While Minos and his crew were sailing to the North Pole of the Spiritual World, the group of space explorers from the Mechanic Empire were preparing to receive their "guests."
The main island of this place already had its defenses up and its special weapons in position.
Meanwhile, all the Protectors at the disposal of the local leader of the space explorers were already awake and ready to fight.
They didn't want to risk going after the enemy because Minos' black hole was something even they didn't know how to deal with. With no one among them who could ignore the effects of the black hole, they wanted to settle everything in one fight, using all the advantages they had on their side.
Unlike the forces of the Spiritual World, the beings of the Mechanic Empire possessed various technologies in the form of weapons that even low-level beings could use to deal with powerful threats.
With sonic weapons, lasers, plasma, and so on, they had various ways to destroy a crew like Minos'.
But before using these devices, they had to make sure the enemy leader, Minos, fell. As long as he stood, his black holes could stop even the most advanced technologies of this group.
To ensure he would indeed fall, they planned to use everything they had in the core of their territory, where they could best control the battle to their advantage.
That's why they didn't take any unnecessary risks and had only recently lost a few robots to Minos' group due to a delay in moving their people from that island to their core territory in the North Sea.
In any case, Minos and his group were less than a month's journey away from them, but the core of that territory was already prepared to deal with him, with weapons, defenses, and Protectors in place.
Meanwhile, in the depths of the Mechanic Empire's secret headquarters on this world, the leaders of this outpost were completing preparations for the final measure that would guarantee their success.
In a huge area of the underground of this region, a place so large that it could even contain the body of an adult dragon, several light blue glowing urns were spread out evenly, forming a large warehouse.
From these glowing urns, one could easily see the symbols of the language of these people, which said similar things to each other.
Meanwhile, several bodies of members of this race were inside them.
"Commander, we have confirmation that all non-essential personnel for the upcoming battle are in deep sleep in their cryogenic urns." A level 89 being said to the strongest biological being there. "Their memories have been stored and sent to the central server in the Mechanic Empire. In no more than a week, the information in their minds will be secured.
If the enemy succeeds in destroying our defenses and the bodies of our people, the empire will be able to create robots with their knowledge."
"Perfect." The Commander of this post said, not wanting to have to use the memories of the many specialists in his team in this way but aware of the risks ahead.
If it were anywhere else, he wouldn't have worried about the danger to his people's lives in these cryogenic urns. Not only were these urns capable of temporarily stopping the biological clocks of the beings inside, but they were practically invincible defenses.
Even a God would have difficulty destroying even one of these units!
But their enemy this time was very unusual and could recreate the highest existence in the universe: black holes!
Even the civilization of these people had no way to deal with black holes. Therefore, the Commander of this outpost and some of his men knew there was a risk that even their last defenses would be breached and their many experts would be killed.
Fortunately, they could copy their memories and knowledge and protect the work that had been done in this world over the past few centuries.
With these memories protected and able to be used in robots, the Mechanic Empire could easily dominate this world with the information gathered by these many beings, even if Minos managed to kill them in the near future.
With that, there was one less worry on the shoulders of those beings who would be left behind to deal with the crisis while the rest of the native beings of the Mechanic Empire slept in their urns.
"Commander, before we go into hibernation, Doctor Cauns said we must be careful. Our target must be killed, or we'll have endless problems. According to the Doctor's mathematical calculations, this Minos Stuart could become our greatest enemy if he is allowed to leave the North Sea." Another level 89 being said seriously.
Doctor Cauns was the mathematician of Iktun's group of space explorers and a renowned "seer" in the empire.
Through Minos' potential, Doctor Cauns developed a mathematical method to predict how strong Minos would be in the future and how difficult it would be for the Mechanic Empire to succeed on this journey if he were allowed to live.
"He left this to the Commander." That Sage handed over a glowing object that showed two graphs and data related to Minos.
"What is this?" Commander Iktun asked.
The being explained what Doctor Cauns himself had told him. "This graph shows Minos' power level compared to our protectors. The other shows our chances of success according to his cultivation level."
Looking at it, Iktun felt a chill in his soul when he saw that if Minos reached level 90, his people's chances of victory in the Spiritual World would be less than 60%. If he died before then, their chances would be 98%.
However, if Minos reached level 95, the empire's chances would be -7%!
"What does that mean?" Iktun asked when he saw this information.
"If our chances of victory become negative, it means that we will lose the war, and our state will be in danger of being influenced by our enemies. According to Doctor Cauns, a -100% chance of victory for us means the destruction of the empire!"
That was when Iktun saw the graph in question reach such a point in the possible situation of Minos reaching level 100.
"Shit!" He understood how formidable Minos was in Doctor Caun's vision and saw how necessary it would be for his people to eliminate Emperor Stuart as soon as possible.
"We will do our best to stop Minos Stuart in the next few days. Even if we have to lose our current position and everyone dies in battle, it will be worth it if he dies too!" He said as he left the place where the many cryogenic urns of his people were.
'If we fail, I hope Doctor Cauns was wrong in his analysis. Otherwise...'
