Chapter 459: Palace, Subtle Schemes, Zero Seven, High‑Threat Anomalous Creatures

Soon after.

After enduring the "Ragnarok," Asgard fell completely, and the God‑King, the Goddess‑Queen, and all the high deities and commanders perished.

Although they are of different races, the Dark Angel still holds unwavering righteousness, and greatly respects the brave Asgardian soldiers and civilians, without any mocking attitude.

Asgard has a certain—no, a fairly high—chance of forming an alliance with the humans of the primary universe.

After all, Odin's physical body is about to "meet its end," and the one to inherit the Asgard throne will be Thor Odinson, who, though proud and self‑important, is childishly temperamental, which in a sense makes him sincere.

Moreover, as the ruler of humanity, Sui Bian has watched many early and mid‑era Marvel films, and among all screen characters, he especially likes "Thor."

Especially in "Thor 3" and "Avengers 3," Thor, who lost his parents, brother, hometown, and everything, still remained optimistic and awakened the power of Thor.

In the end, solely by his body he withstood the direct impact of a neutron‑star core at temperatures of tens to hundreds of billions of degrees, allowing the dwarf king to help forge a new weapon.

Considering perseverance and temperament, this explains why Sui Bian favors the pure, optimistic, and powerful Thor among all Marvel film characters.

However, it was Thor's deep sense of loyalty, combined with his brother who constantly flips, is both righteous and wicked, and utterly disregards human lives, that doomed the possibility of an alliance between the primary universe and Asgard.

Thus Sui Bian would rather wipe out the Asgardians than "harbor" an unstable element like Loki, yet he still feels a bit of pity and, without Leon's aid, directly uses Spiritual Energy to incinerate the "Valhalla."

According to Asgardian belief, after dying in battle their souls go to a "Heaven" where they can forever drink and be merry, essentially a tiny pocket dimension.

At the end of "Thor 4," it wasn't an Asgardian at all but Earth‑born Thor's human girlfriend, cancer‑stricken Jane Foster, who, through heroic deeds, successfully entered Valhalla.

Sui Bian is unsure whether a guy like Loki Odinson could be recognized, but Thor, Odin, and Frigga are unquestionably qualified, and he merely sensed that Valhalla was still stable and paid it no mind.

From the Absolute Rationality ship completing the transition to Leon slashing the God‑King and Goddess‑Queen with his twin blades, fully seizing the divine realm took no more than fifteen minutes.

The Dark Angel and auxiliary troops, strictly obeying the OriginalBody's orders, indeed did not wreak havoc; the Death‑Wing Guard even beneath the Asgard palace secured numerous treasures and offered the nearly intact divine realm to Leon.

At this very moment.

Within the primary universe…

"Chairman, the Dark Angel legion has captured 43,367 Asgardian civilians, about sixty percent of whom appear to be children and adolescents the same age as humans."

"Moreover, OriginalBody Leon also controls an Asgardian divine realm resembling a home world, and asked me to tell the chairman that the realm's scenery is nice, and he wishes to convert it into a 'Palace' vessel for office use, then present it to you, Chairman."

In the top‑floor office of the new headquarters building, standing to the left of the desk, the ever‑secretarial Red Queen, whose twin pupils flicker with a faint red light, reports the specific Asgardian situation to the "boss."

"Give it to me?" Sui Bian, seated in the office chair and leaning against the backrest, hears this and chuckles lightly, politely refusing:

"Tell Leon to leave that divine realm to him and his Dark Angels; I have the Terra Shield for now, that's enough. As for the Palace and such… let him rename it; those who don't know would think I'm an Emperor."

"Understood," the Red Queen nods in agreement.

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But the White Queen, standing to the right of the desk, tilts her head slightly as she watches Sui Bian; her prosthetic visage and gaze, though silent, seem to say, "Boss, aren't you the Emperor?"

Sui Bian's current titles: within Umbrella he is Chairman, to the public he is UEG Speaker and UNSC Supreme Commander, but after the Zero Three universe expedition, people seem to have already tacitly accepted him as "Emperor" in their minds.

After all, when the leadership centered on Sui Bian launches an expedition, if conditions permit, they will disclose a considerable amount of war details on official websites and news media.

Learning that the Zero Three universe also contains OriginalBodies, Astate, and legions, especially after the Zero Three Emperor, people unconsciously project the Emperor's glorious image onto their Chairman Sui.

Mainly because Chairman Sui's actions are so reminiscent of the Emperor's, as for "autocracy"…

Who cares?

Welfare policies and living standards have been steadily improving year by year, with food, drink, housing, clothing, and tangible benefits visible to the naked eye, so no one worries about whether Chairman Sui is "autocratic."

Even if dissent arises, it is blocked at the outset by the Red and White Queens, then physically suppressed by Ghost agents.

As for Sui Bian himself, he doesn't contemplate that much; he wants humanity's overall prosperity, and calling himself emperor or king is merely to satisfy a trivial vanity.

Honestly, compared with alleged autocracy, he now thinks more about Leon's "subtle schemes."

Leon appears cold and ruthless, with absolute rationality and fairness, but in reality this OriginalBody is more scheming than any brother; he rarely jokes, but when he does, his words are shocking.

For example this time, Sui Bian, who knows his son's temperament, needs no speculation to know that Leon has set his sights on the Asgardian divine realm, wants to pull it back to the primary universe, and flaunt it before brothers like Robert and John, yet fears his father might also like the realm as an "island," so he tests the waters first.

Moreover, Leon specifically used the term "Palace."

That term, while the Red Queen relaying the words and the listening White Queen might not grasp Leon's deeper meaning, is crystal clear to Sui Bian.

Clearly, after learning of the Human Empire in the Zero Three universe and now having dealt with the self‑styled Nine‑Realm ruler Asgard, this third son hopes to "become emperor," like the Zero Three Emperor, and fully become the true "Lord of Humanity."

But as Sui Bian mentioned earlier, calling himself emperor or king is optional for him, merely satisfying a meaningless vanity.

However, with Leon as a precedent, more OriginalBodies and Astate will inevitably shout "Father, become emperor!" in the future.

Because his mindset isn't bound by worldly views, yet some OriginalBodies—or rather the vast majority of Astate—still care about reputation and honor, so the "involution" between camps is quite severe.

Thus Helusi mediates; otherwise the White Governor and the Shark would have already been hurling insults, possibly sparking a "low‑level" brawl (low‑level by Astate standards).

In the end, only the legion's OriginalBody steps in, quickly splitting and relocating the two camps to prevent further escalation.

In fact, this shows that if Sui Bian were to "ascend dimensions" like the Zero Three Emperor, the unbound legions would inevitably fragment.

There's no helping it; human hearts are fickle.

He fell silent for a moment.

Sui Bian turned slightly and said to the Red Queen, "Tell Taibelos and Ya Di Liu Si to pay extra attention to the Nordic region and to be cautious of the high‑threat anomalous creatures soon to strike Earth in Zero Five."

High‑threat anomalous creatures?

Hearing this, the Red Queen was startled for a moment, but then nodded lightly and relayed the reminder to the Shark and the White Governor's camp.

"Swoosh~!"

At that moment, the office's automatic doors suddenly opened and closed, prompting Sui Bian to turn again and cast his gaze toward the "person" entering the office.

He saw a figure strolling on the soft burgundy carpet: a hunting goddess named Artemis, clad in a white, cinched‑waist long dress, with slightly white‑golden hair and a flawless face.

Moreover, as the goddess approached, placing her left hand on the desk and lightly flicking her bangs with her right, ready to speak with Sui Bian, the White Queen's prosthetic eyes—whether malfunctioning or what—betrayed a hint of displeasure.

Along with the White Queen's "sister," her visage also seemed to grow colder and more merciless with Artemis's arrival.

It was as if the two AIs particularly disliked the hunting goddess.

Nevertheless, Artemis ignored—or simply didn't notice—the Red and White Queens' oddities, and in a flippant tone smiled at Sui Bian, "Long time no see, Lord of Humanity."

"Stop joking," Sui Bian replied with a smile, then pressed his palms together, elbows resting on the armrests, and asked:

"I recall that not long ago you arrived in the Solar System, hoping Magnus would help you locate an extragalactic system suspected of containing chaotic Spiritual Energy. So, is it resolved? And why did you come to me personally?"

Sui Bian's saying "let Magnus help", plus as Leon was preparing to formally launch the expedition, requiring Magnus to scan the entire Zero Five Universe, was actually that the Terra Shield's spiritual energy amplification device had been completed; it should have been Sui Bian sitting on it to provide protection for all humanity, but…

Sui Bian didn't know why; maybe it was the Zero Three Emperor's ordeal, maybe it was widespread vaccine vaccination, maybe he was just lazy; in short, the total days he sat on it added up to no more than six hundred days.

For the vast majority of the time, it was Magnus, who constantly stayed in the main universe's Solar System, taking his place to handle some crisis matters.

And the spiritual energy amplification device, as its name suggests, greatly boosts spiritual energy, as well as the effects of various "spells"; therefore, more and more OriginalBody will ask this brother Magnus for some conveniences.

For example, Leon hopes to dispel the mist and gain all the wise civilizations of the Zero Five Universe; like Rus, this "shameless" brother, almost every three months has to bother Magnus.

Fortunately, Magnus has a good temperament; besides, he's always in the Solar System, either studying on his own or discussing the origin of the universe with his father, usually quite free, so he's very willing to help the brothers.

In contrast, Artemis, who is closer to the Original Body's father, responded to the inquiry, saying: "Finished handling it; confirmed that an imperial civilization in the Magellanic Star System, under the influence of many high-ranking demons of Fear and Cruelty, is carrying out a large-scale blood sacrifice; thus I sent Li Mu to conduct on-site investigation."

If possible, I will have that child lead his subordinates to try to purify all the demons; at the same time, I will also post a "bounty" within the company, inviting all legions to jointly participate in the extermination operation against that imperial civilization.

"…" Saying this, Artemis's tone shifted, becoming quite alluring: "To help you share some pressure, I will advance-send the 'bounty' to Rog and Magnus; how about that?"

The goddess's latter words are quite direct; notifying Rog and Magnus of the bounty is so that the usually non-combat Glory Iron Fist and Tu Te Mo Si can gain combat opportunities before other legions.

In some respects, Artemis is indeed helping Sui Bian, sharing the pressure of balancing the legions.

Immediately, Sui Bian smiled again and lightly shook his head, as if he could see through Artemis's inner thoughts in a glance, speaking bluntly: "Well then, thank you, but you suddenly came to my office either to claim credit or to make a request; say, what is it?"

"Tsk, you're always so boring."

Seeing that he could no longer continue to tease Sui Bian, Artemis then restrained his playful demeanor, returned to seriousness, tidied his clothing and hairstyle, and solemnly said:

"Before coming to the Solar System, I happened to read documents uploaded by Fu Ge Rui Mu about the Zero Seven Universe, which specifically mentioned the Greek Gods, so I want to apply to go alone to the Zero Seven Universe to coordinate with the Olympus Army for contact with them."

"The Zero Seven Universe does indeed have Greek Gods." Sui Bian did not deny it; finally he added: "There's no need to go alone; you can bring your subordinates along, which happens to allow us to investigate whether the Zero Seven Universe shows any signs of Chaos."

"Oh~ Really that good?" Artemis feigned a surprised, favored expression, then joked again: "So, what should I use to repay…"

"Wait until you come back to say it then." Sui Bian interrupted the other's speech.

"All right." Artemis, feeling rather bored, waved his left hand, turned and left the top-floor office.

"…"

After the automatic doors fully closed, Sui Bian involuntarily recalled the past, especially the scene when he first met Artemis two hundred years ago.

To be frank, compared to his current frivolous demeanor after fully integrating into human society, Sui Bian would actually prefer that this goddess revert to her original manner, which conveyed naturalness and elegance, refusing everything.

"Alright…"

Since things have come to this, Sui Bian no longer focuses his energy on the sudden interlude, but instead directs his Psychic Gaze toward Zero Five Earth.

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"…"

At this moment.

On Zero Five Earth, in Northern Europe it was morning; warm sunlight penetrated the water mist, then was refracted by tiny water droplets, thereby producing a magnificent rainbow phenomenon.

It should have been a time to relax and enjoy, preparing to start a new day, but on a cliff edge in the Faroe Islands covered with short grass, there were two squads of White Consul Astate and an auxiliary company standing ready.

Because Sui Bian had reminded them that the high-threat anomalous creature at the base had broken free of some restraint and set foot onto the grass before their eyes.

(End of Chapter)