Chapter 813 - Ames Reques (1/2)
Shattered Star Ring, Crimson Dynasty Military Stargate Station.
The Black Star Army transport ships rode out from the blue vortex stargate one after another, the space energy covering their shields quickly dissipated.
“We’re back.” Inside the main ship’s command room, Han Xiao exhaled.
Despite being prosperous and peaceful, the shadow of the universal civilizations always shrouded over the Central Galaxy like a mountain, giving him an invisible sense of pressure. Although Shattered Star Ring was rural, he had been here for more than 20 years and this was the army’s headquarters, he felt calmer and secured here.
Ames walked to his side, looked out the universe outside the porthole and said, “I had quite a good time traveling with you guys for the past two months. Since now we’re homed, I shall get going.”
“What’s the hurry? Come with us.”
“Floating Dragon recently drifted to another Star Cluster, we’re not along the way.”
Han Xiao reluctantly nodded and said, “Alright then, I’ll let my men prepare a spaceship for you. By the way, the preparations on dynasty’s side are almost complete, I’ll be departing very soon to explore the Flickering World, do you want to come too? There should be much new and interesting stuff there.”
Ames waved and said, “That’s the Crimson Dynasty’s mission, I shall not go.”
Aesop rubbed his beard and interrupted, “Yesterday, I had a new prophecy that’s related to the Flickering World.”
Another prophecy? Han Xiao’s eyes sparkled and said with curiosity, “Old man, you’ve helped me with your prophecy ability again?”
“Erm, let me explain. I did not help you particularly, it’s just that those people who are close to me will have some kind of fate connection with me, and my ability can randomly sense what might happen to these people in the future. It’s like a dream, very blurry, basically just a feeling.
Yesterday, I sensed what might happen to you in the Flickering World…”
Then, Aesop paused and said with a very serious tone, “You better be careful about the Arcane Church.”
The Arcane Church? Have they still not given up taking back the Evolution Cube? It does indeed seem possible.
Han Xiao blinked and realized Aesop did not continue, he wondered, “That’s it? Don’t you have any useful information like time and location or something?”
Aesop shrugged. “Things can change anytime since the future is so far ahead, there’s no accurate prophecy, just intuition.”
“Got it, I’ll keep a lookout and let people keep an eye on the movements of the Star Pupil Holy Race. If the Arcane Church does want to do something to me, Psyker will definitely be part of it.”
Han Xiao nodded and patted Aesop’s shoulder.
“Oh, by the way, one more thing.” Aesop rubbed his beard and said, “I heard some Ancient Ones members have been secretly asking around about you, a few of them seems to be interested in you.”
Han Xiao looked at Aesop from head to toe and said with a doubtful tone, “Where did you hear that?”
“I used to be one of them too, what’s so weird about me having a few friends?”
Aesop tsk-tsked, shrugged and said,
“When I followed you to the dynasty’s capital and met those dynasty allies, Ravenlaude told the other Ancient Ones about me. Now those guys all know that a former member of The Ancient Ones is now with you and Ames, so some friends contacted me.”
Having heard with Aesop said, Han Xiao could not help but feel amazed. For someone this ancient like Aesop, both his connections and history were unfathomable. Somehow, Aesop could always obtain information that was extremely rare and inaccessible to most people.
“Who are the ones that are asking about me?”
“Mechanic Empire, Sun Hunter, Void Overlord…” Aesop’s voice suddenly got deeper and said with a soft voice, “And Thousand Shadows.”
Other than Mechanic Empire, Han Xiao did not have any contact with the first few Ancient Ones. Sun Hunter was a CannonMaster, Void Overlord was a Void being, and Han Xiao had no idea why they were asking about him. However, when Aesop mentioned Thousand Shadows, Han Xiao’s eyes narrowed immediately.
Back then when they interrogated Thousand Shadows’ “Shadow Warriors”, Aesop was the one who helped. Aesop knew Thousand Shadows once had his eyes on Han Xiao, so he mentioned this to alert him.
“Maybe he still wants to capture me or something. He’s at the Federation Of Light’s Star Field so I can’t do anything for the time being. I shall wait till I have the chance to deal with him.” Han Xiao registered this matter to memory.
The mission [Prey] was still inactive. In the past, he did not know if Thousand Shadows had given up on him, but now, it seemed that this guy had yet to give up. However, he was no longer the Calamity Grade he was back then, so Thousand Shadows would not be able to capture him so easily.
This time, Ames suddenly said softly, “Black Star, I’ve been thinking about something recently and I want to discuss with you.”
Han Xiao turned to look at Ames and captured a tint of hesitation on her face. This was very rare for Ames, so Han Xiao said curiously,
“What do you want to discuss with me? Do you want to borrow money? Is 50 million Enas enough?”
“Who’s borrowing money from you? Do you think I’m that poor?” Ames’s brow twitched slightly. “Actually… I’ve been thinking about Floating Dragon’s development plan recently…”
Both Han Xiao and Han Xiao’s eyes widened immediately, their faces were filled with complete shock.
“What happened to you? Is that something you should be thinking about?”
“Am I this unreliable to you?” Ames said with resignation. “I’m the Floating Dragon’s leader, what’s so strange for me to think for my organization occasionally?”
“It’s not strange for others, but for you… it is indeed strange! Who doesn’t know how laz… ahem, carefree you are.”
Han Xiao changed the word he was going to say the last minute and hid his giggle. Ames had never thought about developing her faction all these years, and her slacker image was already deeply rooted in everyone’s heart. God knows why she suddenly changed her mind.
“Stop kidding, I’m serious this time.” Han Xiao gave Han Xiao a glare.
She never had any passion for growing her organization, but that had lasted for too long and she felt like it was time to make a change. Especially after how she witnessed Han Xiao leading the rise of the Black Star Army for the past ten-plus years with her own eyes. With such a positive example, it made her feel a tiny bit interested in growing her forces too. She wanted to imitate Han Xiao and operate the Floating Dragon better. It had nothing to do with her ambition or anything of that sort, Ames mainly saw it as an interesting thing to do.
However, of course, Ames was never going to admit to Han Xiao that the things he did were what piqued her interest.
“Alright then, I’ll pretend it’s serious…” Seeing the not so friendly expression in Ames’ eyes, Han Xiao tried his best not to laugh and waved his hands. “Okay, okay. It’s serious. So, you want to develop Floating Dragon, what do you want to discuss with me?”
Ames stayed silent for a while then said slowly, “Floating Dragon has been drifting in the universe for a very long time, I want to make it stay in one place.”