The Death List Novel - Chapter 12

Chapter 12 Apostles and the Floating City
The Broken Starry Sky was a wondrous land-based world with many intelligent races and powerful upper-level creatures. These indigenous races formed a variety of distinct civilizations on some of the giant floating continents.

According to Grand Elder Goblin, when he was young, he had visited many floating continents. During the adventure, he had seen a variety of ethnic civilizations. Among these civilizations, there were mechanical beings like transformers, magical worlds like Azeroth, and even the picturesque Eastern Immortal Realm.

All sorts of civilizations intersected in the shattered starry sky, looking like the Creator’s experimental field. However, in the words of Grand Elder Goblin, this was more like a garbage dump abandoned by the Creation God. The reason for that was because the intelligent races in the shattered starry sky had never felt the favor of the gods. There were only disputes and chaos among the various races’ civilizations.

The floating continent in the shattered starry sky was not the same as the Ancient One, but also had its own lifespan. Suspended continents as small as islands and reefs typically have a lifespan of more than a thousand years, while some as large as planets have decay cycles of hundreds of millions of years.

Every once in a while, some of the floating continents would collapse and turn into dust, disappearing into the boundless starry sky. Some floating continents would slowly condense their cores in the starry sky and grow rapidly, gradually becoming a new floating continent.

Although the position of the floating continent in the shattered starry sky was constant and would not collide with other continents, due to the limited resources, trade and war had to be conducted between the floating continents. In fact, this was also the source of most of the world-destroying disasters in the shattered starry sky.

When the intelligent races of a floating continent were ready to invade another continent, they would teleport through the uniquely shattered starry sky. This kind of teleportation was not a teleportation. It was limited to the inner space of the shattered starry sky. It ignored the distance and type of teleportation. The only limit was the size of the starry sky gate.

Small starry gates could only teleport individual lives, while large starry gates could teleport a city stronghold to other floating continents.

“So, those powerful high-ranking races, Immortal Devil Gods, Buddhas, and Angel Dragons are the top of the race pyramid in the shattered starry sky?” Lily couldn’t help but be curious and interrupted Elder Goblin’s narrative. After regaining her senses, her face immediately turned deathly pale.

However, the murderers here obviously wanted to know the answer, so no one paid any attention to him for a moment.

‘”No, those high-ranking creatures are basically in seclusion and won’t show up easily. The races that dominate the Broken Universe are those intelligent races that aren’t strong, but have a large population and great potential. For example, humans, elves, orcs, dwarves, undead, mechanical beings, elementium creatures, and so on!”

Grand Elder Goblin changed to a more comfortable sitting position and said with a strange expression, “Actually, this situation has a lot to do with you transcendents …”

Everyone’s eyes lit up slightly. They had a premonition that Grand Elder Goblin’s next topic would be to unravel why the Lulu Clan valued the hidden secrets of the alien spacetime travelers.

It turned out that the floating continent in the shattered starry sky not only had an internal starry sky gate, but also an unpredictable teleportation gate. Often, there would be some alien lifeforms that would be absorbed into the shattered starry sky by the teleportation portal.

Unlike the native beings in the shattered starry sky, as long as these alien spacetime beings successfully passed through the teleportation portal, they would combine with the Laws of the world in the shattered starry sky and form a unique body of Laws with their souls at the core.

In the beginning, a transcendent’s Laws body was no different from a normal person’s, and it could also bleed from illness, or even die from injuries. However, due to the particularity of the body of Laws, the transcendent possessed almost limitless potential. Some powerful transcendents were capable of destroying the heavens and destroying the earth, and their combat strength was comparable to that of Fiendgods. Even if their brains and hearts were severely injured, they would not die immediately.

However, the transcendents weren’t the native inhabitants of the Shattered Star System. They were always rejected by the Shattered Star System. This rejection would become stronger and stronger over time. As a result, these transcendents would be teleported to other realms by the shattered starry sky every once in a while.

This teleportation was very random. No one knew where the transmigrator would be teleported to. Every time they teleported through space and time, some alien missions would appear in the minds of the transmigrators. Even they did not know the source and motivation of these missions.

If they were unable to complete the mission, the soul of the transcendent would become weaker and weaker, eventually leading to death. Most of the transmigrators would die in these missions, but as long as they completed the mission in their minds before teleporting back to the shattered starry sky, they would receive tremendous benefits.

It was as if the Shattered Universe had signed a contract of employment with the Transcendents. One side had contributed to the mission while the other side had given them life and abilities. Hence, alternate spacetime travelers were also called contract apostles by the native beings of the shattered starry sky.

The apostles were in constant danger, and all mature apostles possessed great combat strength. Some talented apostles would become existences comparable to Fiendgods in just a few years. Moreover, because they also possessed all kinds of weapons and equipment that they had obtained from other worlds, and their Law Bodies had almost no Achilles’ heels, even Fiendgods were unwilling to fight against the apostles.

In the ancient era of the Broken Star System, it was precisely because of the appearance of many apostles that the ruling high-ranking creatures perished one after another. There were even some high-ranking races that were completely extinct, so they had no choice but to retreat from the world and no longer appear in front of humans. In the eyes of the apostles, these high beings were like walking treasures. They were very happy to use the legacy of the Fiendgods to insure themselves when they were carrying out missions in another world.

That period was also known as the apocalypse of gods and devils. The apostles cut off the top floor of the pyramid, and the shattered starry sky entered a new era of hegemony. Some intelligent races with large populations and weaker individual strength began to rise, becoming the new rulers of the shattered starry sky.

The apostles’ influence on the shattered starry sky was not limited to this. Their focus and attention was on the adventure quests of other worlds. To them, the shattered starry sky was just a place to rest and adjust. Moreover, due to the complexity of the mission and the relationship between them, both alliances and enemies, it was impossible for them to become the actual rulers of the shattered starry sky.

However, the dominant intelligent races could not ignore the power of the apostles. They were different from Fiendgods and Devils. They had no hunting value, but they could hire apostles to fight against enemy races and continents.

In the event of a war between two similarly powerful intelligent races in the Suspended Continent, the apostle guild they possessed was likely to become the key to victory. In fact, some small races had hired powerful apostle teams to defeat powerful opponents in the war, winning them a wider space to survive.

From the extinction of the gods and devils in ancient times to the continent’s hegemonic wars, all the intelligent races in the shattered starry sky began to follow an iron law. That is to say, the survival of a race cannot be entirely dependent on the apostles, nor can it lose the help of the apostles.

The reason was very simple. Because of the existence of the teleportation portal, the apostles were unable to extinguish it from its roots. However, once they were completely dependent on certain groups of apostles, they would lose the initiative to fight when they were severely injured in a foreign mission.

This strange and unreasonable phenomenon prompted the birth of a special thing in the shattered starry sky. That was the floating city that some intelligent races had built by pooling all their resources.

These huge cities had different civilizations and power sources, but they could move freely on the floating continent. At the same time, he could use the Gate of the Universe to teleport between the floating continents. It is not only the foundation of the existence of intelligent race, but also a special place to serve the apostles.

The intelligent race that possessed this kind of floating city could not only rely on the city to greatly enhance its viability, but also continuously attract the apostles to settle in. There was no need to worry about the sudden loss of the apostle guild’s battle prowess during the war.

Floating metropolises are big and small, varied, all kinds of. There were different civilizations, such as technology city, magic city, biochemical city, ability city, and so on. The types of services that cities provided to the apostles included academy cities, entertainment cities, trade cities, war fortresses, and so on.

In either city, the apostles were treated with courtesy, and in addition to some basic benefits, a set of rules of service were specifically designed for the apostles. These laws of service basically followed the principle of equal exchange. After all, not every apostle would become an existence comparable to a Fiendgod. Most of the apostles would perish in foreign missions.

In order to seize the resources of the apostles, the floating cities regularly traveled to and from the floating continents. Until today, there were no intelligent races that floated in the city. Should they slowly go extinct or become subordinate to other races? The number and size of floating cities had become the only criterion for distinguishing between intelligent races and the power of the floating continent.

Strangely, large floating continents with large populations and races rarely had teleportation portals. On the contrary, small and medium-sized floating continents like the scarlet Gobi that had few people and a desolate environment would often have teleportation gates and alternate teleportation experts, that is, preparatory apostles.

The preparatory apostles did not have strong martial power, but it was better to give charcoal in the snow. The floating city provided some help when they were at their weakest. These apostles would naturally return the favor of helping them in the floating cities when they grew stronger.

It could be said that the more preparatory apostles they recruited, the greater the potential of floating cities. Of course, floating cities were colossal creatures, although they could float in the air and travel to and from various floating continents. However, it was impossible for them to be like ants, searching everywhere for preparatory apostles who would appear at an unknown time.

As a result, some small and medium-sized floating continents that were remote and similar to the scarlet Gobi Desert gave birth to “scavenger” tribes that specialized in searching for teleportation ruins.

For example, the Lulu Clan in front of the human prisoners!