2494 - The Urgent Calamity
Planet Donara—
"...Haha, this boy is still as sharp-witted as his teacher." Robin showed a wider smile, "Jabba has indeed found a cure for the problem of Zavarus and his sons, and the problem of the borders of the Second Training Path as a whole. With this, the blood of a beast from a World Calamity will no longer restrict you to the maximum of a World Calamity; rather, you can easily surpass it. This way, beast blood will be merely a method to activate the Mutable particles."
Robin raised the book with his left hand happily, "With this, the problem of exaggerated beast features will disappear. You won't find a person turning into something resembling an ogre just because he was injected with beast blood. The appearances will be simple and minimal, and the change in temperament will be minimal as well. No one will be impulsive and short-tempered because he was injected with wild boar blood, or bloodthirsty because he was injected with tiger blood!"
Then he laughed, "Haha, my brilliant disciple has solved the problems of 90% of the universe's citizens. Now he only needs to find a way to generalize this genius research to those who already took blood the old way and transformed—a method that is cheap and can be spread on a wide scale... I believe it will be ready by the time of my galaxy's ascension."
Then he put the book down, but his smile didn't fade much. "He also sent the details and First Level Patterns of Identity as well… He's a little late, but this is still nice." Then he nodded, "He deserves a good reward."
Then he raised an eyebrow, "…There's a part of the book that talks about his personal experiences in transitioning between Truth and Identity, and his experiences in general that led him to reach Identity." Then he raised his other eyebrow, "…Can this be considered memoirs too?"
"……."
"…?" Robin finally felt the looks of bewilderment and resentment on Billy's expression as he stared at him from the side as if he was going to eat him. "What?!"
"…." Billy finally looked down, "…I… I understand your point of view… that you see yourself as having been wronged, and so you see yourself as owing nothing to anyone." Then he continued after a brief pause, "But how could you… how could you judge everyone by your own betrayal and leave them to die like that? You were the one who chose to conceal your actions!"
"If I had concealed nothing, I would have done nothing!" Robin replied quickly, "If I announced what I am doing here, you would find Intiras, Sevar, Qarun, Helmor, and others doing everything they can to close the passage so that I stop killing the Space Beasts, and so that they trap the Cosmic Elder on the other side. This would be a masterstroke for them, something they would boast about before their masters."
Then he continued calmly after catching his breath, "They have known what I am doing covertly, in their own ways, yet they have turned the universe against me and want to kill me. I do not need to tell you what they are doing to my followers and the wars raging against me at this very moment. They are making everyone understand that I am the absolute evil they have united against, and unfortunately, they are believed. None of them wants to tell the truth… the truth that evil is what has ruled the universe for millions of years, and I am the only point of light that has appeared in its sky!"
Then Robin set the thick book aside and reached for another, "But never mind~ let them find another light for themselves."
Then his eyes lit up with joy, "Oh, this one is from Theo!"
"Everyone believes there's something behind you because of those campaigns you're waging across all those Sectors!" Billy spoke quickly, nearly falling off the edge of his chair. "Over the past few years we reached Sector 90 east and 117 west, and we were preparing to continue were it not for our sudden war with the Syndicate and the Council of Thrones and the interventions of the Tyrant Galaxy!!"
"Do you remember what I told you a little while ago?" Robin asked, still reading Theo's writings with a smile, "...about how I would try to save my subjects?"
"...?" Billy furrowed his brows hard, expressions of ignorance completely covering his face for a few seconds of silence.
Until at last he opened his eyes wide, "You... you force them to accept being saved?!"
"You could say that." Robin laughed. "I can't make my story, the Cosmic Elder's requests, and the origin of someone like the All-seeing God and his enemies who are of the same stature, public. Human minds can't bear this. They'll choose to believe it's just a lie, just a conspiracy theory, and that I'm a liar."
Then he shrugged his shoulders, "If I must appear as a warmongering scoundrel, or a liar who wants to spread discord… then I prefer the first. Let them call me the Chosen of War as they called me before, rather than call me a liar." Then he let out a mocking laugh, "No one inside the shell of this universe deserves for me to lie to them, or to lie for their sake."
Then his eyes gleamed, "Theo's mastery of the Integrated Law of Cosmic Silence between space, time, and darkness has reached a terrifying level. This report speaks of his slaughter of a low Nexus State during the war period. Haha, amazing!" Then his smile disappeared, "…The other half… his experiences as the Boss of the Shadow Swords organization from beginning to end… hmmm?!"
Robin furrowed his brows, then raised the tablet toward Billy, "What's wrong with the memoirs? I'm starting to smell something that angers me…"
"Robin… His Majesty…" Billy muttered as he looked down, "Allow me to say that you are unjust even in your love."
Then he raised his head and stared into Robin's face, "In order to prevent the title of liar from being attached to yourself, you began with a surge of successive invasions that earned you a devilish reputation, and then you blame people?" Then he waved forcefully, "Could you not have asked Theo to prepare suitable conditions before invading each sector? Have him fabricate any absurd reasons for you as everyone else does? Was there no other way besides that arbitrary invasion and display of muscle?!"
"...There is no time to fabricate excuses and build alliances and subjugate sectors covertly as I did in 99, 100, and 101, in which I spent centuries to reach the result they are at today." Robin set the metal tablet aside with a sigh, "...Only 10,000 years remain before the early catastrophe arrives, and I must make use of every moment."
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