Chapter 2495

2495 - Ten Thousand

"...The early calamity?" Billy showed a terrified smile, the smile of a person who had been searching for a raging lion to photograph, and suddenly it appeared before him from the Void, staring into his eyes, "...A-about what... are you talking?"

"It's a simple matter that happened decades ago, remember? When I brought my grandchildren and distributed the gifts." Robin smiled as he recalled the situation, "That day I fought an Executioner, or what is known as the Space Beasts Ancestor."

Whoosh

Robin extended his hand to his side and it vanished, then he pulled a black arm from between the folds of space, and

Poof

He threw it onto the table in front of him, "Remember this? It's the arm of that Space Beasts Ancestor."

"...?" Billy opened his eyes as wide as they could go.

Robin had indeed brought out that arm in front of everyone that day, but he hadn't said a word about it.

That arm... it was merely an object now, lifeless and severed from the body, yet he could see the space around it churning and rippling, and he could feel the air in the entire area condensing and becoming heavier to breathe.

"In fact, during our usual work hunting space beasts from outside the Shell surrounding the universe, or what you know as the Wall of the End of the World, a Space Beasts Ancestor appeared with a million space beasts, including dozens of Adult Space Beasts. It was a Nest almost identical to the one that humbled the universe and nearly destroyed it 70 million years ago."

Robin furrowed his brow slightly, as if recalling that day as though it were yesterday. "Morgana, Blokan, Althera, and Aser all fought the Nest ferociously. Support came from the soul forces of the Burton Family and from our wings everywhere, as you know. The protection around Donara increased manifold from that day, and from that day people's eyes began turning toward Donara because of all that commotion…"

"…After a fierce battle between us and them, we managed to hold off the massive Nest and burned more than half of them during the fight. I managed to defeat the space beast — the Executioner — and forced her to retreat in flight… but unfortunately, I couldn't kill her completely. It was an extremely exhausting fight, and I took some injuries myself."

"Of course you remember most of this, but… there is something I chose to hide that day." Robin began tapping on his simple seat, "The Executioner threatened me that day that she would go report the presence of forces from our universe outside The Shell, and that she would return for revenge with the support of the Legion of Executioners and an even larger army of Reapers, and that this would happen within ten thousand years at most."

Then he shrugged, "…I don't know if she meant a large number of Executioners like her called the Legion as a combat unit, or if it's a rank for a stronger Executioner… Either way, I don't think this will be a pleasant event."

Baa

Billy slapped both his cheeks, "You don't think?!" Then he raised his voice, "How could you keep information like this to yourself?!"

"Fear." Robin sighed, "I was afraid that high-ranking Causality users like Qarun and Sevar would find out through their own methods if the words left my mouth, and then disaster might strike… So I decided to keep the secret inside me until the right time."

Gulp

Billy's eyes sank, "What will happen… if they find out?"

Billy then remembered that this was a live broadcast. He forgot about Qarun and Sevar — even infants had heard it now!!

Robin narrowed his eyes slightly. "Instead of the Executioner going to the Eternal Sanctuary to request support over five thousand years and then returning in another five thousand years, someone could contact one of the All-seeing God's enemies through the momentum of Transcendence and hasten this process, leaving us with only five thousand years."

Baa.

Billy slapped his own cheeks again. "They could do something like that?!"

"I don't know, and I don't want to take the risk." Robin shook his head. "Perhaps their salvation is tied to remaining inside the universe until the Cycle ends. But if the entry of the Executioners and Reapers would facilitate their work and hasten the completion of their mission and the neutralization of Universe B-14 even before the Cycle ends, then what would stop them?"

Boof.

Billy appeared to collapse onto the back of his seat with vacant eyes.

"Faced with a situation like this, what am I supposed to do?" Robin ignored Billy's exaggerated reaction and calmly returned to examining what was in his hands. "I immediately began expanding the scope of my influence. Those sectors under my command when the Executioners' Brigade and its enemy squad arrive will be my support, my weapon, and my armor."

"...The inhabitants of those sectors that follow me will be the heroes who do what our ancestors could not do; they will defend the universe with my weapon, my information, and my sciences. The resources of those sectors will go toward building Note Vehicles-5 for the defense of the universe. The nobles of those sectors will get the chance to go beyond The Shell and see the truth that I saw, along with a handful of my followers, instead of remaining imprisoned, waiting for certain death."

Then Robin smiled, "I think my dreams were too idealistic... the other powers noticed what I was trying to do and decided to stop me quickly. Strengthening the universe and uniting it under one word harms their interests greatly, and everyone drank it up and believed. And now, instead of focusing on Unifying the universe against what is happening outside, we have entered a destructive civil war."

"Hmm?" At that moment, Robin's eyes lit up as he held the book. "Haha, the development of Note's Space Fleet-5 has theoretically finished. They even added that law to the frames as I requested... amazing!" Then he pointed Billy to the book, "I'm certain we will have our first living example by the time of my galaxy's ascension!"

"This…" Billy was actually crying, tear tracks filling his face with regret and sorrow over today's broadcast, but he forced a smile so that Robin wouldn't get up and pound him if he sensed something strange, "…excellent… extremely…"