"An AI, I never knew such things existed in the universe, every time anyone spoke about technology, it was more of a steampunk-style technology, I've never heard of anything similar to an AI existing in the universe." Reign stated as the hologram smiled at him.
"That is because technology is obsolete, instead of spending time trying to gain a higher understanding of technology, we can spend that time much more productively by training and improving our power." Aethion suddenly said as he listened to Reign and his words of wonder.
"We simply have no need for technology, even those that are not particularly strong have many ways to get around the universe thanks to all the things that have been created, huge arrays that can teleport a person from a planet to a planet, formations that allow multiple planets to be connected and people to go to and from them with ease …"
"Something like this is unheard of, I have never heard of a civilization that has developed such technology in the past," Aethion said in a serious voice as he spoke to Reign.
"Kid, I am afraid that I cannot give you a single word of advice, as this is entirely new for me as well, I do know of some organizations and even civilizations that focus on technology, but they are not that powerful, as far as I know, of course."
"After all, my understanding of the universe is still too low, I had merely been Transcendent, which means that I have not even scratched the surface when it comes to understanding things," Aethion said before going silent.
Reign knew that technology was not really present in the universe, as crazy as that might seem. That was also one of the reasons why everything on Earth was suddenly shut down and nothing functioned anymore.
Reign didn't understand precisely why it was so, but he knew that asking questions about that would lead him to nowhere as he was simply far too weak to even get any kind of answer, hell, even Aethion had no idea what the answer might be.
"So, what kind of functions does the base have, are any of them available to me right now?" Reign asked the hologram that smiled at him.
"You may use the storage area and all the things inside of it, the people that had managed to create the buildings have also created an array that would bind you to the shallow region of the base."
"At first, I wanted to deny them the right to do so, as they were not the masters of the base, and controlling even the slightest portion of the base and moving it around should not be allowed, but after so much time, I decided to allow them to do so, master can now use the core that they have created to move the base around, even though there is no need to do so as it will be bound to you and will be fused with your soul, which means that you can use anything as an entrance to the storage area, and you can, of course, choose who to allow entry to the area and how and when they can leave."
"If master was ever to wish to leave the base in one place, he can allow someone else to connect to the core in the storage area and move the base around."
The hologram spoke to Reign, allowing him to know just what he can do with the base currency, which was not much, merely the same things that the enemy organization had done, which was actually quite enough for Reign right now, after all, he had never expected to find something like this and was only trying to remove all traces of the enemy organization in order to keep Doncaster safe.
"I will be available for you to question at any moment, with the base being now connected to your soul, you and I can speak telepathically, just like you are speaking to that person whose soul you have captured." The hologram spoke as both Aethion and Reign looked at it with surprise.
"Ah, well, as I have previously said, your soul and the base have formed a bond, the base is connected with your soul, and that is of course where that person is, so I can easily see him."
"But for master to have found a servant with such potential, or to better say, with one that had a lot of potential in the past, potential that was used, unfortunately, not in the best possible way." The hologram said as Aethion narrowed his eyes before scoffing and resuming what he was previously doing.
"The monsters here will stay here, but in the future, you will be able to control them and use them as you see fit."
"I see." Reign nodded as he stared at the many snakes that filled the cave.
"Does master have any other questions, if not, I can send you back to the place you were before I called you over."
"Yeah, do you have a nickname or anything, I'm not going to call you by that full factory name." Reign said as the hologram smiled slightly.
"Officially no, I do not have a different name, but, after spending so much time alone, I did use it to look at what the people of this planet liked to do, how civilizations fell and rose, and I have of course learned much about this planet, including names."
"Of which one I am quite fond of." The hologram said as Reign narrowed his eyes and looked at him in confusion.
"And that name is?"
"Jared."
"Huh?" Reign blinked twice in quick succession as he stared at the hologram who looked at him with a confused expression.
"Is anything wrong with the name?"
"No, nothing at all." Reign said before telling Jared that he didn't have any more questions for him and that he can send him back.
Reign blinked, and he was back in the control room. Wolf and the young man were still there, and so were the sword and the soul of the enemy leader that was sealed inside of it.
"Reign, are you alright, you just disappeared, it was only for a couple of seconds but still." Wolf immediately came to Reign who stared at him with a weird expression on his face.
"Only a couple of seconds?"
"The area that we were previously in is very different and the flow of time is changed compared to the outside world, even though we have spent minutes talking, only about 3 seconds have passed in the outside world," Jared said from inside of Reign before growing quite.
"Hey, what happened?" Wolf asked Reign as he got near him, only for the latter to smile and shake his head.
"Nothing much, I managed to get full control over the base, and not just this part of it." Reign said before he started talking to Wolf about just how large the base was and what he had seen before getting the base bound to him.
Reign actually still didn't know exactly how large the base was, but he did know that it was many times larger than the storage area, which was already quite decently sized by itself and could hold hundreds of people inside of it, if not even more.
To think that it was merely a small part of the base, one that was merely used as storage, showed just how powerful whoever created this had to have been. To create something like this, a base that was controlled by an AI and that had such high levels of spatial energy and understandings of spatial law mixed in it so that it could travel through space and change shape willingly before letting someone gain slight control over the storage area, must have been of immense difficulty.
Whoever the people that created the base were, they were long gone, Jared had told him that much. But the story that Jared had told him, about how they turned to the one person they hated the most just so that they could have a chance of revenge, reminded Reign of something.
It reminded him about Raziel.
It made him remember one vision, the one where Raziel was standing in the void and staring at hundreds if not thousands of enemies. Reign could remember seeing giant spaceships that were as large and even larger than planets.
That was the only time he had seen something like this, a scene straight out of a sci-fi movie. The enormous spaceships showed that the civilization that created them was incredibly advanced and had a very high level of technological prowess. High enough to allow them to create an AI, for sure.
Still, Reign decided not to ask Jared about it. He was still weak and knew that as he grew more and more powerful, he would get answers to his questions, so there was no need to simply go around asking everyone for things that he would probably not be allowed to know in the near future.
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