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EndlessFantasy Translation
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EndlessFantasy Translation
Just as Jiang Feiâs body mysteriously disappeared, Braveheartâs cannons finished charging up their attack.
âFIRE!â Akatziris screamed.
âYes, captain!â
0543 immediately fired all cannons at the metal box drifting in space not too far from the ship that was the shipâs holding cell.
BOOM! BOOM BOOM!...
Multiple beams of death rays instantly shot out toward the defenceless holding cell. And after the last shot finally made it through its target, not even a speck of wreckage debris remained.
âReport! Are they dead yet?â Akatziris anxiously asked the shipâs virtual assistant.
âYes, captain! Due to the target being too close to us, our shields are down by 65%. 37% of the shipâs hull has been damaged and 15% of the shipâs frame has been damaged by the blast. The ship is now in critical condition, captain!â 0543 reported.
âThatâs not what I asked you, moron! Didnât you hear me? I want you to tell me about the holding cell and Jiang Fei! Is he still alive?â Akatziris snapped at the AI. It did not matter to her if the ship suffered a heavy beating from the bombardment, for as long as Jiang Fei was dead, she could have all the time in the world for repairs. But if he was still alive, then the retribution later would be much worse than Braveheart being in critical condition.
âScanner sweeps are not picking up any signs of life from the area, it is highly probable that the target has been eliminated,â 0543 then replied. Braveheartâs concentrated cannon fire was powerful enough to obliterate a small planet, let alone one tiny containment cell, so not picking up any life signatures on the scanners after such an attack was an expected result.
âIs he really dead? Then why am I getting a bad feeling about this?â Akatziris frowned with her biomechanical brows.
âRest assured, captain. Nothing can survive concentrated cannon fire from Braveheart, especially when they have been incapacitated by the holding cellâs power suppression system.â 0543 assured her captain.
With over ten thousand of the Namekian shipâs main cannons all firing at once, even a Level 5 Metahuman would be reduced to nothing but dust particles. The only way to avoid such a fate would be to instantly teleport away from the line of fire, but Jiang Fei and the girls all had their powers suppressed by the prison cell so teleporting under those conditions would be impossible. Thus, 0543 calculated the possibility of them dying from the attack to be 99.99%.
âNo, I donât think he would just go out so easily like this!â The androidâs anxiety was steadily growing, spreading throughout her electrical circuits.
â0543, set a course and prepare the ship for intergalactic warp immediately!â
Akatziris did not feel safe remaining there. The thoughts of Jiang Fei suddenly showing up again were haunting her, tormenting her operating system. She decided to leave the milky way and head toward another galaxy immediately.
âBut captain, the ship is still heavily damaged. Warping in this condition is not advisable.â 0543 cautioned her.
âDonât bother me with that nonsense and stop telling me what I can or cannot do! Warp us to the X75 star cluster now!â Akatziris shouted angrily. Warping the heavily damaged Braveheart would only do more harm than good to the ship, but she could not shake off the feeling of imminent doom from her logic processor, and every wire in her metal body was telling her to leave this galaxy for another one immediately.
âRight away, captain!â Having received such a forceful order from her captain, 0543 could do nothing else but comply with it. So after adjusting the shipâs direction and inputting the warp coordinates into the shipâs navigation system, Braveheart then sped up and prepared to enter subspace.
WRRR!
Not long after the ship had started its journey, an intense white ball of light appeared some hundreds of kilometers in front of them. While such a distance would be considered lengthy on Earth, it was nothing compared to the infinite expanse of outer-space.
âWhat the h*ll is that?â The bright ball of light did not evade Akatzirisâ lenses and was spotted immediately after it appeared.
0543 quickly zoomed in on the unidentified object and projected a live visual on a nearby wall. But neither the virtual assistant nor was her captain prepared in any way for what they saw.
âT-t-th-thatâs impossible!â
What they saw was so shocking to them that the AI developed the ability to stutter in her speech while Akatzirisâ operating system almost crashed and blue-screened. Appearing on the screen was an undamaged holding cell that they had supposedly deleted from existence a mere few minutes ago!
âWhat the f*ck is this? 0543! Where the f*ck did that come from?â The feeling of imminent doom intensified inside the androidâs central processing unit. The holding cellâs sudden reappearance could not have been from teleportation, for if that was the case then Braveheartâs preemptive detection radars would have picked up signs of spatial distortions and warned them about it.
âWarning! Warning! Spatial distortion detected around ship!â
Before they could begin to give the mysterious sudden reemergence of the holding cell any thought, Braveheartâs radarâs alarm started going off.
âDamn it! Initiate spatial stabilizers!â Akatziris promptly reacted to the alarm and ordered 0543. Based on the radarâs warning, it was clear that someone was attempting to forcefully teleport the entire ship away to a location where an ambush might be awaiting. But such an attempt was mere childâs play to the Namekian captain. As a deep-space faring species, the Namekians were no stranger to teleportation technology and were in fact, very advanced on the matter. A plan for a forced teleportation on them like this could be foiled easily.
âSpatial stabilizers initiated, captain!â 0543 was being very efficient this time and instantly carried out the captainâs orders without a hitch. The space around Braveheart was immediately fortified and any attempts to pull the spaceship into subspace was instantly thwarted.
âWarning! Warning! Spatial distortion detected around ship!â
But despite having their spatial stabilizers deployed and running, the radarâs warning did not stop.
âWhatâs going on? Why is it not working?â Akatziris was startled. Her non-existent gut was telling her that the radarâs warning was right, and that the shipâs spatial stabilizers were not doing what they were supposed to do.
WHOOSH!
But before 0543 could answer the captainâs distressed questions, reality disappeared from their surroundings and the entire Braveheart vanished from sight. And by the time Akatziris emerged back into reality, the Braveheart was gone and 0543 was unreachable. She looked around her and saw all of her minions, the other superior androids that had defected from the Unknowns, along with her, drifting in space alongside herself.
âWhere are we? My body...â The first thing that caught Akatzirisâ attention was they were all drifting around in a strange space filled with blurry lights of all colors coming from every direction. Her mechanical body was not responding to any of her commands, making any form of action, speech, or wireless communication impossible for her. And judging by the way the other androids were not moving or speaking as well, she assumed the same for the rest of them. The only thing working right now was her operating system, keeping them all conscious and aware of all that was happening around them.
âWhere the h*ll is this place? What the f*ck happened to the ship?â Akatziris was discombobulated. Although as a Namekian she was trained and well-learned on many different topics and situations, all that education and knowledge did not prepare them for this new experience.
âHey! Akatziris! We meet again!â
A voice resounded through the emptiness as if coming from every direction as a bright light flashed right in front of them, bringing Jiang Fei into view.
â...â
Akatziris was silent even though her former master had just appeared out of thin air. It was not because she was at a loss for words or she was silent by choice, but rather it was due to her android vocal chords not functioning.
âOh, I know that look! You must be wondering where we are. Where the f*ck is this place?â Jiang Fei said in a calm and casual manner. âWell, we are about 50 million kilometers away from the sun, somewhere near Mercuryâs orbit.â
Although the disabled mechanical muscles on her face meant that she was incapable of showing any form of emotion, Jiang Fei could empathize with her confusion simply because he too was confused when he first came here.
âConfusing, isnât it? Well, this is the exact same place where Braveheart is, but donât you agree that the view here is strange?â Jiang Fei smirked. Where they were right now was indeed the very same location as where they were when on Braveheart. Thus, fortifying the space around them with the shipâs spatial stabilizers was pointless as they were not being displaced from their positions.
âWell, let me explain. Although our physical location did not change... Surprise! Our dimensions have! Ladies and gents, welcome to the tenth dimension! Welcome to my world!â Jiang Feiâs voice boomed across the entire plane. He had never been as confident as he was now, and all this confidence came from him acquiring absolute power!