Chapter 1135: Those Who Learn From History Are Able To Repeat It

Chapter 1135: Those Who Learn From History Are Able To Repeat It

The mammalian swarm flew through the empty space, breaking into the solar system and rushing towards Priscilla. With her eyes closed, she began to activate the divine abilities that she had received from the Keeper.

Observation, Optimization, Speed, Battle, Sword, Performance, Hero, Strength, and Defense. With a thought, Priscilla activated nine domain powers, the maximum that she was willing to attempt. Even if these weren’t true domains, she wasn’t willing to push her luck by exceeding the natural limit.

With the powers activated, the world seemed to slow down around Priscilla. Her eyes remained closed, but she could observe everything happening in real time. The swarm was still moving quickly, but no longer too quickly for her to counter.

Knight of Death, form the Impassable Line! She commanded, and one of the knights flew to the back of the formation, where a white line was carved into space. This line began to spread out, forming a wall that separated Halvar Three from the incoming swarm. The only ones behind the line were Thessa and Theon, and Priscilla sent them a clear warning.

If anyone crosses that line before the Knight of Death perishes, they will die. She said firmly, before leaning forward and accelerating towards the swarm. Her twin blades carved a golden line through the air, slicing apart the first two monsters that came towards her.

In that brief moment, Priscilla realized that the monsters were largely hollow in their torsos, likely due to the large, vertical mouth covering their bodies. Their vital organs all appeared to be located in their lower extremities.

Noting this, she planned to slice the next monster down the middle, only for its vertical mouth to open at the last instant to grab her hand. Her brow knit together in alarm, and she discarded that hand without hesitation, together with the sword it was holding.

Before the connection to her hand was lost, she could feel it being swallowed by some form of energy in the creature’s mouth. Thankfully, as one who had transcended her physical body, she was able to immediately regrow her hand, though the sword would not return as easily.

All around her, hundreds of knights had engaged in combat with the monsters, throwing out concentrated attacks to eliminate them in droves. Priscilla watched as more than a dozen monsters tackled the Knight of Wood at once, forcing it into one of their mouths. She felt a sense of triumph emerging from the swarm, before that feeling was replaced with confusion.

According to the Keeper’s information, they can obtain power by devouring living creatures. Since the knights are not truly alive, but act as divine golems, perhaps they can’t be eaten. That thought flashed through her mind, before she took advantage of the momentary confusion by cleaving through the clustered group of monsters.

Unfortunately for her, the monsters quickly noticed this problem as well after attempting to devour another of the knights. She could feel the moment when she became the sole focus of the swarm, the only ‘living’ creature that they were fighting against.

Substitute the Sword domain for the Stars domain. She thought quickly, before lifting a hand. She snapped her fingers, and a ball of intense heat began to swell above her, swirling in place. She pointed her finger forward, and that ball shot towards the swarm rushing towards her.

In their brief clash, she had learned that these monsters possessed organic bodies, but had unique organs that allowed them to produce a special energy that she couldn’t identify. As long as they were organic, the heat of a star should have been able to annihilate them.

And sure enough, the first wave of monsters evaporated as the miniature star approached them, still growing as it traveled. This enraged the swarm, causing them to send hundreds, thousands of their own at the star, smothering it in their sheer mass. Priscilla hesitated when she saw this, realizing that the swarm had as little fear of death as her own knights.

If just one swarm managed to consume a god, that entire swarm would essentially become gods with that domain. Of course, there was the morbid possibility that feeding ten different domains to a single swarm would lead to annihilation, but that was not an option that Priscilla wanted to focus on.

Tower sat in his office, his crystalline body in deep contemplation. Due to all of the cosmic threats roaming about, the entire population of his planet had been moved into one of his many instances. While this wouldn’t protect them in the event that he was killed, it would stop them from being killed from the mere energy releases such a fight could cause.

After a moment, his gem-like head tilted upwards, sensing a vast monster that was flying towards his location. Its body was... quite simply, enormous, with claws that could pluck stars out of the sky and a glowing, armored hide. Its mouth was open wide, a green light visible from the depths of its throat. Tower could sense countless other monsters along its surface, scurrying about.

At this rate, it will be here in... five minutes? Wait, no... huh... well then. He thought to himself, before lowering his head. Pietra, Atraxi, a giant monster is on its way to try to eat your planet. He warned, sensing that the path of the monster was just slightly off from his own world. Clearly, it had designated the world quite literally made of living matter to be its meal.

Are you serious? Atraxi responded back, almost amused. Something wants to eat us?

Indeed. Tower nodded his head. Given the size of this monster, he had briefly entertained the thought of taking it in as his new final boss. It seemed even more powerful than the Dragon God of the End, which the Keeper had taken from it ages back. However, he had been warned prior to this invasion of monstrously large foes that these enemies were not able to be kept or tamed. Do you require any assistance?

How long until it gets here? Atraxi asked curiously, and Tower glanced up again.

Four minutes. It is incredibly fast. He answered. After that, neither Atraxi nor Pietra asked for any aid, likely taking their own precautions.

Right on cue, the massive creature flew past Tower’s planet with enough force that it threw the planet out of its normal orbit. By the time he was able to even register the shift in orbit, it had already swallowed the slime homeworld.

The monster suddenly stopped before it could leave the solar system, as if attempting to digest the meal that it had just consumed. Tower simply shook his head, working to correct the orbit of his planet as the body of the monster began to bloat, before its skin split open. Blue and green ooze seeped out of its skin, washing over its body to devour the monsters living along its surface.

It was a long, and surely painful process, before the ooze had completely covered the monster, starting to shrink down and devour its mass. When it was done, the slime homeworld was several times its original size, causing Tower to send another message. You’ll need to split into multiple planets now, or you’ll throw off the orbits of every planet you pass.

Oh, sorry! How many do you think we’ll need to split into? Atraxi asked, as if his entire world hadn’t just been devoured by a giant monster.

At that size... maybe twenty? Try to spread them out over the solar system, so they don’t get in the way of anything.

Atraxi quickly responded to that. Thanks. Are there any more of these? They have a pretty interesting ability. Pietra managed to make a new breed of mimic slime out of its essence, before it was completely consumed.

Tower thought about it, before nodding. There should still be many more. However, it is up to fate if they are to come to us.