My Children Swarm the Cosmos – Chapter 49.1

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟒𝟗: 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 (4)

Quack!

After falling into the city center of the Crolr, the Drop Cyst extended its tentacles from underground to secure itself before opening its snout upward.

Hounds and Custs rushed out and overwhelmed the unarmed the Crolr around them.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The Crolr ground forces, centered around war machines and mechanized combat suits, engaged in a fierce battle in the city center. There were already too many Drop Cysts falling, making it nearly impossible to shoot them all down, and just dealing with the chimeraz that emerged from the Drop Cysts was overwhelming.

The reason for the overwhelming odds was the absence of their main force because the sky had opened up.

“Krrrruaaaah!!!”

The chimeraz that descended attacked young Crolr, adult Crolr, soldier Crolr, and non-combat Crolr indiscriminately. Hounds tore through their metallic armor, and Custs devoured their flesh.

Kwang!

Several large mutant Drop Cysts had Kabana poke their heads out one by one. Despite their intimidating size, the Crolr fought like warriors, but the future of this capital planet already seemed to be covered in the black spots of Xenotera.

Gurgle. . .!

A few more large Drop Cysts landed, filled with the biomass of chimeraz, and took root. Bones rose from the surrounding ground, and reddish-brown tentacles spread out, consuming the environment.

The chimeraz’s organic tissue covered the land and structures, pouring out Xenotera. The ovipositors of the Custs implanted themselves into soft organic tissue or the corpses of the Crolr, giving birth to new life.

The capital planet with its massive city was the perfect environment for the Custs to run wild.

The leader of the Craclot star system, equivalent to the position of president in human terms, raged in the command room of a deep underground facility.

➖Chimeraz! These monsters don’t want anything! They’re taking what we have!

➖Anima Selas. The second ruler is not negotiable. They are not responding to our communications.

➖That’s right. We have to give up the 5th planet and call in the main force. Hurry up and give the order, Craclot.

The name of the leader of Craclot was Craclot.

➖We can’t give up the 5th planet!

➖They’re already charging in anyway. The first self-replicating protein satellite is impossible to destroy with our current forces.

➖Use nuclear weapons.

➖Then our main force will be within the range of the nuclear weapons.

➖Can’t you just fire from a distance?

➖There is no time. The first self-replicating protein satellite will collide with the 5th planet in about 7 minutes. Its mass is unstoppable.

There was nothing they could do.

Craclot finally made up his mind with no other choice.

➖We will abandon the 5th planet. Mobilize the entire fleet and defend the capital planet!

But at that moment,

‘. . . In the end, they’re going to abandon the 5th planet and concentrate their forces on the capital planet.’

Anima had predicted their thoughts in advance.

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‘Just keep sending out Drop Cysts. With those numbers, we can take over the capital planet before the main force arrives.’

The capital planet of Craclot had become a hunting ground, not a battlefield. Their fleet and ground forces were on the brink of annihilation, and their cities were being rapidly captured. At this rate, the main force that had gone to the 5th planet would return just as the colony site took root on the capital planet.

Of course, there was no chance of winning a head-on collision with their main force.

There was no time to create an army capable of clashing head-on with their main force either.

That’s why Anima gave the order.

‘We’re retreating. Leave the children on the ground and get out of here.’

The Euryale and Lemegeton swarms chose to move away from the capital planet that they had just conquered.

And about 6 minutes passed.

“━Anima-nim. We will devour the 5th planet.”

The first self-replicating protein satellite collided with the 5th planet.

The two celestial bodies collided violently with just their mass and momentum, creating flames that reached higher than the atmosphere and spreading heat that even evaporated the oceans.

The Crolr on the planet’s surface oxidized without even feeling the pain of death, and the structures didn’t last a moment, shattering into pieces. The entire land was turned upside down from the depths, soaring up to the clouds. Above ground, underground, or in the sky, everything was distorted without exception by the impact of the cataclysm.

The hot explosion spread throughout the planet, soon enveloping it like a shell. And the protein satellite fell apart as it poured onto that shell, with protein fragments larger than asteroids being flung out into deep space.

It was as if a scoop of ice cream, the protein, had been dropped onto a ball, the planet.

Meanwhile, the entire fleet of the Crolr in the Craclot star system rushed to the capital planet.

They cleansed the surface by launching orbital bombardments and nuclear strikes on the already ruined cities. It was a very aggressive response, as if they didn’t care about any survivors that might be in the cities.

Naturally, not a single chimeraz that had settled on the capital planet was left alive. In addition, the Crolr ground forces on the capital planet were completely annihilated.

The two planets seemed to be soaked in death, becoming balls of fire.

And this entire situation was in the palm of Anima’s hand.

‘Now’s the time. Move to the 5th planet.’

The Euryale and Lemegeton swarms quickly formed a ring formation and accelerated toward the 5th planet, which had become a ball of fire.

‘Are you alive?’

➖My brain almost melted. I should control the speed next time.

‘I’ll come to you. I’m going to build a colony site on that lava planet.’

➖Ah. . . . There are many resources here that I can utilize. These various elements and compounds . . . . And there’s more thermal energy than I’ve ever consumed.

It was ecstasy.

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