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To protect my family, I became a Devil.
To protect my people, I became a God.

In Semeria, the war for cultivation resources is as old as time and as constant as the rising and of the sun. Even in the Abandoned Region, where the energy was so poor and polluted that one wouldn’t send their worst enemy there, had endless conflicts for resources. Humans had been living in this nightmare made a reality, fighting over what anyone else on the continent would consider crumbs for millions of years.

Enter Xasha, husband, father, patriarch, Genius, artificer, creationist, and leader of the Falling Stardust Trading Company, who learns the truth of the world from three remnant souls he met on a journey. Having learned they had been living like frogs in a well. Humanity reluctantly united under Xasha’s rule and sets off. Determined to rise from their standing and one day ruling the entire continent.

Xasha soon realizes their strength, even combined, was the weakest on the continent. To become stronger, they needed better resources. But all the lands had landlords and all the resources had owners. He could not turn back, they could not give up. He had a person to elevate, a family to care for, and a daughter who had a powerful and mysterious entity eyeing her from afar, to protect.

In order to achieve any of his goals, any of humanity's goals. Those landlords had to die, their people had to be pillaged, and their lands had to be plundered. He inadvertently fell into the cycle. According to the Laws of cultivation.

Law of Cultivation:
To cultivate: acquire and retain resources.
To acquire resources: plunder and pillage.
To retain resources: Leave none Alive.

Falling Stardust

"It is not anything fancy. Transfer gates are manually operated and have a limited range. We cannot overcome that in the short term, so we thought of a cool workaround." It was only then that Ari turned to a new page.

Depicted on the page was an archway with two gates, a few from each other. "These cates are called chained gates or linked gates. As it said, it is nothing special. These chain gates can be linked infinitely and are activated all at once."

Xasha's eyes lit up as he immediately understood what Ari was trying to say. To work around not having the long-distance capability, they connect a series of short-distance transfer gates. Upon exiting one gate, you are flung into another one, then another, and another until you reach your destination. "That is quite an ingenious workaround to long-distance travel. The passenger maybe not even notice that they are traversing multiple gates instead of one."

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