Han Xiao closed the interface, wrote an application, and sent a request to the dynasty to visit EsGod.
Not long after, he received a reply.
"Hmm? How dare you send my documents back? "
Han Xiao looked at the virtual screen in front of him with surprise. It showed the application document approved by the dynasty.
There was a red stamp at the bottom right corner of the document, and the words' Not Approved 'were written in the dynasty's language, which meant that the application was rejected.
"The dynasty won't let me visit EsGod. What is the meaning of this?"
Han Xiao frowned and took out his communicator. After thinking for a while, he did not call Uranril's private line but called the Ruler's office.
The communicator rang for a while and was picked up very quickly. When the contact person saw that the caller was Black Star, he transferred the line to the secretary of the Ruler's office.
"Your Excellency Black Star, how can I help you?" The secretary had a good relationship with Han Xiao and asked.
"It's like this. I just submitted an application to visit EsGod, but it was rejected. Is this Uranril's idea?"
"Ah, Her Excellency has been in a meeting, so it shouldn't be her. I don't know about this, and your application was not reported to us."
"Then, can you help me check which department did it?"
"Okay, please wait a moment …"
The secretary operated the internal system for a while and used his authority to pull up the file. His tone became helpless.
"This is the judgment of the dynasty's main artificial intelligence, 'Heroic Soul', and the prison department. I looked at their internal notes, and the dynasty's prison location is top secret. Under normal circumstances, no one is allowed to visit. Your Excellency Black Star is even more special. You're actually on their blacklist …"
"Why am I on the blacklist? What did I do?" Han Xiao was confused.
The secretary helplessly said, "You didn't do anything, but you're the only person in the world who has the ability to release EsGod. Therefore, you're not allowed to visit EsGod before your five-hundred-year sentence is up …"
Han Xiao was speechless.
I was the one who helped the dynasty capture EsGod, but now I don't even have the right to visit him?
Alright then, from the Bardi Empire's perspective, this was actually quite reasonable. Currently, I was the only one in the universe who was capable of unsealing the Spacetime Amber's prison. This meant that the Bardi Empire's previous captor had become the only one who could potentially release the Spacetime Amber. In that case, it would be quite normal for the Bardi Empire to refuse my visit. This was to avoid the greatest risk.
However … even though the Empire's actions were not wrong, Han Xiao couldn't help but feel a little disappointed emotionally.
He thought that the application would pass smoothly, but he didn't expect to be stuck at this stage.
"Can't you make an exception?" Han Xiao frowned.
"EsGod's prison management authority is very high. If you really want to visit, you can only ask the Ruler for help. She has the power to forcefully pass your request, but there has to be a reasonable reason. Otherwise …" the Secretary-General said tactfully.
Hearing this, Han Xiao nodded.
He had a good personal relationship with Uranril, but she would not open the back door for him unless he had a reasonable reason.
After exchanging a few simple sentences, Han Xiao hung up. Uranril was in a rather important meeting, and he had to wait for a while before he could contact her. He wanted to make use of this time to think of an excuse.
I originally wanted to use the excuse of visiting to get close to EsGod, but it won't work. Without a reason, the Empire won't allow me to get close to EsGod's prison in any form. Even the prison's coordinates are confidential and can only be accessed with a certain level of authority.
Han Xiao clicked his tongue unhappily.
The reason of visiting would not be able to convince the Empire, and if he wanted to check EsGod's situation, he would have to unlock the Amber Seal. The best way was to come up with a special reason for the Empire to allow him to unlock the Amber Seal.
If he could not convince them, he would probably have to imitate Old Man Manison and try to sneak into the Empire's database to steal the relevant information. While this would offend the Empire, stealing information was not too bad, and it was not to the extent of falling out with them. This could only be his backup plan.
After a while, the Secretary-General sent a message saying that the Ruler's meeting was over. Han Xiao then called Uranril's private number, and the call was quickly connected.
Uranril's figure appeared on the screen. Her face was calm, and she went straight to the point.
"Black Star, I heard that you came to find me just now and wanted to visit EsGod. Why?"
While she hid it very well, Han Xiao's observation skills were very good. He could tell that Uranril was a little tired.
After thinking for a while, he said, "EsGod has been locked up for decades. I want to open the prison once to check the state of EsGod's soul."
"Is there a need for that?" Uranril frowned. "Back then, you were the one who suggested that we set a sentence of five hundred years. It's only been a few decades. With EsGod's Grade, his soul won't be destroyed so quickly. Opening it now will only make things more troublesome."
"Ahem, back then, my Grade was not high enough, so my understanding of EsGod's strength was limited. That's why I exaggerated the sentence as much as possible. Five hundred years was just an insurance statement. Now that I've grown to my current level and have a deeper understanding of the Spacetime Amber, I realized that it might not take that long to destroy the soul of a Beyond Grade A Super. "
Han Xiao told her the excuse he had prepared. He did not have any evidence to explain his suspicion of Gaud, and it would only make the Dynasty suspicious, so he decided not to involve Gaud.
Uranril did not suspect anything. She only shook her head and said, "I don't think there's a need for that. EsGod is too dangerous. I still think it's safer to lock him up for five hundred years. The Dynasty can afford to wait."
Han Xiao had expected the Ruler to say this, so he was not surprised at all. He explained, "The experiment is only one of the goals. Actually, I still have some worries. I only understood how powerful this Grade is after growing to this day. Thinking back, I realized that EsGod was captured too easily. It was very strange. With my understanding of EsGod, he might have left a backup plan for himself and escaped using his soul transfer. I'm worried that it's a trap, so I want to open the prison to check. "
Uranril's eyes flickered, but she still did not believe it.
"Where's the evidence?"
Han Xiao pretended to be serious and said, "This is only a guess, so it needs to be verified. However, if you really want a witness, you can ask Lotus Swordsman. When we were killing EsGod back then, she felt the strange mental wave of EsGod. I suspect that there's something wrong with that."
Gaud was the new star that the Dynasty had high hopes for, so it was not a wise choice to involve him in the conversation. Therefore, Han Xiao's words were mainly targeted at EsGod.
Hearing this, Uranril finally became serious. She immediately told the secretary to contact Lotus Swordsman.
Lotus Swordsman came online very quickly and gave a definite answer. It had only been thirty years, so she naturally remembered what happened back then.
Seeing this, Han Xiao heaved a sigh of relief. This piece of evidence could not prove anything, and everyone had taken it as a futile struggle by EsGod. However, he had used it to increase his persuasiveness. If not for this, it would have been difficult to convince the Ruler.
After receiving the reply, Uranril fell silent. It seemed like she was analyzing the pros and cons. After a while, she looked straight into Han Xiao's eyes and said with a deep voice,
"Black Star, if EsGod regains his freedom, can you guarantee that you can capture him?"
"What I was able to do back then, I can do it now."
Han Xiao smiled.
Now that he did not have the Esper Silence Character Summon Card, he had lost a huge trump card. However, after decades of growth, he was no longer the same as before. Even if he guessed wrong, he would just have to capture EsGod again.
Furthermore, other people did not know that the Character Summon Card was a one-time use ability. They would only think that he still had this ability.
Uranril pondered for a long time before finally nodding.
"Okay, I approve! Since your suspicions are reasonable, open the prison and check EsGod's situation. Make sure that we don't capture an empty shell! "
…
More than ten days later …
Constellation Corridor, within the Red Empire, in a certain forbidden military area.
A gigantic cubic mechanical building floated in the starry sky. Its appearance was a galactic fortress built by a giant engineering project. Its surface was covered with armor and shields that could withstand the bombardment of a fleet. This was the space prison where EsGod was locked up.
At this moment, a dense dynasty fleet surrounded the prison. Every battleship had cannons extended, and all kinds of weapons were ready to be activated.
A black figure floated not far away from the prison. It was Han Xiao. He had opened the secondary dimensional army box and was summoning an army on a large scale, forming a second layer of encirclement to surround the prison.
Gaud was still on his way to the Flickering World. Han Xiao was racing against time. He directly used the King to teleport his main body to the dynasty's branch and boarded the dynasty fleet that came to pick him up. It took him about ten days to arrive at this forbidden military area.
Han Xiao summoned countless mechanical troops and finally closed the secondary dimensional army box door. He spoke in the communication channel.
"I'm ready. Activate all spacetime locking devices immediately and open the prison core."
"Roger." The solemn voice of the fleet commander sounded in the channel.
The next moment, invisible ripples spread out with the fleet as the center. This space instantly 'tightened', and the spacetime coefficient of this area became extremely stable, basically nullifying all spacetime abilities.
Then, the space prison bloomed like a flower bud. The structure opened up layer by layer, revealing the stamen. At the core was the egg-shaped cabin that stored EsGod's Spacetime Amber, tightly locked by the prison's mechanical structure.
As the prison opened, the egg-shaped cabin was unlocked, and its independent power system started to operate. The thrusters spat out flames and slowly flew out with the cabin.
Han Xiao waved his hand, and a Mechanical Force arc pulled the ten-meter-long egg-shaped cabin in front of him. He reached out and opened the cabin door.
A familiar face that he had not seen for many years entered his sight. It was EsGod, who had been imprisoned in the Spacetime Amber for decades. He still maintained the appearance when he was frozen. His expression and actions were all frozen at the last moment of freedom.
"All units in position! Prepare to fire at any time! "
The solemn voice of the fleet commander sounded in the communication channel.
After decades, the shadow left by EsGod had not completely disappeared in people's hearts.
"Now, it's time to verify my guess …"
Han Xiao stared into EsGod's eyes, took a deep breath of dark energy, took out the core of the Spacetime Amber, and poked it.
Pop! The crisp sound of the Spacetime Amber breaking seemed to ring in his ears.
The cage that imprisoned EsGod was removed, but his body did not move. He just floated in the vacuum environment, right in front of Han Xiao.
"Is it already an empty shell?"
Han Xiao took out a suction cup-shaped device and stuck it to EsGod. This was a device used to detect the state of a soul.
Although Mechanics were not good at the mental domain, at his level, it was not a problem to create a device that was purely used to detect if the target had a soul.
The suction cup was about to touch EsGod's body, but the next moment, Han Xiao felt his wrist tighten as if someone had grabbed it and stopped in midair.
Han Xiao looked up and met EsGod's eyes that had regained its spirit.
At the same time, a meaningful mental message entered Han Xiao's mind.
"I said that we would meet again sooner or later …"
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