Ultraman: The Dark Shadow Mage, Creating a Magic Empire

After separating from Ginga and Orb, Zero traveled alone to a planet on the edge of the Milky Way galaxy.

This place also suffered an invasion from the Belial Legion; Dark Gona had once used that fringe planet as a transit supply station.

It built a complete industrial system there, turning the entire planet's population of tens of billions into slaves, throwing them into factories to work day and night.

That's why Dark Go was a member of the Shadow Empire who came to power halfway through his career; he didn't learn the kind of beliefs that the people of the Shadow Empire held in their hearts.

The people of the Shadow Empire also do not regard species that have not joined the Empire as human beings. At most, they will give them a quick death, but they would never do such a heinous thing.

Of course, no one cares what Dark Gona does now, since a parallel universe is not important to the Empire.

This entire rim universe is now just a testing ground for a small project within the Empire's massive undertaking.

If you break it, just throw it away; if you wear it out, just move on to the next one. They're just consumables.

After saving this forging world, it became their production base and a core point.

Zero chose to come here to mobilize the troops here and help them form a coalition.

"Mr. Zero!"

Just then, the ground crew arrived. They greeted Zero with smiles, and Zero smiled and nodded in return.

Wherever he went, he was welcomed by the locals.

This is the feedback others give you after you've helped them.

This is how most of the Shadow Empire's contact zones are; only the puppet and auxiliary armies in these experimental universes would do things that only villains would do.

"I want to speak with your leader; there's something I need to discuss."

"no problem!"

A soldier wearing weapons nodded with a smile and led Zero to a camp.

Although they reclaimed the world, these officers who rose from humble beginnings did not begin to enjoy it. Instead, they upheld the spirit of pioneers, maintained their integrity and good conduct, and actively rebuilt their world.

Therefore, these leaders still live in simple tents alongside the residents.

Seeing this, Zero felt a sense of relief.

Although things didn't go well, at least they did one thing right!

Even doing just one thing right is a huge encouragement and inspiration for them!

Zero felt a little better. He explained the purpose of his visit to the other party and then asked for his opinion.

As Zero said, the leaders of the manufacturing world present held a small meeting and discussed the matter seriously.

In the end, everyone decided to organize an expeditionary force to help Zero save more worlds!

"We agree with Zero. I think that since there are so many civilizations and planets in the universe suffering, we who have broken free cannot sit idly by."

Leader Arthur stated, "And we desperately need allies!"

"You have more things to do and can't protect us every moment. In the end, we still have to rely on ourselves."

"Therefore, we need more allies! We need more people to stand with us against Darkghar and the Empire's auxiliary forces!"

"I'm glad you understand that."

Zero nodded and asked, "So, have you obtained any new information?"

"certainly."

Arthur nodded and said, "We discovered it in the factory. It's a special fuel used by the Imperial auxiliary forces led by Grenfell; the Imperial army relies on it to power its spaceships."

"This fuel comes from a mineral called Amirar, and according to the data, it doesn't exist in our universe, meaning it originates from another universe!"

"Isn't it amazing? There are other universes beyond our own!"

Arthur shook his head and laughed, "I almost forgot, Zero, you're from another universe too."

"Yes, it seems we have to cut off their energy supply first."

"That's right, so we'd like to ask Zero to help us get to that universe. If we can save that universe first, we'll have a huge advantage!"

"Okay, I understand!"

Zero nodded; his Ultra Bracelet still had enough energy to guide him through two more time travels.

"That's great! Let's get started now!"

Arthur turned and left, and began to lead the people of the whole world in preparations, starting to build a fleet.

Because it was a surprise attack, many spaceship manufacturing craftsmen were left behind.

These were all valuable assets, collected by the resistance. Now they've finally come in handy.

The powerful industrial system from the Shadow Empire is now displaying its domineering nature!

In just half a month, they successfully built a cruiser and several frigates, and trained a new army that was ready to set sail at any time.

Zero informed Ginga and Orb, who were acting separately, about the situation. After discussing it, the three decided that Zero would lead the team himself, while the other two would stay behind to build up their forces and wage guerrilla warfare against Dark Gona's army.

Let's go!

Zero led them on their journey, and they traveled through various locations before arriving in the Esmeralda universe following the coordinates.

Upon entering the Esmeralda universe, they were immediately attacked!

Because at this moment the entire Esmeralda universe is under the control of the Shadow Empire, any act of crossing into this universe will be detected and attacked immediately!

However, faced with this sudden attack, the expeditionary force, with Zero protecting them, withstood the first wave of attacks in the first instance.

They then dispersed and launched a counterattack, wiping out all the automated defense units that had come to investigate.

These automated defense units were all drones, and their destruction did not cause any significant damage to the Imperial forces.

After all, they're all cheap goods.

"It seems this universe has completely fallen."

"Yes, let's proceed with caution from now on."

The expeditionary force's fleet has activated its hidden mode.

Unease is now rising within the expeditionary force.

If the entire universe were to fall, their few ships would be utterly insignificant!

Coming here is practically suicide!

Arthur could only try his best to calm things down and discussed with Zero the possibility of prioritizing finding a base of operations.

Just as they were preparing to take action and arrived at an unknown sea area, they were suddenly attacked by pirates hiding in the shadows!

A huge, red figure emerged from the pirate ship, looked at Zero with great interest, and asked:

"So you're the invader the Empire has a bounty on your head for, right? What's your name? Zero? Never mind, come and fight me!" (End of Chapter)