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992 - The Emperor
🕑 Added 2025-09-28 04:25:28 +0000 UTC{Any development, whether positive or negative, doesn’t matter?} Nova asked as one of her nanomachine bodies materialized next to Ayaka and Lee, who were analyzing the Emperor. He had been in a meditation position for more than seven hours, enduring excruciating pain.
“Although I might be the embodiment of Laifu, the knowledge part of it is still a mystery to me, something that I have to slowly discover through my own effort. I am yet to be at a level where I can find a solution to the current situation. I can only nourish him and reduce his pain, but my mana is not infinite, and I can’t sustain that forever. It should, however, reduce the pain enough for us to be able to hear a solution he might have come up with,” Ayaka suggested after opening her eyes and breaking her meditation.
She had mirrored the Emperor, trying to observe what was happening in his body, but wasn’t getting the clearest of images. It seemed like his body's abundant vitality, which kept replenishing constantly as it was being corroded, acted like a floodlight to her senses, requiring her to focus extremely hard to even be able to take a peek behind it. But even after managing a small peek, she still had no solution.
“We can try to create a new body, move his soul there, and destroy the current body to bring an end to the suffering,” Lee suggested before taking a step back when he received a death glare from both of them.
“I was just giving my suggestion. There is no bad idea, only an unfit one,” Lee said as he took another step back, raising his hands to his chest level to create a buffer between him and them. From the looks they were giving him, it wouldn’t be surprising if they jumped on him at any moment.
{Try to calm him, and let’s see if he has one, as he knows his body better than anyone. As for mana, don’t worry, we have an infinite amount of it,} Nova said, allowing Ayaka to go with the soothing option to give Aron a breathing room. She knew if she could do that, a solution could be found, as the Emperor was someone who always came up with solutions in the most complicated of situations, and this time, she believed it wouldn’t be any different.
At the same time, mana started being pumped inside Ayaka's suit to the point that it became tangible. Her body absorbed it like a starved desert, causing her to accidentally moan from the ecstasy she was feeling before she was able to control herself and focus back on the main situation.
“Let me give it a try then,” she said after coughing to ward off the awkwardness. She closed her eyes and started channeling her life-aspected mana into Aron’s body.
“ARGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Ayaka screamed as she felt the rebound from the Emperor’s body, which seemed to be in a full defensive mode, shutting down any and all attempts at infiltration. It was already dealing with another problem and didn’t welcome anything else.
{“What happened?”} Both Lee and Nova asked her, caught by surprise, as her scream was the last thing they expected.
In terms of strength, she was in the top ten in the empire. Although her abilities were not for combat, she could outlast anyone, as her body and soul instantly regenerated, no matter the attack. But that didn’t mean she didn't have avenues of attack, as she could drain the life force from anyone she came in contact with, physically or even through their mana, making her difficult to kill. Attacking her meant giving her access to your mana, and through it, she could just absorb all of your life and leave you for dead.
So, if even she failed, it meant the matter was very serious.
“His body is blocking access to me and even retaliated, despite it sensing no malice from me,” Ayaka said as she looked at Aron as if he were the most frightening person she had ever seen.
She knew better than anyone that at the moment, the Emperor was fully focused on containing the pain and looking for a solution, while at the same time making sure to not go crazy, as that would spell doom for the empire as a whole. It was very clear that the defensive reaction was not something deliberately done by the Emperor but by his body’s automatic defenses, meaning they had managed to distinguish her mana and retaliate in an effective but limited way, to act as both a warning while also not dealing enough damage to put her in an irrecoverable state. This made her scared of what type of automatic defenses the Emperor’s body had.
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[A possible solution has been found……………………………….]
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Aron’s eyes, which were closed but still focused on the system screen, finally showed some reaction as a different sentence appeared.
He was confident that the reason the system was taking this long to find the solution was that its consciousness was not yet awake, meaning it had an incomplete mental framework. With the complexity of the current problem, it had to go through infinite possible solutions, looking for the effective one fitting his current situation, and that was taking time.
But it seemed a few hours that felt like a few millennia were enough time for it to find a possible solution.
So, amidst his excruciating pain, he looked at the screen that showed nothing but dots, waiting for the next sentence. After about five minutes, it finally appeared.
[Recalculating… The only solution on hand has been found………..]
[Solution: Viable]
[Would you like to receive the solution? Warning! If you click YES, then you will have to go through with it.]
[YES] [NO]
Upon reading the question and the warning, Aron paused for a moment, wanting to take some time to consider the potential reason why the system would give him a warning, which was something he had never seen. But the pain that increased in intensity didn’t allow for that. He knew that with each passing moment, his mental defenses were getting chipped away slowly, and the moment he couldn't hold it in and snapped, it was not going to bode well for the planet he was on. Worst of all, it was the empire's military headquarters.
[YES,] he clicked yes with urgency, deciding to accept the potential aftermath of going through with this decision and bracing himself for the worst.
Comments
Sol_Invictus(Hail the Terran Empire)
Oh wow, Aron is back! I hope he won’t have to give up all his SP for this. I’m honestly shocked - I didn’t even get a notification about the new chapter. I thought there wouldn’t be one today, or that it would come later.
Zabulus
TYFTC. HE HAS AWOKEN! I feel pity for the Conclave now that Aron will take full control of the Empire again.
