Ye Qiyan decided to wait until he returned to the Wasteland before continuing his search for that core.
Some of the Train Coins had already been deposited, and until this search was complete, the Seeker would not enter cooldown.
And as his Ascension ended,
Lisette also lifted all their external defenses.
The Gatam Empire's army had completely surrounded the area, countless gun barrels trained on their location.
Gatam I stood aboard an imperial spacecraft reserved for the emperor, glaring at the burning Imperial Palace.
He knew perfectly well where this blazing heat came from.
Although he did not know exactly who had done what,
it was obvious that all of this had something to do with his teacher.
"That old bastard actually had so many tricks hidden away..."
One of his men had tried to enter that sea of flames earlier.
But the instant he entered, the time of his Mecha and his own body fell out of sync.
The Mecha froze, while its human pilot was trapped inside, unable to move. He could only helplessly feel time accelerating wildly for his body.
By the time that temporal Barrier dissipated, the pilot had gone from an eighteen-year-old boy to a middle-aged man who had starved to death.
Yes.
His cause of death was starvation.
The Gatam Empire's pilots were merely enhanced humans, somewhat stronger than ordinary people.
The only Extraordinary in the entire Empire was Gatam I himself.
That was why he had lived for hundreds of years.
Pilots who were merely enhanced humans still needed food and water.
And Lisette's Time Acceleration made them die in the way most agonizing to humans.
[Starvation]
Gatam I would never understand just how foolish it was to refuse to allow a second human Extraordinary to exist.
No matter how powerful the Mecha