Chapter 734: Settled

"Chatting with you is much more refreshing. Not like the Emperor of this era—which generation is he again?—who says one thing to your face and does another behind your back..." Li Yu shook his head and said.

That's because you chopped up his son! It'd be weird if he wasn't furious.

Alfrey inwardly grumbled.

"Actually, we don't have such a deep hatred between us. Isn't this quite nice right now?" Li Yu laughed again.

The corner of Alfrey's eye twitched slightly. Exchanging benefits, making concessions to achieve their purpose, and sizing up the situation were ingrained in their education.

For an Empire Controller, there was no hatred, only benefits and risks.

Fighting to the death one second and hugging each other with a smile the next was just commonplace for them.

There were even times when they stabbed each other with swords above the Table, while their toes were intertwined beneath it.

However, the opponent's face of Getting a Bargain and Acting Innocent was truly too detestable.

"Impossible..." Alfrey refused without hesitation. This already involved the Empire's sovereignty and belonged to the non-negotiable part.

The atmosphere suddenly grew tense again. Li Yu didn't speak, and Alfrey raised his vigilance inwardly.

"Li..." Loren suddenly spoke up. After a slight pause, he continued: "Your Excellency Dragon Sovereign, the Empire has a position for a Special Advisor that has always been vacant. I wonder if you would be interested?"

"Special Advisor?" Li Yu's eyes flickered. He didn't care about what position or title it was.

This was nothing more than an attitude from the Star Glory Empire, and he didn't want to continue the stalemate either. The Eternal Machine God was truly on the verge of collapsing.

"I'm actually quite interested..." Li Yu nodded. He suddenly realized that he had seemingly never openly set foot in the Star Glory Empire's Territory.

"Right, there's one more thing..." Li Yu suddenly said, causing Alfrey, whose expression had originally eased, to raise his guard once again.

"Weren't we in a hostile state before? So I arranged a few hidden moves outside. They might be attacking your Capital right now." Li Yu said embarrassedly.

What!?

Loren was astounded inwardly and wanted to curse angrily, but forcefully suppressed it.

"However, with the defense level of your Capital Star System, it should be very difficult for them to breach it." Li Yu added.

Alfrey's face turned pitch-black: "What level of hidden moves?"

"That Titan from the Salvation Ark..." Li Yu smiled.

"He's a Super Lifeform..." Alfrey's expression flickered.

However, if it was just this one Super Lifeform, it shouldn't be a major issue.

Moreover, that Titan seemed to have some sort of problem and couldn't be considered a normal Super Lifeform.

"So that Titan was actually your man." Loren's expression wasn't very pleasant.

"Yes. The main reason I'm telling you is that just in case they fail and the Titan is captured by you, remember to return him to me." Li Yu smiled:

"After all, this is all in the past. Now we have let go of our hatred and embraced peace."

He had let Codri lead the Eternal Titan to attack the Star Glory Empire purely with a 'give it a try' mentality to begin with.

Anyway, according to Codri's description, the Eternal Titan seemed to have been targeted by someone, and he didn't want to take over this trouble in the short term.

Furthermore, even if he didn't say it now, these few people would be able to guess that the Eternal Titan was his man once they went back.

"If that really happens, we can discuss it then." Alfrey coldly snorted. As the loser of this war, the Star Glory Empire always had to pay some price.

"Then everyone, I'll be taking my leave first." Li Yu, unhurried and unpanicked, looked around, waved goodbye, and then leisurely left this place.

However, the moment he left their perception range, he immediately sped up wildly. The colossal Eternal Machine God continuously disintegrated as it moved.

He himself directly detached from the mech's body; otherwise, under the condition of the two being merged as one, he might also dissipate along with it.

The originally indestructible mech body was now like a wisp of gray smoke, vanishing into thin air.

Li Yu continuously utilized the Infinity Stones to erase his own traces. Coupled with the already chaotic environment of the Ancient Starpath, it was absolute nonsense for anyone else to try and track him.

………

Alfrey watched Li Yu leave before finally letting out a breath of relief. The Golden Armored One's expression was somewhat ugly as he couldn't help but ask: "Are we really going to stop all activities targeting him?"

"Of course..." Alfrey nodded: "Otherwise, do we really want to fight them to the bitter end?"

"But our losses are so severe..." The Golden Armored One was somewhat unreconciled.

"Something happened at the time that you don't know..." Alfrey's eyes flickered as he projected a scene, which was precisely the situation of Li Yu predicting the progression of their battle earlier.

The Golden Armored One's eyes shifted from confusion to horror. As the party being predicted, he now felt a bone-piercing coldness, as if eyes were staring at him from all directions.

He couldn't help but ask: "What kind of ability is this? With our Time Intensity, it shouldn't be possible for any precognitive Superpower to detect us."

The higher the Life Tier, the stronger their various innate characteristics became. Their time and space were extremely stable, making them very difficult to be altered.

"I don't know either..." Alfrey shook his head: "I'm not sure if this is his ability, or the ability of that Other-Dimensional Camp."

"Perhaps it's precisely because of this ability that he was able to know our plan."

"But it's also because of this that I'm even more certain there must be something wrong with the Super Lifeforms of the Other-Dimensional Camp."

If there was no problem with the Super Lifeforms of the Other-Dimensional Camp, the one attacking the Star Glory Empire's Capital Star System would definitely not be just a single Eternal Titan.

The Golden Armored One's expression flickered as he suddenly said: "He is a Titan, right? Perhaps we can use this point to let those snoopers..."

"No..." Alfrey's tone was firm: "We cannot cooperate with them. Otherwise, we will easily be controlled by the other party, and it won't end well."

"We don't know how much longer the safe environment left behind by the Titan Civilization can last. We must accumulate enough powerful Strength to cope with the future changes."

"Li Yu not wanting to fight us to the end should also be out of this consideration. I'm afraid that Other-Dimensional Camp shares the same thought as us."

Paying too much was not worth it. Fighting to the end wouldn't benefit anyone. Cyril's death was indeed a pity, but it was just that.

If they continued, what situation would they fall into?

Desperately searching for traces of the Other-Dimensional Camp to hunt down Li Yu, with the Other-Dimensional Camp resisting, both sides playing all their trump cards and fighting until the last man?

"Unless we sacrifice everything, but that's not worth it." Alfrey let out a long sigh: "Moreover, at certain times, we might be Allies."

The Golden Armored One remained silent, and then slowly nodded: "I understand."

Loren watched Alfrey and the other muttering to themselves, his mood somewhat complex.

After today, the situation would probably be entirely different.

But this was also fine. The Other-Dimensional Camp and the Star Glory Empire had no actual conflict of interest; there was no confrontation in terms of resource plundering.

It was more about personal grievances. This situation wasn't entirely unacceptable either.

"Reorganize the fleet and prepare to return." Alfrey issued the command, and the remaining Imperial Fleet slowly gathered, preparing to leave this place.

………

Meanwhile, in an unknown location on the Ancient Starpath, Li Yu looked at the Eternal Machine God that had almost turned to ash before his eyes, unable to help but sigh in lament.

However, there was nothing he could do about it. Being able to use the Eternal Machine God to accomplish his goals was already very good.

And with the disappearance of the Eternal Machine God, the Fallen Titan trapped within also appeared. He was already on his last breath, with almost no ability to resist.

Watching the mech god dissipate before his eyes, he looked at Li Yu, a flash of astonishment in his weak eyes: "You actually escaped?"

In his expectations, the Eternal Machine God shouldn't have been able to withstand the three from the Star Glory Empire plus the Titan Artifacts.

"The Titan Giant Axe? How did you get it?" Before he could finish speaking, he saw the Titan Giant Axe held in Li Yu's hand.

This kind of Titan Artifact was of the utmost importance; it was impossible for Li Yu to snatch it easily.

"You talk too much..." Li Yu directly threw him into the Cage, and then looked at that Eternal Core in the Starry Sky.

"The Eternal Fleet had already deeply merged with that space, including this core. It won't last long either," the Fallen Titan shook his head and said.

Of course, Li Yu knew this, but he had his own methods.

The moment the Eternal Core appeared, he directly grabbed it in his hand, stuffed it into an inlay slot of the [Symbiotic Colonization Armor], and then tossed it into the System Space.

[Eternal Mechanical Construct Fusion Core: One of the three supreme technologies of the Eternal Civilization. It can fuse Mechanical Lifeforms to construct an entirely new Mechanical Lifeform—the Eternal Machine God.

Note 1: The intelligent cores of the fused Mechanical Bodies must be regulated, otherwise, the stacking of massive numbers of Mechanical Lifeforms can easily cause internal Data Stream turbulence.

Note 2: The core is currently in a state of temporal annihilation. If it appears in the outside world for too long, it will lead to complete annihilation.]

Li Yu raised his eyebrows slightly. As he expected, the miraculous inlay slots of the [Symbiotic Colonization Armor] could indeed block the annihilation of the Eternal Core.

"Regulating the intelligent cores of the fused Mechanical Lifeforms" essentially meant that he must fuse lifeforms from his own side.

If he fused too many enemy Mechanical Lifeforms, the intelligent cores would fight for control, which was absolutely not a problem for him.

The Transformers were his fusion material library. All the Transformers were Utterly Loyal to him, so there would be no situation of intelligent cores rebelling.

The three inlay slots of the [Symbiotic Colonization Armor] currently contained the [Thunder Battle Armor], the [Tree of Life], and the [Eternal Core].

As for the Titan Giant Axe, he weighed it in his hand, suddenly feeling an urge to enact the Creation of Heaven and Earth.

"Transform into a Cyber Pangu and split open an electronic world..." Li Yu inwardly mumbled, suddenly realizing that his style was becoming increasingly bizarre.

This kind of offensive Weapon didn't necessarily have to be fused into the [Symbiotic Colonization Armor]. Holding it like this now was also quite good.

Moreover, this Titan Giant Axe didn't subject him to any Authority testing at all; it seemed he could use it directly.

Caressing the giant axe in his hand, there were some fine cracks on the axe head. This was still a rather severely damaged Weapon.

A cold mechanical voice sounded by his ear—

"Adult Royal Blood Titan detected. Currently no primary authorized user. Authority binding in progress... Binding successful..."

"Self-diagnostic in progress... Damage level 64%, please repair as soon as possible..."

"So the original item belonged to the Royal Blood Titan. This saves me some trouble." Li Yu grinned. This could be considered an unexpected harvest.

The Fallen Titan furrowed his brows slightly. He didn't clearly see where the Eternal Core had gone, but he didn't care either. No matter what method was used to store it, it couldn't escape the fate of annihilation.

"Little guy, you are the victor. Can you tell me what method you used to counter the lock-on of the Annihilation Device?"

The Fallen Titan seemed to have accepted his current reality, and his tone began to calm down.

"It's very hard to explain it to you clearly. Also, you don't need to call me little guy. I only fused with the Titan's Gene Chain; strictly speaking, I'm not considered a Titan."

Li Yu looked at the Fallen Titan. Being called "little guy" really gave him a Headache.

"Hehe..." The Fallen Titan chuckled twice: "If those arrogant guys knew that there is actually someone who disdains the title of Titan, I wonder what they would think."

Li Yu was somewhat Speechless and said: "Stop sighing with emotion. Better think about how to dig the Annihilation Shards out of your body."

"That way, you might still be able to keep your life."

"How did you know?"

The Fallen Titan originally thought that nothing else today could shock him anymore, but the person before him gave him yet another surprise.

The Annihilation Device Shards were his greatest secret and also the source of his confidence.

This originated from a stroke of luck. In order to survive the attack of the Annihilation Device, he whimsically fused the enemy's genes.

This wasn't a Gene Chain mounting, but completely fusing his own genes with the opponent's, equivalent to altering his own race.

Whereas a Gene Chain Fusion wouldn't destroy the underlying genes.

He actually wasn't sure if this method would be useful at all, because the other Fallen Titans hadn't survived either.

However, he was the first case of fusing with the enemy's Gene Chain.

Although the rejection between the two caused his Gene Chain to completely collapse, he survived because of it.

Not only that, he accidentally arrived at a special space through a special method, witnessed the damage to the Annihilation Device, and even obtained an Annihilation Device Shard.

Relying on the Annihilation Device Shards, he believed that as long as he healed his injuries and then continuously delved deeper into researching the Annihilation Device Shards, he might be able to reverse the current situation of the Titan race being locked onto by the Annihilation Device.

This was a secret known only to himself, yet it was exposed with a single sentence right now!

(End of this chapter)