1063 Fate 1 (1/2)
Crack!
All of a sudden, a crack formed on the Scarlet Snow Technique's Crystal. In a split second, the crystal shattered into ten pieces of red diamond-shaped shards which started to spin rapidly.
As the shards were spinning, a vast amount of Cold Energy from his Scarlet Snow Technique started flooding inside.
Garen knew that this was the key moment, that this whirlpool was created by the crystal's broken shards. The center of it was whirling at an extremely high speed and the small amount of Inherited Level essence energy formed was the power of the source.
Of course, this sort of cohesion process required a tremendous amount of energy that needed to be accumulated over the year, but the amount of energy surging from his Hellfrost Peacock Technique at that very moment was formidable. Even the whirlpool was increasing by its size as seconds passed.
Garen could barely stabilize his own breathing, but luckily, the red gem was covering his breaths. If not, he would have been sniffed out by Carthage already.
Whiz!
Two figures emerged from the passageway, appearing midair in the desert from before. There was another black whirlpool in front.
Carthage dived into the second whirlpool without a word.
Garen followed suit with a swift leap. In the blink of an eye, he arrived at a snowfield in the wilderness of Planet Scarlet Snow, which he soon realized was the snowfield he left earlier.
It was still moments before dawn. On the snowfield was only him and Carthage standing across each other.
”You are free to roam around. I will inform you in about a year's time when we have our next operation.”
With these parting words, Carthage turned and walked away slowly.
”Yes,” he replied softly with Blue Pole Star's sister in his arms.
It was not until Carthage left only did Garen look down at Blue Pole Star's sister who was still unconscious in his arms.
This young girl with short blue hair was wearing a blue-black corset top with a white pleated mini skirt. Her black knee-high socks reached mid-thigh, showcasing her long slender legs. She seems to be an energetic girl but at the moment she just looked pale and lifeless, whoever saw her delicate face would immediately feel for her.
This reminded him of his own sister back in Secret Technique World. She was just as adorable and people could not help but be fond of her. Unfortunately…
”Just blame yourself for the bad luck…” Garen sighed and typed out an order in his Energy Machine Imprint.
Not long after, a black flying ship with a triangular head zoomed across the dark sky. The flying ship was soundless, even its tail was not emitting any sort of gas.
Garen jumped up and charged towards it. He then entered from the side.
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A few hours later…
A star region far, far away from Mother Planet and the Four-Star alliance, a planet which was behind time. A black hole suddenly appeared as the flying ship with a triangular head emerged.
The black flying ship flew out from the black hole towards the light yellow planet below.
'Welcome to Resourceless Planet. According to Civilization Ordinance, your flying ship must leave after the planet rotates three times. Otherwise, you'd be violating the Civilization Union Act's number three hundred and twenty...'
Bang!
Garen smacked the control panel before him and turned off the smart computer's alarm.
The Civilization Order Act were the rules arranged by the Finite people and people from races implemented by ordinary people. On the other hand, the rules meant nothing to high-ranked Energy Machinists. Even the Slaves Planet had someone to control and run the place, not just some Civilization Union Act.
If it was not the fact that the planet was too far away from the main star regions, those greedy bastards would have already conquered it long ago. Even for Garen to travel all the way here this time around tired him too.
With that, 20 golden crystals worth of resources was gone. Only a few people could actually jump with such high expenditure. This was actually the distance of millions of light years. After traveling to and fro space multiple times and greatly jumping around far-distanced planets, Garen finally found a planet that did not have humans who appreciate its resources.
Looking back at the short-haired girl who was soundly asleep in the ice coffin, Garen shook his head.
”That's good. With such a distance, we're far away from the war, the clamor. You'd be able to forget about everything and just live a peaceful, normal life as a normal person.”
The flying ship accelerated and flew through the atmosphere, passing through layers of clouds. Yellow mountains stretched along the horizon could be seen from above, it was like grey patches of civilization.
”Activate stealth mode.”
A sound rang through the flying ship.
The flying ship continued flying downwards until it finally stopped right above the city.
Garen got dressed in his stealth clothing and descended the flying ship with the girl in his arms.
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”Ouch… My head hurts…”
Inside a crisp white room, the girl finally regained consciousness. Rubbing her head as she slowly got up, her mind was completely blank just like a hard disk that had no memory at all.