Chapter 1717: Chapter 673: Yisula Star 3

Today, there is a new architectural complex on Yisula Star, slightly marring some of the beautiful sights this planet offers.

Yet the complex itself could be considered a new attraction.

This is exactly what encompasses the newly established Star Domain Level research institute by Ivan Romanov.

The institute covers an area of over two thousand square kilometers, crafted by authentic masters with a gorgeously exquisite design. Its architectural aesthetic style is unique even across the entire Empire, boasting hundreds of billions of stars.

At this moment, Ivan Romanov was blissfully lying on a large, soft chair, chuckling as he watched over a dozen women performing a certain indescribable dance with slight awkwardness beneath him.

About three hours ago, he had just awakened from cryogenic slumber.

Although he can now do as he pleases with no one to constrain him, indulging in a pleasurable life,

he’s not foolish. Having finally secured the opportunity to enjoy life in the fast lane, he couldn’t just perish easily from natural causes; of course, he must conserve his lifespan.

Apart from fully enjoying the various special treatments provided by the Royal Academy of Sciences that can extend life, he awakens once a year at a scheduled time and perfunctorily glances over the progress reports submitted by the institute.

But he doesn’t provide any amendments, only nodding approvingly. It’s not that he deliberately puts on airs, but people expect him to suddenly awaken a scientific genius and become a true master scholar like a real Chosen One. But there’s no such good fortune; he remains merely a transporter. He is only in a state of knowing the form but not the essence of all the knowledge he possesses. He is just a professional transporter.

His awakening doesn’t really have any meaning.

Thus, he added some new pleasures for himself.

After finishing his official duties, he called in a group of witches.

Yes, witches.

The Mechanical Empire is so vast, with countless planets, and different environments nurture different people and give rise to different cultures.

These over a dozen witches are former life-long Barons from a fringe Star System.

They banded together to rule that slightly primitive planet and established a unique witch promotion system, then renamed the planet Witch Star and completely cut off the scientific path of the Witch Star, leading its people into an extremely primitive so-called environmentally-friendly lifestyle.

Compared to people on other planets in the Empire, the living conditions of the Witch Star’s inhabitants are extremely harsh, with an average lifespan of less than forty, even worse than Source Star back then.

However, precisely due to the unique social atmosphere of the Witch Star, the people’s physical strength here is extremely robust and well-trained, making it an excellent breeding ground for frontline warriors.

These over a dozen witches have comfortably lived for tens of thousands of years through population trade, enjoying life being worshipped as deities by others, and reaping the rich rewards from exporting warriors. As for the extremely low survival rates and short average lifespans of their people, they couldn’t care less.

The so-called witch system is merely a new type of enslavement system they implemented to maintain their absolute authority.

By mastering all the most technologically-intensive aspects on the planet, rebellion naturally becomes impossible.

Faced with the threat of total war, these dozen people were the first to choose to escape with their valuables, taking only a few trusted followers and abandoning the majority of oblivious inhabitants on the planet.

Although they had placed a large number of transport ships in the planetary satellite orbit, in their flight, they chose to use the precious transport capacity to move their cherished witch mountains rather than to save people.

But now, the witches have been sanctioned.

It’s not that Duke Wenle intends to uphold justice, but he happened to see these witches enjoying universal worship on the planet while hunting for prey and immediately became interested, naming them with a request to the Chosen Guard.

The so-called "one thing subdues another," the witches who once ruled the planet like deities for tens of thousands of years have now become Duke Ivan’s playthings.

Ren Zhong did not expect that out of mere curiosity, he would instruct Sun Ai to track these similarly bizarrely vanished "unique women," and indeed he found the targets on Yisula Star.

Previously, he had already drifted to two suspected targets but ended up wasting more than ten years of travel time in vain.

When selecting the third target, Ren Zhong recalled the conflict between Duke Wenle and Jin Shi and had a sudden inspiration, instructing Sun Ai to slightly adjust the investigation direction, which now bore fruit.

At this moment, Ren Zhong’s light Red Blade Armor, transformed from his single spaceship, was activating its dark matter form, silently hovering above Duke Ivan’s main hall roof.

He overlooked below from a high vantage point, a mysterious smile spreading across his face.

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