"..."
"..."
Silence fell all over the place.
A Primordial had died without as much as showing any form of resistance. It was shocking, especially for Aeliana.
Yes, Nux did say he was strong enough to take Selvith on, Aeliana, however, never believed it. She just thought Nux underestimated how strong a Primordial actually is.
After all, Nux had never actually faced a Primordial before, even in the Illusion, Aeliana assumed that he wouldn't know any better since he didn't have enough time to actually become strong enough to face a Primordial.
Nux didn't have the Black Hole or this Universe inside of him when he was in the Illusion, so him facing Primordials as Divine Stage Cultivator was out of the question, heck, he didn't even have a Law every time he became a Divine, so he would be even weaker than a regular Divine Stage Cultivator.
Not to mention Nux couldn't leave Yrniel inside the Illusion, meaning the Primordial he would face were the Primordials of Yrniel, who were far stronger than the opponent Nux faced.
No matter what possibility Aeliana thought about, Nux had never had the opportunity to tackle an opponent of this level before, so for him to make a mistake in judgment and underestimate his opponent, it was completely normal.
This was the reason Aeliana made them fight inside her Barrier in the first place, using her Law, she had made it so that Nux could never be killed as long as he was inside.
She was controlling Nux's 'Death'.
Yes, her Law was absolutely broken, but that wasn't the point here, the point was, Nux won.
And... he won ridiculously easily at that.
"Knock Knock"
"!!!"
Suddenly, Aeliana blinked in surprise as Nux knocked on her forehead.
"W-When did you get here?"
She questioned.
This time, however, Nux and the others looked at her with strange looks on their faces,
"I walked here..."
Nux answered.
"Huh...?"
Aeliana frowned in confusion.
"Is me winning that surprising?"
Nux questioned with a playful look on his face.
"You do not understand what you just did, do you?"
Aeliana couldn't help but question.
"Defeated a Cultivator who was a Phase above me?
Regular old Monday."
Nux shrugged.
"It is not the first time I did this, remember? I could take on Divines when I was a Saint."
"..."
Aeliana was silent.
It was just as she thought.
Nux had no clue what a Primordial actually is. This was the reason why he didn't feel it was strange.
No actually, considering that this is a man who had an entire Universe inside him, maybe it is actually not that strange.
"Uggh..."
"Well, I did learn a few things after I devoured my first World."
Nux smiled wryly. There was still a lot of unsorted information in his mind that he needed time to sort out, but he decided not to think about it for now.
All this information came to him instinctively now.
"So what you are saying is we cannot help them?"
Evane questioned.
"We cannot."
Nux shook his head again.
"Yrniel is in no state to help, and no other world would take them.
I can spare one or two worlds and connect all these people with those worlds if you want,
But..."
"They will not survive."
Felberta completed Nux's words.
Nux turned towards the Eldraeth and nodded.
The Universe was a cruel place, the weak would never survive here.
If it wasn't Nux and his wives, someone else would have attacked them eventually.
Sure, this sector of the Universe wasn't really visited by the main forces, but the main forces weren't exactly what these people feared.
It would be the other Lowest Level Worlds that are still here.
Sure, most were incorporated into the Association, but a select few still remained. Maybe not now, but eventually, they would still find these people and kill them.
With their strength, they would never survive.
Honestly, they do not even have to be attacked, even if they are left alone, these people would perish, without the strong protecting them, the weak would copulate with the weak, producing even weaker children, their bloodline would continue to erode, and the worlds, that already had less energy to begin with and are now forced to form connection with more people than they could, wouldn't be able to help them in any way.
It is a situation where chances of survival are pretty much nonexistent.
"We would be forced to babysit them until their worlds recover energy naturally while protecting them from outside threats,
This is the only way they would survive."
Nux answered.
"And how long would that take?
The worlds recovering their energy I mean."
Felberta questioned and Nux shook his head again,
"Anywhere between a hundred thousand years to a million, I cannot say for sure."
"So if we wish to keep them alive, we need to babysit them for more than a hundred thousand years?"
"Yes. Them, then their children, then their children, we need to babysit them all."
"That is impossible."
Felberta knew it.
It wasn't just her, Evane knew it as well.
Hundred thousand years was simply too long of a time,
Even if they wanted to help them, they simply cannot,
Only one fate awaited these beings,
The fate that awaited the weak.