300 Friend or Foe Part 2 (1/2)

The Arian who just introduced himself as Shreguc was stunned for a moment before answering. He thought that the Xeno Collective was already aware of it considering that he mentions how it was affecting the Federation and the Empire.

”The relic? It's the ancient device made by an unknown civilization... It was said that it possesses the power to destroy and create things... Possessing it would basically allow its wielder to become a god... No one should be allowed to possess such a dangerous thing.”

Ace shakes his head after hearing this. Anyway, he wanted to clarify that it was indeed the Cube of Paradox.

”What does it look like?”

As he asked this question, Shreguc remained silent as he didn't seem to know what to say. Ace didn't expect he wouldn't be able to answer that question. After all, they were looking for it!

”You haven't seen it yet?” Ace asked again. He already realized the meaning of this person's silence.

”Well... Of course, we haven't! Even the Empire and the Federation were still looking for it. They only managed to find some clues about the possible locations of the relic. However, I'm sure that it is real! There were ancient texts found about its existence. There were many unexplainable events in the history that would be answered if that relic truly exists...”

The captain reasoned to Ace as he explains his own belief about the matter. He was also not fully aware of the information that the Empire and Federation kept from them but some of the information they had was definitely reliable.

As he explains this detail to Ace, he made sure that all the things he mentioned were only related to the relic.

Anyway, even though it was true that he has a selfless ambition like investing for the future generation, he didn't tell everything to Ace about their mission on this voyage.

But it didn't matter for the young man. After all, Avalon and Veda were already doing their jobs.

'Ho~ It seems that the information about the Ancient Relic was still classified... The information they know was limited.'

Ace thought after listening to Shreguc.

In the meantime, Avalon had also fully analyzed the database of this spacecraft and found some information that would interest Ace.

Although they could no longer connect to the Dark Net, Avalon still managed to view the memory of the A.I. controlling this spacecraft. It was a bit difficult process as it wasn't just forcefully taking over the A.I.'s control to the spaceship's system but it was fully scanning the whole Artificial Intelligence...

[ Information about the Zymeth Spaceship has been found. ]

Avalon reported.

'Great!'

The information wouldn't go anywhere else and he can check it any time as it wouldn't change anyway. His emotions may affect his judgment toward the mixed breed Arians if there was some sudden bad news about his father.

Anyway, he would ask some questions about their purpose and other stuff to the captain at this time. After that, he will cross-check it with the information that Avalon has collected. If they have evil intentions, Ace had to eliminate them as quickly as possible.

”Very well... Answer me. Why are you taking this direction?”

”Our path? It was just one of the many points that were leaked by the Empire. This route was one of the 500 possible locations of the relic. We're just unlucky that we've been found by your Collective instead of finding the relic... Anyway, this system was already extremely far from the other races' territory... Are you claiming this as your--”