There are approximately 400 billion stars in the universe.
In this era, human footprints are all over the vast galaxy. They have transformed planet after planet, turning them into human habitats, surviving and multiplying in their new homes, and then killing each other for various reasons.
People established countless countries and countless organizations. After thousands of years, after countless wars and massacres, all the countries and all the organizations merged into two opposing superpowers - the Galactic Empire and the Democratic Alliance.
There are still some that slip through the net, such as the Star Ring Church State, which is too small, too remote, too inconspicuous, and too intimidating... Neither the Empire nor the Alliance has any plan to occupy it.
The Emperor of the Galactic Empire, William Eulerbury XIII, has entered his twilight years, but he still has no boredom with the beautiful flowers in his harem.
Among the emperor's many children, Cesare Persephone was the least favored.
Xi Zeer's mother was of humble origins, from an island nation on a planet in the Star Ring Church State, and was a member of the Dark Cult.
After the emperor had favored her, he soon abandoned her. She gave birth to the emperor's child, but received no recognition, and the child could not inherit the emperor's surname... This blow, coupled with her innate weird nature, all added up to make her quickly fall into mental disorder. She even hated the child she and the emperor had, believing that the child was the cause of her tragedy. On several occasions, she even tried to kill her child.
From the moment César gained consciousness, he had to do his best to survive and struggle with his biological mother.
Due to this kind of childhood, he never felt love and warmth, but learned to be cruel and cunning without any instruction.
More than a decade later, the emperor suddenly remembered that he had a child who was left outside, and secretly ordered him to be summoned to the palace. However, this was not a warm and affectionate meeting between father and son. After meeting César, the emperor repeatedly reviewed and made a decision.
César was assigned a secret mission - to leave the Empire and go to the Star Ring Church State, hiding there under an assumed name, ready to sacrifice his life for the Empire at any time.
In name, he is the empire's unsung hero, a thorn that the empire has thrust into the hearts of its enemies, a killer in the shadows...
But in reality, no one believed that he could do anything for the empire.
The Star Ring Church State is just a small country in the cracks, a pitiful existence that is not even cannon fodder. It has been stable and low-key for hundreds of years, and nothing has happened. It has not caused any impact on the Empire and the Alliance. Even Marshal Augustin of the state has long been secretly bribed by the Empire. Cizer was sent there only because the Empire needed to monitor Marshal Augustin to prevent him from betraying the Empire.
Of course, there was another purpose, which was to send César away as a problem. Such a strange child was exiled to an invisible place far away, so he would naturally not bring any trouble to the emperor's popular children.
The wheel of time keeps turning, and no one expected that a sudden accident, like the butterfly effect, would sweep across the entire universe and change the course of the timeline.
——Illite was discovered.
The Star Ring Church nation knows that it is guilty of possessing the treasure and is in a state of panic. Interstellar pirates are gearing up for action, and the Empire and the Alliance are watching covetously.
Cecil seized this fleeting opportunity.
He didn't want to be a humble bastard, nor did he want to die in obscurity in Amiens. His ambition was ignited by iridium ore. He grabbed the only chip in his hand and made a big gamble.
The path is clearly laid out before them - as long as the marshal is promoted to the position of dictator of the state, the entire state can be controlled through the marshal's hand, the Iridium Star Mine will become the property of the empire, and the entire state will be turned into an Iridium Star Mine smelter, continuously supplying refined iridium metal to the empire.
César secretly drafted numerous coup plans with the marshal, but the key to the plan was always stuck at one step - Fleet X.
Fleet X is a powerful unmanned fleet controlled by the Pope, or more precisely, by the Pope's favorite high priest, Palder of the Moon.
In order to capture a state quickly and easily, you must first get fleet x.
Fortunately, the high priest is not invincible.
He is too kind and regards human life as extremely important. As long as someone threatens him with his own life, especially the life of the person he cares most about...
Cecil likes to lay out a multi-pronged plan as dense as a spider web, making it impossible for the opponent to escape no matter where he goes.
He designed to put himself in danger and was bullied, but was saved by Longyue.
If Longyue fell in love with me, then I could directly use this love to achieve my goal.
Unfortunately not.
César has the magical power to bewitch people. He can easily make everyone fall in love with him without hesitation. However, this kind of magic seems to be ineffective in front of Longyue.
Even after a year of getting along, this goal was not achieved, which made Cecil feel a rare sense of frustration.
Longyue just looked at Cecil tenderly all the time, helped and supported him sincerely, but never tried to take anything away from him, such as sex and love.
Finally, Cizer had to take advantage of Misty Moon's friendship with Leares.
It is not difficult to do this. Xizel has always been very interested in Lei and thinks that Lei is a military genius. It is a pity that he is trapped in the small Star Ring Church state... In order to conceal his true purpose, Xizel even often pretends to have improper thoughts about Lei. This trick is very useful and conceals the eyes of everyone, including Longyue.
Longyue never interfered with Cecil's "love" for Lei, which made Cecil a little disappointed.
All in all, the plan was implemented perfectly.
Xi Zeer successfully manipulated Marshal Augustan as his puppet and took control of the Star Ring Church State, turning it into a giant iridium metal mining and smelting plant, supplying the Empire with a steady supply of starship materials.
Mining and smelting will inevitably cause serious pollution. After only a few years, the environment of the Halo Church state deteriorated, diseases were rampant, and the gap between the rich and the poor widened to an extreme level. The dictator and the mine owners controlled a large amount of funds, but the ordinary people became increasingly poor. Under such circumstances, people began to place their hopes on religion. The Halo Church's temples gradually became full, with people kneeling and praying everywhere, but the high priest had long disappeared.
With iridium as capital, César returned to the capital of the empire and began his journey of conquest.
He returned to the empire's fleet, made military achievements step by step, rose steadily, expanded his power through repeated conspiracies, and finally launched a coup and became the new emperor.
Hundreds of years later, his story has been compiled into songs, dramas, novels, movies... and all other forms, and is sung endlessly throughout the stars.
He was praised as a great ruler by some people, and denounced as the most shameless devil by others.
The maid in the imperial palace wrote down her true memoirs when she was old, recording some unknown secrets of this great ruler. The memoirs were sealed for hundreds of years and finally saw the light of day after the influence of the empire gradually declined.
The memoirs say that this terrible ruler knew almost everything, but there was one question he never gave an answer to.
The question is: Who was the first person who made you feel loved?
After the entire plot summary was played, the system issued a crisp prompt sound.
"bite!"
"What are you talking about? Are you a microwave?" Li Yuebai said angrily.
"Host, please accept your mission for this time." The system said: "The mission is to defeat Xizel."
"Isn't the definition of defeat too broad?" Li Yuebai said with a bad face, "Does killing him count?"
"Calculate."
"Beat him half to death?"
"It depends on whether he can continue to complete the plan in his half-dead state." The system said: "Especially the plan regarding Iridium Mine... Keeping Iridium Mine is a very important criterion for judgment."
"It's better to beat him to death."
"Host, you have plenty of time to think about your next move." The system said, "Once you have thought it over, I will let the wheel of time resume its rotation, but it cannot be stopped for too long, otherwise time will become disordered and it will be difficult to return to normal."
Li Yuebai stood in the center of the temple, staring at César's still back. He felt as if a piece of lead was pressing on his chest, so heavy that he could hardly breathe.
The difficulty of this attempt has increased again, and the chances of winning are slim.
César had everything going for him. He had the support of a powerful empire, a cunning and experienced ally in the state, and countless fleets at his disposal...
All I have in my hands is my fleet and my friends who are at risk of death.
In the previous world, I was always in an advantageous position, so I always chose the safest and most stable route, but this time, maybe I should use some risky tricks.
After thinking for an unknown amount of time, Li Yuebai chose to return to normal time.
In the pink sky, clouds danced in the direction of the strong wind. The light of the stars shone through the gaps between the huge stone pillars and was projected onto the smooth obsidian ground. The dust in the air was stirred up again in the light pillars.
Cecil was running toward the aircraft.
His back view is still very good-looking, with a figure between a teenager and a young man, slender but not too weak. The dark green military uniform outlines his long legs and thin waist, and every movement is full of vitality.
"Wait a minute." Li Yuebai said.
The sound is not loud, but it is very clear.
When César heard these two words, he did not stop but turned around and smiled at Li Yuebai.
It was an extremely sincere yet slightly sad smile. If Li Yuebai didn't know what was going to happen in the future, he would probably feel his heart was deeply warmed.
"Cizel." Li Yuebai was about to say something, but finally just waved his hand from a distance, his eyes and voice full of sadness and concern: "You must... come back safely."