Chapter 1234
[Angelic Rank Ascension: Seraphim]
Chapter 1234 [Angelic Rank Ascension: Seraphim]
Two weeks later, Blackrock Fortress hovered quietly above Elysium.
With the end of the chaotic First Anti-Kingdom Alliance War, Elysium has been officially taken over by the Mortal Court.
According to old tradition, Xia Xiu must photograph a governor's mansion every time he occupies a plane, as long as it reduces the rebellion level and increases the comfort level... well, although most of the natives of the Paradise Realm are dead now, the buildings that need to be photographed still need to be photographed.
However, this time, the construction and repair tasks were no longer handled by the All-Worlds Construction Company alone, but also by the tenth elder, Perturabo, and the eleventh elder, Dorn.
The first layer of Amalia was shattered too much to continue serving as a political center and a large industrial zone in the short term.
So after looking into it, the tenth and eleventh princes decided it would be better to abandon the first layer altogether and build the real political center and industrial backbone in the next three layers.
Therefore, the Governor's Mansion was located directly on the fourth floor.
Relying on the STC module of Heaven and the abilities of the two perfect embryos, the sea surface is now divided into blue and gold engineering port areas, with large floating platforms spreading out along the remaining water veins of the Poseidon River, and Heaven-style towers, courtyard naval ports and dimensional anchor points rising one after another.
Xia Xiu was sitting on the high platform of the new governor's mansion on the fourth floor, drinking a hot beverage while watching the two children busily working in the paradise through his great spirituality.
To be honest, he now has a strange sense of contentment, like he's enjoying his retirement. As long as he's not a corporate slave, everything is comfortable!
The two of them had a very interesting time together.
The tenth prince, Pertura, thought the eleventh prince was too conservative, only knowing how to form a stagnant formation and fight a dull war, without realizing that he should first expand production capacity before he could develop further.
Old Eleven, Ron, thought Old Ten's mass production expansion was too aggressive. He said mass production wasn't the problem, but it couldn't be done indefinitely. Other aspects also needed to be considered, and his mass production building required extremely high skill in operation.
This alone reveals the different business philosophies of the two children.
Lao Shi likes to drastically increase productivity, seek targeted deconstruction, achieve extreme efficiency and devastating damage, and likes to solve the core problem first and then talk about the follow-up, regardless of the consequences.
Old Eleven, on the other hand, is relatively mature and stable. He pursues absolute perfection, using only proven technologies, while also striving for absolute flawlessness, systematic redundancy, and extreme fault tolerance, hoping that even the most ordinary soldiers can work in his fortifications.
These are two people with opposite personalities, but fortunately, despite their arguments, the project progresses faster.
In the morning they were still picking on each other, but by the afternoon they could come up with a complete blueprint for the reconstruction of Bliss. With the two production cards put together, production in Bliss could be restored very quickly.
The other offspring also had their first real meeting in the Land of Bliss.
Now, among the seventeen outer planes, the Mortal Court has acquired four, and the Kingdom of Heaven's secularization plan has also advanced to an unprecedented level after this war.
Due to the difference in the flow of time, the five offspring of the Fallen World had already trained their legions in their respective worlds.
What they are doing now is mainly using the resources opened up by Xia Xiu to integrate the nineteen sacred forging transformation systems of the Courtyard into their respective legions, so that the originally localized and global armies can be truly incorporated into the unified legion standards of the Mortal Courtyard.
Within almost half a month, the entire fourth level of Blissful Realm was transformed into a large-scale legion transformation site. Xia Xiu was in charge of macro-control, helping the remaining perfect embryos to build their own courtyard children.
Two weeks later, the Sons of the Courtyard Legion was officially established as twelve branches, with Lupercal, the First Son, temporarily leading the Blood Oath Legion, while also commanding his own direct forces—the Wolf Pack.
Fenrir, the second son, leads the Star Wolves.
Lionel, the third son, is the leader of the [Angels of Penitence].
Manun, the fourth son, leads the Hand of Hammers.
Vulcan, the fifth oldest, leads the Forge Legion.
Magus, the sixth son, leads the "Thousand Changes Legion".
The seventh son, Forgrim, leads the Phoenix Legion.
Mortalius, the eighth son, leads the Undying Legion.
The ninth brother, Angola, is the leader of the Devourers.
The tenth elder, Perturaber, leads the Warfighters.
Ron the Eleventh, leader of the Fist of War.
The Mortal Court gradually transformed from a pyramid-shaped institution dominated by absolute power into a complete secular war machine with capabilities in legions, administration, industry, culture, magic, production, and planar domination.
Currently, there is one person with the Miracle rank, and five people with the Crown rank: Broly, the Commander of the Imperial Guard; Saint Brommar, the Mechanical Saint; Tulls, the Vice Principal; Lupercal, the Son of the First; and Vulcan, the Fifth Prince.
Among them, Turs, Lupercal, and the fifth elder, Vulcan, were promoted using golden leaves given by the Golden Tree. It was this tree that tipped off Lassa that Moradin was summoning the womb of the Great Old Ones.
The first war against the Kingdom of Heaven, the beginning of this story, was written by the Golden Tree.
Besides the great spirituality and individual power units, there are currently three descendants of the vacant crown: the ninth son, Angola; the tenth son, Perturaber; and the eleventh son, Don.
These three have already condensed their illusory crowns; given the right opportunity, they will be able to reach the crown realm in one fell swoop.
Xia Xiu can now truly say, "Now, I lack nothing!!!"
That's why he got a rare two-week break.
In the past two weeks, Xia Xiu has not personally engaged in combat, nor has he driven the Blackrock Fortress to block other people's doors, nor has he gone to any other dimension to rescue children.
He simply sat on the fourth floor of the governor's mansion, watching Perturaber and Dorn argue about the reconstruction plan for Elysium, watching Forgrim tinker with cultural propaganda, watching Magus organize the remaining magical structures of Elysium, and occasionally listening to Eden report on the progress of the Court Legion's expansion, as well as the task assignments for his other offspring.
For him, this kind of day could already be considered a vacation.
Unfortunately, heaven ultimately did not forget him, the king of corporate slaves.
[High-priority communication access.]
[Source: Heavenly Kingdom Resolution Assembly]
[Authority Level: Post-War Special Agenda.]
[Recipient: Hugh Abraham, the fourth sword bearer in Heaven.]
The resolution meeting has completed the post-war assessment of the First Anti-Kingdom Alliance War and formulated new execution instructions. Relevant authority documents, task milestones, and strategic objectives have been synchronized to the Swordholder's terminal.
The Eldar of the Second Otto have arrived at the diplomatic anchorage on the outskirts of Elysium, requesting a visit to the Heavenly Court to hold formal talks regarding the Men Empire, the Worthless, and future cooperation between the Eldar and the Heavenly Court.
Finally, regarding the second world bubble of the fourth swordsman, the nation has completed the corresponding world bubble empowerment and stabilization preprocessing, and the current capacity requirements have met the basic threshold.
[The swordsman must handle the post-war affairs of Elysium and the Anti-Heaven Alliance, then travel to the Unknown Land to complete his report and accommodate the new [World Bubble].]
The post-war situation of the Anti-Kingdom Alliance still carries the risk of further escalation. Swordholders are advised to ensure stability in the Elysium War Zone, Blackrock Fortress, the World's Court Legion, and the Outer Planes occupied territories before returning to Heaven.
[Additional instruction: In light of your outstanding performance, you will be promoted after this performance review!]
[You have distinguished yourself in the reserve selection for this round of the new resolution meeting and have now entered the final candidate sequence. The subsequent evaluation will officially begin after you complete your presentation and the second [World Bubble] acceptance.]
Xia Xiu looked at these lines of text and couldn't help but rub his temples.
"It's true what they say, either nothing happens at all, or when they do, everything happens at once."
He had originally thought he could rest for a few more days in the Blissful Realm, but now, the follow-up to the Anti-Heavenly Alliance, the diplomacy of the Second Otto World Spirit Race, the intelligence on the Gate Empire and the Wo Wutu, and the report on the accommodation of the Second [World Bubble] were all piled up on the table.
However, now that things had come to this, Xia Xiu had no intention of wasting any more time sitting in the governor's mansion.
He raised his right hand, and the great spirituality flowed outward through the connection between the three incarnations within his body. [One Thought Transforms into Three] was quietly activated, and the strategic projections of the three divinely bestowed colossi simultaneously lit up on the main light screens of the Elysium, the outer perimeter of the Fallen World, and the Inskat Line.
The first colossus guards the skies above Elysium, working in conjunction with Blackrock Fortress to suppress the most unstable gap in the crystal wall after the war.
The second colossus will travel to the outer reaches of the Fallen World to prevent the remnants of the Old Corruption and subsequent probes of the Anti-Kingdom Alliance from infiltrating again. The third colossus will be placed at the transit anchor point between Inscar and the Court Legion, serving as high-level support for Dorne's command of the various legions.
After completing this step, Xia Xiu turned his attention to the main gun system of Blackrock Fortress.
The main cannon structure of [Witch's Eye] lit up layer by layer under his great spiritual infusion. Black and gold energy flowed slowly along the deep circuits inside the cannon, eventually stopping in a ready-to-fire state, like a closed eye, just waiting for someone to blindly reach into the realm of bliss.
"Eden".
【I am here. 】
"Partial control of Blackrock Fortress is now open to you. In the period following the war, any high-risk targets that approach Elysium, the outer layer of the Fallen World, and the Courtyard Naval Base without permission are hereby warned."
Xia Xiu paused for a moment, then added in a relaxed tone.
"Warnings are useless; let them know how Moradin got there."
[Command confirmed.]
[Partial control of Blackrock Fortress has been secured.]
[The Witch's Eye] main cannon has entered a state of great spiritual pre-charging.
The automatic defense protocol has been updated.
The Elysium War Zone, the outer perimeter of the Fallen World, the Courtyard Military Port, and the outer dimensional portal have been incorporated into a temporary high-pressure defense system.
Xia Xiu nodded.
In this way, his short-term absence won't cause any trouble.
Perturabo and Dorn were in charge of rebuilding Elysium and reconstructing the defenses, Lupercale held down the main force of the Court Legion, Eden held partial control of Blackrock Fortress, and the three God-given Colossi were distributed across various strategic nodes.
If any pantheon thinks it can steal his chickens as soon as he leaves, it will probably be sent to meet Moradin by Eden with its main cannon.
After arranging all these things, Xia Xiu didn't delay any longer.
The Sword-class frigate slowly rose into the air from the main naval port outside the fourth-level governor's mansion. Its silver-gray hull pierced through the blue-gold sea and white-gold towers of Elysium, leaving a clear wake in the shadow of Blackrock Fortress.
Xia Xiu stood in front of the bridge, watching the paradise behind him recede into the distance.
This outer plane, which was just shattered and then taken over by the Court, is still in ruins, but the Court's legions, workshops, governor's mansion, and plane anchor points have begun to take root.
Next, it will become a forward high ground for the mortal garden to continue its expansion into all the heavens and worlds.
As for himself, it's time for him to go to heaven.
"Eden, set the course."
[Target: Reporting Channel for the Unknown Land of Heaven.]
[Line calibration in progress—]
[The outer anchorage of Elysium has been confirmed, the transit route through the courtyard has been confirmed, and passage permission for the Heavenly Lineage has been confirmed. The Sword-class frigate is about to enter the Aetheric navigation.]
Xia Xiu withdrew his gaze from the Paradise and sat back down in the main seat of the bridge.
"Let's go."
"Go back and report on your work."
The next moment, the ethereal channel in front of the sword-class frigate slowly unfolded, and the silver-gray hull disappeared into the depths of the flowing light, carrying the fourth sword-bearer of Heaven, returning towards Heaven.
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Soon, the Sword-class frigate returned to Terra.
The ship passed through the outer defense sequence and sank along the high-level channel opened by the Heavenly Kingdom lineage. It then completed the transfer via the [Rainbow Bridge] and the silver-gray hull was pulled into the [Unknown Land] in a rainbow of light.
This time, the frigate docked on the third deck.
After the hatch opened, Xia Xiu was not led to the regular reporting hall as in the past, but instead received a higher-level summons to [Fourth Floor, Azlut].
The sky over Azlut was as clear as ever.
In the distance, towering structures float above the sea of light, with countless golden bridges, circular tracks, and radiant staircases connecting them, resembling a high-level city constructed from order, light, and information.
At the very center of these buildings is the Glass Tower, where Eden himself resides.
After Xia Xiu stepped into the tower, the surrounding scenery quickly faded away.
The towers, the corridors, the light trails, and the endless radiance from the outside world were all covered by a layer of pure white space. When he stood still again, all that remained in front of him was a boundless expanse of white and a huge sphere of light floating in front of him.
Eden's true form hung there quietly. Xia Xiu glanced up at it, already used to it, and completed another round of reporting as usual.
The Fallen World's Handling, the Expulsion of Luketh, the First Anti-Kingdom Alliance War, the Takeover of Elysium, the Fall of Moradin, the Expansion of the Mortal Court Legion...
Eden quickly archived all of this information. The reporting process did not take too long because most of the data had already been synchronized via the wartime link. This time, it was mainly Xia Xiu himself who completed the final confirmation and authorization signing.
Soon, a new system template appeared in the pure white space.
The performance review process has been completed.
[Post-war assessment and archiving of the First Anti-Kingdom Alliance War completed.]
Based on the wartime assessment of the resolution assembly, the calibration of the archives of the Unknown Lands, the review of the central authority of the Kingdom of Heaven, and the results of the reserve selection at this new round of resolution assemblies, your angelic rank will be promoted.
[Current Rank: Upper Third Rank, Cherubim]
[Promotion Target: Upgrade to Level 3 - Seraphim]
This promotion is a special promotion, and it has been jointly confirmed by the thirteen decision-makers.
[Current number of Seraphim in Heaven: 204.]
[With Hugh Abraham's ascension complete, the number of Seraph slots has been updated to 205.]
The Seraphim order represents the central authority of Heaven.
[Among them, the thirteen decision-makers of the resolution assembly constitute the highest central authority of the Kingdom of Heaven.]
The remaining Seraphim are responsible for various key areas, core departments, high-level war sequences, spectral system nodes, civilization governance modules, outer plane interference systems, anomaly containment systems, technological arsenals, angelic legions, the ethereal order, and diplomacy with other realms, among other important authority.
In other words, you and 205 other seraphim collectively determine the true direction of the Kingdom of Heaven.
[You have been admitted to the Seraphim Central Committee and have been granted a seat on the Seraphim Committee!]
[Because you participated in the resolution assembly election and made it onto the final candidate list, you have automatically been granted a seat on the Seraphim Central Committee Resolution Council!]
The current number of members on the resolution board is 32 (12 resolution holders; 20 resolution board members).
[Decision-makers will be elected from among the council members and previous decision-makers. Those who are not elected from the previous council will lose their decision-making power but will retain their seats on the council.]