My Children Swarm the Cosmos – Chapter 34.2

He had no choice but to be cornered by the dwindling numbers.

“Answer me and I promise to spare the lives of your subordinates.”

“I promise to let one ship go. What I want from you is information.”

Even if his promise was a lie, Brinicle had no other choice. He had to grab onto even a slim hope and let at least one ship return alive.

“. . .We asked the Aooa fleet to attack you.”

“And?”

“And we organized a pursuer fleet and planned an annihilation operation. Looking at your forces, it seems that both the Aooa fleet and our fleet failed, but. . .”

“Then New Ark is still preparing, or maybe they’re on their way to attack us after finishing their preparations.”

“New Ark is a group without an army.”

“Can you be sure of that?”

“That’s what we know. But I don’t know what’s going on at the top.”

“Then do the Foundation or New Ark know our location?”

“I don’t know. We reached this dark nebula by following the light traces left by the Aooa fleet.”

“That wasn’t very informative.”

At that moment, the number of friendly ships displayed on the holographic display disappeared.

They had been annihilated.

“T-These monster b*stards. . .!!!”

Brinicle’s face contorted with indescribable anger.

“The Apoptology that your subordinates are supposed to return to no longer exists in this world. I led my children and destroyed that facility.”

It was a situation that was worse than he had thought.

“Normally, I would have dug into your brain and found out everything, but I also wanted to practice interrogation on this occasion. I have to show my children as an example.”

“You’re humiliating me. . .! We created you! We’re the ones who created, raised, and protected you! Do you know how many people you’ve killed so far?! You’re betraying us like this because of one queen who went wrong?!”

“This was a bad relationship from the start. There’s no need to argue about who was at fault now.”

“What. . .?”

They needed each other, used each other, feared each other, hated each other, loathed each other, deceived each other, and now they were trying to kill each other.

“You must perish for the future of our race. You’re the group of humans who know the most about us, yet you’re the group that is most hostile to us.”

They had become each other’s enemies.

This entire situation could be summed up in those words.

“You. . . You’re not even a monster. . . You’re trash lower than a monster. . . You devilish b*stard. . .!”

𝘚𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩. . .!

Gats slit his throat.

Blood spurted out like a fountain several times, and his body, which had lost its strength, fell limply forward.

Then, an Elite picked up Brinicle’s head and took it somewhere.

“Agele-nim, what should we do with the battleships that crashed on the ground and the ships in space? For now, Nazar-nim’s pack has neutralized them.”

“Kill them all, dismantle them, and bring them here. I won’t let anything escape from this dark nebula.”

“Will that be okay?”

“What do you mean?”

Gats had heard about Kreion’s story from Ludwig.

“Aren’t they people who used to belong to the same group as Agele-nim? The Darwin Foundation.”

“Gats.”

“Yes.”

Kreion walked out of the bridge with Gats and said.

“Humans make the absurd claim that all life is equal, but they don’t consider the ant colony that will be destroyed when they build a building.”

“I don’t understand. Why on earth. . . Do they spout such nonsense?”

“They don’t consider the countless ecosystems that are destroyed when they terraform, or even the germs that die when they wash their hands. In the end, their criteria for recognizing life are that shallow. They’re opaque and opportunistic.”

“I guess it’s just because they’re ‘humans’.”

“Among them, the Darwin Foundation, which deals with life, emphasizes a superficial sense of ethics and calls themselves the leaders of all creations.”

Kreion recalled the preliminary selection.

At that time, in the city prepared by the Darwin Foundation at the training ground, there were artificial humans who believed that they were real humans.

However, there were no patients, disabled, or young artificial humans among them. That was what humans thought of as ethics.

If the pursuer fleet soldiers they had been fighting until just now had spared the injured chimeraz or the young chimeraz, the doubts from the preliminary selection would have been at least understandable.

“We don’t understand humans. And humans who don’t know of our existence will think of us as something that needs to be eradicated when they see us.”

“Yes. They would say we’re disgusting and filthy. We chimeraz were treated as monsters and bugs the entire time we were fighting.”

An Elite came over carrying a wrinkled red mass.

It was Brinicle’s fresh brain, which had been extracted by splitting open his skull. Kreion took it and placed it on his palm. Then, delicate and thin tentacles came out of his hand and dug into the brain.

“That’s why don’t spare anything. Kill them all and bring them to this planet.” 

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Remote rock-based planet number 5 is the colony of Berne.

The enormous corpse of Berne who fought to the end and died looks like a structure made out of organic matter that has been flattened.

The brain of Berne which grew to be over 50m was hit by a bombing and has become a crater, and around it, the chimera with no masters are wandering around aimlessly.

𝘒𝘶𝘸𝘶𝘶𝘶𝘶𝘶𝘶𝘶!!

From the sky, Lemegeton appeared and lowered its tentacles, known as Organic Pipes, to the ground which are used as a passage.

The chimera which escaped through the Organic Pipes and the chimera which remained in the planet look at each other.

𝘒𝘺𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢!!

𝘒𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘬. . .!

The chimera which are able to make a sound growl at each other as if they are on guard.

At that moment, a heavy being showed up in the middle of the pack from Lemegeton’s Organic Pipe.

“Stop.”

Upon Phlegeth’s one word, all the chimera stopped making a sound.

Then Kreion and Anima walk towards Phlegeth.

Anima asks during the way.

“Why are those guys so angry?”

Phlegeth answers in her place.

“They are trying to protect the flesh of Berne who has died.”

“Berne?”

“Berne was the leader of this planet. He fought to the end against the atrocious humans and died an honorable death.”

“Ah, yeah. I heard the story from Nazar. . .”

Anima tilts her head. Her white hair sways in the gunpowder-smelling wind.

“So where is this Berne guy?”

No matter where Kreion looks, he cannot see any peculiar beings that seem to be the leader.

All he can see is the chimera gathered on the unevenly sloped flesh ground, avoiding Kreion and moving away.

“For the sake of our race, Berne fought until the end and died. We must remember that fact.”

Kreion steps on the ground.

At that moment, the blood that was spread out on the ground moved like it had a will of its own and rolled towards Kreion’s palm like mercury.

At that amazing sight, Phlegeth lowered his body and his head.

“Our great master. . .”

“Kreion. You said you would show me how to restore the colony, right?”

“What do you think is the most important thing in a colony?”

“. . .Resources, maybe?”

“Phlegeth. What do you think?”

“Power. A colony with no power is not a colony.”

The ground rumbles. It is not an earthquake, but rather a vibration as if a big heart is beating from deep below the ground.

“The most important thing in a colony. The answer is a leader.”

𝘒𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘨𝘶. . .!

The sloped flesh ground expands and flattens. Bones rise from all directions, and thick blood vessels wrap around the bones. Blood seeps into the flesh ground, and the chimera with no masters rush in and cry.

“A colony with no ruling mind is just flesh, and a pack of such colony is just beasts.”

“What are you trying to do?”

Noticing what Kreion is trying to do, Phlegeth shouts at the pack with no master with a loud voice.

“Haha! Even death cannot go against the master! Look! Legions with no master! Our ruler will revive your leader!”

𝘒𝘺𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘢!!!!!!

A desperate cry fills the sky.

Phlegeth’s yellow eyes glow, and Anima unconsciously takes a step back.

𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘩!

The flesh ground that has flattened expands into a dome shape again. Blood vessels wrap around the giant skeleton like an umbrella with no handle, and red organic matter grows from the blood vessels and intertwines with each other. Big and small blood vessels and bones are connected again in a complex manner, and inside the endoskeleton and exoskeleton that were created in this way, a wrinkled brain grows at a frightening speed.

Kreion intervenes in the newly born consciousness.

‘𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 5.’

The giant brain grows until it reaches a diameter of about 50m. The strange structure that causes energy metabolism and material metabolism in the brain and protects the brain itself regains its reddish brown and black color, stretches out blood vessels in the surroundings, and begins to gush fresh Xenotera.

‘𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥. 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘺.’

“Do you know who I am? Berne.”

A majestic voice like a storm echoes from the giant vocal cord inside Berne’s body.

“Kemet Agele Kreion. Our ruler and the master I serve. I am honored to serve you again.”

Some packs that were growling instinctively like wild animals start moving in unison. They are scattering to restore the destroyed colony.

“I don’t remember how I died or what I did when I was alive. But somehow I know that my job now is to restore the colony and recover the troops.”

“Is there anything else you remember?”

“Where this place is, who I am, and what our origin is. And I remember Phlegeth-nim, Nazar-nim, and Ludwig-nim. But that over there. . . Resembling a human. . .? What is that female being?”

“She is a ruler who can control a large pack and leader like me. Her name is Anima Selas.”

“I see. Somehow I felt a wave that does not come from ordinary humans. I am ashamed because this colony has nothing to show you, but I am honored to meet you. Anima Selas-nim.”

“N-Nice to meet you. . .”

“Ask Ludwig for the details later. Make your colony and children recover to their best condition as soon as possible.”

“I will follow your command.”

“Phlegeth. You protect this defenseless planet until Berne’s colony is restored to its best condition.”

“Yes! I will follow your order.”

Kreion turns and walks towards where Lemegeton’s Organic Pipe is installed.

Anima watches Berne and Phlegeth talk for a while, then follows Kreion.

“Anima. Do you think you can control several children?”

“I don’t know because I’ve never tried.”

“Since you were also born as a ruler, you can probably control hundreds or thousands. When you return to my colony, take my place and try controlling the packs.”

“Then what about you?”

“I need to check the things I got by defeating Apoptology and the pursuer fleet.”

Now that the urgent fire has been extinguished, it is time to strengthen the race with what we have gained this time.

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