Chapter 4684: The Terrabingers

Divine Mother ooo—o- heaved a sigh once the meeting ended. It had gone well, a bit too well, which really meant that it hadn’t gone well at all. The War Faction was too passive; it likely meant that they had already made their decisions regarding what they intended to do with human civilization. The vice leader o——o- had hinted that to her during the invasion of six of their sisters into the home system of human civilization, but she had lived up to her promise.

Not once did the o——o- raise an objection or even speak. She simply listened with a cold, determined expression. The War Faction had already deteriorated to the point that words or institutions would not be enough to stop them.

They intended to attack human civilization, she knew. That was bad, of course. She was hoping they would back down when she brought up the fact that they had a security pact and that she would have to fight them if they invaded human civilization. But alas, the War Faction seemed truly out for vengeance. They harbored a great amount of hatred towards her, since they suspected her of selling them out, which, in all fairness, she had done. Still, a civil war benefited nobody.

She cursed the Divine Mothers of the War Faction and their stubborn hawkishness. It wasn’t ooo—o-’s fault that their most important leader and senior sisters died in the ambush upon human civilization. She hadn’t known about that until after the assault had commenced precisely because of how well the War Faction hid it. Getting mad at her for that outcome was silly, but she knew that they would not listen to such reason.

"If. I. Can’t. Fix. This. In. Time. Then... the. Web. Of. Our. Civilization. May. Come. Apart."

That was the last thing she wanted.

*****

While Arakai Web Civilization underwent turmoil, the rest of the Orion Star Strand and the Milky Way Galaxy began to stir as well. News of the unfoldings of human civilization had spread far and wide. Once news of the existence of a method for Transcendent impunity disseminated widely enough, it could no longer be kept a secret. It was already common knowledge within arakai civilization that one Transcendent was responsible for multiple attacks and ambushes. That alone divulged the existence of Transcendent impunity.

"Seems the arakai have found an interesting trove of treasures there on the other side of the star strand."

The words weren’t words as much as they were seismic vibrations of different frequencies arranged in different sequences, passing through the depths of the land. No mouth uttered them; rather, they were produced by the countless muscle-like fibers running across the long, flexible body of a hellion.

The creature was ten meters in length at present, though its size could change at will to great extremes in either direction thanks to the organic compression that the species had evolved. Its body was covered in a leather exterior that was remarkably flexible, covered in ridges and spikes that could allow the worm-like creature to dig and push underground at rather astonishing extents, riddled with powerful Transcendent-grade esoteric substances that allowed it to treat space and time itself as a medium that could be dug through.

It rested on the surface of a planet, but not the outer surface. No, rather, it rested within the inner surface of the planet that had been hollowed by millennia of digging and burrowing. The planet’s core was that of a negatron core surrounded by an outer core that functioned like the sun for the hellions.

The underground species was comfortable in extreme environments that would kill most ordinary members of most other species within the Orion Star Strand.

"Continue," the Chief of C’mourele Clan addressed the hellion specimen opposite, a much younger and weaker specimen that could barely maintain its composure before the Chief of the C’mourele Clan.

"Yes—" the hellion made a sequence of infrasonic seismic vibrations that functioned like a name. "—We have received credible infiltration reports from our infiltrated spies within arakai territory that have documented an abject spike in the number of times the individual ’Emperor of Water’ has been mentioned. At the same time, we have gathered that this individual has caused the death of at least eleven Divine Mothers, possibly more, six of which were extremely recent."

The Chief of C’mourele Clan was a solemn hellion. It didn’t express emotions, if the hellions possessed such things, openly. Then, his body began shaking, producing periodic beats, as if it was having a continuous sequence of hiccups.

It was the equivalent of a laugh of amusement. Though the worm-like creature didn’t have a mouth or a face, it could laugh. Its ’face’ wasn’t a face, but more so a spherical mouth-like opening with jagged teeth spread across the entirety of a mouth-like appendage.

"So... a brand-new Administrator shows up and starts bullying the arakai and even overcame the price of the Verse, hm?" The Chief of the C’mourele Clan expressed his amusement at this turn of events. He didn’t like the arakai, nasty bastards they were, trying to spread the Virus to poison the depths of Land that the hellions occupied and consumed as their one and only home.

Thankfully, the arakai and the hellions didn’t live near each other; otherwise, the Chief of the C’mourele Clan would definitely have reason to attack the arrogant spiders. He wasn’t the only chief or clan who thought this way, no. The other warring clans would also generally take the same side, for the arakai truly were scourges.

"Emperor of Water, hm?" The Chief of the C’Mourele Clan mused. "That sounds interesting. Send me the coordinates. I might visit the Emperor myself. Hopefully, he will be willing to share the method for Transcendent impunity with me."

RUMBLE

From within the depths of his existence emerged a Verse of extraordinary power. A Verse of land and earth. Among the hellions, they had a name.

The Terraverse. Those hellions who wielded the Terraverse were touted as Terrabringers.

In total, the Warring Hellion Clans of Giraftar had more than one thousand Terrabringers, occupying a whopping third of the Orion Star Strand.