Look at Black Star's recent actions, he simply doesn't take the Empire seriously! He just eased relations with the Empire and dares to take the lead in doing this kind of thing. Does he think the Empire's goodwill in opening the Evolution Totem is a sign of weakness?"

Ulanruier rubbed her temples, "Then what do you think we should do?"

Beikaluodi shouted, "I think we should warn Black Star. If he insists on going his own way, the Empire will revoke the decree on opening the Evolution Totem as a reprimand to him."

Ulanruier remained noncommittal, "If we cancel this decree, what do you think Guanghui and Xuling will do?"

"Hmph, those two families have been coveting the Evolution Totem for a long time, but they know what's more important. On this issue, the Evolution Totem has to take a back seat. Guanghui and Xuling will never speak for Black Star."

Beikaluodi's tone was confident, and he was very sure of this judgment.

Ulanruier tapped the table and said slowly, "You're right, but after the God's Table Conference, we had expected this situation. It's useless to reprimand Black Star alone, this is the general trend."

When she discovered that Black Star and others intended to integrate the Super-A class, she knew that the hard-liners would come to make things difficult.

Honestly, Ulanruier didn't like to see the signs of Super-A alliance either, but this aspect of the problem was very sensitive, involved a wide range of things, and couldn't be decided casually.

Therefore, it was impossible for her to easily revoke the decree on opening the Evolution Totem and reprimand Black Star as Beikaluodi said.

His suggestion was rejected, but Beikaluodi was not angry. He had long known that the Chief Executive would do this. This time, he just came to express the attitude of the hard-liners. He pretended to snort angrily and left with the others.

Only Ulanruier was left in the room. She shook her head and opened the star map of the Shattered Star Ring, analyzing the situation.

Opening the Shattered Star Ring would impact the original power structure of the universe, and the Empire had known this for a long time. First, the Super Star Cluster Alliance, now the Super-A group, the impact was gradually manifesting.

"The price of exploration and expansion is turmoil. Every class wants to redistribute benefits..." Ulanruier sighed secretly.

…

At present, the Development Federation was still a fledgling team, with only a group of Peak Super-A forces carrying out preliminary preparations. During this period, there were inevitably wrangling and negotiations with the three Great Civilizations, and it would take at least a few months for it to be officially established.

This matter did not require full-time involvement, and Han Xiao had a lot of free time. He had been burying himself in repairing and strengthening the mechanical legion, and building new equipment.

After many failures, he finally created the Emperor's Robes of Golden quality in the workshop.

This was the second type of Cosmos Treasure equipment he had created with his own hands, and [Divinity's Sprout] unlocked the second layer of effects, and at the same time, it fed back a new Divinity Transformation Point.

The second layer's bonus also increased the base success rate of manufacturing and researching Golden blueprints, with the same increase as the first layer, 2.5% and 1.2%, but the second layer had an extra new attribute, increasing the Cosmos Wonder Mutation Rate by 0.2%.

Han Xiao read the introduction. This was a basic probability bonus for producing benign mutations in the process of manufacturing Cosmos Treasures. Cosmos Wonder-type treasures were generally stronger than normal Golden equipment, and there might be some "unsolvable" subsidiary abilities.

Han Xiao threw this 1 point of Divinity Transformation Point into the Mechanical Route, and [Divinity Transformation - Machinery] unlocked the third layer of effects.

[Third Stage: Mechanical Skill Level of classes below [Apostle Mechanic] +3, assembly line production efficiency +50%, assembly line product quality +10%, material cost -25%, additionally gain 1500 Intelligence attribute, 30 Potential Points]

"It increased the level of many basic mechanical skills, improved the mass production speed, and gave me some intelligence attributes and potential points. It's okay, I guess," Han Xiao pondered.

He had various skills that converted intelligence into Mechanical Affinity. 1500 points would bring about a Mechanical Affinity bonus of about 400%, and 30 Potential Points could at least raise the ultimate knowledge of a branch by one level.

Although the effects of the third layer looked a bit mixed, they seemed pretty good when added together, especially the basic mechanical skills +3, which brought a considerable bonus. After all, there were also many Mechanical Affinity skills in the low-level professional stages.

This time, the target of the Stat Respec was the Agility attribute. Due to the amount of work involved, the manufacturing difficulty of the Emperor's Robes was higher than that of the Monarch, and the Stat Respec range was 375 points, all of which were converted into free attributes.

"I finally knocked out this piece of equipment."

After solving the backlog of work, Han Xiao felt refreshed and put away the Emperor's Robes.

He had made everything he needed to make, it was time to visit the secondary dimension.

The Super-A Development Federation of the Shattered Star Ring was still in preparation. This was not something that could be done overnight. The three Great Civilizations must have intentions to question and oppose it. He could guess what the Empire was going to say, so he might as well go out to avoid the Empire's endless calls and find some peace.

Moreover, Ames had been waiting for quite a few days, and it was not good to keep her waiting any longer.

…

On the other side, the territory of the Scarlet Empire, somewhere in the Star Cluster Corridor.

This was a large interstellar military fortress, a giant spacetime gate that was several times larger than a normal stargate was located in the center of the base, and was currently in a dormant state, looking like an oval arch.

A figure was suspended in front of this giant spacetime gate, it was Dark Emperor Kerlotti. At this time, he had taken off the Chief Executive's Guards uniform and put on a specially made light mech.

The respectful voice of the base commander came from the helmet's communication channel.

"Your Excellency Kerlotti, this mech is specially used for secondary dimension travel. It can anchor the coordinates of the main universe. There are also spare portable anchor devices inside. Be sure not to damage or discard them, otherwise you may get lost in the overlapping secondary dimensions..."

"No need to introduce it, it's not my first time going to the secondary dimension," Kerlotti said calmly.

"Okay, we are about to open the secondary dimension portal. His Excellency Guzar, who is stationed at the outpost, will welcome you."

As soon as he finished speaking, the giant spacetime gate in front of him gradually started, and dazzling rays of light emerged from the gate, quickly turning into a vortex.

This was a variant of the stargate technology, a large-scale transfer device specially used to travel through secondary dimensions.

Quietly watching the spacetime gate start, Kerlotti brought up the mech's built-in secondary dimension database, which stored the overviews of the secondary dimensions that the Empire had explored over the years, which recorded the spatial coordinates and energy frequency records.

The situation in the secondary dimension was very different from that of the main universe. This database was equivalent to a map, and at the same time, remote marking could be performed using tracking equipment, which was equivalent to a navigation system.

Kerlotti browsed the database, filtered it, and quickly locked his gaze on one of the secondary dimensions, silently marking it as the target location.

This secondary dimension was named [Chaotic Energy Aggregation]!