My Children Swarm the Cosmos – Chapter 144

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟒𝟒: 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐈𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐝 (5)

The capital star system of the Lomro-or. A weaponized star like Planet Weapon boasted power powerful enough to kill other stars beyond the stars.

However, the Chimeraz knew in advance that their stars could be used as weapons, and the light beams emitted by their most powerful weapons were too easily bent in front of the warped space.

Pepper pepper pepper boom!

That light beam drew flames and flashes as if hundreds of antimatter bombs exploded in the air, circling Gorgo’s Star about halfway.

The colonial locations on the surface of Gorgo’s Star, the Chimeraz legions on the ground waiting at those colonies, and the aircraft above them in geosynchronous orbit were decomposed at the speed of light as the molecular bond structures were broken.

As a result, Gorgo lost half of the legion he had, but the beam of destruction stretched out in the wrong direction.

【It doesn’t make sense. . . . . .】

Gorgo’s Star is rushing towards the capital planet. 

They thought Gorgo’s Star would collide when the capital planet deploys a shield that wraps around the entire planet.

If Gorgo’s Star came, they were going to use the stars they had saved as weapons to destroy Gorgo’s Star.

But the Lomro-or read all those numbers.

Now, cosmic horror approaches.

【Supreme Council Fleet before. . .!】

“Open fire on that abomination with everything we’ve got!” 

bellowed the Executor of the Supreme Council leading the fleet.

【Destroy that living abomination at once!!!】

What would happen if the approximately 1,300 fleets currently engaging in a fleet battle in the capital star system were to concentrate their fire on a single location?

Those ships farther away would take several minutes for their fire to reach the target, while those closer would impact in only a minute.

From every corner of the star system, the entire arsenal of the Supreme Council fleet had gathered. The Supreme Council fleet defending the capital planet also fired everything they had at the abomination approaching them head-on.

Gorgo’s Star began to endure attacks from approximately 1,300 fleets on every inch of its skin. Half of its colony sites, which had already been decimated, were reduced to scorched earth, while numerous Mindrockers and the Parahtoria on the surface of the colony sites still intact had spread out like a high-density bio-barrier umbrella.

And as if a beehive had been disturbed, Chimeraz ships swarmed out of Gorgo’s Star, enduring the incoming cannon fire.

Boom! Crash!

How many Chimeraz were dying every second? Were the jet-black ships in geostationary orbit alive or dead?

The violent updrafts created air currents that blew away the atmosphere, minimizing even the combustion reactions of the explosions. There were no mushroom clouds or storms of superheated thermonuclear explosions.

All that was left was the ground caving in and bulging, and chunks of flesh and bone, it was impossible to tell whose, chaotically obscuring every direction like they were taking the place of the atmosphere.

It was more than just an orbital bombardment; it was an overwhelming ripple attack that destroyed planets, colonies, and legions from the surface up. And the cosmic-scale tentacles that Gorgo had boasted about were scattered and severed like torn-out hair.

With the combined attack of 1,300 fleets, the torrent of blood spewing from Gorgo’s Star was no longer red, but a pitch-black color that had been extremely carbonized and vaporized.

Numerous canyons had been carved into the surface of Gorgo’s Star, which had turned jet black like a bead heated by fire, and the land had been overturned. These were the mortal wounds Gorgo’s Star suffered as it neared its end.

➖Gorgo’s Star has been destroyed!

The living celestial body whose danger had been mentioned by various races.

It had finally met its end.

Even in death, the fragmented Gorgo’s Star remained a threat. Several large fragments spread out in the direction it had been accelerating, hurtling toward the capital planet like meteors.

The shield covering the entire capital planet barely managed to block the impact of the fragments, and the reduced momentum of the debris rained down on the capital planet’s civilization like fireballs.

【Executor! Are you abandoning the fleet battle because of that thing?!】

【The capital planet nearly fell apart. All of the Federal Supreme Justices and the Supreme Council nearly died.】

This was because the Supreme Council fleet had concentrated all their firepower, which had been intended for the fleet battle, on Gorgo’s Star. The Supreme Council fleet suffered enormous damage when a momentary gap formed in the fleet battle, which had already been unfavorable.

The Federal Supreme Justice reprimanded the Executor.

【Victory is more important than my life or the safety of the capital planet. You should have abandoned the capital planet when the stellar weapon failed to destroy Gorgo’s Star. In exchange for saving the capital planet just now, other planets have been placed in greater danger.】

【We can endure.】

【How can we endure while protecting the planets in this star system?】

【We’re not protecting, we’re enduring. Since we’re outnumbered anyway, shouldn’t the Supreme Council fleet just protect the capital planet?】 

🔷🔷🔷

The Chimeraz are fighting with other species on the ground.

Military bases and colonies have been transmitted in their entirety to the planet’s surface where the defense network was breached. Humanoid war machines with inverted triangular heads, along with rear units like Hailspatter, Grounsecter, Mindrocker, are providing fire support to the front, while the Chimeraz’s Cresecter and Cophilia are sweeping the skies.

Kwoong! Kwoong! Kwoong!

The landing ships of the Crolr also landed on the ground spreading their four legs. The Crolr Colossus units advancing with the humans’ huge polygonal tanks are spewing destructive rays and shells to the front, vaporizing rivers and gouging mountains.

The Lomro-or troops who built a defensive line on the mountain ridge shot back at the shells and bullets being transmitted by topological assault techniques.

【The Crolr landing ships are approaching! If this defense line is breached, we’ll have to give up the city!】

【Transmit nuclear weapons! Wipe them all out!】

As the Lomro-or’s large bioweapons fall like dominos at the very front, particles transmitted from downtown begin reconstituting in the sky ahead.

Ziiing. . .!

The nuclear weapon takes shape in the enemies’ airspace.

Perwerk!

It was destroyed by flying objects that looked like flocks of birds.

【The Caycaconick…! Those damned pigeons…!】

【Officer!】

【Why are you calling me again?!】

【The plants…】

【Plants?】

The defensive line built on the mountain ridge was not their land either.

The land they were standing on did not belong to them.

Crackle crackle crack!

Vines coiled around the Lomro-or weapons, lifting them up, and hard roots suddenly jutting out from the ground impaled the Lomro-or infantry alive.

【Argh!】

【Damn! What the hell are these?!】

And the more serious thing was that it wasn’t just the plants around them that were targeting them.

【We must retreat to the city. . . .】

【What nonsense! The enemies surround us on all sides, how can we abandon the defense line! Burn the plants around here immediately. . . .】

【I said no, you f*cker. . .!】 

Bang!

The commander of the defense line was shot by his subordinate and collapsed.

【Why do you keep ordering when I said no? Who do you think you are. . . .】

Ratatatatata bang!

The Lomro-or army of the defense line were killing each other.

【Who are you?!】

【Dieeeee!!!】

【Monsters, monsters, monsters, monsters are monsters, monsters are squirming in my head. . . .】

【Someone please kill me! Please!】

【Too many tentacles. The eyes looking at me, hehehe. . . .】

【Ahahah! I see it! I see something!】

Mold of strange colors was blooming on the faces seen through their translucent combat suits.

Thus the defenses collapsed from within were trampled by the oncoming waves of the Chimeraz forces, paths were opened by the Colossus troops, and covered in plants and mycelia, Xenotera became nutrients.

🔷🔷🔷

On this planet, the metropolis was able to deploy a shield thanks to its own power source. The shield protects the entire metropolis like a dome. And in space above, the hastily gathered Supreme Council fleet is preventing any troop landings or teleportation to the city.

【Enemies are approaching from two directions about 40km out.】

Word has come that their forces on the defensive line have been completely overwhelmed. The city’s Lomro-or troops have been tactically deployed as much as possible in buildings and along roads, preparing for the approaching wave.

Pew! Pew!

Mobile ground carriers deployed outside the city and the howitzers installed on them are exchanging fire. They are constantly launching missiles and firing shells in an attempt to slow the enemy advance, however slight.

However, the Chimeraz and their allies have adequately countered this barrage. The Chimeraz deployed a bio-barrier and the humans have deployed a shield, while the Caycaconick aircraft have deftly evaded into the sky and the Crolr Colossus force has formed a powerful barrage with its excellent interception systems.

➖Hostile targets. Orbital analysis activated.

Clack. . . .

Bipedal war machines with heads resembling telescopes took aim at the sky with weapons like sniper rifles.

➖Civilian collateral damage protocols. Restrictions lifted.

They were war machine snipers operating charged-particle weapons capable of striking the opposite continent and belonging to the Elise fleet.

➖Permission to fire granted.

FWOOOOSH!!!!

Heavy particles descended from beyond the stratosphere, arcing down in a parabolic trajectory, piercing the clouds and descending at the speed of light to create plasma in the sky before raining down on the Lomro-or ground carriers like lightning.

KABOOOOOM!

【Dammit, dammit, dammit!】

【It’s coming again! Deploy the shield!】

【The shield isn’t stopping it!】

【Hold your ground no matter what!】

It was a sight like a divine punishment from heaven.

The morale of the Lomro-or artillery had been destroyed by the ground-to-ground bombardment alone, without even an orbital bombardment. No, they were all being killed without any time for their morale to sink.

When the battle between artillery units was over, the army and corps closed in on the city.

By that time, the area outside the city’s shield had already been scorched.

Screech!

Inside the city enclosed by the shield, sewage was flowing backwards and street trees were going berserk. The Lomro-or troops swiftly finished off the Skeletunnels that were emerging from the earth with their snouts pointed, but the Skeletunnels that had supposedly been killed rapidly decomposed to grow strange mushrooms.

And then they revived.

The beings that had been Skeletunnels were now serving as Skeletunnels while dead.

Skreeeeee!

Within that empty maw, nimble Caycaconick aircraft and Chimeraz Cophilia intermingled and soared straight up into the sky.

At the same time, black liquid poured down like a weather front over the dome-shaped shield surrounding the metropolis, and the Crolr assault ship brazenly flew in and fired its main guns.

After the city’s shield was turned off, the armies clashed.

However, it was not a battle but a massacre.

【We probably can’t defend this city. . . .】

At that moment, strange moons emerged in the dark sky of daytime and were lowering Organic Pipes to the surface.

The surfaces of those moons were extremely gruesome.

🔷🔷🔷

In the heart of the largest Euryale, only the sound of a quietly beating pulse echoed.

➖My ruler.

A wave not belonging to the Chimeraz reached Kreion.

“Who is this?”

➖A thought construct of the Quakacor. I have something urgent to report.

“Report to the supreme commander of the UNF fleet or Ark. The Chimeraz get mentally occupied once they engage in combat.”

➖It seems as though you, my ruler, will be able to make a more appropriate judgment than that heartless artificial intelligence or those feeble humans.

“. . .What is it?”

The Quakacor, a representative collective consciousness race from the Andromeda Galaxy.

A thought construct sent by their master, Empress Karcon, secretly whispered to Kreion alone.

➖There was a gigantic ring-shaped structure 0.4 light-years from here.

“How did you know that, thought construct?”

➖Before we engage in battle, or even in the midst of battle, we analyze all created objects within 1 light-year of the target star. My dispatched eyeballs recently confirmed the presence of that suspicious structure, and so I have come to report it.

Could it be a dimensional passageway?

The small dimensional passageway that Ark built in this galaxy was placed in the Caycaconick capital star system.

Yet there is a gigantic ring-shaped structure resembling a dimensional passageway not far from here?

‘It’s common knowledge that the only force handling structures like dimensional passageways in the Local Group is humanity.’

Kreion was suspicious.

‘Are you saying that the Lomro-or are also using dimensional passageways. . .?’

However, that is as far as 0.4 light-years from the capital star system.

If the Lomro-or had recently built a structure called a dimensional passageway, they would not have placed it in such an inefficient location.

Just then, the thought construct whispered.

➖Is it not possible that Ark or the humans are hiding something, my ruler. . . .

That was the reason why the Quakacor thought construct was speaking in secret to Kreion alone.

“There is no reason for humans to hide such an important fact from us.”

➖But what if they did. . .?

If it was humanity’s dimensional passageway,

If humanity was hiding it,

What reason would they have to hide it?

➖Just. . . . After overthrowing the Supreme Council today. . . . We collective consciousness races will join forces to serve as your tools, my ruler. . . .

The thought construct’s surreptitious voice tickled Kreion’s brain.

➖Shall we clean up the UNF and Elise fleets as well?

It was a proposal.

A proposal of conspiracy.

➖Quietly here, so that the Hive Alliance can take what the Federation had. . . . We will clean up all the armies of the races other than the Hive Alliance.

If we exclude the Hive Alliance here, that leaves the Lomro-or Supreme Council, humanity’s UNF fleet, Ark’s Elise fleet, the Crolr sovereign’s fleet, and the Caycaconick Conda fleet.

➖We will simply sever their limbs so that they cannot fight. In that case, those races that have had their limbs severed without knowing why. . . .

➖Would dare to speak of sharing ‘our spoils of war’?

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