Chapter 633 A Myth of Ocean Race
On the third day after Jacob's contact with Star Lord, within the hidden base of the Star Hackers, all the Nine Anonymous Stars were gathered around a mechanical table in a huge futuristic lab.
On this table, many pieces were put together like a jigsaw puzzle, making a humanoid figure with tattered skin.
"Just how much power is required to turn a Soul Puppet into this state?" An anonymous star exclaimed in its static voice.Folloow current novÊls on nov/3lb((in).(co/m)
"Anonymous9, are you really worried about this, among all other things? Shouldn't we be worried about our only lead going into the wind with this undeniable proof that Faceless Ancient was just a scapegoat to fool us all?" Another static voice rang, filled with angry frustration.
"Indeed, I agreed with Anonymous8. Now that Faceless Ancient has signed the Zodiac Oath Contract crafted by Anarchy (the Artificial intelligence of ATLAS) without any loopholes, and this Soul Puppet and the traces of Life Signal on it also match Free Sword's, what should we do?" Another Anonymous Star coldly questioned, making the atmosphere gloomy to the extreme.
They all turned towards the dark spot around the table where the black silhouette of Star Lord was sitting silently.
Just as in Star Lord's agreement with Jacob that day, Star Lord again sent two men to Jacob's estate, where Jacob was waiting to receive them. Star Lord even put out a valuable physical Zodiac Oath Contract, already drafted by the AI Anarchy. It was almost as powerful as the SAAI, and had Jacob sign it right in front of them and even record it.
After Jacob had signed the contract without raising any objection, nothing seemed to happen to him after signing it, and this already made the Star Lord believe in Jacob's lies by 80%.
Afterward, Jacob handed him the pieces of Soul Puppet he had destroyed and was just keeping for research purposes. He was glad he didn't dispose of them, so his alibi became even more solid.
Now, after a full day of scanning and all the research done by the Star Lord, there was no doubt that Jacob was telling them the truth without any loophole or scheme. In other words, Jacob was a victim of Free Sword's malicious scheme and turned into a scapegoat to mislead the ATLAS.
At least, this is what everyone in this room was thinking right now. Truth be told, they all felt humiliated and raged since they were all tricked by 'Free Sword', and he even saw through their trick that they put in the Offender Ring.
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Jacob stood in front of a furnace, monitoring the molding process of a few powerful metals, without any clues that he had just compelled Star Hackers to stir the hornet's nest known as the Ocean Races.
Even if he knew, Jacob wasn't going to pay them any heed since he had already 'cleared' his name and brought himself valuable time to continue to grow. He wasn't going to believe those guys will stop paying attention to him, this action of his will only made them stop taking extreme actions.
But if he showed any suspicion, they would come at him with full force. However, Jacob wasn't worried since he knew that by the time they realized it or he had made his move, it would be too late, and no one would be able to stop him.
He looked at a machine filled with runic markings. At this moment, all those runes were glowing, and in the center of this magic machine was a transparent glass compartment.
At this moment, an integral octonion (polytope) condensed by dense magic power from 1000 unique magic gems continued to compress and glow like a small white sun in this glass compartment.
Jacob's eyes glowed as he looked at the finger-nail-sized polytope.
'I never thought I could make the Quantum Atomic Reaction with magic energy without going through the trouble of building a nuclear power plant first.
'Who could've considered the magic energy also contained active radiation that I'd never heard about before? Still, I was only able to build this magic machine because of the space runes and after blasting myself tens of thousands of times in the nightmare realm.
'With just a little bit of error, the Dark City will turn into nothing but history...'
Jacob was somewhat fearful but mostly excited as he watched his creation become a reality from a dream!
