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Chapter 157 - 157: Synapse Once Worshipped Science · Nov 03, 2026

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151 Chapter 151 - 151: Heroic Spirits and Spirits Need Extracurricular Tutoring 2026-11-03
152 Chapter 152 - 152: Going to the New World to Get Some Universal Angels 2026-11-03
153 Chapter 153 - 153: Kick the Fallen Empire into the Trash Heap! 2026-11-03
154 Chapter 154 - 154: You’re a Hammer, Like a God!! 2026-11-03
155 Chapter 155 - 155: Daedalus: Did I Just Die Prematurely?! 2026-11-03
156 Chapter 156 - 156: A Deal, Go Wash Up and Wait for Me~ 2026-11-03
157 Chapter 157 - 157: Synapse Once Worshipped Science 2026-11-03
158 Chapter 158 - 158: Let Me Ask You—Are You My Master? 2026-11-03
159 Chapter 159 - 159: I’ll Make the Master of Synapse Sleep Peacefully 2026-11-03
160 Chapter 160 - 160: Come, Sign This Unequal Treaty 2026-11-03
161 Chapter 161 - 161: We Achieved a Thousand Times Our Goal! 2026-11-03
162 Chapter 162 - 162: The Master of Synapse Sleeps Uneasily 2026-11-03
163 Chapter 163 - 163: The Wishing Stone Tablet and Synapse’s Friend 2026-11-03
164 Chapter 164 - 164: The Airheaded Angel Doesn’t Understand Love 2026-11-03
165 Chapter 165 - 165: Come Quick, the Commander Is Handing Out Mecha-Girls! 2026-11-03
166 Chapter 166 - 166: I Shall Ascend to Godhood Through Science! 2026-11-03
167 Chapter 167 - 167: A Commander’s Essential Skill—ZA WARUDO! 2026-11-03
168 Chapter 168 - 168: The Alliance Flagship Renamed to Eternal Lewd Party 2026-11-03
169 Chapter 169 - 169: I Want to Ride the Dragon and Be a Dragon Knight 2026-11-03
170 Chapter 170 - 170: Commander Hosts a Party—Don’t Be the One Who’s Left Out 2026-11-03
171 Chapter 171 - 171: It’s Loli Harvest Season! 2026-11-03
172 Chapter 172 - 172: Build Earth into a Super Harem Palace 2026-11-03
173 Chapter 173 - 173: My Life Belongs to the Bulins and the Lolis 2026-11-03
174 Chapter 174 - 174: The Commander Has Nothing to Offer But Himself 2026-11-03
175 Chapter 175 - 175: I Like Conquering Carrier Onee-sans 2026-11-03
176 Chapter 176 - 176: The Starbase Is Complete—For the Stars and Oppai! 2026-11-03
177 Chapter 177 - 177: War Between Worlds—Time to Beat Up the Neighbors! 2026-11-03
178 Chapter 178 - 178: Losers Must Be the Commander’s Plushies and Starfuries 2026-11-03
179 Chapter 179 - 179: Let’s End This Silent Game! 2026-11-03
180 Chapter 180 - 180: I’m Saying All of You Here Are Trash 2026-11-03
181 Chapter 181 - 181: Give the Natives a Taste of That Alien Overlord Shock 2026-11-03
182 Chapter 182 - 182: Your Teigu is Female, My Noble Phantasm is Male 2026-11-03
183 Chapter 183 - 183: Take the Girls, Leave the Rest to Mine 2026-11-03
184 Chapter 184 - 184: Lowly Natives Audience Before a Godlike Overlord 2026-11-03
185 Chapter 185 - 185: The Commander Is a Kami from Another World! 2026-11-03
186 Chapter 186 - 186: That Commander Forced Esdeath to Her Knees... 2026-11-03
187 Chapter 187 - 187: As Everyone Knows, Fire Melts Ice 2026-11-03
188 Chapter 188 - 188: One Fight, Two Plush Balls 2026-11-03
189 Chapter 189 - 189: Esdeath, Tamed into a Concubine 2026-11-03
190 Chapter 190 - 190: We Were Ready to Fight to the Death, but the Commander Used Orbital Bombardment First?! 2026-11-03
191 Chapter 191 - 191: Trash Alliance, Might As Well Rename It the Empire 2026-11-03
192 Chapter 192 - 192: My Spoils of War Are the Entire World 2026-11-03
193 Chapter 193 - 193: The Commander Wants to Pilot an EVA 2026-11-03
194 Chapter 194 - 194: I Could Battle Jeanne Alter Until Dawn 2026-11-03
195 Chapter 195 - 195: Taming the Dragon Witch, Everyone Join the Mana Recharge 2026-11-03
196 Chapter 196 - 196: Great Victory! Ten-Day Party to Celebrate 2026-11-03
197 Chapter 197 - 197: A Country Bumpkin Comes to the City for School 2026-11-03
198 Chapter 198 - 198: Indor Battle 2026-11-03
199 Chapter 199 - 199: Master, I Really Want to Improve! 2026-11-03
200 Chapter 200 - 200: The Commander’s ○○ Supplement 2026-11-03

Whoosh—

Almost at the exact moment Setsuna gave the order, Tohru reverted to her original form.

A massive green dragon.

A starship would be too large and conspicuous, making it easy for Synapse to detect.

Using Tohru’s dragon form, paired with stealth magic, was far more appropriate.

Tohru lowered her head, allowing Setsuna and the others to climb aboard.

”Commander, this is your first time riding me, huh.”

She huffed excitedly, nearly igniting the nearby forest with a burst of hot breath.

”Indeed.”

Setsuna settled himself onto Tohru’s neck. Riding a fantasy creature like this for the first time was certainly novel.

He held Belfast and Kurumi in front, while Mio gently embraced him from behind.

He was surrounded by softness on both sides, and his nose was filled with a faint, sweet fragrance.

”Belfast, Commander—don’t manifest your rigging while I’m flying. I’ll be crushed.”

Tohru grumbled.

”Got it. What, do you think we’re idiots?”

The head maid smacked one of the scales on Tohru’s back.

Whoosh—whoosh—

”Tohru Airlines, taking off!!”

The dragon girl let out a roar.

Flapping her wings, she slowly ascended into the sky.

They soared upward.

Thanks to Mio’s earlier tracking, they had already pinpointed Synapse’s general direction.

This floating island usually hovered in the sky not far from Sorami Town, cloaked by advanced optical camouflage.

Normal radar couldn’t detect it.

But now that they had direct contact with Daedalus, following the path wasn’t difficult.

At the same time, they remained in contact with Daedalus.

From within Synapse, she stared at the screen, dumbfounded.

Right before her eyes, a girl had turned into a dragon.

And now they were flying toward her on that dragon!

For a super-scientific civilization, the issue wasn’t whether something was possible. It was whether it made sense.

With advanced genetic tech, the Synapse elite could create a dragon.

The Wishing Stone Tablet could generate various dragons too.

But this straightforward shapeshifting magic? That belonged firmly in the realm of magic.

Some magic systems in certain worlds could be replicated with science—like the magecraft of the Nasuverse. Others were just flat-out incomprehensible.

Like the shipgirls from Azur Lane, the ”Bulin,” or dragon girls like Tohru.

”Are you guys from some sword-and-magic world or something?”

Daedalus couldn’t help but comment.

”Tohru is from one, but not us. We come from three different places.”

Setsuna casually replied, holding Belfast a little tighter.

The head maid wasn’t used to this method of flying. She gripped tightly onto the spines along Tohru’s back, her silver hair flying wildly and tickling his face.

”Three?! Which three?!”

The more Daedalus asked, the more confused she became.

Every one of this man’s answers came with information she couldn’t comprehend.

”We’ll get to that later. Just send me your exact location.”

Setsuna urged.

”Oh, right, right!”

Daedalus hurriedly sent Setsuna a map of Synapse.

Buzz—

Mio pressed both hands onto Tohru’s back, her spiritual energy sweeping outward.

The group’s figures instantly vanished into the sky.

Synapse’s technology far surpassed humanity’s, yet it lacked an effective all-weather surveillance system.

Perhaps due to arrogance, the Master of Synapse never considered that surface-dwelling humans could reach the heavens.

Even patrols of universal angels were rare.

Before long...

Riding on Tohru and braving the fierce winds of the upper sky, Setsuna and his group broke through the cloud layer.

”Commander, there’s something ahead.”

Tohru spoke in a low voice.

To the naked eye, only a vast ocean of clouds, blue skies, and the distant sun could be seen.

Radar detected nothing unusual, and the targeting system picked up no anomalies either.

But Setsuna noticed a slight shift in the gravitational wave readings.

The space ahead was distorted—something was hidden there.

”Very advanced cloaking technology.”

He glanced down. They were still relatively close to Sorami Town. When they had first landed, not even radar had detected Synapse.

As they flew further—

Suddenly, after passing through a barrier, a massive floating island appeared before them.

At its center was a large main island, surrounded by several smaller satellite islands.

A rough estimate placed the total area at around 500,000 to 600,000 square kilometers—about the size of France.

The island’s layout was sparse, its architecture reminiscent of ancient Greece.

Temples, plazas, and scattered buildings dotted the landscape.

Setsuna noticed a towering black obelisk standing in the center of the main island, with a massive temple-like structure nearby.

”That must be the Wishing Stone Tablet...”

The group couldn’t help but glance at it a few extra times.

A stone said to grant any wish—even something as grand as creating a universe.

It represented the pinnacle of Synapse’s technological achievements, and simultaneously, the root cause of their civilization’s decline.

”If it’s about wishing for gold, jewels, or magic power, Lukoa, Mio, and I could do that too.”

Tohru grumbled.

”But creating a universe? That’s pushing it...”

”I think it’s not what you imagine it to be.”

Setsuna stared at the obelisk and shook his head.

If the Wishing Stone Tablet could truly grant any wish without condition, why would Synapse be in such decay?

Why would the Master of Synapse descend into madness from loneliness?

If they could, they would’ve long since restored Synapse’s former glory and ruled the multiverse as a super-civilization.

With Synapse’s intelligence, it was likely not a matter of unwillingness, but of inability.

There were few people on the floating island. Setsuna didn’t spot a single Synapse resident.

Most had already entered dreams, experiencing human life in blissful escapism through Daedalus’s dream devices.

Only a few universal angels, with white wings and tight suits, patrolled the area.

They failed to notice the cloaked Tohru.

Following the map from Daedalus, Tohru bypassed the main island and landed on a remote, smaller floating isle.

”Tohru Airlines, landing successful! Ehehe~”

The dragon girl reverted to human form and gave Setsuna a playful grin.

Setsuna affectionately patted her head and began observing the surroundings.

The floating island was mostly empty, with only a single temple-like structure.

After taking just a few steps forward—

Thunk!

Tohru bumped headfirst into a translucent, membrane-like barrier, sending ripples across its surface.

”What the heck?!”

The dragon girl fell back and rubbed her forehead.

At a glance, the entire small floating island was enclosed in a faint, shimmering barrier.

”I am imprisoned here. No one may enter, and no one may leave.”

Click—

As the temple doors slowly opened, Daedalus stepped out.

She wore nothing but a white robe, barefoot, resembling a Roman citizen from ancient times.

Her hair was a bit neater now, no longer covering her eyes.

With the four pristine white wings on her back, she did have a hint of an angelic aura.

Setsuna thought Daedalus looked like a flat-chested version of Kazane Mitsuki.

”This is the prison the Master of Synapse built for me—to keep me locked here for eternity. Not even Ikaros can break through it...”

”Unless you possess...”

Before Daedalus could finish her sentence—

Whoosh—

Mio activated her Domain and brought Setsuna and the others through the barrier.

”Huh? Setsuna, was that supposed to be hard?”

The Spirit of Origin clung to his arm, looking adorably clueless.

”For you, of course not.”

Setsuna lightly pinched Mio’s cheek.

Daedalus: ”...”

As Synapse’s chief scientist, I once worshipped science.

...

A few minutes later.

Daedalus invited Setsuna and the group into the living room, serving tea for them.

The room was decorated in cool tones of blue and black with a distinct sci-fi style. One could roughly make out what was supposed to be a table, chairs, or a bed.

Various holographic interfaces floated along the walls and control consoles, filled with indecipherable data and symbols.

”Unbelievable...”

Daedalus observed Setsuna and the girls beside him.

They were a little different from what she’d seen on screen.

The man before her was younger than she imagined, full of vitality and energy.

—Traits completely absent in Synapse, where everyone was already half-dead and gloomy.

Even the Master of Synapse was mentally unstable.

As for his companions...

She couldn’t get a read on them. Tohru was a dragon, Mio wielded strange magic, and the other two—Daedalus had no clue.

After brief introductions,

Setsuna got straight to the point.

”Daedalus, as per our earlier agreement, I give you your freedom, and you give me what I want, right?”

”...”

Daedalus was stunned by the directness of the question.

She nodded mechanically.

”Ah, yes, right...”

”I’ll sort and compile the materials you need shortly. I’m sorry... You arrived too quickly. I didn’t have time to prepare...”

She was still in a daze.

Setsuna had arrived too fast.

In her plan, she expected it would take years, even decades, to escape this sky prison.

After all, Synapse residents had long lifespans and plenty of time to try different strategies.

But Setsuna had shown up with a Spirit of Origin and brute-forced a miracle.

Things had gone so smoothly that Daedalus felt a sense of unreality.

They had just marched straight in, bypassing Synapse’s surveillance and patrolling universal angels, and even shattered the protective barrier?!

What about the Master of Synapse? That ruler of Synapse—hadn’t he noticed any of this?

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