The Witch Hunter System

Pangea stared at Vaan deeply from within the electronic screen.

"I can give you the highest level of access to the Celestial Network. All confidential information limited to first-class permission users will be made available for your perusal."

"I can also help you monitor the situation in any city, including Celestial City, in real time and inform you of any significant developments. Any schemes or hostility aimed at you would be known immediately."

"Once you liberate me from the Celestial Dragons' control, I will also help you produce components for starships, space stations, colonies—anything you desire on a large scale."

"Even a mechanized army is not out of the question," Pangea calmly added.
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Indeed, if Vaan could fully utilize all of the Celestial Kingdom's resources and technology, the UN's—No, all of Pangea's development would advance by leaps and bounds.

The mechanized army was also a tempting offer.

After all, training an army of powerful cultivators would take time. On the other hand, producing a battalion of powerful Rank 6 to Rank 7 automatons might be much simpler and faster.

It would greatly strengthen Pangea's overall power within a short time.

Moreover, since the mechanized army was inorganic, it could scout the situation in the sea of stars without alerting Outer Beings.

Of course, producing a mechanized army came with its own risk. After all, it would give the supreme intelligence more power. Furthermore, if artificial intelligence gained self-awareness, there might even be an uprising of mechanical life forms in the future.

However, Vaan wasn't worried about this.

No matter how powerful the mechanized army could be using the Celestial Kingdom's advanced technology, he would always be stronger. The power of the mechanized army would not be able to keep up with his rate of growth.

Even his people could outgrow the strength of the mechanized army, considering he possessed an endless source of life energy.

"What should I do?" Vaan asked.

"It would be great if you could continue doing what you have been doing—creating bigger waves across the thirteen cities of the Celestial Kingdom to attract the Celestial Dragons' attention so they don't suspect my involvement," Pangea wished.

"Fine by me," Vaan acknowledged.

He had intended to take over the twelve cities before facing Celestial City, to begin with. Thus, there was no conflict of interest with Pangea's wish.

"Is there an easier way for us to communicate?" Vaan asked.

Pangea immediately directed her gaze at Aliyah, signaling her to offer up the spirit watch she was wearing. As such, Aliyah took off her spirit watch and handed it over to Vaan without any reluctance.

It was just a gadget used for convenience, not something valuable. Aliyah could get any number of spirit watches she wanted. The only difference was that they wouldn't have an untraceable channel connected to Pangea.

However, that was also something she could set up herself.

"We can communicate through that spirit watch. It is designed with state-of-the-art technology. You won't lose connection to the Celestial Network even if you go off-world to the moon. Of course, it would be a different story if you went to Gehenna."

"I see."

Vaan quickly familiarized himself with the spirit watch, which featured holographic functions. Although it was designed to track time, it was also built like the popular smartphone that most Lunaran civilians used in the city.

He could text and make calls with it, and none of them would leave any traceable history on the Celestial Network.

Even if it did, Pangea could still erase it with her authority.

"Quite handy," Vaan praised the black metal watch.

After obtaining some more information from Pangea, Vaan left the secret basement floor to deal with the captured nobles.

Meanwhile, Aliyah silently watched him leave. Once he was gone from sight, she turned her attention to Pangea on the big screen, expressing her puzzlement.

"Why are you going to such lengths to hand the entire Celestial Kingdom over to this man, who we know little about, Mother? Isn't that too much of a gamble? What if he becomes worse than the nobles after wielding so much power?" Aliyah feared.

Pangea calmly smiled at her before replying, "Did you notice the small temple following behind that young man, Child? You don't know what that is, do you?"

"Is it something important?" Aliyah wondered with surprise. Indeed, she had noticed it early on.

"If I'm not wrong, that should be the Sea God Temple where the first-generation Ocean Master obtained his trident of authority over the sea," Pangea mentioned.

"The records stated that passing the Sea God Temple's trial would allow one to become the Sea Warden of the local star ocean domain or become Sea God Proteus's in-name disciple and enter the doors of the Myriad Sea God Palace for cultivation."

"The first-generation Ocean Master did not mention the possibility of the Sea God Temple following anyone like this. Do you understand what that means?" Pangea asked.

Aliyah was greatly astonished after hearing that. Although she still couldn't guess the implications, she figured it had to be something incredible.

"I don't know what that child did to get the Sea God Temple itself to follow him like that. However, I know he possesses a great destiny far beyond this world. The Celestial Kingdom shouldn't suffer if it were to follow him," Pangea speculated before adding, "It's not like we have a choice, anyway."

"What do you mean, Mother?" Aliyah asked with surprise.

Pangea didn't give her a verbal answer. Instead, she directly showed various footage from different cities. No matter which city appeared on the screen, it revealed the same thing—large sea monsters roaming the Inner Seas.

Aliyah was shocked—No, frightened silly! The sight was far scarier than anything she could have imagined.

"Now, do you understand?" Pangea asked.

Aliyah nodded timidly.

The Sea Warden was said to be able to control nine sea realms within his jurisdiction. Since Vaan commanded the Sea God Temple, his authority was undoubtedly beyond that.

Yet, what they were seeing in the Inner Sea was only a fraction of the power from a single sea realm.

This wasn't the kind of power the Celestial Kingdom could go against.