The Vengeance Legion

Looking at the 50 Shilin Warriors standing neatly before me, as a half-baked Shilin Emperor, I felt immense pressure.

This feeling was somewhat like someone who spent their days wearing a fake police uniform and carrying a fake police ID, scamming people on the street, only to suddenly run into a squad of tall, burly real police officers. But my situation was even more serious. The other party wasn't just small police officers but fully armed Shilin Warriors, and I wasn't just wearing a fake police uniform; I was acting as their Emperor and had even abducted an Imperial General. Heaven knows how they identified the NT-level authority of a Shilin Emperor. What if Pandora's identification system had malfunctioned before, and now I was in for it...

Just as my nerves were about to snap, the leading warrior finally spoke: "Authority confirmed... It is an honor to meet you, unknown Emperor. We are loyal warriors of the great Shilin Emperor Sandora. I am Carmen-3575, a positional defense heavy infantry."

My heart, which had been pounding, suddenly dropped.

Regardless of the method they used to determine my authority, it seemed my Emperor identity was currently valid.

Unlike me, who didn't know much about them, Pandora immediately understood their relevant information from their self-introduction. She quickly took out another sign from behind her back. The sign read: "You are the Vengeance Legion?"

The big soldier in front of me snapped another salute and answered loudly, "Yes, sir!"

Watching such a burly man salute a Loli so seriously and call her "sir," why did I find it so amusing?

However, compared to the amusement, I was more interested in their Legion's name. The title "Vengeance Legion" seemed to have some unusual significance, didn't it? Or was it just the name of the Legion, like the "Pandora Heavy Armored Legion" that was currently freeloading on Earth?

Pandora saw the confusion on my face. Having already understood me well, she immediately guessed what I was curious about. So, through our mental link, she introduced them to me: "Emperor Sandora is a Shilin Emperor known for her belligerence. She once led a Legion alone on a distant expedition to the Seventh Sky Sector and destroyed twenty guilty civilizations in twelve years, earning the title 'War Song Princess.' The Vengeance Legion is Emperor Sandora's main Legion, known for its powerful positional warfare capabilities and Avenger-style suicide attacks—records end here. The last recorded expedition of this Legion was to the Helenda Star System an unknown time ago—time error—before the Empire entered a dormant state, and we lost track of this Legion's subsequent situation."

I nodded, then turned to the heavy infantry who called himself Carmen-3575 and asked, "How long have you been in this world? It would be best if you could introduce your experiences in this world in detail."

"Since losing contact with the Empire 57,000 years ago, we have been stranded in this world. Most space equipment, including the long-range space jump system, has been interfered with by unknown energy and cannot be activated. During this time, we have been engaged in continuous warfare with a certain force here that has been corrupted by the Abyss, until recently when our equipment partially resumed operation. My soldiers and I were ordered to come to this area to test whether the long-range space jump system could be activated using the Sylvis Space Positioning Method, but as you can see, we were attacked by a large group of demonic beasts."

I nodded, saying with a serious face, "Hmm, the situation you reported is of great value." Then I turned to Pandora and asked, "What did he mean?"

Lin Xue broke out in a sweat: "So you didn't understand anything after listening for so long? Then why were you being so serious!"

A strange look also flashed across Pandora's usually placid face. Then she raised her ever-present, ever-changing sign again: "It means they were trapped in this world about sixty thousand years ago and have been fighting continuously until their situation changed recently."

Why didn't you just say that earlier? You had to add so many technical terms, who could understand that!

A war that lasted for nearly sixty thousand years... I guess only Shilin Warriors could endure that. It's hard to imagine how they spent those sixty thousand years. What surprised me even more was that with the terrifying destructive power of a Shilin Legion, after a full sixty thousand years, this planet was not completely destroyed, and the environmental situation even looked pretty good. It was truly unbelievable. After much thought, I could only attribute this to the author being lazy and not wanting to write more...

At this moment, Carmen suddenly spoke: "Respected Emperor Chen Jun, our Emperor has received news of your arrival and invites you to visit our main base as a guest."

I was stunned for a moment, then realized that Shilin Apostles could connect mentally remotely at any time. It was likely that the other party had already contacted the Shilin Emperor named Sandora while reporting the situation to me just now.

If I had received an invitation from a Shilin Emperor before meeting Carmen, I would never have dared to go—heaven knows if my inexplicably acquired Emperor identity would pass muster in front of them. But now that I was basically sure my identity could pass their authority authentication system, I was very interested in meeting that real Shilin Emperor.

I nodded and said, "How far is your main base from here?"

Carmen replied, "It requires circling about a quarter of this planet."

Me: "..."

Pandora stretched her arms, then turned her gaze towards me and Lin Xue. At that moment, I felt all the muscles in my body tremble—if we were to travel in Pandora's usual way, the two of us fragile Carbon-Based Lifeforms would definitely die!

Fortunately, what we worried about didn't happen—Carmen and their transportation could accommodate the three of us.

Sitting in the high-class cabin of the Shilin troop transport ship, Lin Xue excitedly wandered around, wishing she could find a screwdriver to take apart these instruments and study them.

After a while, I really couldn't stand it anymore, so I stepped forward and pressed her down onto a chair: "Alright, alright, stop embarrassing Earthlings, okay?"

"A spaceship! This is a spaceship!" Lin Xue was still restless even when pressed into the chair, gesturing wildly as she said, "This is an Alien spaceship! The real deal! Are we in outer space now?"

"Didn't you hear them say this is just an atmospheric shuttle? Hey—stop messing around, if you break it, can you fix it?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xue gave up the idea of randomly pressing buttons on that pile. Then she looked at me with eyes full of admiration and said, "I still can't believe it, are you really the Emperor of this... thing?"

"You've repeated that sentence seventeen times."

"Are you really a human?"

"You've asked that even more..."

"Amazing..."

"I say, you're a senior leader of the Ability Group, aren't you? And now you're the first human to officially contact Aliens here. Can't you act like a big shot should?"

"Look who's talking, do you have the demeanor of a big shot?"

"...Pretend I didn't say anything."

If I didn't tell you, could you connect this scene with a historic meeting between the head of an Empire and the leader of a human Ability Group?

Lin Xue was still excited, and I was too lazy to bother with her anymore. Instead, I asked Pandora, who had been sitting silently on the side, with some curiosity: "Pandora, do you know anything else about that Shilin Emperor named Sandora?"

"Possesses astonishing battlefield command ability." The sign in Pandora's hand read.

"Anything else?" I asked.

A big cross appeared on the sign.

Pandora, did you really not care about anything other than things related to fighting?

It seemed I still had a long way to go to transform Pandora into a normal, well-behaved Loli who liked dolls and acted spoiled towards her brother...

Just then, we suddenly felt a slight vibration.

The cabin door slid open silently, and Carmen walked in. He saluted me and said, "Report! We have arrived at the base!"