Chapter 424 - Seeker’s Offer

The battle outside had turned strange as fires and explosions appeared in the sky with no apparent explanation.

The space kept trembling as the attacks exploded in the fourth, creating strange reactions around.

Some of the explosions would suddenly appear up high near space, and some were even unseen by Presiders and the world as they exploded down the deep sea.

Most of the Presiders watching were amazed at the sudden reports. 

Even Garenjazz, who was in space, could not understand the battle.

"Why does it look like that Pridgeon won the space war? It's as if Shakstress was fully consumed in the Territorial Space Battle. Is Shakstress within the In-Between world of Pridgeon?" As Garenjazz had fought with Crostfree, he was aware of the possible techs that Pridgeon had.

"Hmm... Should I go? But I'm sure everyone's watching me. There's also that girl that appears in my dreams. And who exactly are those allies of Pridgeon? I guess it's time to look for Princess Zeraphine..." Garenjazz ignored the strange explosions occurring in various locations.

The massive attacks ripped through the three dimensions, and bits of the explosions would surface on random locations within a radius of thirty kilometers.

Even Andronze had to defend against it as she could sense incoming attacks and navigated the Pyramid to evade the burst of fires.

After taking a few attacks, Arthur was able to navigate Shakstress's ship to avoid the explosions as they began to ripple out. He was also able to lead the armies to evade the incoming attacks.

The chaos in the ship made Arthur give a huge amount of orders that caused the various communication officers to be over flooded with messages. Some Presiders have already contacted Shakstress since the start, but Shakstress had denied them all. But in the outgoing and incoming messages, Arthur was able to slip in a secret message to reach a certain place on Earth.

Buried under the rocks deep under the ocean floor was a massive fortress that had disappeared. This was the combination of the Kraken and the Atlantis, the mega fortress built by the WGP, the Poseidon.

The Commanders of the Poseidon saw the message.

"Oh? Interesting..." The father of Lowengren, Albert Hoross, was the man in charge of the newly reformed ship.

"Call Colestar. Let's initiate this plan."

"Yes, sir!"

On another ship was a Lingkaran of Pangea. But in the very center of it was the missing half of the massive SPU ship, the King Naga. The King Naga had half of its part completed, and the two ships were now one. The newly formed ship was called the Abyss Dragon. 

The President of Pangea saw the message that Albert sent.

"This looks fun. Fine. Men, let's attack the Poseidon!" Colestar ordered as he received the message from the Malay-Pangean president.

The Poseidon and the Abyss Dragon rose to earth from their hidden location and began the great battle.

Arthur sighed as he was able to send the message and clear the logs before anyone could notice.

"Seeker... It's all you now. Bring her back here." Arthur finally lost consciousness.

Madison and Chase immediately ordered to send Arthur into the hospital. Madison carried on the task that Arthur told them to do while Chase took Arthur and went outside.

Inside Pridgeon's ship, the climactic battle between Shakstress and Pridgeon ravaged on.

A battle between Top-Tier Presiders was primarily a territorial battle. Since two Top-Tiers will have their means of bending the flow of matter and the dimensions to their will, the two sides are in a constant struggle to gain grounds to employ the sciences they have.

Shakstress's techs cannot form in an area where Pridgeon's techs were already established. As the state of the dimensions was strange with the three dimensions being forcibly placed over another dimension, shrinking it was impossible. And Pridgeon's techs cannot activate in a shrunken and distorted space.

The science and calculations to bend and transform the three dimensions were already too difficult for the most advanced computers of Earth to perform, and trying to alter an already altered dimension is much more difficult.

Shakstress was in a desperate state. She was outside of the range of her ships and could do little to access her shrinking techs. And the main problem was that Pirdgeon had already activated his protocols inside the ship.

And since the space around the ship was already something that overlapped to the fourth dimension, shrinking it was more difficult and profound. Throughout the battle, Shakstress even used her Soul to go into the dream realm where she could calculate it. But the problem was that her control was not as great as Garenjazz and the time spent inside the dream world was only slower than what it was outside. She had spent many days constantly solving and doing the math to get out.

As the Primary Thought of Shakstress tried to complete the calculations which would enable shrinking in this dimension, her Secondary Thought fought Pridgeon.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Explosions that exceeded the limits of Weapons of Mass Destruction were used.

"Ha Ha Ha! This is my domain, Shakstress! I control the space around you!" Pridgeon laughed.

The overlapping of the dimensions caused some of Shakstress's attacks to be sent into the fourth dimension and explode there, dealing no damage to the three dimensions.

Shakstress was pushed to the very limit. She had faced a scenario where she was doing her best to stay alive. This was the closest point to death than she's ever been.

But she took things one step at a time. Her ammunitions were low. As using her Universe Energy in a field that Pridgeon fully controlled was pointless, her battle against Pridgeon only used various Low to Mid-level tier techs.

Her Throne was broken, and blood was all over her body. Yet, she kept evading and evading with the best of her capabilities.

And finally, the great willpower and wisdom that Shakstress had finally bore fruit. She figured it out. In the heat of the battle, she solved the immense calculations as she spent nearly fifteen days in her dream world. 

With the remaining Universe Energy she had, she activated the shrinking protocol, took advantage of the strange overlapping of the three dimensions and the fourth, and created a teleportation channel.

The warp pad opened, and she launched massive attacks and retreated into the portal.

The key of this warp pad was the previous teleportation that Seeker and Lynd used. Shakstress had recorded every millisecond of her travel when she gave chase. This allowed her to analyze the energy and fluctuations to recreate the same event. She revered the point of origin and the destination, and as there was no time to test it, she just initiated it anyway.

Pridgeon saw the erupting Universe Energy and blocked it with his own.

BOOM!

As the explosions occurred, Shakstress retreated.

KZZZZT!

A portal opened, and it shocked Pridgeon.

"What?! How?" Pridgeon gave chase, but it was too late. The attack of Shakstress continued to push his Throne back.

The portal closed, and Shakstress was traveling through the void.

She gave a heavy sigh and knew that her ship would probably be useless. She synched with it to create the warp to make her entire ship teleport and shrink.

As she appeared in that place, she immediately activated the many protocols that consumed nearly eighty percent of all her Universe Energy. She had roughly the same Universe Energy left of what exceptional Low Tiers would have!

The battle changed as the entire large ship forcibly shrunk. Some portions of the ship failed to shrink and were severed from the main body.

As the ship shrank, it immediately flew with incredible speed.

Shakstress looked around him and found Meryl fully charged to blast another great beam.

Richie, Chase, and Sammy were there, all wearing powerful Supreme Exoskeleton armor.

Gardo was also there wearing a different Exoskeleton that was similar to what Octarion wore.

Shakstress knew that this would happen. But as she saw the state and arrangement of enemies before her, that the enemy must have already taken control of the command centers.

She sighed as her death was now even more certain.

"Hmph! Using my own techs against me. Shall we end this?" Shakstress frowned.

The entire area she teleported to was the same place in the ship with a massive gap in the middle. 

"But all your metals are mine! And this is my space!" Shakstress shouted angrily and activated the repairing protocol that she had used before.

But as she did... nothing happened.

"Wha-What?!" She froze. The order didn't work.

Suddenly, Two powerful beings clothed in white appeared.

Seeker and Lynd emerged.

"You?! I thought I left you in Pridgeon's ship?!"

"We lied to you. We were never his allies. We did some things to gather more techs from his ship but came back just in time for you to teleport."

"Impossible! I would have detected you!"

"The Thief in the Night." Lynd explained.

"Her Path is a level cloak that could be considered Top-Tier. In your current state, and since you were very preoccupied, you never noticed our presence. How do you think your teleportation stabilized?" Seeker smiled.

"So it was you..." Shakstress smiled, but her heart weighed heavily. But suddenly, a great sense of relief was felt. As if her struggle finally ended.

"How did you... change the protocols of this ship?"

"We have an ally that can transform himself into electricity and manipulate the data. We also have someone who manages to take control of this ship. His calculation skills should be known to you. You fought with him in the planning of this ship."

"Ah... My regards to that man. He did well..." Shakstress smiled as she prepared her last weapons.

"You could still join us. We are not Presiders. We lied. We are earthlings. The Lost Primordial came here and prepared us to fight you. And now that we know more about you, we realize that the Lost Primordial did everything not just for Earth's survival but so that someone among us will rise and fight. In that regard, we can be the perfect allies that won't betray you.. Why fight and die when you can ally with us and join in the battle of the Prime Wars?" Seeker suddenly offered.