As Si Sheng was struggling with how to gain approval from Xu Sili’s family for the marriage, the reputation of the Roland Empire spread and Escher Star welcomed the first group of people who were allowed to enter.
For this reason, Xu Sili specially dispatched a spaceship to wait outside Escher Star.
Escher Star was currently unable to receive tourists. The Roland Empire might’ve recovered a lot of territory, but the security of the flight channel still required a series of inspections and certifications.
Therefore, most of the first group of people who entered were originally from Escher Star and were survivors of other countries.
They had been wandering in interstellar space for hundreds of years, settling down and recuperating in various nations and forces. Now many of them had their own families.
They missed everything in the past and recalled their homeland from time to time, but their homeland had become history and they never thought of returning to Escher Star again.
Quietly donating some supplies and money to the Roland Empire was the most they could do.
In the long interstellar life, many old people had gradually forgotten about Escher Star and their origins.
After all, most of them had already integrated with alien races, reproduced and settled down in new nations.
In addition, the elements on the alien planet were thin and their star levels were restricted. As time passed, it would be difficult for them to display the strength of elementalists.
It wasn’t until the last two years when the seal on the Roland Empire was lifted that their star level restrictions were lifted one after another, directly returning them to their peak state.
However, it seemed they hadn’t communicated with the elemental elves for too long. Their level and lifespans might’ve returned, but it was difficult for them to use powerful elemental skills.
This fact was frustrating, but after so many years had passed, most people cheered up and started to enjoy the vitality and happiness brought by youth.
In the past one or two years since the star level restrictions were gradually lifted, most of the elementalists stranded in the universe had been busy visiting relatives and friends, and making travel plans.
After all, they had finally gotten rid of their aging. They should naturally embrace youth and do things they could no longer do at their age!
Less than two years actually wasn’t a particularly long time for interstellar travel.
They also received news that the Roland Empire was reviving again. Even the missing Princess Roland was traveling around the stars again and contacting people.
It was okay to just donate money and materials, but returning to Escher?
Many people’s first instinct was to refuse.
They knew the specific situation of Escher Star. Even if it was revived, they were short of manpower right now. Could they just sit there doing nothing after they returned?
Forget about those who were born in Roland, but for those from other countries, especially the countries with a bad relationship with Roland, they rejected it without any psychological burden at all.
However, the mecha competition between the Roland Empire and the Interstellar Alliance finally caught the attention of these old people again thanks to the extensive publicity.
Many people wanted to go back and watch when they saw Teacher Huo and Bazel shining on the TV.
Huo Zhen, Aina, Bazel, Dominic, Archibald…
Who didn’t know these five old guys?
In the past one hundred years in the interstellar world, they had also formed various hometown associations and everyone was actually very familiar with each other.
Now, not only had they officially broken through to five stars, but they also used elemental skills of the same level and became big stars in the entire galaxy!
They didn’t care about Old Huo, but there were many people who were more talented than Bazel and Dominic.
Seeing these old friends shine, those who were more familiar with them couldn’t help getting excited.
Therefore, all the elementalists who were left in the interstellar space and saw this scene couldn’t help taking action.
Perhaps returning to Escher Star would be their chance to become stronger again! Who wouldn’t want to become young again and regain their strength?
Judging from the information they had learned, the Roland Empire was no longer dangerous and wasn’t as difficult to enter as before.
Moreover, Roland’s food had been extremely praised. Other people might not know this, but didn’t these old guys know it?
The Roland Empire was powerful, but the food?
This was false advertising!
A group of survivors from the old countries at odds with Roland, immediately found an excuse and planned to go back to expose such a scam.
So these old people quickly submitted their applications to the Interstellar Alliance.
After learning that the Roland Empire was a magical civilization, the young people in their families also strongly requested to go with them.
For these people, Xu Sili naturally couldn’t refuse.
No matter whether they returned alone or with their family, he was very welcoming and even wanted to tie them to the Roland Empire.
The first batch of people who passed the review totaled more than 6,000 people.
On the day of their arrival, Xu Sili met them in person. Even the five mentors were present.
Due to the traffic from this mecha competition, the five mentors had now become extremely popular. Of course, they were still slightly inferior to Si Sheng and Xu Sili.
What was more surprising was that not long after the incident, Si Sheng and Xu Sili had won a huge number of CP fans.
The scientists edited the video of them in the same frame and watched it repeatedly. The number of views soon reached an outrageous number.
Among the first batch of people who returned, there were many old friends of the five mentors. Needless to say, they were born in the Roland Empire. Most of the others were fellow countrymen of the mentors.
Then there were the relatives of these mentors. Most of them were young faces. They had obviously heard about the magical civilization and came to watch the fun, as well as to see if they could use it.
However, on the day when Xu Sili met with them, an accident occurred on the spaceship that attracted a lot of attention and was filmed throughout the entire process.
These old people actually broke through one after another!
After hundreds of years of accumulation, a breakthrough was a natural thing once they returned to the land that gave birth to a magical civilization and communicated with the elemental elves again.
There was no doubt that this was a group of elderly people—Well, judging from their appearance now, they were no longer elderly at all.
If they could be won over, the high-end combat capability of the Roland Empire would be greatly improved.
Xu Sili couldn’t stop laughing.
However, these people were different from Bazel and the others. Most of those who returned this time took a wait-and-see attitude. Not many of them clearly expressed their desire to stay.
Xu Sili wasn’t in a hurry. As long as they had a place to stay, he would naturally have plenty of ways to deal with them.
However, the players who were watching were almost scared by these returning people.
The number of players coming to the Roland Empire had now reached nearly 10 million, which was one-tenth of the population of the Roland Empire. It was a terrifying number when thinking about it.
Fortunately, half of them were newbies who just entered the game, and the situation could still be controlled.
Still, with the participation of more than five million players, the parts that had been successfully lit up on the satellite map were spreading at a terrifying speed every day.
There was no way around it. If they wanted to level up quickly, the only way left was to kill monsters.
Fortunately, the game had entered a master-apprentice system. Thanks to the guidance of experienced players, new players wouldn’t be completely beaten by interstellar beasts when leveling in the wild.
Since the first e-sports competition of Starry Sky Age was about to begin auditions, the players’ enthusiasm for leveling up was even higher.
Yes, Starry Sky Age would soon join forces with the e-sports alliance to start hosting competitions on the second anniversary of the open beta.
Of course, Starry Sky Age’s competition was definitely very different from traditional e-sports, but its extremely high popularity, cool professional skills and special presentation method were attractive enough.
Those teams with unique vision had been in the game since the closed beta. Now they finally had the opportunity to show their skills.
With millions of players working madly to level up, everywhere they passed was like a plague of locusts. Even Silin had to temporarily withdraw her troops to stop being affected by these crazy braves.
She couldn’t fight on the front line, but Silin still kept a close eye on the changes in satellite cloud images.
Now the names of various places had been marked on this map. These were drawn by Old Huo and several other mentors.
They were the most senior people in the Roland Empire, and no one dared to question the place names they marked.
Silin finally intuitively realized how big the Roland Empire was and where its borders were.
It was also at this time that she truly and clearly felt how powerful Roland, one of the most powerful countries, was and how vast its territory was.
Her fighting spirit became even higher when she thought of this.
However, no matter how vast the map or how dangerous the interstellar beasts were, there was only one ending. It was to be ruthlessly swept away by the braves. Not a single benefit would be left where they passed.
It was a persistence that made even the three experienced mentors tremble, but the result was still satisfying.
Finally, in this crazy sweeping, the players lit up most of the map, revealing the territory of the Roland Empire a hundred years ago, but also…
The ancient country of Raya, the hometown of Pharmacist Bazel, once a neighbor and enemy of the Roland Empire, had been successfully reclaimed by players and was expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Bazel was receiving his old friends when he heard the news.
Most of them weren’t very fond of Roland, a former enemy country. They jokingly called the fact that Bazel settled in the Roland Empire and served as a pharmacist mentor as an act of ‘treason.’
“No matter the conditions, I won’t stay and work for the emperor of Roland.”
“Roland is still too backward. I didn’t expect that the once most powerful country would fall to this state. It is really embarrassing.”
“Tsk tsk tsk, Bazel, are you worthy of your teacher after doing this?”
Bazel was naturally unhappy, but he was too lazy to argue with these stubborn old guys.
They were just talking. Over the past one hundred years, they had resolved their conflicts long ago. They were jealous of the Roland Empire’s survival, but had also done a lot for Roland over the years.
But they couldn’t help saying something sarcastic when meeting Hou Zhen and Aina.
Perhaps this could be regarded as a type of nostalgia for the old days.
Bazel couldn’t help feeling sad when thinking about this, but he quickly cheered up.
After Dominic gave him the news, he opened the satellite map and told his old friends what the Roland Empire had promised him.
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