"...The holders of the Copper Cross Badge, Silver Thorn Badge, and Golden Knight Badge are highly regarded in the military, known for their bravery, resilience, and sense of justice..."
"...Being favored by General Vinicius’s daughter, planning to marry in a year, they have a promising future..."
The information is detailed, Leonidas’s throat moved as he forced a smile, "I... I don’t understand."
"Can you explain how a child from an ordinary family survived the at grinder that is the North Preston front line and achieved nurous feats?" Heckler asked with a smile.
"This..." Leonidas’s pupils constricted, as if the deepest secret had been uncovered.
"...Do you think you’re the only special one in the entire universe?" Heckler asked again.
Leonidas had reacted by now, whispering, "I... I’m not special, sir, I was just a bit lucky before..."
"You’re too flamboyant." Heckler shook his head, "Very conspicuous on my list. The story of a co-from-behind victory is naturally appealing, but you need a significant figure to back you up."
He paused, as if rembering soone, "Just like Li Ming."
Leonidas beca more confused, not knowing why the other person ntioned this na. He gritted his teeth and said, "Why on earth, why on earth..."
He stopped abruptly, his pupils trembling as he looked behind his counterpart, as if he had discovered sothing unimaginable.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Footsteps stopped behind Heckler, "Your Highness, it has been handled."
Heckler did not even turn his head, simply extended his hand as a semi-transparent crystalline substance fell into it, containing a purple skull like it was frozen.
Leonidas’s gaze trembled, unable to speak. This was his deepest secret, relying on the purple skull to survive battles repeatedly and achieve repeated victories.
The power of this thing was formidable, and to this day, he couldn’t discern its limits.
He was puzzled about why he was captured this ti, wondering why the thing did not co to protect him.
Unexpectedly, now it was held in the other’s hand like a toy.
The other person’s life level was much more terrifying than he had imagined.
"...I don’t know what you call it, but we call it the Observer." Heckler cradled the crystalline substance with a kind of intoxication, "Its mission is to cultivate you chosen ones."
"You must think you’re unique, but in reality, every chosen one thinks so."
"Every one?" The bewildered Leonidas heard an even more shocking description.
Heckler was in a good mood, explaining considerately: "Yes, don’t be surprised, each ti a Holy Castle awakens, there will be at least twenty or thirty like you chosen ones."
Every Holy Castle? He heard even more incomprehensible terms.
Heckler shrugged, "Of course, in the entire interstellar view, this number isn’t much. Only when you grow to a certain stage do you occasionally encounter each other."
"When you encounter each other, its cruelty reveals itself—only one can live."
"What?" Leonidas was stunned.
"This isn’t a gift." Heckler shook his head, "I don’t know how many tis you’ve marveled at your good luck, but in reality, your luck hasn’t been that good."
Heckler was indeed in a good mood. Seeing Leonidas seem to fall into a glitch state, he even comforted:
"However, eting , your luck isn’t that bad. I don’t intend to take your life. If your luck is truly good and you can hold out till the entire plan is over, I wouldn’t mind giving you more."
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Suddenly, the footsteps behind Heckler sounded again, but this ti more chaotic.
"Your Highness... Your Highness..." The officer behind appeared serious, handing over an intelligent terminal: "Azure Dragon’s news?"
Heckler’s relaxed and joyful expression stiffened slightly, not wanting to hear this na but still looking down at the video.
He watched with furrowed brows for a mont, then stood up abruptly, a wisp belonging to a high-level life form’s oppression leaked out.
The absent-minded Leonidas was startled awake, suddenly raising his head, now realizing that the relaxed and joyful expression of the figure who seed to have everything under control a mont ago, was now full of suspicion and uncertainty.
"Azure Dragon... unexpectedly..." he muttered a few words, then slowly sat down, saying in a deep voice: "Reached this extent, no wonder Adam and the Federation’s attitude is so ambiguous..."
"Azure Dragon, Adam..." Leonidas felt familiar with these nas, upon careful recall, it was like thunder struck his brain, his heart churned with emotion.
He rembered whose nas these belonged to, and his face turned even more desolate, anyone who could refer to such prominent figures so casually, their background wasn’t simple either.
"Good thing I decisively backed out." After watching the entire video, Heckler couldn’t help but feel relieved.
Not that he feared Azure Dragon, just that getting entangled with Azure Dragon would be a waste of precious ti.
After glancing at other derivative ssages, mainly concerning the vice council seat, he wasn’t too bothered by it, still focusing on Azure Dragon itself.
But soon his expression turned uneasy again, "...Two X Level life forms disappeared silently, he also doesn’t contact the Empire, likely a bleak fate. To a Divine Craftsman, though, it’s rare modification material..."
Originally, he didn’t think Azure Dragon dared to really kill, but after seeing the video, he understood what Azure Dragon relied on.
Losing two X-level life forms, naturally, he wouldn’t easily swallow this indignation, but now was definitely not the ti to trouble Azure Dragon.
"No rush, no rush..." he murmured in his heart: "Find this Holy Castle, obtain the Titan relic, surpass Adam, inherit the Titan’s corpse, by then, it would be ti to settle accounts..."
Leonidas watched apprehensively as the prominent figure before him showed a constantly changing expression.
Seeing him rise abruptly, seemingly lost the desire to speak further, expressionless, he only left with one sentence, "Keep an eye on him, don’t let him commit suicide."
...
In the Heavenly Palace laboratory of the chanical Court.
Sixteen chanical arms perford exquisite processing in front of Li Ming, assembling nurous tal parts in an orderly manner to eventually form a chanical heart.
With a touch of his hand, Li Ming nodded approvingly, "This is it..."
He specially sought Ulrich, got the model of the chanical Auxiliary Heart from his butler. Though Ulrich’s expression was strange, he still gave it.
Then, he followed the model to find the manufacturer, contacted them through the official channels of the chanical Court, offering a lucrative contract in exchange for the original blueprints.
The other party was just a small company, naturally agreeing without hesitation. With the original blueprints, crafting it was easy for Li Ming.
Tiny components could be manually crafted through the [chanical Hand].
In just half a day, it was completed.
After Control, through an Upgrade, he indeed restored the [Immortal Source] ability.
Extending his hand, after the upgrade, the more refined chanical heart appeared in his hand, he paused, and with a grasp, sparks erupted from the chanical heart.
Then, he placed it back into the Control Bar.
"Repair requires thirty-eight million, still a bit short..." he muttered, then took it out again, rubbed it in his hand, and shattered tal parts were attracted by the Magnetic Energy Restrainer, clustering together.
Putting it back into the Control Bar, he was satisfied, nodding, "Fifty-nine million, now it’s about right."
Then, he used tal energy to begin repairs, a virtual screen appeared before him, numbers "0" lining up in a sequence for timing, even accurate to five decimal places.
As the tal energy poured in, the near-broken chanical heart gently restored, ti passing by second by second.
In Vermilion Bird’s ticulous scan, the tir stopped at the number "34.727".
"35 seconds..." Li Ming pondered, not too long.
Based on it, if he wanted to carry out the continuous hamring as per expectation, it’s estimated to require 12 [Life Power Cores] to switch continuously.
"About thirteen hundred million tal energy in total, truly not too much..." Li Ming muttered to himself, full of vigor, ready to grind it out, then push forward developnt progress to tackle the Peak Transcendence Level Trial.
"After the fight, the Holy Castle will be open."
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