The moment he clicked [Yes], a large amount of information was dumped into his mind forcefully and as fast as possible, unlike all the previous times that he had bought knowledge from the system. With the soul pain he was feeling, this additional pain disappeared like a drop of water in the ocean, not leaving any trace of its existence.The moment he finished digesting the knowledge amidst the continuing pain, he raised his already-risen eyebrows even higher as he wondered what this really meant. The system didn’t provide him with a full explanation of why he was doing it, just instructions to do something, and the rest, the system was going to handle. But the pain reminded him that he didn’t have the luxury of thinking about it for too long, as he now needed to relay the instructions to someone so that they could deliver the required materials.Talking would have caused him to lose the mental control of the pain he was holding back, so he raised his hand, pointing it in the direction

From the data that Nova could gather and share, they could see Aron floating silently in the middle of the tank as the materials in his surroundings were undergoing a reaction, with the central controlling and uniting aspect being the Fountain of Life. It was leading the reaction, making many connect it to alchemy, which didn’t really seem too far off.Other than that, his tainted mana still kept being ejected from his body, but unlike previously, where it was allowed to go everywhere, this time the Fountain of Life absorbed it like a sponge, not allowing even a thimble of it to escape the cylindrical tank despite it not having mana-blocking properties, and it showed no intention of getting full.However, the Emperor’s stillness didn’t last long. In a single move, he started shaking involuntarily, as if he were trying to escape the cylinder or just wanted to do something to put himself away from the pain. It seemed like his body didn’t really have enough power to do that, and his rapi

Mars Central CommandInside the center of the empire's military surveillance technology central command, a screen wide enough to allow for every important sector within the empire to be shown simultaneously was currently operating under wartime mobilization. All of the screens were now covered with footage live-streamed from avatars who were still wreaking havoc in the Conclave.However, that footage didn’t last long, as it was instantly replaced by the imperial solar system sensor array, with a large highlight surrounding Mars as an alarm blared across the room.Without even needing instructions, the footage zoomed in on Mars, accessing all of the sensor assets within that vicinity and trying to pinpoint what exactly was happening and come up with a solution.But just as it was about to start receiving the feeds of the area of interest, the entire screen was replaced by a large, red-colored sentence: [AN ATTEMPT TO ACCESS A CLASSIFIED SECTOR HAS BEEN DISCOVERED: ACCESS DENIED].“Okay

“What is wrong with him exactly?” Henry, Aron’s younger brother and the crown prince, turned to Nova, asking her as he stood in front of Aron’s mana-filled medical pod.Due to the set line of succession that had been maintained for decades since the founding of the empire, he was still the first in line despite not wanting the position at all. He considered it a formality required by the imperial constitution to remove the possibility of instability should something happen to the Emperor, preventing a power vacuum.Since he was selected as the crown prince, nothing much had changed for him. He had managed to continue pursuing what he loved: research. He was currently one of the leading researchers in the field of mana, with his studies being as influential as the Empress’s were in the field of magic. This was due to the advantage of his eyes being able to perceive mana deeper and in more detail than many of the available sensors. In fact, nearly all of the sensors had their founding a

Minutes from the detonation of the bomb, the entire planet was already covered in radioactive materials. Spending even less than ten minutes was enough to guarantee death, which essentially sentenced every living thing on the planet to death and would sustain that life-denying level of toxicity for at least a century before people could return and be able to spend a few hours without dying.This could be accelerated if a civilization invested a huge amount of resources, but most of the time, waiting was deemed to be the most effective solution, considering that to many civilizations, a period of a century is something within their lifetimes.“That should be enough of a warning for anyone else to think twice and for those who attempted to leave to crawl back to avoid suffering the same fate,” Gubka said as he watched the planet from a distance, knowing that it was not the end of the chain reaction. Following the radioactive fallout, there were going to be tsunamis, earthquakes, and the