Chapter 846 - 471: Walking Against the Light

The 13th Expedition Team consists of more than just 13 members.

This is the Last War of the Universal Alliance. To prepare for this final ritual, the Universal Alliance has assembled countless teams of the "13th Expedition Team."

Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands...

After all, even people like the recorder Yi Shan and the engineer Tree-man Dominic, who are not considered "elites," have been selected to become members of the 13th Expedition Team. From this, we can imagine how many teams the Alliance has prepared.

And they all know, even the volunteers who came to summon them know, that they all will not return.

Just like the expedition teams before them that paved the way for future generations, none of them returned alive, and none of the members of the 13th Expedition Team will return either.

They have sacrificed enough for this Magic Element ritual: the annihilation of 12 expedition teams, countless pioneers planting beacons across billions of galaxies, and the countless scholars who perished in the Demon Element, drowning while trying to calculate the equation of the Demon Element...

Even including Yi Shan’s deceased wife, who was one of those sacrifice-giving scholars.

And this last step, the most crucial step, no one has the slightest complaint.

Because the calculations from the Intelligence Machinery Race also confirm that if nothing is done, in less than 500 years, even the most peripheral areas of the cosmos will be entirely devoured by the Great Void.

This generation of people, even if they managed to barely survive on the edge of the cosmos, waiting for the end of their lives, wouldn’t care if floods occurred after their death.

However, they have still arrived here, for that future...

Tomorrow will come.

But someone must guard this final dawn.

The 13th Expedition Team begins a seven-year intensive fusion training!

No one complains, and they even know that their team is unlikely to be the one that reaches the end. For this final expedition, the Alliance organized thousands upon thousands of 13th Expedition Teams to advance in saturation.

Any team that can reach the designated equation area will complete the ritual.

But except for the upper echelons, no one knows how many teams there are. They might think there are only two or three teams, one main team and two standby teams. During training, everyone is informed that they are the main team.

In reality, tens of thousands of teams are undergoing the same training and preparation.

Recorder Yi Shan and Tree-man Dominic are among them. In their team, everyone is undergoing brutal special training, without substitutes, without any reason to step down without burden. They must complete exhausting training every day to become stronger.

Their team has exactly thirteen members, and besides Yi Shan and Tree-man Dominic, everyone else gradually got acquainted with each other during these years of fusion training.

A creature named "Sack," whose race is prone to lying, is often teased by the team as the lying Sack.

Engineer Locke, a robust Beastman, is responsible for energy and boiler maintenance.

Naviator Elvira, from the Spirit Race like Yi Shan, is responsible for route navigation and confirmation of the final ritual point.

Karl, the male Dark Elf, from a race known in stories for treachery, is a secret agent for the Alliance, responsible for communication and contact with headquarters.

Bone Dragon Hogg, the expedition team’s powerhouse and bodyguard, is an actual Undead, a peculiar race that can revive even if torn into bones.

Prince of the Eye-Q tribe, a being with a gigantic eyeball as a head, serves as the team’s observer and lookout, responsible for observation and lookout before entering the area influenced by the Great Void.

The Queen of the Insect Race, resembling a humanoid mantis but more robust, is also a powerhouse of the team like the Bone Dragon.

A Niu Tou-like figure with four arms, serving as both a powerhouse and bodyguard for the team.

A ghost, responsible for the team’s psychological issues and mental state records.

A giant catfish-like Fishman agent, responsible for the Magic Element Beacon device.

A space Undead cloaked entire in a robe, who remains aloof and interacts little with others.

As well as Tree-man Dominic, the starship engineer, and Yi Shan, the recorder and clerk, together forming this 13-member expedition team.

Despite coming from different species, with diverse cultures, habits, and aesthetics, in this era, all species appear in various strange forms, seeing others as if they’re looking at demons or monsters.

But this period is precisely for them to integrate, respond to various emergencies, and undergo simulation training for the entire advance process.

Over several years, they have more or less become friends.

During this period, not only do they train, but they also have rest time, vacations, and times to visit their relatives.

As time passed, even the other team members got to know each other’s relatives. Many of them do not have families; some have lost their families, others’ home planets have long been consumed by the Great Void.

Someone like Yi Shan, who has a daughter and is still willing to join the expedition team, is naturally rare.