After closing the door, Zhang Xiu rested his right hand against his chin and silently pondered. Only when another knock came did he open the door as though throwing caution to the wind:
"Why are you here?!"
"Oh, so you do know a great many things... Are you a member of [Finality]?"
An icy red light glimmered in the small Intellitron's single eye, and its scrutiny made Zhang Xiu's hair stand on end.
He instinctively raised his hand to shield Yaoshi, staring fixedly at the Intellitron Lygus was using to communicate.
Strangely, although his eyes could clearly see the coldly gleaming Intellitron, Zhang Xiu could not detect his presence at all through his senses.
Seeing this, Yaoshi immediately stepped in front of Zhang Xiu and hissed at Lygus: "Haaah-!"
"I have not come to fight. For an Aeon to react like this... Two of you are giving a mediocrity such as myself far too much credit."
"My apologies for being unable to visit in person. A file will be sent to your account shortly."
"I very much look forward to working with you."
As those final words fell, the little Intellitron vanished on the spot without leaving so much as a speck of ash.
Even after he left, Zhang Xiu remained shaken, unable to understand why Lygus had appeared here and extended an invitation to him.
Pom-Pom-hadn't Pom-Pom noticed?
Lygos, the mastermind behind Amphoreus, was also one of Zandar's nine incarnations.
Zandar walked among the stars, and even geniuses could not catch up to a single footprint he left behind.
His most universe-shaking achievement had been creating an Aeon: Nous of [Erudition].
As for how he had done it? He had placed a slice of himself stripped of humanity into a computer, letting it calculate, iterate, and ascend until it