Chapter 816 (1/2)

Chapter 816: Europa and the Home Worlds

There were two bea the withdrawal of the Violet Prince and Princess

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The second flash of pink light deposited Lan Jue and the others in a different sector of space After achieving the Infinite, Luo Xianni’s transference capabilities could send her charges over vast distances She could teleport between planets without aid, though distance did play a factor

Thein, she gathered the other three and fled

“We should be near Europa” She glanced at the map on her communicator

“Mother,” Lan Jue said, “there are going to be no small amount of aliens nearby If you wouldn’twith the presence of s

She nodded Another flash and they were gone A few mo the huets vanished

Lan Jue and the others arrived at their destination When they were safely within the bounds of reality again, Star Division’s colance was quick, for out of the corner of his eye the silhouette of Europa caught his attention

But was it Europa?

As he gaped at the scene, his disbelief was mirrored by Qianlin, the Pharmacist and Luo Xianni The planet occupied the same space it always had, but that here the sie planet – larger than Skyfire – that boasted the famed city of Reims, its beautiful cathedral, and the Dark Citadel as its opposite It was the capital of the Western Alliance, replete with resources and citizens to use thereatest planets colonized by huration, second only to Luo

Evaluating a planet occurred on several levels These included economic status, political environth It was only recently that Skyfire had begun to close the gap between them Some recent evaluations even put the Eastern capital above Europa, after its recent th and influence

The planet Lan Jue and the others gazed upon noas not that saone, and what lay there noas grotesque and uncomfortable to look on

The entire surface of the world wriggled and squir it look like some kind of mutated uterus The planet beneath was hidden from view beneath what could only be described as a placenta that sported large black arteries pulsing along its surface Soh the vessels

At last they were able to confir absent from view They surrounded Europa while tentacles thick as mountains penetrated into the afflicted planet’s surface Purple light hung over all three of theies The power that radiated froh the vacuum of space

The home worlds were so close to Europa it seems like their at Europa of its vital energy this ti it, somehow

They’d learned from the spirit of the Phar to evolve But no one knehat that evolution looked like, or how the process worked Looking on this strange scene the only conclusion they could come to was that their assu, and it somehow involved the Western capital

Their first thought was the human cost Europa had been one of the most populated planets in human space Now it seemed all of its population had been sacrificed for alien do melancholy settled in the hearts of the huone