Above The Sky

Chapter 2144 - 59: The Great Tranquility (Part 1)

Terra Year 783.

Since Ian halted his advancement to Star God, returned to Terra, and submerged into the Aether Sea, a long, long time had passed on Terra.

During this period, the Silverpeak Domain was under the control of the General Administration. Director Scott oversaw the political and developmental affairs of the domain, while Yisen Gard and Sio managed matters related to Sublimators and the implementation of related policies. In case of conflicts, internal meetings would be convened for decision-making. Generally speaking, it was a seldom-seen oligarchic bureaucratic system on Terra.

This is considered rare because the vast majority of Terra’s systems, regardless of their appearance, are inherently lifelong autocracies or monarchies.

This also aligns with the hopes of the Terra People, who do not crave ’power’ or the massive responsibility of combating ’natural disasters’ that comes with it. They hope for a peaceful and stable life, and the policy instability brought by electoral democracy is something they find hard to accept.

As long as life is bearable, a charismatic leader is the best option, followed by a stable leadership team.

Although past events like the tours, speeches, and outreach rallies brought by Ian are gone, leaving some old Silverpeak People struggling to adapt, the General Administration is doing well now, and people are gradually accepting this way of life.

As for the Empire, with the intervention of an unnamed Silverpeak Domain Sunbird and the Western Empire Emperor Carlos, Imperial Crown Prince Aina Sertar was captured and brought back.

Forced to inherit the Top Seat’s Blood left by his grandaunt, even though he has not yet reached the Fifth Energy Level, he has become the sole Emperor of the Empire, once again uniting the fragmented Empire.

Although he doesn’t appear very happy, Aina has traveled extensively among the people for many years. He deeply understands the true nature of the Empire, not just its surface, but down to every grassroots level, and is very clear about the Arcane Pathway’s impact on society.

This is precisely the strength of the Sunbird, and Aina excels in empathizing rather than overlooking from a high place. The many decrees he has issued have overall made life more stable.

With the support of the Silverpeak Domain, Dragon Island, and the other two Fifth Energy Level beings of the Empire, Aina’s authority remains secure. Once he also reaches the Fifth Energy Level, Aina might become an Emperor better than his father and grandfather.

Meanwhile, among the people, there’s much enthusiasm for another topic: the Silverpeak Domain is governed by a Sunbird, and the Empire also has a Sunbird. People say that it is not much different from the past—whether it’s two Sunbirds or the First and Second Empires, no matter where they are, they all still live under the wings of the Sunbird.

As the political situation gradually stabilizes, in the Southern Sea, some towering megastructures are gradually restoring their original forms.

It’s quite unbelievable: in material science, the technology mastered by humans in the Terra Era is far more advanced than that of the previous era’s civilization.

In the previous era’s civilization, even with some Spark technologies, the cables used for space elevators were merely ordinary nano-carbon fibers. Rope performance, composed of carbon fibers wound together in multiple different crystalline structures, was considered astonishing at the time and could be said to be the strongest on the planet, capable of supporting such a megastructure as a space elevator.

But in the Terra Era, even stronger materials are abundant.

Of course, Alchemy in the previous era’s civilization was also quite advanced, with many special Alchemical Creations, such as Finegold Mithril, essentially a special alchemical alloy processed by the previous era’s civilization, and Morien Steel was an automated spirit energy nano-metal material.

However, the activity level of Aether in that era cannot be compared to that of Terra now—back then, the entire Terra might not have been able to support the activities of a single Fifth Energy Level, but now? Humans alone number thirty, not to mention Magical Beasts and those large and small megastructures, Spark Remnants...

This also indicates some sort of Spirit Energy revival.

When creating these materials, Yisen Gard also mused that if future civilizations were lost again, perhaps the materials they created would become ’rare minerals’ like Finegold Mithril.

Perhaps, due to the special nature of Aether, these ’rare minerals’ could be identified by planet Gaia as ’special minerals,’ automatically generated in the underlying mineral veins by Aether... This is the unique aspect of the Aether Universe, where any ’special material’ could naturally form, which they only now understand.

In planting, Aether is extremely useful, as it only needs to alter material properties with Aether; even the most ordinary hemp rope can have terrifying performance. Of course, this requires continuous use of Aether to maintain, something even a Fifth Energy Level strong person cannot accomplish.

However, if Alchemy is employed to enhance and stabilize the material properties of already strong materials, one can produce ’Enchanted Carbon Fiber Rope’ with performance that is not much different from that produced by the previous era’s civilization, but at a fraction of the cost of producing high-performance composite nano-carbon fiber rope.

The quality and cost of materials will gradually fall into the trap of marginal effects, and spending a thousand times more money might not even produce material twice as strong. But this is purely material technology; if enhanced with advanced Aether Alchemy, one can have an independent strength multiplication factor and produce materials with two to three times the strength at ten times the cost.