The Almighty Ring

“You’ve made quite the progress here,” said Jiang Fei. After viewing the ship’s condition, Jiang Fei made a decision to stop supporting Akatziris. The last thing he wanted was Akatziris taking off with the ship while he was fighting the Unknowns.

“Be as it may, we do not have anymore energy to continue our work,” said Akatziris with a straight face.

“No rush. I do not have any more Energy Crystals myself. However, I have some news that you might be interested in. I am now organizing a strike team to attack the Unknown’s main base. I am offering you half of what we could haul from there if you are to join us,” said Jiang Fei. Even though he had decided not to give anymore Energy Crystals to Akatziris, he was not convinced that everything would go as planned. The b*tch might be hiding some Energy Crystals somewhere in the base which would be enough for her to finish the work. His plan was to “force” her to join him in attacking the Unknowns lest she left Earth with the ship.

Akatziris went silent when Jiang Fei extended his invitation. Her plan was as exactly what Jiang Fei had thought; to leave Earth while he fought Veiga. After obtaining full control of the ship and registering herself as the captain of Braveheart, she would return to Earth, not as a Supreme Android, but as the supreme ruler.

To join Jiang Fei and attack Veiga’s forces would be a huge gamble. If the joined venture was a success, Jiang Fei would be stronger and she would be the next target of elimination. Even if she were to be given Energy Crystals, Jiang Fei would come along to take control of the ship. He was, after all, much stronger than she was at this very moment.

“What’s wrong? Did you have something planned?” Jiang Fei asked with an underlying tone of curiosity mixed with a hint of doubt.

“It’s not that. Did you forget about me offering to join you during your previous raid? I am curious as to why you have only extended the invitation now,” Akatziris answered. Like Straz behaving himself back in Jiang Fei’s base, Akatziris had to act innocent in front of Jiang Fei. Even though he was in her base, there was nothing she could do to stop Jiang Fei from acting against her. If anything, Jiang Fei could return to Earth and come back with his army of Bio-Humans.

“Alright then. I take it as a yes,” Jiang Fei answered.

“Oh, I have a favor to ask,” Akatziris quickly chimed in.

“What favor?” said Jiang Fei as his fingers danced about on the console.

“I would like to ask for Miss Ariel’s help in examining the electrical conduit of the ship. As you know, an accident befell the ship, causing several internal damage to the ship’s integrity. We may have fixed some of it but with Ariel’s keen senses, she could detect faulty conduits with extreme precision,” Akatziris explained.

“Hmm. A reasonable request.” Jiang Fei agreed to help. Taking care of the ship was worth investing in as Jiang Fei saw it as his own property. Surely he would want the ship to be in its best condition.

“Bennette Straz, please lead Miss Ariel to the ship’s hull,” Akatziris ordered.

“Right away, leader.” Straz acknowledged her words and proceeded to invite Ariel to the hovercraft.

“Sisters, keep both eyes peeled. I leave the safety of our beloved in you hands,” said Ariel before leaving the room.

“Leave it to us,” Nina answered.

“I’ll make sure our darling will be safe. If anyone or anything wishes to act against him, I’ll be pulling her head out of her body before you know it,” Sylphy answered as she eyed Akatziris.

Ariel left the bridge, leaving Jiang Fei alone with Akatziris. Even so, with Nina and Sylphy watching out for him, Akatziris dared not make a move on Jiang Fei.

As Jiang Fei moved away from the console and took a tour around the bridge, he gave a look to Sylphy when Akatziris was within sight, signaling Sylphy to start a fight with Akatziris to draw her attention away.

“I’m warning you, tinhead. My darling is but an honest man. You best not squirt any kind of pheromone or I’ll make sure that’s the last thing you do,” said Sylphy after she took two steps closer to Akatziris. The girl was delighted when Jiang Fei had given her permission to lash out at Akatziris.

“Excuse me?”

Akatziris frowned furiously before she clicked her tongue at her. Her eyes glowed and flickered with blue hue. The last time Sylphy lashed out at her was during her previous meeting with Jiang Fei. The words she had used previously was so vile that Akatziris could never forget them. Now that Sylphy started lashing out again, spitting out venomous insults to her, Akatziris was not having it.

“What? Is that all you can say? Excuse me? What I said is true! You are nothing but a pet! A lowly, forgotten pet that my darling once owned and tied with a leash! How does it feel being abandoned by my darling? Did you feel sad that you’re too useless for him? How did it feel having been thrown away? It must have hurt so bad! Hah! An unwanted slave!”

Sylphy had cleared practised this before. How else would she be using worse insults at Akatziris. It was fortunate that Isabella wasn’t around for this or she would have taken Akatziris’ side and fought with Sylphy.

“Shut your mouth!” Akatziris hissed. Sparks of electricity could be seen leaking all over her body.

“This is working better than I thought. Perhaps a little too well. I should have Sylphy dial it down a bit, ” Jiang Fei thought. He had only wanted Sylphy to distract Akatziris for a bit. Just for a moment to draw her attention away from him. He hadn’t expected the girl to be so vile!

While Sylphy was spitting venomous insults continuously, and Akatziris was trying her best to endure her rage, Jiang Fei moved ever so quietly toward the Captain’s Console.

Currently, the ship was already passed 80% completion and the console was operational and active. He could now connect to the Data Management Center and assume the role as the ship’s captain! He could finally unseal 0541!

Jiang Fei used every technique he had learned and poured it into dancing around the ship’s console panel. In a blink of an eye, he had already moved in between panels of the console. His fingers danced around the keys, leaving afterimages even! What was supposed to take a tedious amount of effort, was shortened to the least amount of time.

On the other side of the bridge, Akatziris was still enduring Sylphy’s insults. There she was, hating the fact that she was not made human. If she was human, she would have already passed out from all the tension and stress. As an Android possessing supercomputer-level processing speed, she understood Sylphy words and could not opt out from listening to them. To make things words, she had no idea how to refute Sylphy’s vile insults!

Nina turned her head around to look the other way as Sylphy continued to spit out words of poison. If it weren’t for Jiang Fei’s orders, she would have already stopped Sylphy at the first sentence.

While Sylphy was throwing out insults, Nina turning the other way, and Jiang Fei busy clicking and clacking his way to become the ship’s captain, a small orb of light, the size of a grain of sand, floated out of Jiang Fei’s ring. The orb drifted slowly to the ground and flew slowly toward a machine on the side.