Chapter 315 - The Remaining Days (1/2)

”Avalon, how many days we have left?”

Ace asked the artificial intelligence in a very serious tone.

[ Empire's Fleet ETA: 36 days. ]

They have already detected the disturbance caused by the arrival of the empire's fleet.

It seems that there really was an existence of mana around this star system that could affect the detection of modern equipment.

The patches of mana were scattered around the space. However, during the process of wormhole tunneling using modern equipment, these patches of mana gathered around the location and would try to stop it from happening.

Avalon didn't just speculate these things from nothing. It was also thanks to the records found from Omen IV. The previous artificial intelligence had no idea about the existence of mana but Avalon was different.

Avalon and Ace reviewed the journey of the Omen IV and found traces of mana but were ignored by the system. The mana only became very obvious after the mind stones were suddenly corrupted.

”Haa~ I wish I have some Divine Sense or Pathfinder to assist me here…”

Ace complained but he didn't fully mean it. Having the Pathfinder for himself would also become a heavy responsibility he had to take… His current work was already daunting… He wouldn't like to add more work for himself.

”Do I have enough defense?”

Ace closed his eyes as he tries to remember everything he had done so far… His few battle spacesh.i.p.s, his automatons, his Mech Frames or what he now calls Mech Knights, the assistance provided by Arians at the Lagrange Point, the power of Adept Mages, the massive number of powerful mana artifacts, his Moon Base's secret weapon, Veda's supercomputing ability, and lastly, his preparation for escape in case they could no longer fight…

”I guess… We're almost ready… We should be able to put up a good fight against the empire…”

He's currently in his room as he observes the descent of the Excellence on Earth… He wasn't worried about any mishap happening during their fall but he was curious whether a Celestial Being would pop out to meet it or something…

After all, there should be one missing Celestial who escaped the northern continent before…

'Ahh… What am I thinking?' Ace shook his head to gather his thoughts.

”Avalon, let's try the simulation again!”

[ Affirmative. ]

Apparently, although their magic could detect the existence of the Empire's fleet that was so far away, it was not capable of knowing their power. They could only guess based on the size and heat wave it was emitting through various data gathered by his A.I.

***

In a hidden location somewhere within the capital of Zairus, there is a gathering of various powerful and influential individuals.

They were brought here because of a piece of alarming news that came from Wallace Ravencroft… The young man who managed to create the virtual world and made space-traveling possible.