Chapter 1352: Chapter 219: What the Heck? A Black Hole?!
“If he doesn’t attack me and doesn’t want to recruit me, the result will inevitably be that I will be recruited by another Fifth Energy Level. Whether I want to or not, I must eventually choose a side to join; I absolutely cannot continue to be a free person like I am now… This is a situation Axel does not want to see, and his attack is essentially to help me out?”
“Moreover, his hidden mentality is actually ‘It’s better for Mahdi to become the Fifth Energy Level outside the Empire than within the Empire’!”
“What kind of mentality is this? Would rather send a genius like me away than keep him in the country?”
Even Ian, a prophet who never misses a calculation, felt a bit overwhelmed: “He would rather let a being like me become an enemy of the Empire than become part of the Empire’s power?”
“Yisen, can you sense if there’s a part in the Solar Phoenix Bloodline that affects personality?”
Yisen was startled for a moment, then actually began to explore the bloodline, but Ian interrupted helplessly: “I’m just griping here… Surely the Fifth Energy Level inheritance would affect the psyche, but I need to figure out the reason…”
“After all, it’s only Mahdi being driven out, what’s it got to do with me, Ian Silverpeak?” ᴛhis chapter is ᴜpdated by N0v3l.Fiɾe.net
“If I don’t understand Axel’s true intentions, I might also step on a landmine in the future.”
With that said, Ian suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
Actually, it wasn’t inspiration but a very simple matter.
The Unyielding Fortress… This name originated from the ‘Imperial Capital’.
And the Imperial Capital is a biological facility whose main body is a ‘supermassive biological architectural organism’.
Yes, in Ian’s projections, the Unyielding Fortress was probably used by Inega II back in the day to operate this ‘Imperial Capital’… because the burden of the Fifth Energy Level capital is enormous, and without extreme reinforcement like the Unyielding Fortress, it simply cannot be borne.
The Unyielding Fortress was essential for the great enterprise of Inega II… and what exactly this enterprise was is undisclosed by Hiliard, and Ian still doesn’t know; probably only the Emperor himself knows this secret.
And now, the Emperor no longer needs the Unyielding Fortress.
This implies… the Schaltar royal family no longer needs someone to operate the Imperial Capital… they have other plans for the Imperial Capital.
They might have even developed another method of control.
If so, the Unyielding Fortress, which could operate the Imperial Capital and might have key secrets related to operating it, becomes an unnecessary, even burdensome presence.
The Imperial Capital no longer needs the Unyielding Fortress.
Thinking so, Ian squinted his eyes. Although he hadn’t figured out the most crucial reason, he felt he had caught a hint: “This is the core plan of the current Empire’s Royal Family — the Dark Key has been proven to be a destructive plan related to Thousand-Star Beast and Yisen, so is the Imperial Capital’s plan the ‘Pure White Sky Tower’?”
“It’s possible, but not certain. The Dark Key is a plan that had already started in the Era of Ennea; Axel didn’t pay much attention, and perhaps the Pure White Sky Tower is the same… even if it is related to the Unyielding Fortress, it isn’t Axel’s current plan, but was originally implemented by Inega II.”
“The Pure White Sky Tower… the beam of the Planetary Shield is indeed pure white and indeed reaches the sky… thinking this way, indeed there is a connection, operating the Imperial Capital with the Unyielding Fortress is the foundational condition in Inega’s mind for the Pure White Sky Tower.”
“But the issue still lies with Axel — what is his true purpose?”
The information is insufficient; no matter how he thinks, he can’t figure it out.
Ian shook his head, turned around, and seriously said to his friends: “No matter what, we should move on.”
“To the Ice Dragon’s Nest. Anfa, when we reach the Ice Dragon’s Nest, restart your Marks, and let us be ‘discovered’!”
Anfa responded, and Ian also used his authority to activate the Subspace Labyrinth, and the group entered it.
And in the end, Ian turned his head slightly, looking at the Qiang Steel Dragon God’s body behind him, his expression complex.
“In any case, this is no longer a situation I can control.”
The young man thought, letting out a heartfelt sigh: “Without power in this world, one cannot carry out their will — and without one’s own conviction, even power cannot be obtained.”
“True Dragon… What is the belief hidden behind the ‘treasure’ you created?”
“I really want… to know.”
Ian shifted his perspective from the fourth floor of the Exotic Species Research Institute back to the outer space orbit.
Now, Ian felt very peculiar.
His consciousness and thoughts hadn’t split into two independent minds but rather extended across space-time in an extraordinarily peculiar way, controlling two bodies located in different places simultaneously.
Simply put, it’s like drawing a circle with one hand and a square with the other, but it’s billions of times more complex while also countless times simpler.
Is this what the Dragon Soul feels like? Ian thought so, recalling Anfa controlling his prosthetics and Sio controlling his prosthetics and body… The Dragon Soul possesses such power, although it does have its focus, but essentially, it is the same soul; what the prosthetic thinks, the body can synchronize one hundred percent.
However, Ian’s ability is even stronger than the Dragon Soul.
Sio’s Dragon Soul can be shielded, captured through various means, and even threatened the whole — yet Ian understood that his thoughts wouldn’t be blocked, even the fourth floor of the Exotic Species Research Institute, which a Fifth Energy Level couldn’t directly scan, couldn’t obstruct his soul signals.