My Children Swarm the Cosmos – Chapter 97

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟗𝟕: 𝐀 𝐖𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 (3)

Nazar decided to make a deal with a race called The Believer. The machine race they pointed out was the Teterek, one of the three major races in the Canis Minor Dwarf Galaxy.

The Teterek, though technologically inferior to humans, were said to have often thrown machines into black holes in their pursuit of studying dark matter and dark energy.

The Believer tried to persuade the Teterek not to enter the sanctuary, but the Teterek apparently didn’t recognize The Believer’s claim to the black hole.

‘If we wipe out the Teterek race, we’ll be able to obtain black hole communication technology.’

A hyper-long-range communication technology capable of near-instantaneous connection.

The Believer offered to share the principle of harnessing the breath of creation if only the Teterek were annihilated. That was the deal.

The Teterek had a binary star system as their capital, and they inhabited a total of four star systems, including that binary system.

‘A small and shabby machine race that I could wipe out all by myself.’

‘But I mustn’t let my guard down. I must use everything I have to wipe them out. It’s a chance to obtain communication technology worth the effort.’

Nazar checked the colony growing vigorously in the triple star system. Backed by the support of the bio-planet, the rapidly growing colony had matured enough to launch spacecraft into orbit.

The newly born Chimeraz spacecraft were expanding their territory by aiming at the surrounding planets, establishing additional colonies.

‘This is enough. Bio-planet and half of the existing herd, join us here.’

The size of the Nazar herd thus gathered was 30 fleets. Add the bio-planet to that, and the total strength would be about 60 fleets.

‘Accelerate.’

A civilization of a machine race with technology far behind that of humans, unable to seize even the hegemony of a single galaxy, and cannot afford to participate in the diplomacy of the Local Group of Galaxies.

‘We’re heading to the capital planet of Teterek.’

The calculation showed that we could win for sure.

🔷🔷🔷

This mammalian race, covered in fur all over their body and having short tails, were bipedal. Known as the Mahadto, they were a race that used cloth-made clothes and various electronic devices in their daily lives, possessed a high-rise building civilization, a fleet, and an army.

However, the race name Mahadto would soon disappear.

“Gaaah! Gaaahhhh!”

Their civilization was already burning.

【Deal Core. Given the nature of this galaxy, this is not salvation, but an act of annihilation.】

【It is a purification process for the future of the Vehlpciaarct and the Local Group of Galaxies.】

【We must not lose our faith as a superior race. What we are doing now is clearly mass murder.】

【It is a necessary sacrifice. The Teterek, who chose to transcend machinery, are one of the few superior races we can trust. This galaxy must belong to the Teterek, and the Teterek must then become the power of the Vehlpciaarct.】

The Deal Core’s fleet was invading the planet while engaging the Mahadto fleet in a fleet battle. The Vehlpciaarct ground forces that had descended upon the civilization moved countless mechanical members irregularly, scurrying about like clumps of metallic tentacles.

The Mahadto army confronted the Vehlpciaarct ground forces by setting up barricades and unleashing the firepower of various long-range attack, but the Vehlpciaarct ground forces were reconstructed even after being destroyed.

【What if Lead Core opposes this decision?】

【If that happens, my mind is contaminated and goes against the will of our race. In that case, I am prepared to be annihilated.】

【I understand. Deal Core will take full responsibility.】

【Purify this civilization painlessly.】

The Vehlpciaarct fleet launched indiscriminate orbital bombardments on the ground. The Mahadto fleet tried to attack the Vehlpciaarct fleet, but the Teterek fleet was with them.

➖Deal Core. We will launch our interception drones en masse.

➖Permission granted.

The Teterek ships looked like three plates attached together at 60 degrees to form a triangle. Without exception, the Teterek ships were motherships, and they had no offensive means of their own.

Therefore, when the Teterek fleet engaged in a fleet battle, it looked like a large number of motherships were spewing metallic powder across the battlefield.

If one looked closely at the metallic powder, one would see that each of them was a Teterek interceptor drone.

Cuckoo. . .! Cuckoo-coo. . .!

Hundreds of thousands of interceptor drones swarmed the Mahadto fleet, devouring it. The Mahadto ships were saturated with neutral particle weapons flying from all directions, and the entire fleet seemed to be swallowed up in a dangerous cloud of lightning.

➖Our Teterek’s neutral particle weapons are very efficient in a vacuum. The short range, which is a chronic limitation, can be tactically complemented by launching a large number of interception drones to surround and saturate the enemies.

➖Why didn’t you use this tactic to purge the Mahadto sooner if you had it?

➖The Mahadto’s electronic net is the problem.

The Mahadto fleet, which was in a crisis, activated numerous ground-to-air weapons to target the Teterek’s interceptor drones.

A huge, pale blue wave, or rather a blue sphere, seemed to rise up into space, coloring the landscape of the area it passed through.

The blue sphere came into contact with the interceptor drones that were densely surrounding the Mahadto fleet, and immediately afterward, the interceptor drones were instantly discharged, causing a series of long electrical sparks.

➖Our interceptor drones are vulnerable to electromagnetic attacks. And we lose more than 18,000 interceptor drones linked to the network of the ship each time we lose a ship.

The Teterek fleet was more vulnerable than it looked. And the Mahadto, who had been fighting the Teterek for a long time, had naturally been developing weapons against the Teterek steadily. Conversely, the Teterek’s fleet battle tactics could be said to be a response to the Mahadto fleet.

Thus, the balance of power, which was matched competitively, was being maintained delicately.

➖It’s okay. Teterek’s outdated systems and electronic circuits will be improved with the help of the Vehlpciaarct.

In this way, they competed with each other to grow their armies, create tactics, and develop weapons. However, all of those things were so inferior that they seemed meaningless in front of the superior technological prowess of the outsiders.

The Vehlpciaarct and the Teterek conquered the planets of Mahadto one by one.

And they purged them. They subjected the planets’ entire surfaces to orbital bombardments of a power that the Mahadto civilization could never withstand, turning them into seas of fire. Hot firestorms raged, and mushroom clouds signaling the end rose over the continents and oceans.

If a few Mahadto miraculously survived in that sea of fire, they would have no choice but to return to a primitive civilization.

After that, it was a repetitive task.

They went around the Mahadto star systems, conquering the planets one by one. The planets of the Mahadto, which were rendered defenseless after their armies were defeated, were exposed to the fearsome orbital bombardment of the Vehlpciaarct fleet.

The orbital bombardment aimed at purification was a merciless destruction, and ironically, it was also merciful in that the end came without even the ability to feel pain.

【If even a handful of Mahadto survive, they will curse us.】

【It doesn’t matter.】

【I don’t know if the Mahadto ‘went extinct’ today, but the Mahadto race has been ‘annihilated.’】

The Vehlpciaarct annihilated a race in just 130 hours without even the Nanozator fleet.

And the Teterek would have been able to make a positive update to their relationship score with the Vehlpciaarct.

➖We have consumed a lot of energy. We need to regroup.

➖We highly appreciate the superiority of the Vehlpciaarct. Thanks to the Vehlpciaarct’s help, peace and stability will come to the Canis Minor Dwarf Galaxy.

【Deal Core. A Mahadto fleet escaping the galaxy has been detected.】

【All of the Mahadto’s star systems have been purged. Where are those remnant fleets escaping to?】

【There may be more Mahadto-owned star systems that we don’t know about.】

【We have purged 6 star systems and 29 planets. Even if we pursue them now, we don’t have enough energy left to engage in a fleet battle if necessary.】

【We’ll leave the pursuit of the escaping remnant fleet to the Teterek.】

➖Teterek. We have confirmed that part of the Mahadto fleet is escaping the galaxy. We should pursue them, but we are running low on energy because we have purged too many planets.

➖Situation acknowledged. The pursuit of the Mahadto remnant fleet will be left to the Teterek fleet.

➖In that case, we will return to the capital planet and regroup our fleet. We will join you after regrouping if you leave a radio trail during the pursuit.

🔷🔷🔷

Nazar set the capital planet of the Teterek race as his destination. The Chimeraz fleet of 30 fleets and the bio-planet were traveling across the stars, forming a powerful ring formation.

‘Wait a minute. . . .’

Nazar’s extremely sensitive sensory organs filtered meaningful information from what Euryale was sensing.

‘180. 176. 40. 6. 34. . . .’

There was a radio wave with mathematical meaning.

It was a radio wave that could never occur naturally. There might not be any humans in this galaxy, but it was very artificial, and the arrangement of the numbers that the radio wave seemed to be trying to convey was as if it was continuously informing the coordinates in space.

‘Carelessly leaving behind the radio trail of the fleet. Do they not know the concept that someone might come after them following the radio waves?’

As expected, they were a race far behind humans and the Vehlpciaarct.

Also, they were clearly a race of machines. That’s why they had an artificial feel to them, like the radio waves used by humans.

‘Teterek. . . .’

And now Nazar’s goal was to annihilate all the Teterek in this galaxy.

‘I’ll be able to check the combat power of their fleet before the invasion of the capital.’

Nazar did not miss the opportunity. He turned the head of the Chimeraz fleet by tracking the radio waves left by the Teterek.

They traveled like that for about 16 hours.

‘This is what it means when they say the Human Galaxy is unusually peaceful.’

‘They really fight endlessly to take over this small galaxy. Even so, all that’s left are the stars.’

It matches the shape of the Teterek ship that Believer told him about. As he heard, a single ship was operated as a mothership, sending out numerous interceptor drones to surround the enemy ship and saturate it with neutral particle weapons.

The Teterek fleet was engaged in a fleet battle in the orbit of that tiny planet.

‘The opponent is. . . . a metal-based fleet, so. . . .’

They are not that fungal race.

‘It’s a fleet battle between the Teterek and the Mahadto.’

Nazar decided to watch their fleet battle for a while.

For some reason, the Mahadto was being pushed back badly. It was said that three races had been fighting in this galaxy for a long time, but if there was this much difference in power between the Teterek and the Mahadto, the Mahadto would have been annihilated long ago.

That’s why it’s strange.

‘Was the Mahadto such a weak race?’

‘. . .Or are the Teterek relatively strong?’

The Mahadto fleet was barely resisting the Teterek fleet. It was a sight of countless interceptor drones swarming them, tearing them apart with lightning bolts striking them from all directions.

‘Isn’t there even any ground-to-air weapons on the planet. . .?’

Nazar looked down at the surface of the planet that the Mahadto was trying to protect.

It was a civilization that was shabby to be called a city. There were no facilities that looked like military bases, runways, or landing fields. The Mahadto ground forces were all wearing something like spacesuits, not even terraformed.

‘. . .Primitive.’

Primitive Mahadto.

The Teterek, who were slightly superior to the Mahadto, but still primitive.

Nazar got tired of watching the petty fleet battle between the two races. Even if he watched, there was nothing more to gain, and it was just a waste of time.

The bio-planet and the Chimeraz fleet had already approached this close, but they didn’t seem to be interested in us. Or maybe they were so engrossed in their own fleet battle that they didn’t have the余裕 to pay attention to anything else.

‘Destroy them.’

The Euryale and Lemegeton battleship hulls simultaneously fired their Organic Accelerator Cannons. The fiercely glowing purple plasma jets each targeted a Teterek ship.

Cuckoo-cuckoo-cuckoo!!

The Teterek ships exploded with gaping holes, like aluminum cans filled with flammable gas. The metallic armor that made up the ships was literally torn apart, scattering so badly that their original shapes were unrecognizable.

Immediately afterward, the Teterek’s interceptor drones, which had been targeting the Mahadto fleet, all stopped functioning.

The fleet battle came to a standstill.

➖Kaah. Kah-gah-gah. He! Kah-augh.

It was a transmission from the Mahadto fleet.

“Speak in human language.”

➖. . . .

Basically, any race that had entered the space age knew the human language.

➖We are the last survivors of the Mahadto!

“The last survivors? Did you lose to the Teterek?”

➖The Teterek suddenly developed an overwhelmingly powerful fleet! We have lost 6 star systems to them and have fled to this undeveloped planet that we are currently colonizing!

Nazar thought to himself.

‘Somehow. . . . I felt that the Teterek were overwhelming the Mahadto. Is it an advantage of the machine transcendence that they suddenly became stronger?’

If so, it was a very opportune time to come to the Canis Minor Dwarf Galaxy. If they had come a little later, the machine race might have taken over the galaxy, and in that case, the situation would have been advantageous for the human and the Vehlpciaarct side, who were friendly with the machine race.

➖The Teterek drove us to the brink of extinction! They are a heartless and extremely cruel race!

“I plan to wipe out the Teterek race. That’s why I’m on my way to the Teterek capital planet right now.”

➖Ah. . .! So you’re the one who just destroyed their evil fleet. . .! You are the heroes of this galaxy!

“Do you know anything about the Teterek-occupied territory other than the Teterek capital planet?”

➖We will send you all the coordinates of the Teterek star systems that we know of!

The Mahadto’s communication equipment had a slow transmission speed. Even so, they seemed to know where all the Teterek stars were, since they had been fighting the Teterek for so long.

Euryale began to store the information that the Mahadto fleet was sending over the radio into her own brain.

➖Thank you so much. If it weren’t for you, our race would have perished today.

“Does this mean that this is the last refuge of your Mahadto?”

➖Our fleet is the last fleet. And the few Mahadto citizens on this planet are the last survivors of our civilization.

“I see.”

Euryale had now received all the location information for the Teterek star systems.

➖Thank you so much for saving us!

“What nonsense are you talking about?”

At that moment, Nazar’s eyes were colder than the emptiness of space.

➖. . .What do you mean. . .?

“Why should I save you?”

What can the Chimeraz gain by saving the Mahadto?

What can the Chimeraz gain by annihilating the Mahadto?

What else would the Mahadto’s existence do to harm the Chimeraz in the future?

“There are countless reasons to destroy you, but no reason to save you.”

➖W-Wait a minute. . .

‘Annihilate that mammalian race that resembles humans.’

Immediately, the Chimeraz fleet destroyed the small Mahadto fleet with fire.

‘Thanks to the Teterek, we were able to save some effort. With this, we have gained even more dominance over this galaxy.’

The bio-planet became the moon of their last planet and ruthlessly stabbed its huge tentacles into the planet.

Thus, the Mahadto’s inferior civilization and fresh flesh became valuable resources to grow Nazar’s bio-planet. 

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