Chapter 1899: Helpless

"..." The emperor looked at the four alphas. All of them had their heads hung low. She then let out a long sigh, saying, "There’s nothing we can do right now."

"What if that person is going to dismantle all our systems?" Endelphon gritted his teeth.

Teshion shook his head. "It doesn’t seem to be so. If he wants to, he can just annihilate all of us and let the Old God take everything.

"Instead, the Old God locked us up in a few military facilities, not all of them. At the very least, we could still function and keep everything going.

"If we trust their words, then it will be returned to us soon. It seems that this person is looking for something, considering it requires our telescope. However, there’s no way to figure out what he’s looking for, since the Old God locks the surveillance system for the telescope. In addition, she’s probably going to wipe all the traces before returning it to us.

"At least they’re not annihilating us right away. That is a good thing. We still have a chance to come back, so I suggest that we do nothing but maintain all the systems operational. We can’t let anyone use this situation to ruin the empire," explained Teshion.

"Like I said, there’s no guarantee that will happen according to your prediction." Endelphon gritted his teeth.

"And there’s no guarantee the thing you’re afraid of will happen as well. Just remember that if he wants to destroy us, he can do it right away. Rather than thinking about the what-if scenarios, we should just ignore them and focus on other things!"

Devonio contemplated for a few seconds before raising his hand. "I can’t help but agree with Teshion this time. We can be wiped out. Since we haven’t been wiped out yet, it means that the Old God is still protecting us. In fact, it’s rather clever.

"The Old God is suggesting that we pay the price, but it’s only coming to borrow our equipment, showing him that we’re more useful if we’re alive and operational. This way, the Old God is still protecting this world.

"And we have to use the rest of our power to settle down to anything that might ruin the empire rather than thinking about this person. I don’t know how long they’re going to borrow our system, so it will be a quite harsh period to ensure everything is under control."

Endelphon clenched his fists. It looked like he wanted to argue with Devonio, but Celestia also agreed with them.

"I also agree. I think it’s better to research how to use the energy from the core to make us stronger. If we can combine our science and this power to our body to create a fighting god, we won’t be bullied this hard anymore. I think that should be our priority."

Teshion nodded. "Yes. That’s actually a good idea. If we can get power like that, we don’t have to worry about anything else. However, do we have any idea how to use it? If I’m not mistaken, this kind of situation started in Devonio’s house."

Devonio sighed. "I’m not exactly in the wrong. At least, I was entrusted by them to get a few devices, but Zeta, which was linked directly to the Central Processing Unit, decided to pull out an android.

"He had many wives, so I was confused why it would cause such a thing with the android’s existence. In the end, he put the Old God into that android."

Teshion pondered and found a few reasons. "If I have to say, he knows about the surveillance. The fact that the Central Processing Unit could create things based on something he didn’t even agree to produce showed that the Central Processing Unit kept observing him and might do something he didn’t want in the future.

"The Old God was different. He could use that magical power to turn the Old God into his servant. It should be related to the Old God’s true body. It had disappeared, so it might be linked to this situation.

"On the other hand, he couldn’t get access to the Central Processing Unit’s main body. That was why the Old God was more convenient. At least he wouldn’t do anything with the surveillance.

"In addition, there might be a different kind of agreement with his wives. I’m not exactly sure about this, but don’t you have some sort of agreement before marrying your wives?"

Devonio crossed his arms and fell silent. "So, this was the Central Processing Unit’s fault?"

"In a way, yes." Teshion nodded. "The Central Processing Unit used our custom to communicate with this person, so it ended with a conflict."

"..." Devonio frowned. "In that case, I suggest resetting the Central Processing Unit and using the current data to adjust the Central Processing Unit’s behavior. We will also add some analysis about this power and see if there are ways for us to get stronger as well.

"However, looking at the situation, we might need pure ramanity. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like another negotiation is possible. If we can, we can probably acquire the method. It’s so unfortunate..."

"..." They couldn’t say anything. One mistake caused all this mess.

"Well, just look at the bright side. At least the alien is gone. Once we regain our control, we know that there’s another path for us and see how viable it is."

"..." They couldn’t exactly deny it. After all, they were indeed helpless. After seeing Nathan’s power, they realized that Nathan utilized his power in a way that he could destroy the world’s system. They had built the entire planet by using that system, so if it was destroyed, the entire world would be destroyed.

The emperor, who had been listening to their conversations all this time, finally broke her silence and declared, "For now, Endelphon, Teshion. You two are going to handle the patrol. Decimate any space pirates that dare to cause a mess in our current situation.

"Celestia, I need you to begin the research on this new power. Gather all the cores you can and research the energy and the possibility of injecting this energy into our bodies.

"The Central Processing Unit will be reset so that its personality will return to the default setting. During that time, Devonio is to supervise the management of the empire."

The four alphas stood up and placed their hands on their chests, accepting their orders.