Chapter 1046 Truth of the World

Chapter 1046 Truth of the World

After the First Emperor of the Empire of Space aka the 6th Hero of Space, stated his conditions as per their previous agreement... Omega was left shocked.

"Master, what does that mean? Why are we joining the Hero of Space's party?

Is there something I'm not aware of?" asked Omega to Kahn, still befuddled.

"Consider it as something unavoidable... something preordained." said Kahn and didn't complain.

When Miyamoto Musashi made this condition during their negotiation where Kahn proposed to be taught swordsmanship skills along with the knowledge of the Space Law... this bizarre demand left him gobsmacked too. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

But then he remembered what Future Kahn told him. One of the things he had to do before the Great War officially began was also to forge ties with the Hero of Space.

In the original timeline, both the Martial Emperor and Hero of Space had an ambiguous relationship.

In Future Kahn's own words... they were neither friends nor enemies. On occasions, they joined forces but also fought against each other if the situation demanded it.

The surprising part of the negotiation was this condition was particularly relayed to Miyamoto Musashi by the God of Space himself.

So considering the future possibilities and things he was already told to do by the original Kahn, the current one accepted it without complaining.

Thus, he became fated to meet the Hero of Space many years before compared to the original timeline.

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In a couple of days, Kahn began his training montage.

He started learning samurai swordsmanship using Muramasa directly from the sword saint himself.

Omega on the other side, received the tutelage of the sword saint as the latter agreed to impart the dual-handed samurai swordsmanship technique called Niten Ichi-ryū.

[[Author: I'm purposefully skipping the training montage here because we've had a lot of them and you guys will blame me for another stretched-out arc if I write 10 chapters about the techniques, powers, skills, and achievements in detail.

I will only reveal them when necessary and at a proper time such as a fight or a plot incident. But do know that I shan't offer a detailed explanation and could completely skip over many of them since many readers find the info dump insufferable nowadays.]]

Meanwhile, Kahn also received lots of books and research material that the 6th Hero of Space wrote when he was alive.

It was all written in Kanji, a language Kravel didn't know of so his Gifts called 'Knowledge of All Languages known to War Deity' didn't work here.

Rather, it was Kahn's memories from Earth that helped him because, unlike 99% of weebs and otakus, he learned to speak, read, and write Japanese, which was derived from Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana. So he was fluent in it. This was also a blessing to Kahn in disguise because the entire Erdve Empire, which was reformed by Miyamoto Musashi who was summoned here more than 500 years ago, now spoke Japanese as their main language.

In a way, the Empire of Space was very similar to Edo-era Japan but obviously had its own unique cultural differences.

There is no common ground until both sides benefit. The weak countries still suffer and the strong ones with more power still abuse others and call it... Freedom.

I wouldn't go as far as to call it pure evil; because if the roles were reversed, the oppressed would be the oppressor in the kind of world earth has become." he said without a bias.

"And funnily, the whole planet is in debt... as if it loaned money from some other planet in the solar system.

We work to live every day and survival is hard enough, no different than how it is in Vantrea." he said and continued emulating his new sword mentor's movements.

"I see. So it looks like I didn't miss much either way." said Miyamoto Musashi.

Kahn then spoke...

"However, since I'm from a generation who has access to a lot of information if one were to look for it...

I know a lot more than you when it comes to different cultures, religions, countries, history, languages, and mythologies as well as folklore.

I have some suspicions. And I hope you can clear them for me" he iterated and his expression turned somewhat anticipatory.

The sword saint nodded and replied...

"I know what you're going to ask."

Kahn's eyes widened.

"So it's true, isn't it?

Damn, there were so many obvious signs. I just didn't see it because a lot of media such as mangas, novels, and literature took inspiration from them.

I always wondered why this thing I read about in the history of the world, a particular empire, a person, a monster or an event... was here." said Kahn as a sense of revelation dawned on him.

The 6th Hero of Space nodded again and responded...

"I too experienced it many centuries ago.

There are simply way too many species, powers, skills, classes, societal hierarchy, places, and beings in this world that feel like they belong in our times instead."

"It all makes more sense now." spoke Kahn, his body shivering in anticipation and mild excitement.

"You're correct." spoke Miyamoto Musashi and made a firm declaration.

"Earth in itself... is a variant of Vantrea."