The Oath Sword returned to Reji's side with two items.
One was the Second Prince's relic, the "synthesis" ability from his own Hero system. Now because of the combination with Lana, it had turned into the form of a soul fragment.
And the other was a certain token that Danye gave him before his death, as if thanking him for the liberation and also as if for revenge.
Simply put, it was the pass that the Emperor gave to the Second Prince.
The pass to Stillwater Prison—a core like jade
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The area of Stillwater Prison was much larger than Reji had imagined.
Rather than calling it a prison, it was more like a small underground world.
After walking out of the teleportation gate, perhaps because he took the "internal passage", Reji directly appeared on a relatively high cliff.
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Everything was very quiet, extremely silent.
Reji came to the edge of the cliff and looked down. Perhaps that was the real Stillwater Prison. It was a dark land shrouded in thick gloom.
The gloom exuded an ominous aura. There seemed to be signs of something moving inside. If one looked more carefully, it seemed that the shadows of trees and vegetation could be seen.
Unfortunately, because the distance was too far and the gloom blocked most of the view, Reji couldn't obtain more information just by gazing.
As for this cliff where he was currently located, the reason it wasn't covered by the gloom was entirely due to an ancient lighthouse emitting a dark green light, located not far away, a hundred meters away on the cliff.
The light at the top of the tower isolated and dispelled all the gloom that wanted to spread over.
This kind of dark green light was almost identical to the jade core of the Second Prince before. Very obviously, this lighthouse should also belong to the internal facilities of the empire.
Reji withdrew his gaze from the cliff below and moved towards the inside of the lighthouse.
The iron door at the entrance of the lighthouse was locked, with complex magic seals on it. It would probably take a lot of effort to forcefully open it. But fortunately, Reji quickly found a hidden embedded slot next to the iron door.
The shape on the slot perfectly matched the jade core of the Second Prince in his hand. After putting the jade core in, accompanied by the flashing of a faint light, the entire lighthouse seemed to be awakened from its previous standby state.
The dark green light at the top of the tower flourished and began to rotate rhythmically. Immediately after, all the seals on the door in front of him were also removed and opened to both sides on their own, as if welcoming Reji.
The interior of the lighthouse was divided into three floors.
Whenever there was a major breakthrough or an outstanding discovery in a certain field that might lead to revolutionary progress, the insect eggs in the bodies of these key individuals would release a special pheromone, thereby being captured by the main body.
Afterwards, it was the action of the Court of Judgment.
To hunt down these core talents worldwide.
Seeing this, Reji finally understood why humans would regress so much a thousand years later, with no progress in civilization at all.
It was equivalent to precisely locating every genius, truly strangling geniuses in the cradle in the true sense.
This was undoubtedly anti-human.
And very wasteful.
The Second Prince in the notebook, after thinking that he understood the Emperor's intentions, had repeatedly proposed to the Emperor that there was no need to hunt down these talents. The talents could be absorbed into the empire.
After all, hunting down talents was just to hinder the development of other countries or forces, thereby consolidating the empire's supreme position.
Then if these talents could be won over and made to serve the empire, wouldn't it allow the empire to accelerate its development and open up an unbridgeable gap with other countries?
Even later, the Second Prince took the initiative to propose to the Emperor that insect eggs that could control talents could be developed. In this way, the Emperor wouldn't have to worry about the loyalty of these talents who had defected to the empire.
However, this time, the answer given by the Emperor was no.
And there was no room for negotiation at all.
It seemed that in the Emperor's eyes, those scholars and geniuses who could bring progress to human civilization were not elites, but tumors and scourges.
Once such people appeared, they were to be killed without mercy.
The Emperor was like this towards other countries and forces.
Even within the empire... it was the same.
At this point, the Second Prince in the notebook seemed to have just understood that in the Emperor's eyes, even the empire didn't matter. What the Emperor wanted was to be the "strongest".
For this, the Emperor didn't hesitate to use any means, even if it meant letting the entire human civilization stagnate, and no challengers who might threaten the position of the "strongest ".
After seeing the Emperor's true colors, the Second Prince quickly became terrified.
If the Emperor was really such an authoritarian dictator, an extreme individualist, would the Emperor possibly give up the position to these "princes" who had no blood relationship?
Even more boldly speculating, was it possible that the so-called "change of Emperor" had always been a lie from ancient times to the present, and every Emperor was actually the same person, that first generation Emperor?