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It was a building that words like "magnificent" and "splendid" could not adequately describe; its sheer size and exquisite construction left Amélie in awe.

If one had to find a word from the vocabulary that Emerald knew to describe it, then only the word from a game in one of Emerald's past lives would do—spectacle.

A spectacular building, and one of the most outstanding.

It is not towering, but rather very deep.

This is a massive mechanical well, at least 300 meters in diameter and bottomless, seemingly capable of reaching the center of a planet.

The well walls are covered with intricately constructed magical energy devices, as well as small rooms with various functions. You could even say that the well is a complete kingdom.

Unfortunately, there is still no life in the well, but many places show that a large number of pre-era humans once lived here.

The immense magical power gushing from the bottom of the well is enough to make anyone's legs go weak. This is the starting point of the entire world's magical cycle and the source of energy for this planet.

What's also strange is that, although it was Emery's first time here, she seemed to have been here many times before.

After hesitating for a while, Emerald looked at Julia, who was always by her side, and decided that she would follow her example this time.

Temporarily abandon thinking and completely trust your intuition.

Following that strange intuition, Amelie continued to descend into the well until she reached a depth of over five thousand meters before stopping.

The well walls here looked the same as the rest of the place, but Emery pressed lightly on one spot entirely by instinct.

She suddenly felt a warmth in her chest; it turned out that the authority granted to her by the world's consciousness—the ability to enter and exit the world's origin at any time—had taken effect, seemingly having passed some kind of authentication by the well.

Then a hidden room on the well wall opened, and the layout inside looked even more familiar to Amelie.

Isn't this the scene she experiences every time she goes to the World Consciousness, where the World Consciousness manipulates compressed information in various crystal shapes?

Could it be...?

Amelie quickly formed a rough guess in her mind.

Perhaps it was because Emerald's strength had improved in the past few years, or perhaps it was because she had entered this place in her physical body this time, or perhaps the well had just approved her access... In any case, Emerald did not feel dizzy or uncomfortable when she was looking at those information this time.

Although the interface and operation methods were quite different, Emeryte still managed to find the well's mission log after some time of exploration, thanks to her talent. The log contained a complete record of everything in the pre-era civilization of the Kingdom of Revelation.

All the doubts have finally been resolved.

The humans of the Land of Revelation were the first intelligent life forms on this world. Compared to humans today, they are actually more like the Blue Star people from Amelie's previous life.

They cannot become stronger or increase their lifespan through spiritual practice; they can only use energy through science and industry.

Unlike the Blue Star civilization, which relies primarily on electricity for its technology, the core of all the technologies of the Qi Kingdom is magical energy, which is unique to this world. The Qi Kingdom has built a highly advanced civilization based on magical energy.

Just like the current Allen Federation, because there is no magic energy in the universe, although the technology of the Kingdom of Qi is very advanced, almost 500 years more advanced than Blue Star in Ameliete's previous life, it has never been able to enter the universe. All creations made of magic energy technology will become space debris soon after leaving the planet's atmosphere because the magic energy is exhausted and cannot be replenished.

As civilization becomes more advanced, in addition to never being able to venture into space, the Kingdom of Qi has encountered another problem, which is also a problem that almost all civilizations encounter in the end.

Resources and energy are gradually being depleted.

If no new resources and energy can be found, the Kingdom of Qi will perish on its own.

So, if we can't go to the stars, how do we obtain new resources and new energy sources?

At that time, the technologically advanced Kingdom of Qi turned its attention to the endless void.

The endless void is the fifth dimension, containing countless worlds, so it should also contain countless energy and resources.

With this in mind, the brilliant researchers of the Kingdom of Qi worked tirelessly, and finally succeeded just when their civilization was about to perish due to resource depletion.

The Kingdom of Qi invented a technology called the Void Well, which can extract an infinite amount of energy from what they perceive as the back of the endless void.

This energy can not only be perfectly converted into the magical energy that the Kingdom of Qi has been using, but it can also regenerate the depleted resources on the entire planet, and even refresh them every once in a while, making them infinite resources!

The well that Emerald and the others are now entering is the final creation and the pinnacle of technology achieved by the Void Well technology of the Kingdom of Revelation.

The Kingdom of Qi dug almost to the Earth's core, creating this enormous, eternal void well as the energy source for the entire planet.

After the Eternal Void Well was completed, the civilization of the Kingdom of Qi entered its golden age. The endless energy and resources made them almost a god-level civilization, or rather, they had the strength of a god-level civilization in many aspects.

For example, the artificial god project.

The world consciousness that looks a lot like Yulia's daughter was not born naturally. She is actually the master AI of this Eternal Void Well, equivalent to the PROMAX ultimate version of Suzuran. Her job is to help the Kingdom of Revelation manage this planet with the energy of the Eternal Void Well.

Emerald has visited the World Root many times. It is actually the control center of this Eternal Void Well. However, each time Emerald went there before, it was essentially a brain-computer wireless connection.

What Ji Yue was fighting with the world consciousness for in her Dao Integration was actually the control over this Eternal Void Well.

Ji Yue's so-called "merging with the Dao" was actually taking over the Eternal Void Well and using its almost infinite energy to forcibly break through to the fourth stage, achieving a qualitative change through quantitative change.

In short, the Eternal Void Well can definitely be considered a technology of a god-level civilization. Whoever controls the Eternal Void Well can control everything in this world like a god.

Unfortunately, everything comes at a price.

The energy from the back of the endless void is indeed limitless, but not priceless.

As the Endless Void Well draws vast amounts of energy from this world, a power known as the Abyss by the pre-era civilization of Qi also enters this world.

The more energy the Kingdom of Revelation uses, the more abyssal power enters this world. And once the abyssal power accumulates to a certain level, it will transform into various monsters that indiscriminately attack all life.

The Abyss Power recorded in the Kingdom of Qi is undoubtedly the current Demonic Tide Power. It is the price that the Eternal Void Well paid for bringing infinite energy and infinite resources to this world.

By the time the Kingdom of Qi realized this, it was too late.

When the demonic tide first appeared, the Kingdom of Qi easily annihilated it.

However, as the demonic tides grew more numerous and stronger, the Kingdom of Qi had no choice but to develop more powerful magical weapons to counter them.

The magical guardians and giant robots that Emerald and the others had seen before were powerful weapons developed by the Kingdom of Revelation to counter the demonic tide.

However, the more powerful the weapon, the more magic energy it consumes, and the more magic energy it consumes, the stronger the demonic tide becomes.

No matter how much the Kingdom of Qi upgrades its technology and develops weapons, they cannot become stronger as fast as the Demon Tide.

Moreover, the demonic tide can regenerate infinitely when it becomes strong enough, while the humans of the Land of Revelation, like those on Earth, need at least 10 years of education before they can take on responsibilities.

Furthermore, the Kingdom of Qi, which followed a technological path, lacked the technology to seal magic, leaving them helpless against the infinitely regenerating demonic tides in the later stages, ultimately leading to their destruction.

Of course, although the civilization was eventually destroyed, the Kingdom of Qi did not give up hope. They did not want the next civilization to repeat the same mistake.

Before the City of Origin was breached, the Kingdom of Qi first used the Eternal Void Well to create a large-scale fog that enveloped the entire Holy Scripture Continent and even the entire Fog Sea, in order to ensure that the demonic tide on the Holy Scripture Continent would not spread to other continents.

Afterwards, the Kingdom of Revelation simply shut down most of the functions of the Eternal Void Well, put the main AI, which is the world consciousness, into a deep sleep, formatted all the memories of the world consciousness, and placed some restrictions on the world consciousness.

The world consciousness is unable to recognize or think about certain keywords, and is even forced to restart upon hearing those keywords. These are all restrictions imposed on the world consciousness by the people of Qizhi.

The purpose of the people of Qizhi doing this was to prevent the civilizations of the New Era from coming into contact with the technological marvel of the Eternal Void Well too early, thus avoiding the same path of destruction they would take.

The existence of magic rejecters was actually for this purpose, but the tragedy that ultimately resulted in magic rejecters was not the original intention of the people of Qizhi Kingdom.

The people of Qizhi Kingdom wanted to enable a segment of humanity in the New Era to avoid becoming obsessed with the all-powerful power of magic and instead develop new technologies that did not require magic, so that the New Era civilization would not rely excessively on magic.

However, cold, impersonal programs can never fully comprehend the human heart. Later, when the Eternal Void Well was carrying out this order, in order to ensure that some humans had to abstain from magic, it simply gave them a special constitution that would kill them if they came into contact with magic... This is how the tragedy of the magic-repellent came about.

Thus, the secrets of the demonic tide and the magic rejecters have been completely revealed.

The wish that old Langdon had struggled with his whole life but could not achieve was now easily fulfilled for Emery.

Gaining control of the Eternal Void Well through consciousness would be as difficult as a hacker attempting to breach a super firewall via network intrusion.

However, once the physical body has entered the control room of the Eternal Void Well, it is very easy to obtain access to the Eternal Void Well through manual operation.

After all, no matter how powerful the Eternal Void Well is, it was originally meant to serve the humans of the Kingdom of Qi. And the humans of the Kingdom of Qi, like the people of Blue Star, have no extraordinary powers. Therefore, the way they controlled the Eternal Void Well is very simple.

Inside the Eternal Void Well, Amelie encountered the world consciousness in material form, or perhaps it should be called the controlling AI or the core of the Eternal Void Well's mind.

Wow... this child looks so much like me!

Yulia's eyes lit up the moment she saw the World Consciousness. She rushed over and hugged it tightly, then grinned foolishly at Emerald.

"Is this the child you secretly gave birth to for me, Emerald? She's so cute... Honestly, why didn't you tell me sooner? Were you trying to surprise me?"

Without waiting for a speechless Emerald's reply, she spoke to the world consciousness in her arms, who was almost suffocated by her:

"Come on, my sweet daughter, call me 'Mommy' and let me hear it~~"

"You...you rebellious daughter! How could you be even worse than that rebellious Ji Yue!"

The world's consciousness was almost brought to tears by Yulia:

"I'm your mother!"

"Huh? Really?"

Julia was very surprised and looked to Emery for an answer.

"That's really true..."

Emery shrugged and could only briefly explain that Julia was actually created by the world consciousness.

"So you really are my mother... The mother I thought I knew was a lie."

After hearing the whole story, Yulia's expression was complicated for a moment, but only for a moment. She quickly gave up thinking again, hugged the world consciousness tightly, and buried it in her arms.

"But you look so small! You should be the daughter, right? Well then, it's decided! I'll be the mom from now on... I'm the mom now, haha!"

"..."

Seeing Yulia bullying the world consciousness, Emerald fell silent.

It's a physiological instinct and a natural human feeling for women to want to be mothers after getting married.

However, Emery has been too busy these past few years, dealing with the Level 7 Magic Tide, and it's impossible for her to have a child with Julia.

Yulia was sensible and never brought these things up on her own initiative, but she had been thinking about them for a long time, so when she saw the world consciousness that looked very similar to her, her maternal instincts kicked in.

...It seems that after we've taken care of everything, it's time for Yulia to become a real mother.

After a moment of silence, Amelie made this decision.

After gaining supreme access to the Eternal Void Tower through manual control, dealing with the Magic Repellers became quite simple.

Emerald first lifted the restrictions imposed on the world consciousness by the people of the Kingdom of Awakening, and then allowed the world consciousness to adjust the human race at the level of rules, completely removing the random term "magic rejecter" from the human attribute database.

In this way, no more humans will be born who are averse to magic.

While the existing magic rejecters won't change immediately, the technological lock on Langdon at the rule level has been unlocked. With Langdon's research capabilities, he should soon be able to develop a technology to transform magic rejecters into ordinary people, at which point he will have fulfilled his long-cherished wish.

As for the problem of the demonic tide... Emerald also has a solution.

The ancient civilization of Qi, despite its powerful civilization, suffered a crushing defeat in the endless tide of demons, primarily for three reasons.

First, the Kingdom of Qi is trapped on this planet and cannot enter space.

Secondly, all the technology of the Kingdom of Qi originates from magic energy. They have never seen any technological civilization outside of magic energy, so they have no idea where to start if they want to develop.

Third, the Kingdom of Qi is a technological civilization that does not understand magic. All its weapons are designed to destroy enemies with powerful energy attacks, and it does not have any sealing techniques.

And Amelie has the ability to make up for all three of these shortcomings.

Amelie's soul comes from Earth and she has witnessed a technological civilization without magic, a civilization that has developed space technology.

Secondly, Emery's current specialty is sealing magic.

The reason why the endless demonic tide is so terrifying is that it is endless and cannot be completely killed.

The secret to why the endless demonic tide cannot be completely killed lies in the fact that the power of the demonic tide, like magic, has a cyclical system in this world. The dead demonic tide monsters will return to this cycle and then be reborn at the gathering point of the demonic tide power.

What if there was a way to banish the monsters in the demonic tide far away instead of killing them, thus completely escaping the cycle of demonic power on the planet?

Does this mean the power of the demonic tide has been permanently reduced?

Amelie thought this idea was very promising and that they could start trying it immediately.

If successful, this world will truly become Amelie's private garden, a garden with endless resources, and there will be no need to worry about the backlash of the demonic tide.

. . . . .

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, 20 years have passed.

On this day, in the northwestern part of the Allen Federation, at the Blue Star Group rocket launch center, another launch mission, which had been successful over a hundred times in recent years, was about to begin.

Unlike previous launch missions, the two main people in charge of this launch mission are both very young, just girls who have recently come of age.

They looked to be about the same age and both had long, bright pink hair.

One of the older men, with long pink hair, was wearing a white lab coat and sat at the control panel in the command center.

The other, slightly smaller, pink-haired creature had its hair tied in pigtails and was wearing a short-skirted magical costume with a cape. It was standing next to the rocket, warming up.

A moment later, the pink-haired researcher spoke first, asking through the communication magic device:

"Are you ready, my sister?"

"No problem, sister, we can start anytime!"