Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Seeing the fifty warriors line up neatly in front of me—being an incapable Xyrin Emperor, I felt incredibly stressed.
It felt like I was wearing a fake police uniform and carrying a fake police identity, walking around and lying to people, and then suddenly bumping into a group of strong, tall policemen. However, my situation was a bit more serious. The group I bumped into was not just policemen but fully-dressed Xyrin Warriors.
Not only was I wearing a police uniform, but I was even acting as their Emperor. I even captured one of their Empire’s Generals. Who knew what kind of understanding they would have of the Xyrin Emperor’s NT-level permissions? What if Pandora’s system had just run into some problems earlier, and now, I was going to face the music…?
Just as my mind was going into overdrive, the leader of the warriors standing in front of me finally said, “Authorization analysis completed…
“We are very honored to meet you, Emperor Stranger. We are the noble Xyrin Emperor Sandora’s loyal warriors. I am the Positional Defense Heavily-Armed Infantry Soldier, Carmen-3575.”
This heart of mine immediately fell.
No matter what kind of method they were using to determine my authority, it looked like my identity as the Emperor could be used across the Xyrin Empire.
This was different to me who had little understanding of the Xyrin Empire. Pandora immediately understood the relevant information from the other party’s introduction. She quickly retrieved a card from her back (at this point, I could not be bothered to find out where she was getting these cards from), which said: “Are you the Revenge Army?”
The tall and strong soldiers in front of me saluted with a bang and shouted, “Yes, Ma’am!”
Seeing a bunch of strong, stern-looking uncles saluting a little Lolita and addressing her as ‘Ma’am’ somehow looked extremely comedic to me.
However, apart from being amused, I also developed a deep interest in the way Pandora addressed this team. The ‘Revenge Army’… this sounded very abnormal. It sounded just like the ‘Heavily-Armed Pandora Corps’ who was freeloading on Earth now; was it just a name?
Pandora saw the questioning look on my face, and because she understood my character enough at this point, she immediately guessed what I was confused about. Thus, through our spiritual connection, she explained this to me: “Emperor Sandora is a Xyrin Emperor, famous for being good in battle. She once led a team to the seventh heavenly district and destroyed twenty guilty civilizations within twelve years. She was nicknamed the ‘Warsong Princess’.
“The Revenge Army is Emperor Sandora’s chief army, known for its powerful positional warfare capabilities and Avengers-suicide attacks. The records show that the last time, this army was sent out—there was an error in the timing—to Helenda Galaxy. Later on, the Empire went into a deep sleep; and we lost the latest update on this army.”
I nodded and then turned to the Heavily-Armed Infantry Soldier named Carmen-3575. I asked, “How long have you been in this world? It would be best if you could describe to me in detail your experiences on this planet.”
“Ever since we lost connection with the Empire fifty-seven thousand years ago, we have been staying in this world. Most of the spatial facilities—including our spatial transition systems—have met with some unknown interference, resulting in us being unable to activate them. Throughout this period, we have been here, engaged in battle with some kind of energy being released from the abyss here.
“It was only recently that a portion of our facilities began working again. My soldiers and I received orders to come to this district and see if we could use the Silves Space-Positioning Method to activate the spatial transition systems. However, as you saw, we were attacked by the huge group of magic beasts.”
I nodded, my expression somber as I said, “En, your report has been very useful.” Then, I turned and asked Pandora, “What is he talking about?”
Lin Xue was frustrated. “Why does it feel like you don’t understand anything even after listening for so long? Why were you even acting like you understood things?!”
A strange expression flickered across Pandora’s normally-emotionless face. Then, she lifted a card which she pulled out from thin air: “In other words, they have been trapped in this world for about sixty thousand years and have been engaged in battle this entire time. It was only recently that their situation changed.”
Why couldn’t they have said this earlier? Why did they have to add so much technical jargon; who would understand them?!
They had been engaged in a battle that lasted nearly sixty thousand years. I guessed that only warriors from the Xyrin Empire could withstand something like that. It was hard to imagine how they survived these sixty thousand years. What shocked me even more was that even given the destructive power of the Xyrin Empire’s armies, nearly sixty thousand years had passed; and this planet still had not been completely destroyed.
In fact, looking at the surroundings, everything still looked pretty much untouched. It was unbelievable. After thinking about it for a while, all I could do was blame the author of this novel for slacking off and not being willing to write more.
At that moment, Carmen spoke again, “Honorable Emperor Chen Jun, our Emperor has already received news of you. She invites you to come with us back to our base as a guest.”
I paused and then finally regained my composure. Xyrin Apostles could establish long-distance spiritual connections at any time. I guessed that while reporting the situation to me, Carmen had already established a connection with the Xyrin Emperor called Sandora.
If I received this invitation before I met Carmen, I would never have dared to go; who knew if this Emperor identity I got out of nowhere would pass muster in front of the other party? However, now that I could be more or less sure that my identity would pass muster under their identity-checking system, I was interested to go and meet a real Xyrin Emperor.
I nodded and asked, “How far is your base?”
Carmen replied, “We probably need to travel about a quarter of the circumference of this planet.”
Me, “…”
Pandora moved her arm then turned to face me and Lin Xue. At that moment, I felt all the muscles in my body tremble. Did both of us—weak, carbon-based beings—really have to travel this distance using the method that Pandora was used to? If so, we would die for sure!
Fortunately, what we were worried about did not happen. Carmen’s transportation equipment could take the three of us.
…
Sitting in the high-class cabin of the Xyrin Troop-Transportation Ship, Lin Xue walked around excitedly. She wanted nothing more than a screwdriver with her so that she could remove the instruments around her and study them.
After a while, I could take it no longer. I walked forward and pressed her down onto her chair. “Alright, alright. Can you stop embarrassing people from earth?”
“A spaceship! This is a spaceship!” Even though Lin Xue was being pressed down onto her seat, she kept fidgeting and struggling. Her arms danced around as she said, “This is an alien spaceship! It’s a real one at that! Are we in space right now?”
“Didn’t you hear them say this is just a shuttle within the atmosphere? Ai, stop moving around. If you break anything, would you be able to fix it?”
Lin Xue heard this and immediately gave up the thought of pressing every button she saw on this spaceship. Then, with wonder and admiration in her eyes, she turned to me and said, “Up until now, I still can’t believe that you are really a… an Emperor of the Xyrin Empire?”
“You’ve already said this seventeen times.”
“Are you really human?”
“You’ve asked me this more times…”
“Awesome…”
“I say, you’re still a high-ranking leader of the special-abilities organization, aren’t you? Now, as the first of the human race interacting with aliens, can you behave like you are someone of importance?”
“Why are you insulting me? Are you acting like someone of importance?”
“…Take it that I did not say anything.”
If I did not tell you, would you have thought a conversation like that would take place between the head of an empire and the leading member of the human race’s special-abilities organization?
Lin Xue was still excited, but I could not be bothered with her anymore. Instead, I turned to Pandora—who had been silently sitting by the side this entire time—and asked curiously, “Pandora, do you know anything about this Xyrin Emperor Sandora?”
“She has amazing command over the battlefield,” the card in Pandora’s hands wrote.
“What else?” I asked.
A huge cross appeared on the card.
Pandora, have you really never cared about anything other than things related to war?
It looked like it would take a lot of work to turn Pandora into a normal, obedient Lolita who only loved dolls and who threw mini-tantrums at her big brother.
At that moment, I suddenly felt a slight movement.
The door to the cabin opened without a sound, and Carmen walked in. He bowed at me and said, “Report! We have arrived at the base!”