Chapter 1333 - Denizen of the Stars (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Just as Hao Ren fell into deep thought, Lady Gloom’s voice jolted him back to reality.

“Self-diagnosis is complete. Initiating the spaceship’s system.”

“Phew! Finally, the prison system has been reset,” said Hao Ren as he let out a long sigh. He looked at the Lord of Lords, Loken. “So, the divine barrier and phase-hiding states within 20,000 light-years will be deactivated with the entry of pre-set instructions from Asurmen?”

“Exactly. Do you need to deactivate them now? the Lord of Lords, Loken, asked. “The whole process takes several hours. Leave it to us. You can see our last colleague, captain of Asurmen.”

“Oh? There’s a captain on this ship?” Lily came out from her stupor.

“Crap, of course, a spacecraft has a captain.” Vivian snorted as she shot Doggie a glance. Vivian also did not expect Asurmen to have a captain hidden in it until now, but rebutting whatever the Doggie said had become a habit. “Have you figured out what the Doggoblast is about?” Vivian asked and glanced at Lily with a doubtful look on her face.

“Stop interrupting, I’m thinking.” Lily waved her hand as if saying she had everything under control. Lily suddenly came to her senses and snorted, “Stop calling it Doggoblast! Show some respect, I’m the leader of a race after all! I’ve already named the move Skyshatter Roar!”

“So pretentious. That name is long enough to get yourself killed 800 times on the battlefield. Just call it Doggoblast. Am I right, Hao Ren?”

Hao Ren could care less about their bickering. “Doggoblast it is. Lady Gloom, take us to the will hub, we want to talk to the highest officer of Asurmen.”

Lady Gloom was the head of AI of the Asumen, but Hao Ren knew that she was not the highest officer of this spacecraft from the beginning. Lady Gloom and the gatekeeper’s existence was similar to Nolan; she would only take over the control of the spaceship during the absence of the captain. Meanwhile, the real captain of Asurmen had been hibernating in the core of the spacecraft. Since Lockmarton briefly broke free 10,000 years ago, Collow was divided into the old and the new worlds. Asurmen became the gateway to the ancient world. The captain fell into a long dormant period to maintain the core operation of the spacecraft and only woke up now because Asurmen was relieved from its long mission.

Hao Ren and his team were to meet the captain for the first time.

Lady Gloom brought everyone into the core cloister of Asurmen by teleportation and then walked along the cloister to the crystal chamber where the will hub was located. As always, Lady Gloom was silent. She even seemed to be indifferent toward the death of Lockmarton. But when they were about to arrive in the chamber, she glanced at Hao Ren. “Thank you, you all have saved civilization.”

“I thought you had no feelings about the earthly civilization of Collow.” Hao Ren said with a smile.

“Any civilization is valuable. Any race is also valuable. I did not use to understand this. During my years of traveling in the human world, I learned that my mission was not as simple as guarding a prison but the significance of guarding the prison.”

As soon as Lady Gloom’s voice trailed off, they had come before the entrance of the will hub. Hao Ren was surprised to see another glowing female figure at the door. “The gatekeeper? Are you alive?”

“Using the backup copy, I have completed body reconstruction,” the gatekeeper replied without any emotion in her voice, “and then memory restoration with data of Number Two. Now, I’m back at work.”

“That’s great.” Hao Ren nodded. The strange triangular entrance formed by crystals in front of him faded open. Hao Ren brought everyone to step into the special compartment called the Will Hub.

It was pyramid-shaped, just like other cabins in the spaceship. The floor and walls were formed entirely by crystals. Druse of different sizes with strange light grew in all corners. The light flowed and converged into the center of the chamber, where a large, irregularly-shaped crystal stood in silence. The crystal was almost entirely transparent, so its contents were clearly visible.

A light, like a cloud and also space filled with starlight, floated inside the crystal. When looking at the light, there seemed to be many voices whispering to you in mind, telling you about different mysterious and incomprehensible knowledge.

Hao Ren had had many imaginations of how the captain of Asurmen looked. When he heard that the captain was in hibernation and seemingly integrated with the spaceship, he tried to picture this life form. But now, he was utterly surprised. “Denizen of the Stars?”