Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic Chapter 1180 - 632: The Truth of the Princes
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A group of twenty dark, twisted humanoids cast glances at one another before stepping into the Supreme Imperial Palace.
Inside the vast hall, their eyes settled upon a figure clad in golden armor, perched atop the Golden Throne.
At a fleeting glance, the figure appeared modest in stature, but upon deeper observation, he seemed to encompass the entire cosmos.
He existed as the wellspring of all reality, the fundamental origin from which all powers and civilizations drew their sustenance.
Struck by the sight, the Twenty Princes could not suppress their sudden trepidation.
The sheer, accumulated authority of the Radiant Emperor, refined over endless years, forced their heads to bow against their own will.
Yet, merely moments later, a realization dawned upon them: they had already crossed the line into rebellion, so why should they tremble before such majesty?
Instantly, a boundless, surging anger ignited within them, and the dark energy saturating their forms flared with wild intensity.
Su Yu!
The Twenty Princes bellowed the name in unison.
In the blink of an eye, they prepared to unleash a violent assault upon Su Yu.
Without haste, the golden-armored figure spoke, punctuating the silence: Why does your rage burn so brightly?
Faced with the question, the Twenty Princes parted their lips, ready to retort.
Did their fury not have a rightful cause?
They were synthetic constructs, monsters from the Subspace clothed in human visages, driven by the Radiant Emperor to subjugate the Galaxy and extinguish countless civilizations in their wake.
In truth, they were but instruments utilized by the Radiant Emperor, cold killing engines forged for the sole purpose of carnage.
As slaughter-machines burdened with human consciousness, experiencing rage was an inescapable fate!
However, they faltered, caught in a moment of hesitation.
Buried deep within, a sliver of confusion took root.
Before their insurrection, they had harbored genuine, deep-seated loyalty and reverence toward the Radiant Emperor.
Yet, since their betrayal, nothing remained but a chaotic slurry of fury, loathing, and agony.
This radical shift in their nature felt fundamentally distorted.
Have we been manipulated by some inscrutable force?
They could not help but wonder, harboring seeds of self-doubt.
If any other dared pose that question, they would have laughed it off with contempt, never questioning their own resolve.
But now, confronted by the great Radiant Emperor himself, they instinctively dissected every syllable, terrified of missing a hidden truth.
Then, Su Yu spoke once more: Do you yearn to understand the true nature of your origin?
At these words, the Twenty Princes snapped their heads upward: Speak your piece!
Their raid on the palace had been driven not merely by a desire for vengeance against the Radiant Emperor, but by a desperate need to solve the riddle of their own genesis.
These Twenty Princes possessed flesh and souls manufactured by Imperial technology using the Radiant Emperor’s own genetic material, granting them formidable power from their very birth.
Regardless, their true, primordial origin remained an ancient mystery buried within the Deep Layer of the Subspace.
Even now, having unearthed their dormant potential and ascended to such heights, they remained ignorant of their own essence.
What were those primeval entities, and why had they been consigned to eternal slumber in the Subspace Deep Layer?
Who were they, truly?
Without warning, a radiance of golden light, pulsing with vast reservoirs of information, cascaded toward the Twenty Princes.
After a fleeting hesitation, they accepted the illumination.
The knowledge locked within the golden glow was deciphered by them in an instant.
A look of profound shock widened their eyes.
So... this is what we truly are…
The Twenty Princes witnessed visions of the Ultimate Savior power from the Azure Star System.
That specific power of perpetual mutation and relentless distortion in the face of annihilation, driven purely by the instinct to survive, had left a deep impression on Su Yu long ago.
Now, this revelation struck the Twenty Princes with even greater force.
They recognized, however faintly, that this was the source of their existence!
This was what had birthed them into being!
Their origin was this eternally mutating ultimate power, which had coalesced into its final form only after experiencing infinite transformations.
Within this ultimate form, the power was nothing short of absolute.
No entity could hope to pose a threat to their survival any longer.
Yet, the price of such excessive mutation had been the complete evaporation of their sanity.
Thus, they had lapsed into eternal slumber.
That was, until the Radiant Emperor reclaimed them, infused them into artificial vessels, and birthed the Twenty Princes...
Such was the genesis of their kind! It was a terrifying irony: they were the progeny of the Ultimate Savior power from the Azure Star System, manifesting millennia later!
If any ordinary mortal were to touch the Ultimate Savior power and endure cycles of billions of mutations, the result would inevitably mirror the Twenty Princes.
The Twenty Princes felt a deeper sense of bewilderment than ever.
If such were the case, had the Radiant Emperor been their savior, dragging them from the depths of ignorant, eternal sleep?
If so, why pursue a path of vengeance?
Clearly, this was another manifestation of Su Yu’s Source of Cause and Effect at work.
Initially, Su Yu had possessed no knowledge of the true nature of the Twenty Princes.
Their primordial energy was far too enigmatic to be scanned, even with the full might of the Star Tower.
However, since Su Yu’s Source of Cause and Effect stood as the foundation of all universal laws, even where he could not scan, he could find.
During a brief moment when the Twenty Princes launched their assault on the Zhendan Star System, Su Yu intercepted and located their true essence within himself!
It was indeed the Ultimate Savior power brought forth from the Azure Star System!
Only an anomaly of such bizarre proportions could grant them such formidable essence and form.
Even so, Su Yu remained slightly uncertain whether this had truly been their nature from the beginning, or if his own essence of the Source of Cause and Effect had retroactively transformed their origin into the Ultimate Savior.
In the end, such metaphysical quandaries, being neither provable nor refutable, were matters Su Yu did not pursue.
In any event, their origin was now anchored in this power!
Nevertheless, a complication persisted: the Ultimate Savior power had been cultivated by Qi Chen over millennia within the Azure Star System.
What relationship did it bear to Su Yu now? The power had not been his to begin with.
Yet, by inhabiting the role of the Source of Cause and Effect, Su Yu possessed the authority to retroactively make himself the master of that power’s source.
The original principles governing the Ultimate Savior power might have been obscure, but now, it stood as a borrowed mechanism derived from the Source of Cause and Effect.
The Source of Cause and Effect was profoundly idealistic and possessed a near-miraculous quality in actualizing intent.
Qi Chen, existing millennia in the future, had linked with this mystical Source—Su Yu himself—thereby manifesting such peculiar power.
In its essence, the Ultimate Savior power harbored a miraculous quality, singular in its drive to sustain existence.
When analyzed, this was nothing more than a mutated expression of the Source of Cause and Effect.
Ultimately, its origin remained Su Yu himself!
With this, the logical cycle was rendered complete.
The power wielded by the Twenty Princes was derived entirely from Su Yu.
Consequently, even if he did not surpass them in raw kinetic force, he held the key to neutralizing them entirely.
At that instant, the Twenty Princes regained their focus, their voices dripping with frost: What meaning does revealing this hold now?
Su Yu released a quiet sigh. True enough, what meaning did these truths hold? Was there any hope for them to turn back from their path of heresy and regain their lost loyalty?
They had already bathed their hands in the blood of billions; for them, the path of no return was already paved.
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