The unidentifiable fleet didn’t try to negotiate with Cillin. They immediately opened fire the moment they got in range.

However, Cillin’s spaceplane turned invisible before they could fire their guns. They couldn’t find him with their eyes or their scanner.

They activated their cannons and fired at random in hopes of catching the invisible spaceplane somehow, but the shots either hit nothing or a stray space rock.

A short time later, a terrible explosion suddenly exploded in the middle of the fleet, followed by a second and a third. No one had any idea what the hell was going on, and it wasn’t long before it was all over.

Things calmed down again after the fleet was completely annihilated. Cillin’s spaceplane appeared at the distance, but that wasn’t all. Several robots and a small starship had appeared as well.

The robots first reported the completion of their mission to Cillin. Then, they returned to the starship and went away to execute a new mission. The same scene had repeated itself multiple times since the presentation, so it was nothing new to him.

Not long after the robot left, he received a communication request from Xi Kai.

“What are you planning, Cillin?”

Instead of answering, Cillin countered with his own question, “Have you made up your mind about last time yet?”

Xi Kai paused for a moment before replying, “Give me a bit more time.”

“Sure.” Cillin didn’t care that Xi Kai was dragging out his response. He had his own plans to carry out.

“Do you need anymore robots?”

“No, this is enough for now.”

Xi Kai let out a sigh. “There are people in Black Viper who are dissatisfied with what you did, Of course, their objections don’t matter much, but think before you act next time, okay?”

Cillin smiled. “Is that a warning I’m hearing?”

“Of course not, you’e one of the three heads of Black Viper right now. Just do what you think is right. If you need anymore robots, you are free to contact me anytime you want.”

“Sure.”

Cillin cut off the communication tell and sank into his chair, thinking.

On the shelf next to him, a resting Wheeze opened its eyes and said, “That guy sure is taking his time.”

“It’s fine, we have other things to do anyway.” Cillin was never one to hedge all his eggs in one basket, especially when it was something as important as finding a way to return to GAL space.

Those restless pests should be about done, right? Cillin looked at the name list in his hands as plotted his next move.

Before Cillin made his presentation, he had spoken to Guan Feng about a new project. He wanted to create an online forum where academics could converse with one another.

There were all kinds of online forums in the empire, and of course there were academic types as well. But the online forum Cillin planned to build was different from them. For starters, he didn’t plan to impose too many restrictions on it, meaning that anyone—the noble or the commoner, the professor or the nobody—could take part in it. Everyone was free to speak and make their voice heard as long as they were proficient in the area they spoke of, no matter the identity. Naturally, the personal information of the participants would be kept a tight secret.

It didn’t take long for the project to get approved. In fact, the decision makers of the RAS approved it purely because Guan Feng had asked them to, not because they thought that the plan had any merit at all, at least at the beginning. Cillin was a member of the RAS now, so a plan like this go through them first before it was carried out. It would be a rule violation otherwise.

Besides that, Cillin had also requested for the emperor himself to give his online forum the stamp of approval. He succeeded. This meant that anyone who entered the login page of the online forum would be greeted immediately by the unforgettable stamp of approval and authority by the RAS and the Mist Bodhisattva Royal Family.

Right now, the academia of the empire needed a cause of motivation and cohesion. Unlike Neo and his kin, they were easily affected by outside influence, and they didn’t get to enjoy the protection of Black Viper. Therefore, the goal of the forum was to give these people, including the usually anonymous denizens of Black Viper a platform to make their voices heard.

The forum was currently still in construction. The main body would be completed by him and Wheeze, while Xi Kai and Black Viper would provide support. For the last period of time, Cillin had left the repelling of the assassins and the interceptors to the robots and the special forces completely so they could focus on the tasks at hand, and so far they had done a fantastic job. Not a single one of these troublemakers were able to do anything to them at all.

Tousen thought that Cillin was now a blade in the hands of the royal family. He believed that the royal family was using Cillin to do the things they couldn’t normally do and reorganize the academia. What he didn’t know was that Cillin was also borrowing the royal family and the RAS’ fame and power to accomplish his own goals.

Wheeze of course understood this. It was why it hadn’t spared any effort in constructing the online forum. In fact, it wouldn’t be long before the name “Whebeze” started making waves throughout the empire.

Just when the people of the twenty third star region thought that Cillin had ceased his movements, the latter had announced his forum—Return—to the world. The stamp at the front page of the forum especially stunned a lot of people.

There were a lot of online forums in the empire, and one that was approved by the RAS or the Mist Bodhisattva Royal Family was of course deserving of attention. But rarely was there an online forum that gathered the approval of both parties! It was instantly popular as a matter of course. Even those who didn’t dabble in the academia were curious to take a look and see what all the fuss was about.

There were many categories inside the forum, and each one came with a set of questions and bounties that participants could answer and win. The bounties offered real money, not virtual currency. This meant that they could either be converted into cold, hard cash or credited directly to a binding card.

Money was the driver behind most things, so Cillin spent a total of three hundred million to establish the initial bounties. It wasn’t just his money, of course. It was a mix of his money, Guan Feng’s, RAS’ startup capital and financial ai