Zero is pretty sure that he can survive in this place because this is just a library.
He shook his frozen palms. In the thermal imaging of the armor's built-in body temperature monitoring device, his limbs were blue, and the outside of his armor was stuck in deeper frost. In order to preserve those ancient books,
The air in the library remains dry and low all year round. After being separated from the energy backpack, most of the thermostatic devices no longer operate. Only a few emergency systems rely on small emergency battery packs and motion motors to barely operate to resist the loss of body temperature. He must
In this way, he plays an alien businessman who can enter the library of the Shi'ar Empire only by taking off his armor. This is one of the courses that Zero must take - to learn and understand alien culture and understand other places in the galaxy.
How races operate and survive, especially those alien empires in the universe, his monarch believes that Zero can draw wisdom from the development history of those races.
These humanoid races evolved from some bird-like egg-laying creatures and have limbs similar to humans. This makes Zero say to the monarch that humans are the most perfect race in the universe, and the genetic engineering of the Celestials is the most perfect.
The Shi'ar Empire is a militarized race with distinct classes, and Zero can easily distinguish the two classes by the feather crests on the heads of the Shi'ar. One has a triangular-shaped spire, and the other has a scattered style.
The flat top is similar to the tools used by ancient Egyptian nobles to control the head development of their children, indicating that they are a status class that does not need items on their heads to work. This shows that the Shia people often used their heads to assist in carrying objects in the past.
The owner of this library is a nobleman. The most conspicuous display cabinet in the library displays the library owner’s bloodline map, along with the pattern of the forearm feathers as evidence of his ancient bloodline. Number Zero has already looked through it.
He went through the map and found a line to prove his conjecture. However, what surprised him most was that as a cross-galactic civilization, the Shi'ar Empire explicitly prohibited art - the Shi'ar believed that art distorted thinking and was
A sign of insanity and deviance, the death penalty is a sentence for those who have artistic dreams. In the past, there was a race that allowed the Shi'ar to regain the ability to imagine. For this reason, the Shi'ar did not hesitate to destroy that race and destroy all music.
Paintings and sculptures, and a massive internal cleansing campaign was launched just to eliminate this stain from the genetic level.
He knew why the Shi'ar did what they did.
This is a race troubled by evil gods from extra dimensions. They are so close to the veil between reality and illusion that some mutant Shi'ar have the ability to see through that weak veil and influence the minds of others. With this ability
Shi'ar people are often influenced by the spiritual world, showing extraordinary imaginative abilities, and creating works of art that can influence others. Kamathaj's library records several rebellions in the Shi'ar Empire, those
There are some very mysterious and terrifying distorted figures in the incident. Wherever those figures appear, appalling and crazy sacrifices will occur. In order to prevent similar things from happening again, the Shi'ar Empire has completely banned the practice of art.
, even starting from the genetic level, intending to completely eliminate the Xi'ar's ability to dream.
However, this natural ability cannot be completely eliminated. The owner of this library is a person with the ability to dream.
He sneaked into the noble's banquet, looking for an opportunity to assassinate the noble who was making a filthy sacrifice. However, the plan did not go so smoothly. After entering the banquet, he was forced to give up all weapons, and the armor passed the inspection as a life-support device.
After receiving the monarch's Halloween gift, he was thrown into a spaceship. From the time he arrived on this planet until now, the time built into the armor has elapsed for fifteen Earth days. Now he has found a way, in a few hours
The foreshadowing he had arranged at the noble banquet played a role. Soon, the noble will take the butler privately to the depths of this library to meet with him and secretly purchase a priceless and highly artistic stone.
Exquisite gemstone jewelry.
"Lao Gaoda. Go and prepare a gift for our great Baron Neramani. I will greet him here." He called to his alien followers. The voice coming through the mask was full of mechanical feeling, which made people feel
I couldn't tell his age. "Hurry up, lazy boy, and don't forget who picked you up from the street."
"Yes, yes, my master. I'll go right away, I'll go right away." The cleaned attendant shivered with cold, tiptoed and walked towards the lounge. He picked up this servant in the space port.
After he paid for the old tramp to take a water bath that only nobles and rich people could afford, and had a full meal, the tramp nicknamed "Old Cuckoo" naturally became
His follower, "Old Kada", doesn't ask unnecessary questions. He doesn't even know what a "question" is. Years of malnutrition have almost crushed this tramp's soul. He has no eggs of his own, no
He has his own greenhouse nursery and doesn’t even have his own nest. If anyone gives this old guy a shot, it would definitely be a mercy to him. This is a flat-roofed civilian, even if the Shi’ar have extraordinary abilities in the Empire.
Social status, but it does not rule out that some people will fall into the dilemma of having nothing. After all, the Shi'ar Empire, as a business complex, pursues profits rather than social stability.
According to "Old Cuckoo" himself, he was once a glorious member of the Death Commando, but no one believed the lies.
Looking at the servant's retreating figure, Zero took a deep breath of the dried air. Even if he did not have a powerful weapon in his hand, the power, speed and wisdom given to him by the mysterious genetic alchemy also gave him a fighting ability far beyond that of ordinary people.
, allowing him to use a small knife built into the armor as an assassination tool and break out of the siege.
This is the test that No. 0 is undergoing. He needs to serve as a prototype of the Imperial Guard and test various abilities through various actual combats.
Assassination is just one of them, he has this ability. He has already arranged an evacuation plan, and the name of that noble will become a footnote on his medal of merit.
"I don't think it's going to be difficult for him."
Salomon stared at the picture in the water mirror. The white hot air exhaled by the Guards Zero was clearly visible under the pale light of the library. Maya Hansen looked at the silver water basin nervously, for fear that she had gathered all the results of her countless efforts.
The experiment failed in the next action. "If he fails...save him."
"If he can't even do this, I'll just take his body back."
"Why are you so cold!" Maya Hansen shook her head violently, looking like a lion, "He can contain your power, and we can no longer find any qualified experimental subjects!"
"Because of this, he has to endure hardships that ordinary people cannot bear. This is just a mission to assassinate alien cultists. If he cannot even complete this mission, it means that all our work has been a failure and is worthless.
It means that he simply cannot bear the power we give him." Salomon shook his head, "But I believe he can do it. His soul is connected to me. This is not only the result of genetic alchemy, but also his bloodline.
Get in touch."
“What’s so special about the bloodline of the Macedonian dynasty?”
"No, it's not the blood of the Byzantine emperor. To be precise, it's the blood of Zoe I's sister Theodora [Note 1]. This child has some kind of connection with me, and this connection already existed before the genetic modification surgery.
.Because of this, he can survive the transformation of genetic alchemy and accommodate my power."
"It is said that Theodora was imprisoned in a monastery for 14 years by her sister Zoe I, and refused to marry even when she and her sister were co-rulers. How could it be possible..." Maya Hansen thought of a certain possibility. This possibility
It sent shivers down her spine, "You mean... you can have children with normal people?"
"I don't know. Maya may be a product of genetic engineering created by me after jumping in time in the future. It does not represent what happened between me and Theodora."
[Note 1] Empress Theodora, the last empress of Byzantium and the last emperor of the Macedonian dynasty.