My Children Swarm the Cosmos

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕𝟎: 𝐖𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐰𝐧 (1)

The Milky Way is being encroached upon by the War Harvesters of the Ycloquasar.

There were a lot of radio waves sent out by a nation in the distant past, or information exchanged between fleets in the recent past, floating around in the Milky Way.

Space is vast and the probability of catching such information by chance is incredibly slim, but the Ycloquasar was able to trace even such trivial information to instantly grasp where the fleets were in the Milky Way, how they moved, and where the nations were.

In the end, the nations located on the relatively outer edge of the Milky Way were the first to report the Ycloquasar’s appearance. And when such news spread to other regions through the wave network, communication network, and dark network, it would be the last news.

➖Kreion. It seems like Corcobado and Slav suffered.

Kreion recalled the dimensional passageway of the nation mentioned. In the past, the Chimeraz had taken root in this dark nebula by passing through that nation’s dimensional passageway.

➖Slav is a relatively close star system.

It is unknown what the nations that encountered the Ycloquasar first are going through. Judging from the fact that the news was cut off, it is possible that the Ycloquasar invaded the dimensional passageways of those nations, blocked the communication network, or perhaps even destroyed the nations themselves as soon as they appeared.

Kreion is at the geostationary orbit of the largest Gorgo’s Star in the dark nebula, at the heart of the largest mutant Euryale here.

Lopez is at the geostationary orbit of the artificial planet in the dark nebula, on the bridge of the 46km-wide mothership Fractal.

Ludwig and his human resources counterparts are at the sturdiest colony, the 4th planet of the Hecartra star system.

The other leaders are spread out across the Hecartra star system and the entire dark nebula, each leading their own pack, and the Phase Assault Troops are also similarly deployed.

The Anima pack and the Gorgo’s Stars are deployed in similar locations to the allied fleets in the dark nebula. And the Elise fleet, which belongs to the Phase Assault Troops, and the mothership Elise, which is about 25km wide, are on standby at the geostationary orbit of the 4th planet.

The Phase Assault Troops hurriedly built armories, shipyards, and other facilities on the surface of the 8th planet for continuous troop deployment. The 2nd generation artificial humans and humanoids belonging to the Ark Corporation poured in massive labor.

As they poured in massive labor, they consumed a lot of land and resources, and there was not enough time to push mountains or create new mines. So the Chimeraz colony and legions that were on the 8th planet moved en masse to a single young bio-planet deployed like a moon in geostationary orbit, making way for them.

And then there’s the 7th planet of the Hecartra star system.

The diplomatic hub called Petra, which boasts a single continent called Pangea and a vast ocean, was emptied of the power of other races.

The Crolr who were at the Crolr Energy Research Institute left to protect the Carrd monarch, and the quantum computer city of the Reptured has long since left, disassembled into machine dust.

In the colony of the Quakacor, a pack that has become a wild animal after losing its master roams around, and the jellyfish race in the deep sea has no army.

Also, those who were in the human embassy or various companies including the Darwin Foundation evacuated to the solar system.

So Petra was naturally occupied by the Parahtoria and the Ririm.

The Parahtoria mycelium area on this planet has become one with the Ririm, resembling a forest with a lot of mushrooms, and the Ririm has also devised its own means to help in this final battle.

Giant trees that are as tall as human skyscrapers have grown.

The giant trees, reminiscent of the world tree in mythology, spewed out Parahtoria spores that were like fruits.

Whoosh. . .

The color of the spore was black, as if the air itself was turning a murky, polluted color.

➖Bio-barrier cluster. Begin mass production.

It was a scene where a group of ultra-small living organisms that held the spirit and energy of the Chimeraz were born from the mycelium, greedily consuming the atmosphere.

They were a group that could not escape into space without the help of a spacecraft, but this time there were machines to help them escape the planet instead of a spacecraft.

【 Fractal. Request computational assistance. 】

【 Will support Ark-nim’s computation. 】

What used to be an ultra-small army in the microcosm appears to be a fluid of machines in the macrocosm. It is something Lopez had previously shown Kreion, and it is also a kind of component that all artificial intelligence weapons under the Phase Assault Troops have inside their bodies like blood.

Now, the fluid of machines is able to move in space by applying the technological support of the Believer and the new matter of the Chimeraz. Just like the extinct Vehlpciaarct or the members of the Reptured.

Amidst the massive bio-barrier that was born from the giant tree of the Ririm and the Parahtoria mycelium covering the atmosphere, the unmanned drones belonging to the Elise fleet descended into the atmosphere and disassembled.

Creak! Creak! Creak!

The ultra-small machines that make up the fluid of machines captured one living member of the bio-barrier one by one. Then, the living members infected the ultra-small machines in the manner of the Parahtoria, making them a part of themselves.

Like that, the constantly produced membrane of machines and living organisms escaped Petra on its own power.

The membrane became a moving fleet, a resource, a shield, and energy.

➖Kreion, Lopez.

➖We are now ready to face the real enemies of our world.

Before the Chimeraz go extinct, before the nations of mankind are all destroyed, we must achieve the first victory in this dark nebula.

Only then will we be able to drive out the Ycloquasar from the Milky Way and gradually reclaim the Local Group.

🔷🔷🔷

Nazar, Ark, and the Believer witnessed it at the same time. A War Harvester entered the dark nebula.

War Harvesters are abundant in other regions of the Milky Way. Considering the entire region called the Local Group, there must be at least dozens more War Harvesters. Each of them is a weapon capable of destroying a civilization or annihilating a race.

So if we can’t win against even one War Harvester here, there is no future.

Victory here must be the first step to counterattack. It must be.

➖There seems to be something dense in this space.

➖Voyager started here, didn’t it? And also. . . There was a war on the fourth planet of that red dwarf star and in the surrounding star systems.

The Ycloquasar was able to catch a glimpse of even such information.

Photons and electromagnetic waves. What is called light extends into the past and becomes a record of the past.

➖I can also see the black hole phenomenon and the Believers who stopped it. It seems like a space with a lot of stories.

➖And mankind and the Chimeraz fought here twice. . .

➖Humans were defeated in both battles.

➖That’s really unexpected.

The War Harvester entered deeper into the dark nebula and transmitted the human language to the wave network and communication network. Kreion and Lopez, who heard the alien voice, fell silent for a moment.

➖Ycloquasar.

Before the battle began, a Believer blocked the path of the War Harvester.

➖It seems like there are traces of you wherever you go. Are the Believers a race that is spread throughout the Local Group without a planet to live on?

At that point, Kreion and Lopez communicated through a hologram.

“I don’t think they know that the Believers’ habitat is a black hole.”

“They might be pretending not to know.”

“Well, since the Creator’s Breath, the black hole communication network, was also cut off in other galaxies.”

“With their level of technology, they must have traced the interactions of information exchanged by the black hole communication network and destroyed the Believers in other galaxies. Therefore, the Believer remaining in the Milky Way is the last Believer.”

The Believer and the Ycloquasar continued to communicate.

➖Believer. Do you know Earth?

➖I do.

➖Are you a race that existed even before Earth was created?

➖What if that is the case?

➖There were no intelligent beings in the Local Group at that time. Does that mean you are not from the Milky Way? Were you born somewhere else and started living in the Local Group?

The Believer never told any race about their past. The Ycloquasar is bringing up their hidden past so casually.

➖Where did you come from? Are you currently distributed outside the Local Group as well?

➖I cannot tell you that.

➖No. It is a sufficient answer to say that you cannot tell me. You just said that there are members of your race outside the Local Group. If that is really the case, more Believers would have appeared by now to support the Local Group.

The Ycloquasar also used the information exchanged as a means of conversation as a weapon to obtain more information.

➖In other words, the Believers are not a very numerous race. Unlike other races, all members of the Believers are transcendents. Transcendents of your level cannot be mass-produced or reproduced. Isn’t that right?

➖Now I will ask the question.

➖Okay.

➖What would you do if we surrendered?

➖We won’t surrender.

➖Why did you come here?

➖I don’t know what you mean by ‘here’.

On the contrary, those who were not the Ycloquasar must have tilted their heads inwardly.

➖Are you talking about the Local Group? Or are you talking about this spiral galaxy?

In human language, the word ‘here’ was an insufficient expression to explain their spatial concept.

➖I am talking about here, the dark nebula that includes the red dwarf star system.

➖I see.

➖Why did you come here? This place is not even that far out compared to other civilizations in the Milky Way.

➖I already told you.

➖What?

➖I told you through Teptorm. I said that I need the sum of information from beings who are constantly trying to progress.

➖. . .

➖It seems like those kinds of beings gathered in this dark nebula.

At that moment, Kreion spoke softly.

“. . .Their target was us.”

“They. . . harvest you and me?”

“Lopez. If we were to calculate the value of what is contained in my and your mind, how much do you think it would be?”

“That’s impossible to calculate.”

That was the goal that the Ycloquasar was aiming for.

“Harvesting the Local Group meant annihilating all intelligent beings in the Local Group and absorbing the owner of a mind that surpassed all those intelligent beings. In order to increase the efficiency of that task, they planted the human race long ago and were waiting for the harvest time in the void.”

Through repeated communication with the Ycloquasar, the pieces of the unknown puzzle seem to be fitting together one by one.

“So that’s the kind of force that has been progressing. . . They have maintained their overwhelming superiority by absorbing everything of the most superior beings and annihilating all intelligent beings who could become potential competitors.”

“It’s a method that is bound to create a gap. And if they can continue to maintain such a gap, the survival of their race will continue to be stable until the end of the universe.”

“Then how long have they been doing that?”

“It’s impossible for us to fathom.”

The War Harvester continues to advance. It will soon be within range of the fleet.

The Believer asks one last question.

➖If this place is so important to you, why are you only deploying one War Harvester?

➖I think one will be enough.

Lopez, who was watching, said.

“They’re fucking with us.”

Khwoooooosshhhh!!!!!

The artificial planet fired an antimatter pulse inside the improved gravitational wave cable. Fractal fired a scorched-earth spectrometer, Elise activated its main cannon, and 265 bio-planets orbiting the 48 Gorgo’s Stars unleashed the power of the Planet Weapon.

At the same time, the membrane of machines and living organisms hidden in the mass of the dark nebula, along with the members of the Believer, became small black holes and swung six disposable accretion disks at the War Harvester.

The War Harvester, which received all those attacks almost simultaneously, was torn apart miserably into countless fragments, and those fragments gathered together again with their own gravity and intention, turning red hot and causing a heat burst.

Beep beep beep beep beep!!!

Immediately, the Phase Assault Troops’ fleet deployed a wide-range gravitational field, and the six small black holes of the Believer, which were subtly drawn to the gravity, approached the War Harvester.

And the War Harvester exploded.

An intense flash reminiscent of a supernova erupted, and a shock wave at the speed of light spread out, seemingly pushing the distribution of matter in the vast dark nebula round, but

➖The War Harvester is dead. . .

【 War Harvester has been eliminated. 】

➖The War Harvester has been eliminated.

The intense energy and the shock wave that made space itself resonate were soon swallowed up and merged with the six small black holes.

Even after that, it exploded inside the black hole, and the black hole, which looked like a black hole, emitted a pure white light and rotated roundly.

The center was darker than anything else, but the circumference was brighter than anything else, and it seemed like a Whitehole that only existed in hypothesis.

Soon, Ludwig connected a wave to the area and gave an order.

➖Devour it. . .!

The membrane of machines and living organisms, which pretended to be dark matter distributed in the dark nebula, enveloped the bright black hole like a huge cloud.

That’s right.

The entire dark nebula was alive.

The membrane of machines and living organisms fed on the existing dark nebula, explosively increasing their numbers, so that they replaced the dark nebula themselves.

The Believers seemed to have been waiting, as they gradually released the mass and energy inside the black hole into the living dark nebula while slowing down the rotation of the black hole.

By then, the War Harvester no longer had a form, and the fearsome antimatter power source that the War Harvester must have possessed had become a safe substance after undergoing annihilation inside the black hole.

Like that, one War Harvester was neatly taken care of.

However, none of the allies were happy.

“Lopez.”

“Yeah. . . What you said before was true.”

The Ycloquasar progresses and survives by harvesting superior beings. It was at this point that we were able to confirm it through the conversation between the Believer and the Ycloquasar before the fight just now.

The Ycloquasar’s ultimate harvest target was Kreion and Lopez in this dark nebula region.

With such a goal in mind, they wouldn’t have sent only one War Harvester per region, as they have done so far, in such a reckless manner.

If they had the brains to analyze the enemy’s strength, they wouldn’t have thought that they could achieve their goal so easily with just one War Harvester.

“The words that one would be enough were a lie to give us hope and then take it away.”

Kreion, Lopez, and the Believers faced the same crisis.

➖Information exchange with the outside of the dark nebula has been cut off.

No waves, radio waves, light, or matter can enter or escape.

Like the horizon of an event in a black hole,

Like the darkness at the end of the universe,

As if this world had become a single universe,

➖It has become a closed space.

The allies surrounded and defeated the War Harvester with their fleet and membrane, but

The opponent was originally a being with a greater spatial concept.

➖Either all of us in this closed universe will die. . .

➖It won’t end until either all of the Ycloquasar deployed in this universe are dead.