"...With the strongest Psionics User in the entire Milky Way Galaxy helping you, how could the Great Khan possibly fight you? What a loser."
"This Great Khan is such a loser!"
"...You sound pretty brave, huh?"
"Are you kidding? I'm super brave, okay? I'm a beast in a fight!"
"...A beast in a fight, and brave, too."
"...I've got some good stuff here."
"Good stuff? A new Relic?"
"...Even more exciting than a Relic~ I can even teach you how to be a war criminal~"
"A war criminal?"
"...Come on, take a look and you'll see."
(The gist of the conversation ↑)
[Teacher] had disappeared for nearly half a month straight. When he returned, Xi Yan could see an apparently ancient storage device clutched tightly in his hand.
He approached nervously and plugged it into an external port on the Golden Throne.
"...This is a construction blueprint from my collection, left over from the Ancient Era. It's the blueprint for a device once used by a powerful empire. The technology isn't particularly advanced, but its structure is extremely complex. I think you'll find a use for it."
Surprised, Xi Yan began reading the technology contained in that ancient storage device.
[Teacher] was always like this. He occasionally acted all mysterious, but he was extraordinarily reliable and often offered all sorts of strange assistance.
Xi Yan had never probed into [Teacher]'s secrets. Most likely, [Teacher] was an Old Bastard who had survived since ancient times.
What [Teacher] had given him this time was a megastructure blueprint, supposedly very useful for his upcoming grand strategy.
So what was it?
The moment he began analyzing the technical blueprints, a brain-like concept diagram popped up.
Then a title appeared in large, size-one SimSun type.
"Construction blueprint for the megastructure 'Synaptic Lathe'"
"Holy shit!" Xi