The Earth After Rebirth

Chapter 477: Harbingers’ Tale

Kiro nodded in agreement, he took a sit at a nearby rock. He didn’t want to show it but the new power of the staff was taking quite the toll on him, he could barely stand. The general giving up came just at the knick of time.

He quickly sheathed his staff on his back, his eyes reverted back to how they were. It drained him mentally and physically, his stamina was at an all time low. His reserves for Kaos energy were running on fumes too.

So he welcomed the severed connection to his staff. While the power was great and powerful, the drawback was that he couldn’t gather any energy while it is activated. It was fortunate that his reserves were quite large and lasted as long as they did.

So he sat on the rock and started collecting more while he was preparing to question the general.

"Generals, how many are there?"

"In order for me to answer your questions, you’ll need to listen to my life story first. I promise, everything I say is important and it will answer your whys and hows."

Kiro gave Hiro a look as though they were discussing the way forward but only using their minds to communicate because nothing was verbal before Hiro nodded to his friend.

"Alright we will listen."

The sadness in the general’s eyes was more pronounced now as he reminisced to the past, a past that had been haunting him for a long time with no hopes of ever escaping.

"Once upon a time, in a red star solar system millions of light years away from here. There a planet called Krikus orbited the red star, my home planet. We lived relatively in peace, I still remember the sun and how it felt on my skin but that is the only thing I can remember.

Centuries ago were visited by extraterrestrials calling themselves, harbingers."

"Wait, so, you weren’t always a harbinger?"

"That’s right. None of us were always one. The god we serve goes from planet to planet, eating away at resistance, take over and enslaving the beings, brainwash them and when you reach a certain level you are allowed certain perks and freedoms."

The general looked genuinely sad and bothered. While the two listening to the story didn’t want to believe that they have been fighting and killing brainwashed slaves.

"I am the last of my people, they’ve all perished. I’ve done a lot of misdeeds, atrocities, actively played a hand in genocides of many species across the universe," He paused, "including my own."

Kiro supposed this was to make him feel sorry but he was instead getting angrier by the sentence. He couldn’t help but wonder what this god had in store for the universe that he needed to colonise and enslave all of it, what exactly was its end goal?

"I’m not saying all of this for anyone to pity me..."

"Don’t worry, I don’t." He waved him to continue.

"In every other world, it was relatively easy to colonise and enslave them. There was little to no resistance, adding more to our numbers, our army was getting stronger, our Lord was happy.

"Then we encountered this planet, your planet it. You call it earth? We tried to take it over once and we failed, our first failure in hundreds of worlds. The Lord was not pleased, while it set us back hundreds of years we dealt a great deal of damage in your world.

When we finally came back again, it was this era. For some reason, we could not penetrate directly, it took our Lord some time but he found a way, a world within a world, that would help us get to your world."

"Why such an obsession with Earth? Even waiting a hundred years, that’s a bit extreme isn’t it?" Hiro was astounded.

"We don’t dare question him. His reasons were that your people would be a great addition to the army. Your resilience and strong will are what’s needed the most to carve out the perfect soldier with the potential to be a general."

"Then how many generals are there?" Hiro asked, Kiro was listening, eyes closed and collecting Kaos.

"Millions..."

"You’ve got to be kidding me right?" He didn’t let him finish, no matter how strong they were, he doubted that there were even a hundred players that could take a general head-on.

"Listen, there are different waves to colonising a world. I am the first wave, failing means I have to do it again and again until I completely takeover the world my portals are open to, when that happens, another general will enact the second wave.

Killing me isn’t exactly going to make things go away for you. I can always be replaced, there are millions of me within our ranks. I am a nobody, so the first wave will keep coming until that general, any general succeeds or you completely annihilate our entire army."

"How do we go about annihilating your army?" Kiro was the one who asked.

"Our base isn’t exactly on any planet. More like in a space like this."

Kiro knew how dangerous it would be to even attempt infiltrating a base with over a million generals and even more soldiers. But he still wanted to see it.

"Open the portal to your base." He commanded.

"That is treasonous."

"I’ll kill you anyway."

The general sighed, "I’ll need all of my limbs to create a portal."

"While you’re at it, take my girlfriend out of that damned egg."

"You’ll have to kill me or wait for her to hatch. Should take another decade or so."

"Kill you it is then."

It took a couple of hours for its limbs to fully heal. The general didn’t even try to run, a part of it wanted to die. It had been augmented beyond what its people had looked like centuries before, it looked like a mix of everything. Death, it welcomed it.

In a matter of seconds the portal was open, Kiro could see from where he stood, the space there was very different from the gloomy depressive dark atmosphere they were in.

The place almost looked like, the old Earth. The trees, the birds, the noises, everything similar.

"It was designed after your home planet."