Chapter 407 Consuming a Dying Star

Chapter 407 Consuming a Dying Star

The time had come once again for Ayumi to devour the energy from another star. Her rebirth as a so called "Star God" had been kept a secret for the time being. And because of this, Erich escorted her with his personal starship outside of the Milky Way, and to the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, where in the previous timeline he had waged a bloody battle against the sages.

It was obviously not the same star system. In fact, it was an old and dying star within a system completely uninhabited by any life forms. Tia had marked stars like this across the Milky Way, and recently its stability dwarf Galaxies, in preparation for Ayumi's new and strange physical needs.

Her plans were to harvest these star systems of any and all resources they may have, and then allow Ayumi to swallow what remained of their stars, essentially preventing a supernova.

By now Tia's robotic worker legions had turned the celestial bodies into this system into barren wastelands. Any and all potential resources that could be extracted could be done so. Meaning that Ayumi was free to consume the star.

For moral support, Erich had taken Ayumi to this destination, despite her ability to traverse the stars on her own. Ayumi had long since been practicing to control her abilities in a barren?area of space, one which Tia had built specifically to her needs.

She was not necessarily a danger to Erich or his people anymore, and thus now lived on Earth full time. With only occasional journeys into the great beyond when she needed to devour a star's energy for her physical growth.

Within the small starship, which was what one might refer to as Erich's personal corvette. Ayumi stood in its hanger bay. There was a heavy starfighter meant to be piloted by two people residing in the bad, as well as Erich, who was dressed in a space suit.

He hugged his woman, giving her a sign of trust, as he verbally encouraged her to do what was necessary, despite her reservations to do so.

Ayumi flew out of the hangar of the corvette, her figure no longer one of flesh and bone, but rather one of pure energy, energy whose color matched her amber eyes. Tia may have warned Erich about Ayumi. She had, after all, become a being of ancient terror, one who the ancient Elven records spoke with nothing but abject horror about.

But to Erich, she was a goddess, one which he had no problem "worshipping" and if a few dying stars were the cost of her survival and growth, then so be it. He would happily pay such tribute to the woman.

Like before, when she had first "ascended," Ayumi approached the nearby star, though this time she was fully conscious as her mouth opened and devoured the energy of the star until nothing remained. Its light forever vanishing from the universe.

The scene was indeed, both simultaneously, an awe-inspiring and terrifying experience for Erich to witness unfold. And as he waited anxiously for something to go terribly wrong, it never did.

In the end, Ayumi flew back to the hangar, where Erich shut its doors behind her. Her form of pure energy receding back to flesh and bone, the every beautiful appearance which Erich had long since grown to love greeting him with a warm smile and excited smile, as the woman proclaimed her victory.

"I did it!"

Erich could not help but boldly reach out and touch the woman's face with his glove, something she treasured, as he responded to her excited words, with a humble tone and reassuring tone. One that conveyed his affections to the woman.

"Indeed, you did...."

And while Erich made this gesture, he thought to himself that Tia must be mistaken. How could a woman this beautiful and kind hearted ever become a blight upon the galaxy, and a danger to his people?