Chapter 541 - Continued (1/2)

Reinhart sat in his seat without moving a muscle for the next hour, constantly observing the map and 'that' black dot.

The only words he repeated several times out loud were ”The flow doesn't make sense.”

Maybe he himself didn't know what he was talking about yet.

***

Back in the gravity-less battlefield, Team Leader of the first team chased that hive guardian for a little more than 10 minutes when the Squad Leader (Saint Lord) arrived.

”My Lord,” the squad leader lowered his head.

”Go back, I've got this. Don't report anything until I say so,” the emaciated man ordered without even looking in his direction before shooting off towards the hive guardian that had already left the confines of the battle and entered the void between planets.

The solar system they were in had a total of 12 planets. The only inhabited one was the ninth one from the sun where Hao Xuan currently was.

The emaciated man quickly caught up to the gargantuan hive guardian but he did not intervene, only observing from afar.

He squinted his eyes as the scenes in front of him quickly changed. His vision kept zooming in in front of the beast until he saw the reason for the chase.

It was an asteroid, or something that resembled one. There were hundreds of small holes all over it, making it look more like a broken piece of a much larger beehive.

It was surrounded by a dim energy field that seemed to be the source of power that was propelling this ordinary-looking asteroid at such high speeds that even a hive guardian was unable to catch up to it.

”An internal power struggle?” the Squad leader quickly deduced.

It was obvious that the asteroid had broken off from the main hive and was now being chased. Maybe it was a prisoner escaping, or another queen was born...or any other of a million things.

Even now, very little was known about these creatures as most of them were hostile towards humans to an unprecedented degree, which is why most of the knowledge came from observing their distant relatives and from those that were able to gaze into the abyss and discover lost knowledge.

But one thing was for certain, there could usually only be one queen within a hive so whenever a new one was born, it would be assimilated by the current ruler.

Although the probability of such a thing was very low, it could not be ignored either way.

”Squad Leader Charlie to base,” he spoke out loud as his spirit band lit up. The light on it pulsed for a few seconds before becoming dim.

He was too far to connect to it.

”Personal Log,” he mumbled with a sigh seeing as there was no other option, ”Discovered the reason for the hive's strange behavior. Engaging with the hive guardian. Battle strength gauged to be around Class AA, Swarm Lord class.”