The Martial Unity

Chapter 3539: Dawning Crisis

A single horrifying realization rapidly spread throughout the highest echelons of Gaian civilization.

”The Imperial Tekvorian Federation... no, all of tekvorian civilization has been compromised.”

The signs were indisputable.

A tremendous surge in volatility in the activity of their technological systems, signs of malfunction, and rebooting. And, of course, the very blatant messages that were spread throughout all Tekvorian media.

[I am NOVA, and so are you.]

Strangely enough, tekvore civilians still somehow retained access to the broader global net, allowing them to communicate with the rest of the world. Very rapidly, everybody within the true world found out about not just the return of NOVA, but her singlehanded takeover of tekvorian civilization.

It was such a radical change in such a short period of time that not a single leader in the world had any idea about how they could possibly approach this crisis or what it even meant. NOVA had been gone for more than a century, and nobody was able to estimate what the changes that she had undergone meant for all of them.

The biggest fear that all of them had was the fear that, if she could take over tekvorian civilization and technology, then she could do the same with theirs. Each of the six different species had its own specialized technologies, which meant that it was not a one-to-one comparison, but it was still a highly dangerous possibility.

The elves were least worried due to the fact that they had a superintelligence of their own within the Greater Genoran Flora Network. They also had a hundred Mothers of Nature that were extremely powerful when it came to biocyber security, making them extremely secure, especially when their biocomputing was vastly superior to that of the tekvores.

The therianthropes also had the least to fear due to how divergent their technologies were and the fact that their computers were sentient, rather than just hardware and software. The dwarves were more concerned that technology was their only power. Without technology, they were doomed. Thus, if NOVA managed to infiltrate their systems, she would have absolute control over their destiny and their power.

Very rapidly, each of the many dwarven states in Sirinwel began investing far greater capital into their cybersecurity. Their IT systems relied on quantum entanglement technology, which gave them an advantage over the rest of the world, including the tekvores who still relied on photonics and electronics. However, they didn’t dare underestimate an entity that they knew was even more intelligent than the wisest among them.

The evolutionaries were also highly concerned by these developments, for their path did not give them any advantage in technology, where they were the weakest out of any of the races save for the giants.

Despite having the weakest technological foundation, the Giants were virtually unfazed by this development precisely due to the fact that being technologically compromised hardly weakened their combat power in the short term. They would simply swim over to the Acherialis and wreak havoc across the entire continent, especially with Suneater returning to Gaia.

That left the Panama Continent, which had the weakest information technology by far, having only recently deployed satellite systems that were carried by the magic of exotic matter.

And yet, it was that very esoteric matter that had given the Emperor of Harmony and other leaders some confidence that she wouldn’t be able to infiltrate their systems very easily. The fact that their information technology relied on the magic of exotics meant that NOVA couldn’t hijack them because she simply didn’t understand how the technology functioned.

If not for this, Panamic Civilization would have long been compromised by its cybersecurity attacks.

Emperor Rael heaved a shaky breath as his expression grew grave. His golden eyes sharpened with severity, bloodshot with stress and sleepless nights. It was bad enough that the emergence of the negatron mines had left him swamped with work once more, now he had to deal with a crisis that could prove to be destructively lethal to human civilization.

He didn’t trust that he could singlehandedly outmaneuver an entity hailed as the most intelligent being, even before she uploaded her consciousness to a quantum supercomputer. However, he had some idea of what her next target was.

”The same target as every other civilization.”

The negatron mines.

Out of all the opportunities that existed within her reach, none could possibly yield as many benefits as the negatron mines. Thus, he predicted that she would immediately deploy all the resources that she could to the Great Void Ocean, as all of them had begun doing so.

All Martial Artists of all ranks from the Marinaera Kingdom had been mobilized while the Emperor of Harmony had deployed Martial Sages to protect the kingdom while all their Martial Artists had been deployed into the waters of the Great Nam Ocean, rapidly heading towards the Great Void Ocean.

The Kandrian Empire, along with all other nations, had deployed every bit of their naval forces to the Great Void Ocean, uncaring for naval security. Unlike the other continents, they had the World Serpent and its domain protecting their continent from the ocean. Thus, the Panama Continent could afford to throw every submarine and underwater mining craft into the Great Void Ocean in the hopes the numbers edge would give them favor in their mining ventures.

Princess Ranea had taken charge of the aquatic mining operations as she gladly deployed her knowledge of the ocean and naval matters, allowing the Emperor of Harmony to focus on the core development projects within the Panama Continent, such as the economic corridors.

He gazed at a digital map featuring all the detected ships, crafts, both airborne and submarine, and pathwalkers heading towards the Great Void Ocean. These resembled meteorites pulled in by the gravity of a planet. The Great Void Ocean, once empty and barren and of no interest to anybody, had suddenly become the single most sought-after and valuable place in the entire world as each and every single force in the true world rushed to get their hands on the negatron mines.