Chapter 338: Singularity Eagle

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As if afraid the system would change its mind, Axel didn't delay. He tapped the blueprint and started its crafting. The system split the process into buying the materials, crafting the basic parts, and building it from the bottom up.

As such, it was no surprise to them that the entire thing needed a full month before completion.

Its crafting time was even four times longer than the singularity warhead's from Trismus!

Of course, normally, this amount of time wasn't something Axel could wait for.

Within a month, the third, or fourth, maybe even the fifth wave of Trismus's collectors would've visited. And there was no telling how powerful they could be. Their survival past a month was completely uncertain.

"So we'll be using these completion vouchers!" Axel roared.

He was lucky enough to have received ten of them from an achievement, after all. He was smiling from ear to ear, thinking that with the tickets, he could even craft ten of these new motherships at once!

But dreams were dreams, and reality is a bitch.

"What?!" Axel, seeing the popup before him, growled in shock and anger. "Finishing the crafting of the mothership will use four of the tickets?!"

Once again, he felt as if he was getting scammed.

But after reading the item's description, he realized it wasn't a scam, but merely the limit of the item itself.

Each voucher could only speed up crafting by up to one week. With a month-long crafting time, that would spend a total of four, for an equivalent of 28 days, leaving 2 days of wait.

Axel could technically use five vouchers, but using one for just 2 days felt like too much of a waste.

He paused, thinking hard.

Calculating whether being a penny-pincher would benefit him, or mark their end.

And after long consideration, he finally came to a conclusion.

"Fuck this! Let's go!!!"

With vigorous movements, he tapped the craft speedup button, using up five vouchers at once. A heavy expense, but he was convinced it was worth the investment!

The next moment, the system panel didn't flash or anything. It just completed one crafting item, quietly removing it from the queue.

But Axel's trembling fingers moved fast, checking his inventory, and seeing the last item added to it, at the furthest end of the list.

[Singularity Eagle A-01 Mini-World Mothership x1]

The item he was looking for was already silently waiting.

Axel read the item's description and smiled once more. After all, it was completely the same as it had been when it was still a blueprint. Not a single detail had changed.

"I want to test it!" he quickly shouted.

But then, a problem arose.

The item was so big—bigger than even the Trismus mothership.

If he took it out right there, he worried the planet's orbit would actually shift due to its humongous mass.

A minor shift in orbit could spell the difference between a heat wave and an ice age, after all.

To take it out, he first needed to head somewhere with a large space. A place where such a large mass wouldn't affect the planet's orbit itself. A location where he could have no obstacles 360 degrees around him for kilometers on end.

Only one place fit this checklist.

"I'll be heading out for a bit!"

Axel said, before jumping out of the laboratory and leaving Bellachrona's time-dilation barrier.

With his sharp senses, Axel could actually feel it, tactilely—the shift in the speed of time from extremely slow back to normal.

"Phew..."

Taking a deep breath, he confirmed that the air he was breathing was no longer the stale laboratory air, but fresh air.

As he basked under the warm morning sun's rays, his lips curled up into a thin smile.

"Alright!" he said. "I'll go visit outer space for a bit!" And so he declared.

"Huh?"

The dwarves nearby heard him talking to himself and felt puzzled.

After all, they were aware that the leaders of Axevaria Kingdom were all busy with something. But now, they saw their king muttering to himself about going to space.

'Did he hit his head?'

Such a thought was natural, of course.

But Axel wasn't joking at all.

He used his mana arrows, creating various elements from them. Particularly, wind arrows. Then he morphed the shape from an arrow into a sphere, surrounding his body with it.

Apart from that, he even created a solar shield to protect himself from radiation out in outer space—a fire arrow and ice arrow to modulate temperature within his little cocoon, and a gravity arrow to pull everything close together.

He was multicasting several dozen mana arrows of different attributes at once while performing complicated modifications on them, making the dwarves and other races watching him gape in shock.

"Well then, I'll be back in a bit!" he shouted once, before jumping straight toward the sky.

He flew like a speeding bullet, disappearing from sight in just a few beats.

"King Axel..."

Those left behind could only whisper his name in awe. "What a monster!"

Meanwhile, Axel accelerated faster and faster, putting his body under 20Gs of strain. Not only did he not lose consciousness, he wasn't even out of breath. After all, his preparations had already accounted for that.

Within seconds, he had already flown straight past the stratosphere.

Another minute, and he was already at the edge of the thermosphere, bursting into the exosphere—basically already outside the planet's atmosphere.

Out there, there was no more atmosphere to protect him from radiation. No more air for him to breathe. Axel could only survive by relying on the cocoon he'd painstakingly built, creating a comfortable zone for himself even in such a detached place.

"This far should be enough."

After flying roughly 20,000 kilometers from the surface—enough that the entire planet could be viewed by him if he turned around—Axel came to a stop.

He had limited time, as the harsh environment of outer space was slowly chipping away at his protective layers. So he didn't delay any further and withdrew the item he wanted to test.

"Come out, Singularity Eagle!" he shouted—not that it did anything, he just felt like it.

He quickly tapped on the item and withdrew it about 15 meters in front of him—the maximum distance the system's inventory was capable of.

The moment he did, he felt awe.

A gigantic hunk of metal appeared right beside him, dwarfing him completely.

It was so big that, with him so close, the ship looked like a wall extending in all directions. But from afar, it looked even more majestic.

The ship looked like an eagle, as per its namesake. It was over 30,000 kilometers long and 10,000 kilometers wide—so big, in fact, that it could already be a planet in its own right.

It had millions of turrets, each capable of killing Axel ten times over in one hit. And its defensive barrier could hold even if three suns exploded into supernovae right beside it.

The biggest boon of it all was the energy source.

It pulled energy from the void itself, so it never needed to refuel. A Dark Energy Engine!

Axel smiled, satisfied with what he was seeing.

"With this... I can finally protect everyone!"