53: The emperor has returned to the throne! One man is worth a million soldiers; the royal family trembles.
Ao Yuan's dragon phantom began to boast triumphantly beside her again.
"This posture in training troops, this poise in command—he's simply a natural-born commander!"
"When he returns to Ten Thousand Dragon Fortress in the future, I'll pass the position of Dragon Emperor directly to him! Let him lead our Dragon Race to trample the entire universe!"
Elizabeth gave him a cold sidelong glance.
"Do you think he'll still care about your position as Dragon Emperor?"
This single sentence immediately choked Ao Yuan up.
That's true... A 'King' who possessed the Primeval Human Emperor Bloodline and could raise a planetary-scale fleet on his own.
Would he still give a damn about being some Dragon Emperor?
The boy was originally the future Human Emperor; how could he be both the Human Emperor and the Dragon Emperor? Was he trying to defy the heavens?
Ao Yuan suddenly felt a tiny bit of... a sense of crisis.
The kind of crisis where... the peerless cabbage he raised was about to be snatched away by someone else's pig!
No!
This absolutely won't do!
"Wife, I think... shouldn't we intervene a bit?"
Ao Yuan grew anxious.
"This kid's ambition is getting bigger and bigger. If we let him keep playing like this, I'm afraid he won't even recognize us in the future!"
"We have to bring him back and let him know who his father is!"
Hearing this, Elizabeth shook her head.
"No."
"Let him go."
Her gaze was somewhat complex.
"A young eagle must always leave the nest."
"The path he chose, although not the one we paved for him, is... not necessarily not a grand path to the heavens."
"What we need to do now is not to drag him back, but..."
Elizabeth paused, her voice becoming somewhat playful.
"Add a little... difficulty for him."
Saying that, she raised a massive dragon claw and tapped lightly on the space magic mirror in front of her.
A divine sense that only she could see crossed endless time and space, transmitting directly into Su Jue's mind... Inside the cockpit of human emperor no. 1, Su Jue, who was currently experiencing the pleasure of 'one-click auto-attacking,' suddenly heard a teasing voice in his head.
"Have you played enough? My little King Majesty?"
It was Elizabeth!
Su Jue was stunned for a moment.
This cheap mom of his hadn't contacted him once since throwing him onto this planet.
He had thought she had already forgotten about him.
"What is it, Mom?"
Su Jue replied succinctly.
Toward this tsundere Dragon Queen who was harsh in speech but soft in heart, he no longer bothered with pleasantries.
"Heh..." Elizabeth chuckled lightly. "It seems that after being a King for a few days, your temper has grown too."
"I'm just here to notify you."
"Your performance in the third trial was... barely passing."
"Now, it's time for the fourth one."
The fourth trial?
Su Jue's brow twitched.
He was just preparing to do something big; he didn't have time to play any trial games.
"Wait a second, I don't have time."
He refused directly without even thinking.
"Oh? Is that so?" Elizabeth's voice became somewhat dangerous. "Are you sure?"
"I heard that a certain little fellow is preparing to go to a mining planet called 'K-7' to collect some interest from a family named 'Wang'."
Su Jue almost jumped up!
How did she know?!
Could that broken ball called the 'myriad manifestation recorder' have been monitoring him all this time?
"Don't be nervous." Elizabeth seemed to see through his thoughts. "I'm not interested in your revenge plan."
"I just think this plan can serve perfectly as the content for your... fourth trial."
Hearing this, Su Jue became even more vigilant.
"What do you mean?"
"The meaning is simple." Elizabeth's voice was full of unquestionable authority.
"You want to seek revenge, fine."
"But, you cannot use that... ridiculous legion of iron toys under your command."
"You can only go alone, in a single mecha, to face the Wang family's... entire garrison on that planet."
"That is your trial mission."
"Survive, and take back the planet that should have belonged to you."
"If you do it, I will acknowledge that you are qualified to walk your own path."
"If you can't..."
Elizabeth paused, her voice turning cold.
"Then you can just die there."
"Our Dragon Race has no need for a... trash who only knows how to hide behind an iron shell."
After saying that, Elizabeth's divine sense receded like a tide.
Leaving Su Jue alone in the cockpit, his expression shifting uncertainly.
One person, one mecha, to go against an entire planetary garrison?
This old lady is really damn ruthless!
Is this a trial?
This is clearly sending him to his death!
According to Wang Fu's confession, on the K-7 Planet alone, the Wang family's elite private army exceeded thirty thousand men!
Among them, there were no lack of experts in the Domain Transformation Realm and even the Divine Ability Realm!
There was even a Supreme Elder in the King Realm who presided there year-round!
If he went there alone in a mecha, wouldn't he just be delivering himself on a silver platter?
Su Jue's first reaction was to treat Elizabeth's words as nothing more than a fart and let them go.
Why shouldn't I use the army I raised with my own ability?
But... on second thought, he hesitated.
He knew that Elizabeth doing this wasn't because she truly wanted him to die.
She was using this extreme method to force him, to temper him.
What she wanted to see wasn't his command ability as a 'King'.
But rather his... limits as a 'warrior'!
Furthermore, in Su Jue's bones, there was also a pride belonging to the strong.
An... absolute confidence originating from the Demonic Dragon and mixed with the Human Emperor Bloodline!
What kind of skill is hiding behind an army?
A truly strong person should be... one man, who is an entire army!
"Damn it, let's do it!"
Su Jue gritted his teeth and made up his mind!
Isn't it just taking on a planet solo?
What's the big deal!
When has he, Su Jue, ever been afraid?!
"xiao pu!"
He issued a new command to the xiao pu.
"The fleet and the legion are to stand by on-site."
"Prepare the fastest assault ship for me."
"Then, fully charge all the energy for human emperor no. 1!"
"And take all the high-energy bombs in our warehouse that can be used—'Singularity' bombs, 'Antimatter' bombs—load them all onto the mecha!"
prometheus's core flickered.
"King, you are planning to..."
"I'm going to..."
A wild fire ignited in Su Jue's heart.
"Go solo this dungeon!"
...One day later.
A pitch-black 'Ghost' class assault ship silently departed from Gliese 436b.
In the cargo bay of the assault ship.
The three-hundred-meter-tall human emperor no. 1 stood quietly like a sleeping demon god.
Its surface was covered with a layer of 'optical camouflage' that could distort light, making it nearly invisible on radar.
Inside the cockpit, Su Jue had his eyes closed, performing final preparations.
He didn't practice the Heart Canon anymore, nor did he try to perceive laws.
He was simply... sleeping.
Conserving his energy.
Because he knew that what came next would be an... unprecedented fierce battle!
"King, we are estimated to arrive at the outskirts of the target star system in three standard hours."
prometheus's voice rang in his mind.
"Understood."
Su Jue slowly opened his eyes.
His eyes were calm, like an ancient well without ripples.
But beneath this calm was hidden... a monstrous killing intent sufficient to incinerate entire stars!
He opened the external communication channel of human emperor no. 1 and, with an extremely cold voice that sounded like a proclamation from hell, spoke slowly to the empty starry sky.
"Wang Family."
"Your... Emperor... has returned."