
by LeYan Yu
This novel contains Eastern elements and Mecha battles; please view with caution. In the vastness of the universe, civilizations are rare. But when two civilizations meet, there is only one outcome: one colonizes, and the other is colonized.Across the cosmos, civilizations are divided into six levels.Level 0: Pre-Planetary CivilizationA civilization that has yet to fully unite or control the resources of its home planet, still bound by war, climate, and scarcity.Level 1: Planetary CivilizationCapable of regulating its planet’s climate, energy, orbital space, and building a global defense network.Level 2: Stellar CivilizationAble to harvest the power of its star, construct Dyson rings, stellar furnaces, and interstellar gate networks.Level 3: Galactic CivilizationA civilization that expands across an entire galaxy, commanding warp fleets, colony networks, and interstellar empires.Level 4: Dimensional Engineering CivilizationCapable of manipulating space itself, building wormholes, dimensional barriers, and causality-based communication systems.Level 5: Cosmic Architecture CivilizationPowerful enough to rewrite the constants of the universe, create pocket universes, and preserve the last seeds of civilization. Xiu finally fulfilled his childhood dream. Piloting the Star Wreck Zero, he broke through countless restraints and escaped the Auber Empire, the prison that had chained the first half of his life.But he had no idea that his escape had thrown him into a far greater storm.By accident, he opened Pandora’s box.And now, a Level 5 civilization with the power to destroy worlds has returned to the observable universe.
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