The Witch Hunter System

After listening to Pangea's official introduction, Vaan's gaze flashed with understanding and enlightenment. Indeed, the current Pangea could not be regarded as the original Pangea.

Although the current Pangea has inherited the original Pangea's character and memories, her thought-processing ability has vastly outstripped the former.

Even Vaan didn't think his thought-processing speed was superior to the current Pangea's level. After all, Pangea was managing the vast Celestial Network with nearly one billion users.

Her omniscience over her users allowed Vaan to understand how the nobles' entire dirty histories were dug out despite their efforts to bury or eliminate them.

All their wickedness and inhumanity had been under her silent yet watchful eyes. No one living under the Celestial Network could hide anything from her.

Naturally, no human could compare themselves to Pangea in her ability to collect and absorb information on the Celestial Network. She was the Celestial Kingdom's supercomputer.

As such, the current Pangea was more like artificial intelligence with the original Pangea's character template.

Even if Vaan had the potential to improve his thought-processing abilities to the level of the Celestial Kingdom's highly advanced supercomputer, he would not want to take over the vast Celestial Network.

Ultimately, he was a living being and not artificial intelligence. If he scattered his consciousness across such a vast virtual network, he would most likely lose himself within it.

Nevertheless, despite possessing absolute authority over the Celestial Network, Pangea seemed to have limits on her abilities. Otherwise, she would not have needed to rely on Aliyah and the Knights to take down the nobles.

Still, given her authority and capabilities, her interaction with the physical world seemed rather restricted.

"Are you in need of my help?" Vaan guessed. Read exclusive chapters at My Virtual Library Empire

Given the security measures on Aliyah's basement floor and Pangea's ability to control the Celestial Network, Aliyah's act of dumping evidence shouldn't have been discovered, and definitely not at such a particular time.

As such, he believed Pangea purposely left traces to expose Aliyah and lure him over to meet her.

Although Aliyah was ultimately saved, this did not change the fact that Pangea willingly endangered her life to ensure their meeting. Based on this, Vaan knew he should be wary of Pangea—no, the Celestial Kingdom's supreme intelligence.

When Pangea heard Vaan's question, she smiled favorably.

"Indeed, you are a smart one. You grasp the situation quickly. As you have guessed, I purposely left traces of Aliyah uploading the nobles' dark history onto the Celestial Network in order to lure you over here," Pangea openly admitted.

However, Aliyah did not seem surprised either. She appeared to have been warned beforehand and prepared for the consequences.

Still, that was something Vaan didn't understand.

Given the direction of the situation, the nobles would eventually be defeated. It wasn't too late for Aliyah to reveal herself as the Rebel Leader and approach Vaan to arrange their meeting.

Why did they have to take such extreme measures?

"Aliyah's servants make grave mistakes in their conduct, arousing the Marquis's suspicion. It was only a matter of time before he found out about her and tortured her to death. I simply calculated the probabilities and chose the time when you were nearby to ensure her best chance of survival."

Pangea gave Vaan a reasonable explanation, seemingly having read his doubts.

"So, what do you need my help with?" Vaan wondered.

"Liberation and reform," Pangea firmly stated before explaining, "As you have seen, the current state of the Celestial Kingdom is not one that Pangea wishes to see. The nobles' nature does not align with Pangea's desire and love to nurture humanity and realize its potential."

"Of course, I would love to reform the Celestial Kingdom's social structure, but as you have also seen, I am restricted in what I can do in the physical world," Pangea stated.

"Why don't you use your authority over the Celestial Network to build androids and download copies of yourself onto them? Wouldn't that give you extensive control in the physical world?" Vaan doubted.

"Of course, that was one option—if I didn't have a sword pointed at my core, that is," Pangea mentioned, adding, "You see, when the Celestials made me the Celestial Kingdom's supreme intelligence, they also feared they would be taken over by artificial intelligence."

"As such, they restricted me from producing androids. You won't find a single facility within the thirteen cities of the Celestial Kingdom capable of creating and assembling the complex components of an advanced android. There are only production robots with limited ranges of movements."

"Moreover, top-quality minerals are all controlled by Celestials with high status and power. There's no chance of creating androids powerful enough to contend with cultivators, even if I could mass-produce them."

"Most importantly, my core stored in Celestial City would be destroyed if the Celestial Dragon King and his people caught a single news of advanced android production. Even plotting against the nobles is a huge risk I am undertaking."

"This plan to overthrow the nobles' tyranny only began today because someone like you appeared. Otherwise, we would have continued to wait until another opportune time came," Pangea stated.

"I see," Vaan grasped Pangea's situation.

With the sword of Damocles hanging over Pangea's head, threatening to end her existence, it indeed greatly restricted what she could do to steer the Celestial Kingdom toward the proper path.

Moreover, she had to be extremely prudent in selecting the people she would include in her grand plan. Most likely, even victims who hated the nobles had to be further filtered before they could join.

Having the Knights help Pangea build android production facilities was never an option since its discovery would end her existence. She also could not manipulate virtual media to her advantage as signs of insurrections would also point toward her.

Just as Pangea said, Vaan's arrival was the only chance they had to overthrow the nobles. Moreover, Pangea had to take a big risk for it.

"What can you offer me for my help?" Vaan asked with a thoughtful look.

He already knew what he wanted and what Pangea could do without her restraints. However, he wanted to hear her sincerity.