Chapter 177 What is the Great Destruction?

"What exactly is the Great Destruction?" Li Tianran asked after a moment of silence, his voice serious.

Hearing Li Tianran's question, a trace of reminiscence appeared on the Wind Apostle's face. After a long time, it opened its mouth and said, "It is... rules!"

"Rules?" Li Tianran frowned. The meaning of these two words was profound.

"Yes! The Great Destruction is a rule!" The Wind Apostle spread its hands, concisely saying, "All civilizations on Blue Star that reach level 0.85 or higher will suffer the impact of the Great Destruction!"

"You have obtained the Sky Apostle's permissions, so you should know something about the Great Destruction… The Great Destruction first appeared when our civilization reached level 0.85, one hundred and twenty years later. At that time, a meteor shower destroyed the powerful kingdom we had built. Faced with such a disaster, our technology at the time was utterly powerless to resist."

"Our cities, warships, and satellite stations were as fragile as paper in the face of the Great Destruction, easily destroyed."

"At that time, almost the entire Blue Star became a wasteland."

"It took us a full hundred years to restore our kingdom. It was at that time that we created the Miracle Buildings of our respective races."

When the Wind Apostle mentioned the Miracle Buildings, a trace of pain flashed in its eyes. Obviously, as the Tower of Babel, which had accompanied it through countless years and sheltered it through several Great Destructions, the Wind Apostle had very deep feelings for it!

"But the Great Destruction brought not only death and destruction. After that meteor shower, we found many materials and minerals in the ruins that had never existed on Blue Star before. We used these materials to develop rapidly, benefiting from the disaster, and our technological level surpassed its former peak, reaching level 0.9 or higher."

"But soon, the resources on Blue Star became scarce again, and we encountered a development bottleneck. The second Great Destruction came again."

"Because we had the experience of the first time, we did not choose to resist when the second Great Destruction came, but chose to avoid it!"

"After the Great Destruction raged, new materials appeared again on the depleted surface of Blue Star, in multiplied quantities!"

"This seems to be a cycle."

The Wind Apostle said extremely seriously, "Resource depletion, Great Destruction harvesting, resource emergence!"

Listening to the Wind Apostle's words, Li Tianran suddenly thought that the manifestation of the Third Destruction Epoch was the disappearance of global minerals. Could this mean that… the next Great Destruction was about to arrive?

"How can you be sure that the Great Destruction is aimed at every civilization above level 0.85?" Li Tianran thought for a moment and asked, "Maybe the Great Destruction is only aimed at your race, your civilization!"

The Wind Apostle laughed when it heard this. "Yes, in many epochs, the Apostle civilization was the overlord of Blue Star, the civilization with the highest level! But after the sixth Great Destruction, we discovered a new civilization born on Blue Star, the Lizardmen."

"At that time, we wanted to find a way to resist the Great Destruction, so we changed our previous thinking and chose to cooperate with them, wanting to break through the limitations of a level 1 civilization. With our help, their civilization level improved very rapidly."

"Later, when their civilization level was almost the same as ours, they suddenly tore up the cooperation agreement and chose to go to war with us."

"At that time, we had paid a lot of resource reserves to help them, and the other party's betrayal was completely unexpected. Therefore, after the war began, we were caught off guard and suffered many defeats in a row."

In Li Tianran's mind, there were scattered memories of this war in the Sky Apostle's memory fragments.

In that battle, the Apostle civilization suffered heavy losses and was almost completely wiped out.

But Li Tianran was not clear about the specific details.

"At that time, we realized that the Lizardmen race was so powerful in combat. They were born warriors, and we were no match for them!" The Wind Apostle said in a deep voice, "But later, an event occurred that turned the entire battle around."

Li Tianran did not speak, but listened quietly.

"That was three months after the start of the war. Most of Blue Star was occupied by the Lizardmen. Our range of activity had been compressed to the minimum. On that day, the leader of the Lizardmen mobilized all warships and troops, wanting to completely eliminate us and become the only race and overlord on Blue Star!" The Wind Apostle pointed to the sky and said, "At that time, the sky, the sea, and the earth within sight were all Lizardmen warships and warplanes!"

"All of us had no hope for the outcome of that battle, thinking that we were about to be destroyed."

"But at this time, another meteor shower fell!"

The Wind Apostle's eyes flashed with excitement as it described the scene to Li Tianran, "The meteors all over the sky, like falling stars, smashed down and sank all those warships!"

"The Lizardmen were terrified. They had not expected such a terrible disaster to come."

"And at that time, we were also very desperate, because at that time we were also unable to resist the Great Destruction!"

"Just when all of us were preparing to meet death, we discovered an extremely peculiar sight..."

"That is, this Great Destruction was aimed at the Lizardmen, and did not affect us!"

Li Tianran was stunned when he heard this, and it was a little difficult to understand what the Wind Apostle meant by this sentence. "What do you mean it was only aimed at the Lizardmen? It didn't affect you?"

"Those meteors, they only destroyed the Lizardmen's warships and killed the Lizardmen's army! And did not cause any damage to us at all. I personally saw a meteor as large as a mountain sink a Lizardmen's aerospace mothership, and then smashed towards the Dark Night Apostle's giant city, but the moment that meteor touched the giant city, it turned into something similar to a [phantom body], like a projection, passing straight through the giant city without making any contact!"

"This disaster, which was extremely tragic in the eyes of the Lizardmen, was like a real 3D movie in front of us!"

"In order to verify this guess, several of our races sent troops to leave the Miracle Buildings. Soon, we found that those meteors would also become illusory when they touched our followers!"

"This Great Destruction did not cause us any losses."

"When we realized this, we immediately mobilized all our forces and launched a counterattack against the Lizardmen. In that battle, we wiped them all out and survived again!"

"After that battle, we realized that perhaps the Great Destruction was not an indiscriminate attack, but followed a certain rule!"

"Each Great Destruction corresponds to a certain race whose civilization level has reached level 0.85 or higher, but has no impact on other races!"