Chapter 1726 The Future of the Eternals

After nearly a month of preparation, the Guards thoroughly understood how to use this scientific research spacecraft according to the manual left by the Kree. At the same time, the expeditionary soldiers placed the bodies of their dead compatriots on iron plates, then hoisted them with iron chains and placed them behind the engine of the Kree scientific research spacecraft, using the engine tail flames generated when the Guards started the spacecraft to burn the bodies of the dead soldiers.

During this period, the emperor issued an order, and members of the Holy Shield Brotherhood, including the Turquoise Stairs (Sinai Peninsula), were also rushing towards Egypt, preparing to take this spacecraft back to Eridu. This means that Eridu's thirty years of preparation have ended, and all the emperor's power to spread to the earth has begun to shrink. The development reports on the "well-field system" and commerce have been accumulated for thirty years, and Eridu's sociological experiment at this stage has come to an end.

The next step is to move Eridu's grain warehouse into the Kree Empire's scientific research spacecraft, and transfer all educated students, students' families, and all officials in all administrative systems (excluding religious administrative systems) in Eridu's public schools to the spacecraft. After all, the number of the Guardians is too small, and they can only rely on educated humans to operate the spacecraft.

The emperor did not stay here all the time, and Captain Miller and the Guardians can handle the next thing.

Inanna set out first as required and found Ikaros who was still in the Sinai Peninsula.

According to the agreement, Ikaros will meet with Kronos, the king of the Eternals, to convey the emperor's thoughts and requirements, and meet the emperor with the king of the Eternals' reply. When Inanna found him, Ikaros was staying in the simple house he built in the Black Desert. As an Eternal with superhuman strength, Ikaros can reach the location of the Earth Machine within a day, but he is unwilling to reveal the information he communicated with Kronos anyway.

Inanna believes that the emperor has guessed that things will turn out like this, so he sent her here-Ikaros chose to regret after hearing the truth-so the goddess from the wilderness chose the simplest and most direct way, that is, to speak with fists. When the emperor found Inanna, he discovered that she had imprisoned Ikaros in a mountain in the black desert. The black mountain exuded a burnt smell, as if it was located in the underworld.

There were no caves in the low mountain before, but now the traces of melting on the rock wall are clearly visible, like the magma that gradually solidified after the volcanic eruption. This is something that can only be done by large hot-melt mining tools manufactured by the future Mars foundry.

Inanna once secretly revealed her authority to the emperor.

The authority born from the worship of humans in the Mesopotamian plain is not as simple as casting love magic and making aphrodisiacs. Although in this era, the power of fertility and sex can completely dominate the fate of mankind, it is less intuitive than her other powers.

She was worshipped as the goddess of Venus. Whenever the people of Mesopotamia looked up at the night sky, they could pray to the bright stars. Inanna can borrow the power of Venus, or more precisely, the power of Venus imagined by humans at this time, which has nothing to do with the physical properties of Venus. Because of her honesty, the emperor filled Inanna's treasury with gems and gold. It can be said that Inanna is now one of the richest people on the planet.

This is a very powerful magic, and Inanna has never used it before.

Ikaros was lucky to be the first person in the Milky Way to be hit on the head by a miniature Venus, and he did not die. In contrast, the ecosystem of the Mesopotamian Plain did not have such good luck. Although the energy released by the miniature Venus created by Inanna with psychic power did not cause a mass extinction of species, the black desert that would take thousands of years to form has now become a veritable black desert.

From a few kilometers away, the emperor could smell the burnt odor of the land. All the plants and animals within a few kilometers were carbonized. The silica crystal storm was like hundreds of millions of miniature daggers, biting every rock in the desert frantically for the next thousands of years. A wasteland Gobi will soon form here, and the carbonized bones of dead animals will be ground into powder in just a few years, dancing with the crazy glass storm. There used to be humans here. Those who failed to escape in time before Inanna released the stars also died, and the process of civilization development was forcibly interrupted.

This forced the emperor to allocate some budget for post-disaster work. After all, in order to relocate the human tribes that suffered disasters here to the Kree spacecraft, they must prepare enough food for these humans to survive. Inanna will not feel sorry for this. She is not even aware of the fate of these humans, and she would not care even if she knew.

The emperor will not blame her for this. Although she has a human appearance, she is essentially the product of the deep combination of extradimensional entities and real flesh. Humanity has no meaning to her for the moral code formed by social norms and endocrine hormones. She is essentially the same as the emperor, but she lacks the education that the emperor has received. The emperor's humanity is given by the Supreme Sorcerer, and Inanna's humanity comes from beasts and nature.

She is a god, a natural disaster.

Heaven is not benevolent, and treats all things as straw dogs. All living things are just sacrifices to gods. God will not have mercy on innocent people, but humans will. The emperor realized this very early. Even if he forced her, Inanna would not change. Even if she accepted more beliefs and completely transformed from a natural deity to a social deity, Inanna's essence would not change.

He told Inanna more than that.

More than a decade ago, the Emperor and Inanna once joked that if they encountered a flying steel body with eyes that released heat rays, the best way to deal with it was to find a glowing green stone. Inanna never understood the Emperor's cold joke, but Ikaros was not Clark Kent, the Superman, or the Kryptonian next door.

Ikaros's power was not much less than that of the normal Superman. The thickness of this rocky mountain could not stop Ikaros. As long as Ikaros wanted, he could use his fists to drill through the mountain, or melt the rock with his heat vision. Now Ikaros was lying on the ground dejectedly, and he was unwilling to turn his head even when the Emperor walked in.

Inanna stubbornly believed that this was a disguise, and always tried to intimidate Ikaros so that he would reveal his true face.

The Emperor glanced at the Eternal warrior with a bitter face, turned his head and touched the head of the big black panther beside him. The panther wore gold jewelry, decorated with lapis lazuli and turquoise all over his body, and a crimson silk ribbon was wrapped around his head. This is Inanna. In order to guard Ikaros and chase him when necessary, Inanna chose to transform herself into a cat, but the psychic light she released can easily distinguish her from ordinary animals.

Even without the second vision, these gorgeous gold jewelry and gems are enough to show that this leopard is different. After all, ordinary leopards cannot afford these expensive gem jewelry. This incarnation magic was learned by the emperor from Bayonetta, and then he taught Inanna, allowing her to fully exert the "beast" authority of the wilderness god-entering Eridu to accept human worship did not reduce her former power, but made her stronger-after this, the magic of turning into a cat will be passed down from generation to generation of shadow witches, until the last witch captured a young mystic from Kamar-Taj with her long legs and love.

It's just that the emperor can't tell Inanna this future. Even though Inanna and Bayonetta are very similar, the emperor can't see the guidance of fate now, nor can he figure out the subtle connection between Inanna and Bayonetta. Only time can give him the answer, and he has a lot of time now.

The emperor did not show any courtesy to the prisoner. He gently kicked Ikaros' thigh with the tip of his combat boot. The Eternal War King sat up with his eyes half closed, not intending to look up. The emperor's tone was still as flat as ever, and no emotion could be heard. "You didn't come to me, Ikaros, you broke your promise."

"You're right." Ikaros snorted. He stood up and patted the dust on his thigh, "Then what?"

"You have verified my statement." The emperor said calmly, not caring about Ikaros's nonchalant attitude at all. The reason he was angry was entirely because Ikaros broke the contract, and it had nothing to do with Ikaros' attitude, because the latter's emotions could not affect the established facts. "What did Kronos say?"

"He told the truth."

"What do you think?"

"I know what you think." Ikaros pulled up the corner of his mouth and sneered. His hair was messy, and the demigod, who was like a sun that fell into humans, ignored his appearance for the first time, allowing dust and solidified rock fragments to be mixed in his hair. "The goal of the gods is the soul of mankind. The Eternals are just the farmers of the gods. All the self-righteous honor and justice of the Eternals are just to protect the future harvest of their masters!"

Ikaros became more and more angry. In the end, he even roared. The blood vessels under the skin of his neck burst out, and the bright golden light overflowed from his eye sockets. The storm gathered around him. According to human standards, Ikaros is undoubtedly a god. The anger of the gods in mythology is undoubtedly terrifying. Inanna can destroy this grassland and create an eternal desert. Ikaros can do the same. "Yes, we are all fools! The Eternals can't even break free from the collar! The Eternals are just the hounds of the gods, forever!"

The emperor calmly watched the Eternal War King who was close at hand fall into a rage. He looked at Ikaros's expression and saw the anger hidden deep inside. He knew what Ikaros wanted. "You want death." The emperor said, "complete death."

Ikaros didn't speak and chose to default.

The cave calmed down again, and the dust raised by the storm slowly fell.

He lost all his glory. As the most brave and combative individual among the Eternals, he was created to protect the Earth and safeguard the cause of the Eternals. All the righteous honors were like a crown, worn on his head without reservation. He had defeated powerful psychic entities from other dimensions, defeated alien exploration fleets that attempted to colonize, and eliminated unstable genetic hybrids created by the gods.

But Kronos acknowledged the Emperor's definition of the Eternals. The cruel truth told him that he was just protecting this experimental field from interference, just like protecting the glass lid of a petri dish. All pride was shattered. Honor was just to tie up his fighting hound. The praise he had heard from Kronos and other Eternals was just bloody meat hanging in front of him. He could no longer deceive himself and wear the ugly facts as praise.

The Eternals cannot take revenge on the gods, because they all have to succumb to the genetic program set by the gods for the Eternals. The Eternals cannot even obtain eternal peace and truly go to death. The first generation of Eternals created by the gods themselves were the real immortals. However, the gods used incomprehensible technical means to create the earth machine, and then used the earth machine to bind the Eternals, so that every Eternals could survive after death. Reborn from the depths of the earth machine in the shortest possible time.

The emperor longs for such technology. The gods are the pinnacle of technology in the physical universe and possess many technologies that transcend common sense and are like magic. As long as we have these technologies, humans under the emperor's rule will achieve extremely high levels of productivity. As long as we have these unparalleled technologies, humans' destiny to conquer the galaxy will become a reality.

The emperor pulled out the holy sword and pointed it at Icarus, and the cold cave suddenly became hot and bright.

"Tell me where the Earth Machine is and I will give you complete death." The Emperor said sincerely. He knew very well that a long life was tantamount to a curse, and even more so was being bound to eternity. The Supreme Mage's will is more determined than ordinary people. Without the mission and lofty sense of responsibility to protect the real universe, such a long time would be tantamount to torture. The same goes for the Eternals. When Icarus discovered that his once noble mission was just a lie to himself and others, all he longed for was true death.

"I promise you eternal peace. This sword is a weapon forged in the forge of this planet. You know what it represents, and this sword can fulfill its promise."

The warrior king of the Eternals gritted his teeth and said, "Who can guarantee that you will not cause harm to humans?"

"No one, I will not allow anyone to stand in the way of my plans."

"Whether the Eternals agree with you or not, you will destroy the Eternals, right?" Icarus laughed self-deprecatingly, "No matter what, you will destroy the restraints given by the gods to the Eternals, why should I make it easier for you? What? If I reject you, you will threaten me?"

"No, I am not threatening you, Icarus." The emperor looked down at Icarus, "Arras planned to create a new Eternals through technological means. Zuras objected, and the Eternals split. In fact, Alas Si's plan is very likely to succeed. I believe that the split led by Cronus's two sons was Cronus's instruction. In order to try to get rid of the control of the gods without letting other Eternals realize the truth, they deceived All of you."

There is no detailed record of such a major event as the split of the Eternals in the Kama Taj Library. It is very likely that Agamotto, who was watching all this at the time, did not regard the Eternals as a target - Agamotto focused on preventing When outer dimensions invade the real universe, artificial immortals like the Eternals are not enemies - the conclusion the emperor told Icarus now was entirely derived by him based on the existing information.

But Agamotto told the emperor something that was not recorded in the Kamathaj library, which was the cause of death of Cronus, the king of the Eternals. As the immortal Eternals, they can be reborn even after death. The only exception is Cronus. After his death, his soul became an extradimensional entity and his mind merged with the earth's machine. The reason why he is so special is entirely because when he tried to isolate the energy given by the gods, he triggered the program set by the gods. The violent explosion killed Cronus. Even the activation chamber for the rebirth of the Eternals could not reconstruct him. body.

Therefore, the emperor believed that the great schism of the Eternals was most likely led by Cronus, who had lost his body. The leaders of the two factions of the great schism were both his sons. No matter what the outcome, the Eternals could continue. By deducing from the facts of the future, Alas's experiment of creating the second generation of Eternals through technical means is very likely to succeed, because the second generation of Eternals gave birth to the future dark overlord Thanos through natural reproduction.

It's just that the second-generation Eternals, who lost a lot of advanced technological support, were trapped and died on a planet for unknown reasons during the Eternal Split, until resources were exhausted and society collapsed. Icarus did not know this information, let alone know that the most successful "work" of the Eternals would become the enemy that mankind must defeat as it moves into the universe.

The Eternals hid the Earth Machine very well, and Agamotto had no interest or time in finding the Earth Machine. If Icarus could tell him, it would prevent him from wasting a lot of time. For eight thousand years, every minute and every second must be of maximum value.

The emperor never believed that he had done anything wrong in concealing this information. Some people may accuse him of the crimes he committed, but as long as that person can breathe, it means that the emperor's work is effective. This is what Nick Fury taught him. There is no morality in protecting human beings. Murder, kidnapping, torture, lies, anything can be done as long as it is beneficial.

When Nick Fury first heard Salomon talking about the concept of Kama Taj, he thought that Kama Taj was also an organization that upheld the concept of protecting the world, so he always told Salomon intentionally or unintentionally. Instill the SHIELD way of doing things.

This was regarded as tearing off the last shackles imposed on him by Karma Taj and the Supreme Mage.

Nick Fury didn't know what this meant at the time. When Salomon and Victor von Doom launched the Yugoslavian Unification War, Salomon transformed into the Emperor, Lord of Karma and Asgard. When he recognized himself as the Lord of Mankind, the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D. was left with endless regrets.

Nick Fury tried to remedy the situation, but even his most elite female spy was won over by the Emperor. Only a few Skrulls were left to cooperate because of the Emperor's hunting. At this point, Nick Fury completely lost control of the Emperor.

No one in this world can control the Emperor, no one can stop him, and no one can stop him from putting a sword to anyone's throat, not even Bayonetta and Jenny.

"You have to choose not to tell me the information about the Earth Machine, but the future of the Eternals. Choose to cooperate, the Eternals still have a future." The Emperor pointed the sword at Ikaros. Ikaros felt that the Emperor's eyes were sharper than the sword, and the glance across his throat almost pierced him. "If you refuse to cooperate, the Eternals will pay for the time I will waste. You must make a choice, now."

"Now?"

"Now!"