Chapter 2561: The Legend of the Rival

This is an...ancient legend.

Of course, the void is full of ancient legends, and this place is no exception.

Not long ago, Lin learned about an ancient legend about pioneers, and now it seems that she can learn another one.

At present... the synchronization process is continuing. It seems that the Pioneers have indeed taken some measures to extend the synchronization of Phoenix for some time, probably from a few thousand seconds to about a day and night.

The Phoenixes don't care at all. They are currently preparing... As for what they are preparing for, of course, they are preparing for the counterattack of the Death Battleships.

Phoenix is ​​now confident that it can defeat the Death Battleship's forces in one fell swoop and invade the Mid Void.

Because of this, Lin also had some time to conduct research and investigation.

When the stars dispersed, many creatures living on the Phoenix platform were fortunate enough not to be affected, including... the 'Comet Drill' that had been placed on a platform.

Lin discovered... that this drill could be used to sense the synchronization process.

That is to say... 'Nuo' can clearly feel the synchronization of the surrounding consciousness. Through it and some things learned from the pioneers, Lin can almost know a...

An even older story.

That is about the star Phoenix.

Although the Phoenix species is much "younger" than the Pioneer, the star on which the Phoenix lives is older than the Pioneer.

Obviously, before the pioneers arrived, the Phoenix star was already located at one of the exits of the passage.

But for a long time, it was just an ordinary star, until...sometime.

At that time, the passage was connected to an unforeseen place... Although I don't know why it was connected, it might be at this time...

The star was 'infected' with some... energy from an unforeseen source.

That is the Phoenix's 'condensation of nothingness'.

The Phoenix's condensation of nothingness does not have any "cohesion" when it is at its weakest state. It is more like a strange and unknown energy.

This weakest condensation continued to circulate around the star, and just as Lin had thought before, these weak forces were slowly gathering into the star.

Over time, the cohesive force gathered in the stars slowly produced... the Phoenix.

This should be the earliest real phoenix, but it is also different from ordinary phoenixes.

Phoenixes can control their bodies at will, mainly due to the power brought by their condensation of nothingness.

It is still unclear whether this star Phoenix itself has cohesion, but Lin thinks that even if it does, it may not be produced inside the star.

In other words...the Star Phoenix itself cannot control the stars.

However, the initial "energy" condensed from nothingness was not eliminated by the star. It still gathered inside the star and formed... the consciousness of the earliest phoenix.

And for a long period of time, it may be in a very... confused state, not knowing what to do.

Maybe it can't feel its surroundings either.

Until...sometime.

Its consciousness may have come into contact with the channel, and the Star Phoenix sensed the situation in the channel for some reason.

And from this time, it began to slowly pass through the channel... to understand this void.

By entering various things in the passage, it learned that there were living creatures... various things, and things about the void.

However, it has always been in a state of confusion.

It means not doing anything, just observing.

Over long periods of observation, this stellar phoenix may slowly...develop its own personality.

Probably influenced by the various creatures it observes.

Then, the pioneers appeared.

To the Star Phoenix, the Pioneer was initially just one of the many creatures that entered the passage.

However, the pioneer's actions made it discover that this channel could be assimilated.

If I assimilate my consciousness with the channel, perhaps I will be able to move.

The Star Phoenix's most desired thing at the beginning was probably to move and travel around like other creatures.

So, it also began to try to assimilate with the channel.

Lin is not very clear at the moment what method it uses... but it seems that the consciousness of this star phoenix is ​​connected through a very wonderful channel.

It can sense every object that enters the passage, every creature, and even know what these creatures are thinking.

But it seems that not all types of creatures can be known, only a part of them can be known...including creatures like the Pioneers.

In short, it began to compete with the pioneers at that time.

In fact, it is... unable to compete with the Pioneers. Although it is not clear what method it uses, its assimilation progress is very slow.

Because pioneers can move outside, they can use various methods to act.

But in short, as Lin knew, after a long time, their progress had hardly increased.

But at some point, suddenly the "assimilation" of the star Phoenix began to grow rapidly.

This period of rapid growth coincided with the time when the Pioneers destroyed the empire.

The pioneers threw various things of the empire into the star through the channel. It seemed that because the star "ate" a lot of objects, it grew rapidly synchronously.

And this 'eating' lasted for a long time.

That's mainly because after the Forerunners destroyed the Empire, they all fell into a dormant state.

At that time, a small number of pioneers were left to continue managing the channel. They decided to get rid of most of the miscellaneous... things remaining in the channel, such as some relics left by past civilizations, recording devices and so on.

But they couldn't be cleared directly, so they came up with the idea of ​​'Void Meteor Stream'.

This method is very simple, which is to open some entrances and exits of the channel.

They will first investigate outside the entrance and exit, and if they find any high-speed flying objects outside, they will open the entrance and exit to allow the objects to fly in.

Then... just let these high-speed flying objects fly in and destroy the remnants.

In fact, this is also a deliberate behavior of theirs, which will prolong the assimilation time, but the extension is relatively small.

In order to clear the passage thoroughly...they had no choice but to do this.

In the end, regardless of whether these flying objects hit anything or not, they will pass through the channel and fly into the stars.

Perhaps the pioneers themselves did not realize that this star was their...competitor.

And the stars will have one final huge...synchronous boost.

That was the birth of the Phoenix population.

It seems that everything Phoenix has been developing and doing has greatly increased the synchronization of the stars.

Until now it's...almost fully synchronized.