Chapter 1252: Triumphant Return (2/2)

“Oh, don’t worry about that, captain.” 0541 seemed to know what the boy was panicking about and responded to his confusion immediately. He had already given Jiang Fei a thorough medical check-up while he was still unconscious and knew about his condition beforehand.

“You know what’s wrong with me?” Jiang Fei anxiously asked the virtual assistant.

“What you’re experiencing right now is similar to physical exhaustion.” 0541 started to explain. “Except instead of your stamina, it is the mental powers inside the Core of Will that has been drained. But rest assured, it will eventually recover by itself over time.”

Although Jiang Fei had no means of accessing his newfound powers, all of his toughest enemies had already been eliminated. Even the Mutants Brotherhood and the European Vatican posed no threat to him now that Braveheart was completed and operational. He would not need to rely on the Core of Will in any fights anytime soon.

“Phew! That’s a relief!” Jiang Fei breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that his mental powers were not permanently gone.

“But I must warn you not to use your mental powers unnecessarily. It takes an extremely long time to replenish the mental powers in the Core of Will and you should really be using it as sparingly as possible. Keeping it as a last resort would be wise,” 0541 suggested. Although he had no clue as to exactly what kind of new ability Jiang Fei had used, the fact that it was able to control a spaceship the size of Braveheart meant that it was very powerful.

“How long will it take until I get my mental powers back?”

“Unfortunately, I don’t know. We still don’t have any data about this and I’m unable to calculate that yet…Sorry.” 0541 rarely exhibited any signs of helplessness, but it was reasonable given that there had never been any recorded case of two energy cores combining into one, let alone any data about how much time it took to replenish the mental energies stored inside an upgraded Core of Will.

“Yikes! If I knew that, I wouldn’t have messed around with it that much!” Jiang Fei pouted. When Jiang Fei tapped into the mental powers of his new Core of Will, it had felt as if it contained unlimited amounts of energy inside and never suspected that the boundless power within it could all be used up. And so when he finally learned how to use his powers, he had sent the entire Braveheart as well as its crew into the tenth dimension without thinking too much of it. Jiang Fei realized in hindsight that he previously had to expend large amounts of energy in order to keep his domain up and running, so of course it would take far more than that to move an entire spaceship across dimensions.

But it was fortunate that Jiang Fei did just that or 0543 would not have been accidentally removed by the teleportation. Even if her controlling Braveheart was not enough to threaten him now, 0541 would have been erased if she was still in control.

Perhaps fate had a hand to play in their stroke of luck. Jiang Fei may have unknowingly expanded his entire supply of mental energy and was unable to use the Core of Will after that, but it had been just enough to unexpectedly save the then dying 0541, returning the virtual assistant’s favor of saving his life, and also stopping short his silent sacrifice.

After taking all that in, Jiang Fei realized that it had been quite a while that they have left Earth since being captured by Akatziris. He had no idea what had become of Earth after being gone for so long. Jiang Fei thought about what his next move should be and decided that they should all return first.

“Let’s go home.”

“Sure, but we are quite heavily damaged and it would be a bad idea to bring Braveheart anywhere near Earth, the gravity itself would be too much for the ship to handle. I suggest that we first get to the moon base, and I can teleport you all back home from there,” 0541 suggested.

“That’s fine. I’ll leave it up to you.” Jiang Fei trusted 0541 more than all his previous assistants. He was also not too keen on the idea of bringing Braveheart too close to Earth. Not only would he be scaring ordinary fellow humans with the sheer size of the spacecraft, if the pull of Earth’s gravity was too strong for the ship to handle in its current damaged state and caused it to break down, it would cost him too much.

“Very well. I’ve set a course for the moon base, estimated four hours and fifty-three minutes to arrival.”

Thus began their triumphant return.