(Thank you, Beiming Luo Yu, for the donation bonus chapter 9/25)
In his groggy state, Li Qinwu opened his eyes and found Nightingale and the Iron Skull Archmagos looking down at him.
Nightingale said with a smile:
"You're awake, Sleeping Beauty. I have good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"
Li Qinwu had a feeling something was wrong. It seemed their positions had been reversed.
But he had just woken up, and his head was still muddled, so he followed his biological instincts and asked:
"What's the good news?"
Nightingale smiled and said:
"The good news is that a hundred years have passed. The Planetary Forge experiment you conducted a hundred years ago succeeded. We've transformed Moon 2 into an Adamantium production factory, and we've already built a hundred super battleships!"
Li Qinwu's eyes lit up.
"R-Really?"
A burst of cybernetic cackling came from beside Li Qinwu. The Iron Skull Archmagos said:
"The bad news is that it has only been six hours, not a hundred years. So Moon 2 has not become an Adamantium factory, and you do not have a hundred super battleships! You have nothing. You can do nothing. Your length can't even reach a Gloriana-class Battleship!"
"Ahhh!!"
Li Qinwu instantly snapped awake, all the confusion in his mind swept away. He sprang off the bed and took a guarded stance toward the two of them.
"Damn it, you actually dared to mess with me!"
Then he suddenly thought of something terrifying.
"Where's my ring?!"
The Iron Skull Archmagos pulled Lilith's Wedding Ring from his robes and tossed it to him.
"When the Planetary Forge exploded, it produced an equivalent yield of roughly a hundred million tons of nuclear explosions. I have no idea what this ring is made of. It was