"Resist the Hegemon!?"
Shinji suppressed the joy in his heart and asked with feigned confusion.
Mentioning the Hegemon, a shadow flashed across Black Light's eyes, and his mood suddenly plummeted: "You are a newcomer, so there are some things you don't know!"
Shinji urged: "Tell me!"
Black Light looked around, then pulled Shinji to an unoccupied booth, and only then spoke slowly: "In the vast universe, besides us 'Lampbearers', there is also a kind of guy called 'Hegemon'."
Shinji just nodded slightly, without interrupting.
Black Light continued: "Hegemons feed on worlds. In their eyes, worlds are just food waiting to be hunted!"
Shinji instinctively frowned.
Seeing this, Black Light asked: "You don't believe it?"
Shinji deliberately tried to get information: "A little bit!"
Black Light said: "Then have you ever thought, if there were no Hegemons, who are we 'Lampbearers' guarding against?"
Shinji asked: "You mean our existence is to resist Hegemons?"
"Yes, this is currently the most mainstream speculation in the circle!" Pausing, Black Light added: "Many senior 'Lampbearers' believe that Hegemons existed first in the universe, and then we 'Lampbearers' appeared."
Shinji hurriedly asked: "So, we 'Lampbearers' can resist Hegemons?"
"Uh..."
Meeting Shinji's eager gaze, Black Light was momentarily speechless.
Shinji asked: "What, is there a problem with my understanding?"
Black Light sighed: "The speculation is so, but we 'Lampbearers' actually can't resist Hegemons! So the speculation that 'Lampbearers' appeared to resist Hegemons is just one of many speculations."
Shinji frowned: "Why?"
Black Light looked at Shinji and shook his head: "You haven't encountered a Hegemon, you don't understand! When you encounter one someday, you will know how stupid your question is."
Shinji didn't answer immediately.
He knew the 'encounter' Black Light referred to here was not being targeted by a Hegemon like him, but witnessing the horror of a Hegemon with one's own eyes like in that world about to be destroyed he accidentally entered before.
In other words, as long as 'Lampbearers' were bold enough and traveled everywhere, there was a considerable probability of witnessing a Hegemon.
And 'Lampbearers' themselves were immune to pollution, so as long as their own world, or their own lair was not targeted by a Hegemon, there wouldn't be too big a problem.
Shinji couldn't help asking: "With so many 'Lampbearers', is there not a single successful example?"
Black Light pondered: "There are indeed various rumors in the circle, but none have been confirmed. Yet the worlds destroyed by Hegemons are increasing every moment."
"Then they..."
Shinji looked at a booth in the distance. Several 'Lampbearers' who entered the bar just now were in that booth at this time.
Black Light lowered his volume again: "The one wearing the 'Ω' level combat suit is 'Glorious Light' Alice."
Shinji's gaze fell on the blonde woman in a silver tight suit in that booth. The tight suit on her body obviously had a metallic texture, but possessed flexibility and fit far beyond metal. A round metal ball floated beside her, looking full of technological sense.
Obviously, this blonde woman was the 'Glorious Light' Alice Black Light mentioned, and the eye-catching combat suit on her should be the 'Ω' level combat suit.
Black Light pursed his lips towards Alice's side: "The one smoking a cigar beside her is 'Mad Wolf' Hengo, a body full of titanium alloy prosthetics, type III energy core. It is said that he still has several prosthetic bodies of this specification in his hand."
Shinji nodded lightly.
With the terrifying insight of his 'Six Tomoe Rinnegan', he had long discovered that the body under the skin and flesh of that burly man named Hengo was mechanical.
Black Light said: "The last old man is an 'S' class martial artist, the kind that can smash a building with one punch! As for what other trump cards he has, I'm not too clear. Anyway, being able to mix with Alice and Hengo, he should also be an expert."
Hearing this, Shinji frowned.
Whether 'Glorious Light' Alice, or 'Mad Wolf' Hengo, or the last 'S' class martial artist, the three of them indeed looked not simple, but this level in Shinji's view obviously couldn't resist a Hegemon!
Struggling for a moment, Shinji still asked: "Are they all high-level 'Lampbearers'?"
Black Light nodded: "Yes, in the circle, they are all experts!"
An indescribable feeling welled up in Shinji's heart.
Initially, he thought 'Lampbearers' at Ryūhei Ubuyashiki's level belonged to a relatively weak batch among 'Lampbearers'.
Now after understanding some basic situations, he realized Ryūhei Ubuyashiki was already a very strong existence in the circle of 'Lampbearers'.
Thinking carefully again, it seemed quite normal.
If Ryūhei Ubuyashiki was really a weakling, then he couldn't have gone everywhere to plague other people's worlds.
Then, he remembered during the first Grass Village battle, Ryūhei Ubuyashiki once used an Ω level binder to bind Nagato's 'Deva Path'.
In terms of technological style, it was very close to the Ω combat suit worn by 'Glorious Light' Alice in the distant booth. Perhaps that Ω level binder in Ryūhei Ubuyashiki's hand was obtained from the other party's world.
Thinking that the damaged Ω level binder was still stored in the sealing scroll on his body, Shinji had an idea.
This kind of Ω level binder indeed had a very strong binding effect on ordinary ninjas. Of course, the premise was to hit the target accurately. But then again, a ninja's body was actually very fragile. Not to mention being hit by an Ω level binder, even being stabbed in a vital part by a kunai could take the life of a Kage-level powerhouse.
But this was only for ordinary ninjas. If encountering Jinchuriki like Naruto, or ninjas mastering 'space-time pupil techniques' like Obito, survivability would rise directly.
For example, Naruto activating 'Nine-Tails Chakra Mode', just that layer of chakra cloak on his body could withstand the bombardment of 'Tailed Beast Ball', and a 'Tailed Beast Ball' that could easily destroy a mountain top with one blow, in terms of destructive power equivalent, was not inferior to small nuclear weapons.
Going further up, to the level of Shinji, a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
Things like cutting the moon, summoning meteorites, destroying all living beings on the surface of the Ninja World, etc., were all easy matters.
So Shinji just wanted to understand the technological upper limit of the other party's world through this damaged Ω level binder, to see if he could find any method to restrain the Hegemon from the other party's world.