After thinking it over, Axis decided to give the Emperor three items first: an Energy Gun, a Scouter, and a Protective Suit.
In exchange, he would ask the Emperor to make him a Custodian and give him the chance to stay by the Wolf King Leman Russ's side.
After choosing the items, Axis hid the most important Briefcase, along with some Capsules and the spaceship, then went outside.
At that moment, the Wolf King Leman Russ had already announced to his people that he would become the Emperor's son and take part in the Great Crusade.
"Warriors of Fenris! We're joining a great war. I've reunited with my father, the Emperor, Master of Mankind.
"Every one of you will have a chance to become my true son, one of my Wolf Cubs. I'll lead you to victory after glorious victory!" Leman Russ declared.
"Follow the great Wolf King!"
"Follow the Emperor and join the Great Crusade!" The warriors of Fenris raised their weapons high and roared.
Watching this, Axis couldn't help shaking his head. The success rate for Space Marine surgical augmentation was very low.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be just over two million of these super-soldiers. There would be tens or even hundreds of millions, and the Imperium wouldn't need ordinary Imperial Army troops.
He wondered how many of Fenris's warriors would survive the Astartes augmentation surgery.
On Russ's orders, a large number of older warriors and able-bodied young men stayed behind to continue protecting their tribes and assist the Imperial personnel who would soon arrive.
They would build a new military fortress on Fenris. The planet would serve as the Primarch Leman Russ's recruiting world and the homeworld of the 6th Legion.
During the Great Crusade, it would supply the Sixth Legion with weapons, equipment, and fresh recruits.
"Axis, are you ready?" Leman Russ walked over and asked when he saw him.
"Russ, I've made my choice. These are the three items. Let's use them to convince the Emperor!" Axis carefully explained his choices to Russ.
"I know these items. You used them when we fought, and you even gave me one of those Combat Suits! It's a fine piece of kit," Leman Russ said.
The Combat Suit was incredibly durable. Axis had once given him one, and even his wolf-brothers' steel-biting fangs couldn't pierce the thin fabric.
Its defensive capabilities were astonishing. Russ always wore it as an undersuit. It was comfortable, light, and soft.
"I remember this Scouter. When you checked my combat power during our battle more than ten days ago, mine was nearly 1,800, while yours was over 500," Leman Russ said.
The strongest warriors in the tribe had combat power in the twenties. Most were only in the teens. Ordinary women ranged from six to eight, while children were usually below five.
Only one person had combat power over a thousand: himself. Axis was the only one over a hundred.
"Check my combat power again," Axis said, handing Russ the Scouter.
He had broken through another limit in his Saiyan bloodline during his sparring match with the Emperor, so his combat power had increased again.
The Saiyans were a race with extraordinary combat talent. They evolved through constant fighting, learning, and training, and had no limits.
Russ nodded, put on the Battle Nizer, and pressed a button. Beep, beep, beep—a string of red digits appeared!
It showed a combat power of 756, a full 200 points higher than before.
"You've been getting stronger fast, kid! How about me now?" Leman Russ asked.
After his fight with the Emperor, he felt he had grown considerably stronger. No one had ever given him such a satisfying fight before.
"Your combat power is over 1,860. I'd guess you'll break 2,000 in another year or two," Axis replied.
Combat power in the Dragon Ball World was absurdly high. In the original story, Master Roshi, with a combat power of over 100, could blow up the moon, while King Piccolo, with a combat power of over 260, could rule the entire world.
Once you broke a thousand, you could dominate a planet. And once your combat power passed ten thousand, congratulations—you'd become a planet-busting powerhouse.
But all that depended on having ki. You needed to fire a Ki Blast to accomplish such feats. Without ki, relying on physical strength alone, even Super Saiyan 3 couldn't punch a planet apart.
After all, Super Saiyan 3 couldn't survive without a planet. Without ki, Russ could only smash a few mountains with his pure physical strength. (Let's patch a plot hole here: in the Dragon Ball World, a combat power of over 200 is enough to destroy the moon, but not here, because they don't have ki. Only the protagonist can do that.)
So in this world, the Scouter measured pure physical combat power. But Scouters had their limitations, too.
In the Dragon Ball Universe, powerful fighters could generally use ki and had immensely strong bodies, so Scouters were fairly accurate.
But here, you sometimes had to factor in Power Swords, Chainswords, Power Armor, Plasma Weapons, Meltaguns, and the like. Otherwise, you couldn't get an accurate reading.
Just think: an ordinary human soldier with a Power Sword could theoretically stab a Custodian to death, if he managed to land a hit.
"I think you'd better bring the spaceship, too. I have a feeling this won't be simple. My father is a very forceful man," Leman Russ said, rubbing his chin.
"Are you sure? The FTL Engine is no joke," Axis replied.
He had planned to give the Emperor the FTL Engine after the Custodes Surgery was complete.
"You have to trust my instincts, Axis!
"My head's been buzzing nonstop, as if I've had some kind of premonition.
"You have to bring that FTL spaceship to convince my father. Otherwise, he won't accept your terms.
"You might even anger him. The consequences of that would be terrifying. I think I saw something." Leman Russ crouched down as he spoke.
In the hazy vision he'd seen, taking those things to meet the Emperor wouldn't convince him at all. It would only anger his father.
And there was no need to explain what would happen if the Emperor got angry.
Axis was stunned. That powerful intuition—could it be a psychic vision of the future?
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