Chapter 1594 - Making Contact (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

A new round of attacks.

The festered had escalated their offense.

Other than the first hundreds of years of war, large-scale attacks only happened once a month or a year with reconnaissance and skirmishes in between. But since the last four years, those freaks had increased the frequency of attacks, every ten days on average. The rate of attacks had increased to once every three days. An attack came right after the Apocalypse Torrent thwarted the one before that, giving soldiers no breathing time.

The general of the Guardian Giants, the Fearless Salaman, stood on the defense platform above the Heart. He watched as space lit up by artillery fire and magic. The pale light sprinkled on his hairy face with swaying shadows. The battle before his eyes was almost the replica of the one a few days ago. The festered swarmed the battlefield, occupying over half of his field of vision. They used cannons to weaken the defense of the Heart and to reduce the number of guardian giants. They left behind contaminants on the battlefield to create a longer-lasting and terrible threat. Here, the defense forces were too few to deter the enemy’s offensive.

Salaman could imagine how things would develop. He would have to restart Agodal’s doomsday weapon, and the Apocalypse Torrent would wipe out all the festered monsters on the battlefield, just like before. But it would produce an unintended consequence; the loss to the enemy was inconsequential, but the damage the doomsday weapon caused to the space structure near the Heart would be devastating. The Apocalypse Torrent would cleanse space of the corrupted energy. But before that, they had already inflicted significant damage to the shield of the Heart.

The thick ‘crystalline shield’ that enveloped the Heart was the energy that thousands of Denizens of Stars gathered from around the universe. The energy had saved the planetary shield from the first attack. But after three thousand years of continual enemy’s bombardment, its strength had dropped by half. No one knew how long the Denizens of the Stars could hold on because the guardian giants had lost contact with the consciousness of the Denizens of the Stars on the planet since many years ago.

“General.” A young guardian giant stood behind Salaman. “The enemy’s attack has become more frequent.”

Salaman turned around, his eyes glinting with wise light. “What is your opinion on this, my brother?”

“We are isolated in the Sacred Land and know nothing about what is happening in the other part of the universe, my brother,” said the young guardian giant. “But I think there must have been some changes out there that cause these deformed monsters so desperate. Their increasing rate of attacks has revealed the nervousness and panic in them. They step up the frequency of attacks at the expense of their potential.”

Salaman nodded slightly. He agreed with what his junior said but did not show it on his face. “You are right, these freaks are getting more impatient than before, and they are under some pressure. I have received a report that a few days ago, a legion of deformed monsters suddenly went into outer space and then never returned. After that, these freaks began to show some strange movements. I suspect that a third force has gotten involved in this world.”

“A third force?” The young guardian giant looked at the general. “Does Mother have other allies besides us?”

Salaman said in a low voice, “Mother has many secrets, some of which we do not even know they exist, just as the sacred place we are guarding now; it is unknown to outsiders. Maybe in other places, Mother has—”

Before he could finish, space suddenly distorted behind him, and then, a guardian in white armor emerged from the portal and hurriedly came up to him. “General, our soldiers have captured a strange thing on the edge of the battlefield.”

“A strange thing?” Salaman’s eyebrows arched. He had not heard such odd news from his subordinates for years. “What is that?”

The subordinate bowed his head. “A spacecraft. Its appearance and technology are of something we have never seen. It tries to making contact with us.”

Salaman’s brows knitted together. “Bring it to me.”

The two guardian giants quickly fetched the strange-looking spacecraft to the platform. Salaman could not help frowning again when he saw the thing. It really is a strange thing, he said to himself.

Carried by two giants, at more than a dozen meters long, the spacecraft did not appear very large in the hands of the giants. The strange silvery-white thing was apparently a machine. It had a metal shell, and a half-spacecraft, half-insect body. It had many instruments hung on the outside, but the most eye-catching one was the massive holographic words around it.

The words on the left read ‘Don’t shoot. Friendly!” The one on the right read, “Calm down.” The one in the middle read “The goddess of creation has some words for you.”

The last line was the reason why the guardian giants had not opened fire at the drone. They all knew that their mother was also called by the name the goddess of creation.

“It suddenly appeared on the battlefield, chased by a large troop of the festered. But it was incredibly agile, and no one could catch up with it,” said one of the soldiers. “Our automatic firepower almost shot it out of space. But its shield saved it, and then our men saw these words.”

The young guardian adjutant looked at Salaman, and his voice sounded a bit odd. “Is this… the third force?”

Salaman curiously looked at the strange silver-white spacecraft. His deeply recessed eyes were emotionless, so no one knew what was in his mind. Meanwhile, the young adjutant could not help but say, “The words are written in our language, but the technology of this thing is foreign to us. It is impossible that such an advanced species exist in the universe and yet we know nothing about them.”

“But they are here now and trying to communicate with us.” Salaman raised a hand to interrupt the adjutant. He then came to the weird machine and bent down. “I can feel something is looking at me through it. No matter who you are, if you want to talk, now it is the time.”