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On the other hand, this would be quite a good bait too, he would not be able to find the Holy Accord if they decided to keep hiding. The Holy Accord might not dare to attack him, but they would definitely dare to attack the Supers under his command.
As for Aurora’s safety, of course, Han Xiao was not going to forget about it. He planned to give Aurora a King mechanical suit.
Not only that, he was even planning to build a few spare King suits and put the Throne on different people to ensure he could arrive at their locations anytime. He totally took the King as a teleportation device.
The King was extremely costly to build, so doing this was very luxurious. However, with the extravagantly profitable business of the Evolutionary Totems and as a shareholder of the Limitless Financial Group, he would earn an outrageous number of Enas every year. Therefore, he was not short on cash.
Han Xiao then told Aurora to go and learn to use the Holy Light Particle better and that the Holy Light Emissary plan would be carried out once she was ready.
Watching Aurora leave the room, Han Xiao could not help but think of Evans.
“How’s Evans doing?”
Phillip appeared and said, “He’s still getting to know his Esper Ability, hum…”
Han Xiao turned to look at the surveillance image. Ever since he sent Evans back, he had been undergoing secret training. Since Han Xiao did not give any orders, he had yet to replicate any Esper Abilities, so he was completely powerless and was still at the lowest Grade E.
“Have you found the targets I asked you to find?” Han Xiao asked.
“Immortals with compatible abilities have been selected. This is the list, hum…”
A mini bookshelf appeared beside Phillip. He searched around and picked out a deck of data. He then threw it up into the air. The flying pieces of paper turned into individual virtual screens, showing the records of different people to Han Xiao.
Han Xiao glanced at him.
Kiddo, what’s with all these flashy tricks? Showing off?
While rubbing Phillip’s face on the table like a toy, Han Xiao quickly read through these documents.
His New EsGod Cultivation Plan followed strict rules on what Esper Abilities to absorb. In order for Evans to have a perfect growth path, he had always been looking for Esper Abilities that were suitable for Evans in the early stage. The players in these files were all Espers under two categories—physique enhancement types and psychological enhancement types.
Since Evans was only Grade E, absorbing two Esper Abilities was the most suitable. Physique and mind were the most basic attributes, so this was the best combination. With his help, Evans did not have to take the path of killing like EsGod did. Therefore, he would not have to worry about his combat capability in the early stages and could focus on building a strong foundation.
“These two will do.”
Having picked two players with the best abilities. Han Xiao told Phillip to give them the specific missions.
At this time, a notification suddenly popped up on the interface.
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[Liberate Beast Ancestor’s Organization] Completed!
“Oh? The team I sent a few months ago has succeeded?” Han Xiao’s eyes sparkled.
Before he traveled to the secondary dimensions, a group of Beast Ancestor officers led by Jotina had come to join him and made a request to liberate the Beast Ancestor’s headquarters.
Back then, Han Xiao had given this mission to the people who were in the Shattered Star Ring base. Now that a few months had passed, the results of that had finally come. It seemed to be quite successful. There should very soon be a group of people coming to join him.
…
The last planet of the Beast Ancestor’s headquarters was covered in flames like its ground was burning. The planet’s defense measures were already all destroyed, and a ton of spaceship fragments floated in the planet’s orbit.
Black Star Army battleships hovered above the planet, sucking up a huge amount of resources and countless captives using absorption beams. Most were rescued females and clueless offspring.
In the cabin of one transport ship, captives of a variety of races cowered in tiny groups, filled with fear. Groups of Black Star warriors separated them into warriors, females, and offspring.
“Don’t move! Stand still!” the captain of the transport ship commanded.
To the side, wearing a black battle suit rather similar to Hila, Mia held a bag of snacks in her hand, leaned on a mechanical spear, and scanned the big group of captives before her while occasionally putting the sugar beans into her mouth.
Beast Ancestor soldier captives were absorbed into the cabin. They seemed agitated and ready to retaliate whenever. However, when they saw Mia standing near the wall, these captives all shivered and wiped that thought from their minds.
In the battle earlier, they had seen a Calamity Grade officer stationed in the headquarters get violently chopped into pieces by Mia with their very own eyes. No one dared resist in front of her.
At this time, a commotion occurred nearby. Mia turned to look over, and to her surprise, a few rescued females were arguing with the Black Star warriors and resisting their orders.
“Who the hell are you? Do you have any idea who our partner is? How dare you do this to us!”
“Let go! Stop dragging me!”
“When Master Beast Ancestor comes back, he’ll crush you all!”
These people who were yelling were grouped along with the others but were still yelling and scolding, mentioning Beast Ancestor’s name every other sentence.
Seeing this, Mia curled her lips and shook her head.
This time, the captain beside her sighed and said, “Pitiful, aren’t they? These females who are imprisoned by Beast Ancestor are basically completely cut off from the outside world. To most, that’s a dark life filled with nothing but despair, but there are also some twisted ones who somehow began to admire Beast Ancestor and became honored by their identity. Although rescuing these females is our mission, maybe many of them don’t want to be saved. They only want to continue their old life.”
Mia glanced at him and said, “Do your job. The mission is all I care about. I’m not interested in these things.”
Have a bucket of cold water poured on him, the captain did not carry on chatting with Mia and continued to direct his subordinates.
This time, Mia’s communicator rang. After she picked it up, Jotina’s wild face appeared, only it was now shining with holy and motherly love.
“How are the women and young offspring? Are all of them safe?” Jotina asked immediately.
Mia smiled and replied, “Don’t worry, we’ve rescued them all. They’re all very touched.”
“That’s great. I’ll share this good news with the army commander right now!” Jotina was overjoyed. “By the way, after you return, I’ll teach you some strong moves.”
Before waiting for a response, Jotina had already hastily hung up the communication.
“How impatient.” Mia chuckled.
Although Jotina publicly made the request to reproduce with her direct boss and appalled everyone present, after spending some time together, the army officers had realized she was really easy to befriend, being direct and decisive in everything. After a few months, she had left a good impression on many of them.
Mia was the closest to her. Both of them were ‘muscular ladies’, so they had countless shared interests.
Putting the communicator away, Mia looked at the group of people in front of her, scanned past the panicked or lost expressions, and exhaled.
“Nero, your godfather is really admirable. No wonder even Her Excellency Hila is willing to follow him…”
Although Black Star eliminated Gorutan out of personal revenge, judging from the results of it, this was indeed a great deed for the entire universe. Mia admired him from the bottom of her heart.
Chapter 1086. The Definition of a Qualified Second in Command |
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the silver alloy gate slowly slid open, inside was a room fully made of polymer materials. The walls and the floor were all cream-colored, reflective, and smooth.
Five enormous showcases were displayed in the middle of the room, with a Beyond Grade A sealed by the Spacetime Amber inside every one of them. All of them were in different postures, all of their expressions fixed on their faces. Other than these, there was nothing else in this room.
“This is my collection room.”
As the group walked into the room, Han Xiao spoke. Behind him were the former officers of the Beast Ancestor, including Jotina.
As soon as the field team destroyed the Beast Ancestor’s headquarters, Jotina led her sisters and brothers to express their appreciation to Han Xiao. Han Xiao remembered that he had promised to take them to see Gorutan, so he took them there.
This was the collection room he used to hold his five Beyond Grade A captives. There was the name of each captive on every showcase. They were the church’s ‘Red Devil’ Tolaen; the federation’s ‘Lone Ranger’ Jackornitz, ‘Energy Soul’ Womre, and Hades; and ‘Beast Ancestor’ Gorutan.
The five Beyond Grade A specimens displayed there were the best proof of his achievements. Just this scene alone was enough to shock everyone.
Jotina’s eyes locked onto Gorutan immediately. Seeing that this man she had hated and feared all her life was locked inside the Amber, joy filled her heart.
“You deserve it!”
Jotina clenched her fists with excitement. She felt that this was the happiest day of her life. The dark times in her past seemed to have all been forgotten. The world in her eyes seemed to be colorful once again.
It was like a breeze of fresh air blew past her mind, bringing the mountains of hatred, despair, anger away with it, only leaving the refreshed feeling of hope for a new life.
She turned to look at Han Xiao. Her eyes were filled with admiration and gentleness.
In her eyes, Black Star seemed to be glowing with holiness, like he was the light that would lead her toward a new life.
Feeling Jotina’s passionate sight, Han Xiao’s face trembled slightly.
He did not have much contact with Jotina, but he had a very vivid impression of how direct and passionate she was.
The reward of [Liberate Beast Ancestor’s Organization] had already been given. He had received a lot of Favorability, and he was guessing that Jotina’s loyalty meter to him was almost going to explode.
Han Xiao coughed and said, “Some of you don’t have an exact position yet. Since we just rescued a large group of Beast Ancestor’s young offspring, I shall leave them to you guys to guide. Any problems?”
“Not at all!” Everyone nodded, quite happy about this arrangement.
“Take your time and look around. I have some things to attend to.”
Han Xiao found an excuse to leave alone. Jotina and the others had been troubled by this hatred for many years, so he did not want to disturb them from venting it. Anyway, Phillip would be watching over them. He did not have to stay there.
After returning to his office, Han Xiao pondered about the human resource distribution of the army.
“Currently, the top-tier Calamity Grades under my command are only Hadavy, Lothaire, Feidin, and Jotina. The other ones with potential have yet to grow up. These more than a dozen Beast Ancestor officers are quite important. Together with this group of young children of Beast Ancestor, they will surely form a new faction in the army in the future…”
There were all kinds of factions in the Black Star Army, not including Han Xiao. They could be classified into a few big groups.
One was the elder faction led by Herlous, among which were smaller groups such as Sunils, Godorans, Aquamarinians, and so on. This faction represented the senior members of the army. Another was the academy faction led by Lagi and Nero, formed mostly from the graduates of the Super Academy. They were quite active. Third was the mainstream faction led by the Calamity Grades who joined later on, which was also the largest faction mainly made of official warriors and mercenaries with no backgrounds. Fourth was the political faction led by Sylvia and Reynold, mainly consisting of those who did not take part in the battles but took care of the army’s other matters. They managed the army’s day to day affairs, logistics, economics, and so on.
Jotina and the others would most likely form a Beast Ancestor faction after they stabilized their positions in the army.
As for Hila, since she was always alone, she had no faction. The Black Star Guards had limited influence on the various departments of the army, so they did not form a faction too. Lothaire, who was managing the Assassin’s Society outside the army base, was a secret, so he was not in any factions.
These factions would have conflicted with each other privately, but with Han Xiao’s existence, they all held themselves back. All big organizations had continuous internal conflicts as they expanded, but the Black Star Army was considered a new organization in terms of how long ago it had been formed, so the internal conflicts were not large, limited to internal business conflicts.
Completely getting rid of internal conflicts was impossible. Everyone had their own mindset, and there was no way to ask people to give themselves selflessly. Even pillars like Herlous had their own personal goals—for example, to obtain more benefits for his Sunil race.
Power could change one’s mind. The longer the high-level officers worked for the army, the more they would want to obtain. Furthermore, those Supers who joined the Black Star Army later on came to search for a brighter future in the first place, so no matter how large the cake was, the competition would never disappear.
“It’s the same for the development union. It’s only just been created, so the factions have not formed yet. Once the resources are united to a certain extent, there will definitely be factions…”
He could guess that the three Universal Civilizations would try to infiltrate the Beyond Grade A Association by dividing it, as there would definitely be some who did not agree with the shared battlefront for Beyond Grade As theory. These people would be easier to woo.
Beyond Grade As were all full of pride. The root of factions being formed was the different opinions people had to begin with. The development union was fated to be full of arguments since it was created, but the upper echelons above the position of director all knew how important it was for them to unite. The stage where the association’s resources were linked and united was crucial.
As the vice president, although his position was lower than Manison’s on paper, it did not mean much. How much weight his words carried depended on two things—his overall strength and his influence in the association.
“The resources uniting stage is my chance. I can use my advantage to meet more members and form my own faction, slowly expanding my network to catch up to Manison. As long as there are enough people who support me, I’ll be able to have as big an impact on day-to-day decision making as Manison. It will also be beneficial for me to have consecutive terms in the future too. Furthermore, if I don’t do anything, I might not even be able to maintain the vice president position…”
Han Xiao pondered. He had chosen to take a step back because he wanted to slowly accumulate his advantages.
And now there was a great opportunity right in front of him. Although the three Universal Civilizations had accepted that the development union was legal, Dark Lord’s mission had yet to end.
This meant that Clotti, who was an honorable director on paper, would still attack other members. This would undoubtedly damage the development union’s credibility. This was an act of provocation and contempt from the Universal Civilizations, as well as a way of testing the waters.
“Since this is the case, those neutral Beyond Grade As hired by Super Star Cluster Civilizations will probably be very afraid. This looks like a good opportunity for me to cut in. If I’m able to convince the dynasty’s upper echelons to stop Dark Lord’s mission, not only will I be able to display how important I am as th
e vice president, but I will also receive favorability from those neutral Beyond Grade As…”
Having thought of this, Han Xiao told Phillip to send a message to all the neutral Beyond Grade As in the association. The message started with some formal greetings and routine questions like “Have you eaten?”. He then brought up the matter regarding Dark Lord.
Although he decided to personally settle this issue, Han Xiao did not want to keep it a secret. Only spare tires would help others quietly in the dark. As for him, he would either not do it or let everyone know he was the one who did it.
Therefore, the Great Mechanic Han first planned to contact these neutral Beyond Grade As who were possible targets of Dark Lord and tell them to bring this matter up in the next meeting when everyone attended. All the Beyond Grade A members would host a meeting together once every so often. The development union made this kind of act official, which was also one of the initial reasons to form this communication platform.
“Speaking of which, Dark Lord captured Traveler, and Traveler put the blame on Sorokin, so the dynasty definitely won’t let this slip easily. I wonder how they’re going to punish the Limitless Financial Group.”
Han Xiao chuckled.
Beep beep!
Right at that moment, his communicator rang.
The federation and the church had sent him a message one after the other. The content was the eleventh revision of the terms of bailing their allies.
Han Xiao looked through them. Compared to the initial version, the compensation the federation and the church offered was much richer.
Since he had never given any suggestions, the ones who were in charge of drafting the terms on both sides were almost going mad.
“It’s been quite a few months. I’ve tortured them enough. Time to bring this to a conclusion.”
Han Xiao tutted and changed some terms on both sides, such as swapping some resources compensations into gold-grade blueprints.
