𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟔𝟖: 𝐖𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐫 (4)
On the surface of the Quakacor’s capital planet, there was a worm-like weapon.
The Ycloquasar’s ‘Redefiner’ seemed as if it was infected and suddenly exploded. It was a self-destruction, just like those cornered machines.
A dazzling flash filled their field of vision, and all light-sensitive beings’ retinal cells were burnt. Additionally, the surveillance equipment on the Reptured’s ground fleet and drones were broken, so they could not tell what had just happened.
When the legion recovered their vision and the machinery army fixed their equipment, what they saw was a charred graveyard.
The Quakacor structures that were full of life were now nothing but bare skeletons.
The legion within the blast radius turned into ash, and the Reptured’s machinery in the area melted red-hot.
It was a sight where sparks were flying and everything was dead, as if a wildfire had passed through.
Moreover, the Redefiner’s blast radius was so large that even the colony where Queen Karcon resided had been burnt to the ground.
Kekek. . .Kigegekek. . .
The legion, suffering from the pain of their burns, instinctively flocked to protect their queen. The remaining ground fleet of the Reptured moved toward the location where the most allied forces were and the air force of drones formed a circular formation to guard every direction.
“Keureureu. . . Keureuk. . .”
The greatest pain a living being could feel was burning pain.
Queen Karcon felt it several times over. The burns from the high thermal energy and the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by them shocked her mind.
Furthermore, the queen’s body was severely burned and several of her legs, tentacles, and eyes fell off. Smoke rose from her entire body, and her flesh and skin melted grotesquely.
Even so, she was still alive and let out a hot, painful breath.
Still, the queen was dying. Rather, it was surprising that she was still alive, as her injuries were impossible to recover from.
Jiiiiiing. . .
Some of the Reptured’s drones landed around Queen Karcon.
➖Teptorm. . . My children just now. . .
➖I will help you. Don’t use your mental energy on the waves.
The drones inserted something that looked like a metal pipe into Queen Karcon. They were injecting her with medicine through the pipe.
➖The Redefiner. . . No, all weapons of the Ycloquasar were capable of self-destruction. . .
➖I understand even if you don’t speak. We are also analyzing every battle in a matter of seconds.
The queen felt groggy. Then, she felt her physical pain subside and her wounds heal quickly.
Machines had saved her life.
However, the sky soon turned dark.
There was a black hole in the sky.
A whirring sound was ringing loudly.
It was not a feeling that could be described as ringing in their ears. It was a vibration from their entire bodies, the ground they were standing on, and all the space around them. It felt as if the world around them was growling.
The living beings sensed death.
➖. . .So this was the end of my life.
➖Were you satisfied with your life as a living being?
➖I don’t know. However. . .
The black hole in the sky grew bigger and bigger.
It kept getting bigger until it eventually consumed the entire sky.
It was like looking at a universe without a single star.
➖Because I was alive. Because I lived with this kind of body. . . I think I could sense the deaths around me and my own death.
➖Is that so?
➖It was a really long life. . . Even so, it is a fortunate thing that it ends like this. You, Teptorm, cannot understand the feeling of death.
➖I felt it while fighting with the Quakacor.
Light disappeared in an instant.
Everything turned pitch black.
The debris rolling on the ground, the scattered embers, and the lingering gazes of the surviving beings were the only sources of light in the darkness.
➖Teptorm, what did you feel as a machine?
➖Perhaps, living beings and machines were not meant to fight each other from the beginning, but to help each other.
Living beings and machines were meant to help each other.
That was Teptorm’s realization.
The queen lamented. She regretted. She reminisced.
And she blamed herself.
➖. . .We all made mistakes. Me, you, the Drataiden, and all the life transcendents and machine transcendents of the past ages. . .
The scattered embers went out. Even the low heat remaining on the corpses and debris cooled down.
The air turned cold and everything started to freeze.
They were being deprived of ‘heat’.
➖If only I could turn back. . . 4,000 years.
Teptorm could not respond to the queen’s final words.
At that time, the Quakacor’s wave network and the Reptured’s communication network had already been cut off.
➖I wanted to die without regrets, but it seems like that is a difficult thing to do.
🔷🔷🔷
After seeing off Queen Karcon, the remaining size of the Reptured was about 200 fleets.
The planet where Queen Karcon resided became a burning mass like a star. Because the hot inner matter at the center of the planet flowed back from the entire continent, it became a magma planet. Then, in an instant, it cooled down and became a cold, solid rock planet.
The terrain was a rock planet with no mountains or even small hills.
It was a grave. It was the place where the Quakacor species began, where they evolved and waged wars for centuries, the center of their spirit, and where their history, which was called memory, was preserved.
All of that was now burned to ashes and nothing remained.
The mechanical black holes had all disappeared.
➖Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!
The surviving thought entities wailed sorrowfully at the queen’s death, and the legion, blinded by grief and anger, became a rabble and was massacred.
The Reptured fleet controlled by Teptorm waited for its end in front of the Ycloquasar.
【Are you humans?】
At that time, the Ycloquasar contacted Teptorm through the radio.
【What species is your race that allied with those living beings?】
【. . .We are the Reptured.】
【Somehow, I thought that the composition of your matter was quite different from that of the Andromeda Galaxy. They were too heterogeneous to be the machines fighting in this galaxy.】
【Can you even tell that?】
Teptorm tried to get as much information as possible from the Ycloquasar. The Reptured species would disappear from this place today anyway.
It was something that he was prepared for.
The reason the species here sacrificed themselves for their survival was to bet everything on the humans and the Chimeraz who would come after them.
【The Reptured. You came from the Triangulum Galaxy. Were you allies with the Quakacor?】
They had just called them living beings, but now they were properly calling them the Quakacor.
【We are allies with the Quakacor.】
【An alliance between living beings and machines. It must not have been easy to cooperate like that. What was the reason you decided to cooperate?】
【Don’t you already know?】
【The United Civilization of the New Universe and the Hive Alliance. An influence that was able to unite forces with conflicting interests because their species’ traits were different. . . I don’t think that can be achieved through mere force. It must have required a very complicated and delicate process.】
【Ycloquasar, why are you doing this to the species of our Local Group of Galaxies?】
The Ycloquasar did not answer that question and instead asked another.
【There is a being in the United Civilization of the New Universe and the Hive Alliance, respectively, who has the mental level to achieve the unification of the Local Group of Galaxies.】
The process of thinking and coming to a conclusion seemed to have been omitted several times. That was how overwhelming and transcendental their spirit was.
It did not just mean that they were powerful.
【That the Believers mediated between them or advised them on more important values. Is that correct?】
Teptorm would have gotten goosebumps if he wasn’t a machine.
Even so, Teptorm was a calm, rational, and logical machine transcendent. This short conversation was also an opportunity to obtain information, so he had to guide the conversation so that he could get as much information as possible.
【What will you do then?】
【The Quakacor and the Reptured do not have what we need to progress. It was the same for the other species.】
Teptorm was now sending everything the Ycloquasar was saying to the Human Galaxy.
【We were able to gain something from the Believers, but it was not enough.】
【I find it hard to understand how even the Believers are insufficient for you.】
【The Believers were already those who sought stability and not further progress. That is why we need the combined information of beings who continue to surpass their limits and constantly progress. . . So please properly convey my words to them in the Human Galaxy.】
Teptorm panicked. For the first and last time.
【We will go to harvest you, so please wait for us in a safe location by gathering your last forces. We will not make unnecessary detours or attack from behind.】
He was flustered and confused. He could not tell if it was sincere or a strategic statement.
Even so, he knew well that it was not his place to interpret it now, so Teptorm sent the information he had found to the Human Galaxy.
And on that day, the Quakacor and the Reptured also went extinct.
🔷🔷🔷
Contact had been lost with the species of the Canis Minor Dwarf Galaxy. Even the species in galaxies relatively close to the Human Galaxy were going extinct.
Meanwhile, the Hyraguroa remaining in the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy were slaughtered by the Redefiner of the Ycloquasar.
The queen of the Hyraguroa led all the members and weapons capable of fighting to the Human Galaxy. Therefore, the remaining Hyraguroa were the old, young, sick, and those who could not fight.
➖Where is the leader?
There were no high-ranking Hyraguroa. Since the army had left, there was no commander or leader. Therefore, the Ycloquasar asked the last one a question.
➖A civilization without an army cannot exist. Hyraguroa, where did the leader of your species go?
➖The queen abandoned us!
Even in the face of death, the last Hyraguroa remaining in the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy cursed and resented the queen.
Fwoosh!
At that moment, perhaps because the Ycloquasar judged that there was no more value in conversing with the opponent, it killed even that one Hyraguroa by detonating it with a blue lightning bolt from the Redefiner.
At a similar time, the Triangulum Galaxy was holding out. Although they were a defeated species, they had the Lomro-or, who once managed the Le-orantarum Federation, the largest in the Local Group of Galaxies.
In addition, the Caycaconick belonging to the Hive Alliance and their avian species, the Conda League, joined forces to oppose the Ycloquasar.
This was the capital star system of the Lomro-or.
The Conda League, flying vehicles resembling bird beaks, formed a line with a mothership at its center.
That mothership was the culmination of technology that they had recently acquired by investing a huge amount of capital as the Caycaconick revived.
160 km in length, the mothership called ‘Toenail of Conda’ was a heavily armed vehicle with hundreds of cannons and technology that could launch spatial unit attacks.
➖Our homeworld has already been destroyed! Our old allied species, the Galgaras, have gone extinct, and even the army of the Vtol species guarding the path here has been annihilated! However, we will fight!
The Conda chieftain of the Caycaconick shouted in a short speech.
➖We will fight even if our beaks are bent!
The Toenail of Conda deployed the Space Gravitational-field Eliminator that they had imported from the humans. It formed a strong gravitational field around the Ycloquasar’s white sphere, the ‘War Harvester’.
Screech!
The gravitational field that compressed space itself into a single point tried to distort the War Harvester, but it was not easy. What kind of material was it made of that there was not a single scratch on its surface even when gravity was forcibly applied while compressing space like that?
Countless flying vehicles of the Caycaconick rushed to the forefront, and at the same time, the Federal Supreme Justice of the Lomro-or shouted.
➖Activate the main cannons of the mothership and judge the enemies!
A living mothership about 3,370 km in length. That one mothership alone had a fleet battle power of up to 110 fleets.
There were more than 20 of such motherships, and those motherships spread out their metal armor like sunflowers and pointed the tips of their hulls forward.
Soon after, the skin under the metal armor split open and spread out like the gills of a fish, revealing giant tentacles.
➖For Le-orantarum!
Rattle!
The last motherships of the Lomro-or linked their giant tentacles together and gathered intense energy. Right after an unstable light flowed out onto the outer deck of the mothership,
Kwahhhhhhh!!
20 purple beams of light were fired at the War Harvester.
And they hit their mark. It was thanks to the Conda’s core distorting space so that the beams of light were sure to hit.
Furthermore, all the beams of light were concentrated on the exact center of the War Harvester.
The War Harvester’s pure white surface would have shown signs of being charred black for the first time then.
However, that was all that the Lomro-or, the Caycaconick, and all the species of the Triangulum Galaxy could achieve.
Thud, thud, thud.
The living motherships of the Lomro-or were attacked by the Ycloquasar’s forces. Phenomenon Tuners from the Ycloquasar were transmitted onto the surface of the motherships.
The three types of weapons operated by the Ycloquasar.
The white sphere that controlled space with the power of gravity was the War Harvester.
The worm-like thing that shot blue lightning bolts was the Redefiner.
And the 650 m tall bipedal tank.
It had two legs with smooth curves, and the joints of the legs were detached in the air like components without any physical contact. And between the two bracket-like components at the top of the legs, there was a floating sphere without any physical contact, and a red light shone from the center of that sphere like a beacon.
Screech!!!
The bipedal tanks called Phenomenon Tuners fired a red light that pierced straight through the deepest part of the Lomro-or mothership. Furthermore, the red light was a high-powered, unknown weapon that pierced through the interior of the mothership, exited from the opposite surface, and continued into space.
➖Federal Supreme Justice! Your motherships are under attack!
The Conda chieftain shouted then, but it was not just the Lomro-or motherships that were in danger.
The War Harvester, the size of a planet, emitted a red light from the exact center of the sphere like the Phenomenon Tuner.
That red light was fired in a straight line like a Planet Weapon and turned the Toenail of Conda, the pride of the Caycaconick, into dust in an explosion.
Buzzzzzzzz!
The red light even pierced through the Toenail of Conda and continued in a straight line all the way to the capital planet of the Lomro-or behind it.
The destructive process took less than a minute.
With that, the Conda chieftain and the Federal Supreme Justice died, and the capital planet of the Lomro-or became a magma planet in an instant as its internal material flowed out.
Leave a Reply