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Zeus’ masked face hid his surprise, but his voice didn’t “You know so?”
Prometheus nodded “News from the proverbial horse’s mouth The Northern Alliance has lost contact with an armada of navy ships it’d dispatched”
Zeus’ surprise intensified “This quickly?” As far as he knew, the North had only just recently sent the ships out to look for the monster planets! Could it really be possible for a fleet of ships to disappear so quickly? Unbelievable!
These sorts of missions were always lead by a Capital Warship, an exceptionally powerful weapon of war It o classes above a co so powerful at its head the co entire planets
Lan Qing went on “It looks like our earlier conjecture has been proven correct We have a violent and previously unknown alien species heading for galaxies under the protection of the Three Alliances Our analysis indicates the attack of Taihua is connected Under these circumstances, do you think the alliances aste ti and Hua Li stood silent, their faces dark and brooding
The universe was ever aboth wonders and terrors Humans were powerful, yes, but who kne many unknown species were out there? Like these aliens, were they hostile? Could humans protect themselves if they should meet?
In such an infinitely vast universe, who could say huht of power? With an infinite space to explore, the chances of discovering soligible Even if they hadn’t had faced these monsters already, their rapid and clandestine approach towards hu Over the last one hundred years of space exploration, one thing has been proven true; all creatures, huroup stood in silence for aheavy over them
After a time, Lan Jue looked up towards his brother “Do you wanthis head “No, that’s not what I want for you You have your own road to walk If you came with me you’d unconsciously come to rely on me This would be bad for your Talent Your destiny lies further down the road The decision is yours, and I can’t interfere in it”
Lan Jue silently nodded his head His thoughts turned to Wu Junyi, and the pressure of the request he’d laid upon hi he could refuse Soon it would be tiht to survive
“I’d like you to explain your experience on Taihua, in detail” Lan Qing asked
“Alright” Lan Jue nodded, then went on to explain everything that had occurred during his tier brother got to the part about the Fantascia Genetica, Lan Qing’s eyes grey hard and harsh However, he said nothing, and just listened carefully to the rest of the tale
“You did well Of course, you are my brother, after all You can bank on the reality that I will h, is strange Skyfire Avenue is the strongest of the Adept organizations, but it is also the loosest I don’t believe that doctor who claimed to heal you actually possessed the capabilities to do so What do you think?”
“I had the sareed “The phylactery only served to drain the tey that ithin me Perhaps he would be able to heal enetica would be to extensive for him And now, not only aren’t there any residual issues, but instead both my Talent and physical health have improved Total contrary to reason Itin healing, but in all the ten known paragons there is no such person”
Lan Qing turned his attention to Chu Cheng and Hua Li “When you two got there, did you discover anything out of the ordinary?”
Hua Li pondered the question “Whenhirey stone 4 It was oval shaped… really sort of like an eggshell”
“Yeah, I thought the saot there, it looked like everything had just finished The Cosus was there, so we didn’t ask too many questions At the ti looked theus would know the anse seek A-Jue, you’ll need to find a way to get it out of hi such dire illness, this could prove invaluable in any number of ways They shouldn’t keep that hidden”
Lan Jue nodded in acceptance “It won’t be easy If they do really have someone with this ability, it’s unlikely the Avenue ant to share that information After all, that would be a very rare find At any rate, I owe the Avenue my life I’ll need a way to pay them back”
1 Guys Seriously He’s a supersoldier His job description is ‘viciously murder-punch people’ You’re soh I just said he was’
4 I can’t recall whether or not I mentioned this before, but this is an allusion to a popular Chinese trope, wherein a powerful being is born or escapes fro, he was born from a rock, was buried under a h to challenge the whole of heaven There was also a more contemporary example in Hulu Wa, or the Calabash Brothers First a farmer drills open a hole in a rows seven calabashes froed