Free Web NovelChapter 201: Queen
The military salute the girls performed seems simple, but it has a certain charm in its simplicity.
Although I wanted to ask, the occasion was not the right one.
After finishing the salute, we kept a moment of silence. It seems the girls and Destan are just like me and do not know what to say. freewebnøvel.coɱ
Then I nodded to Kara. With magic and by raising her twisted black staff, she made ghostly hands carry the wooden box and lower it gently and slowly into the hole in the ground. Then I used earth element fairy magic to cover the hole and, shaping the rock, I created a unique monolith that covers the entire grave.
But when I looked at the grave I felt something was missing. Then it occurred to me to plant a tree at the head of the rectangular rock monument I had shaped.
"Wait!" I said to everyone and ran toward the ship. I selected a sprout that was large enough and also easy to move.
With fairy magic this is easy. In theory I can create a forest. Running back I carried a small tree about half a meter tall made from the original ship wood. By shaping a little of the cave floor I managed to create some soil and with Fairy Dust, which in essence is pollen, it can help fertilize and give the necessary nutrients for the tree to keep growing.
"Done! Better." I clapped my hands to shake off the dirt after the work and nodded with pride.
Then Xifia suddenly took out her black dagger and with a series of strikes carved the Hero symbols on the grave as an epitaph.
Afterward, not wanting to be left behind, Dianeira took out her bow and two special arrows from her backpack and shot them, embedding them between the grave and the tree in the solid rock in the shape of an X.
In the end, the grave of this old Captain ended with the feet facing south and the tree above to the north. The cave through which it seems the survivors left the place is toward the east. It is as if the old Captain were looking at the survivors so they could leave through the cave passage on one side.
And anyone who enters through the cave will be able to see the grave when looking to the right upon exiting the passage.
Although it was not premeditated and I placed the grave with the north-south axis from memory, in the end it ended up very well positioned.
"It turned out very well. Thank you."
"Mm." Kara only gave a soft grunt.
"I did not think Vremya would be so sentimental~" Dianeira said, crossing her arms and looking me in the eyes with a smile.
"Mm, Mm." Magen only nodded.
Tikshna, Xifia and Destan only smiled.
"Well. Let us not be sad about this... Now we can have dinner and celebrate that we have found the mission objective. Dianeira, Tikshna and Kara will prepare dinner while Xifia together with Magen and Destan place a Name of Cards network cube."
"What is Vremya going to do?" Magen asks me.
"I will go out through this cave and look for Xuexue. I cannot leave her alone in the other cave..."
"EHH! Vremya cannot go alone! I will accompany you!"
"That is true! What if I go..."
"Dian! I am Vremya’s shield!"
"No..."
"I..."
"Wait! Stop!! I have to go alone. I can be more agile if I go alone. Besides, I have abilities with which I cannot find any danger..."
"But..."
"Do not worry! I will return in a short time. Also, even if we place a Name of Cards network cube here it will not have connection to the great network. I have to place one outside so it connects with the one down here and we can create a communication line."
"But..."
"Enough! Trust me!!" The girls wanted to keep refusing but I looked at them seriously.
I released my wings behind me that shone intensely and my body rose gently into the air, my feet leaving the ground.
The girls looked at each other and then looked at me. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
"I can accompany you, Vremy..."
"Nn! I need you to help Xifia with the Name of Cards network cube."
In truth I need to go alone. It is faster this way. Simply by entering the space between planes I can move quickly and I will not encounter any danger. If someone follows me our speed will be slower and I cannot take anyone into subspace.
After refusing to let Destan accompany me, to prove my point I disappeared from in front of the girls.
When my body became intangible from the plane of the world, my eyes lost all color of vision. In the end I could only see the world in white from the space.
I have always wondered, why white? But at least I did not turn into a blind mole.
Leaving my group behind I began to run through the path of the cave. It seems silly but in reality it helps me a lot. Walking through space burns my energy. I am not really in another plane but my body moved to a level higher or lower than the vector of the real world plane, so although I can pass through matter it consumes more energy and crossing the entire mountain could exhaust me.
I do not know what would happen if I faint from exhaustion while in this state.
At one point the passage suffered a drastic incline but it could be climbed naturally. There are also branches in the passage but with the debris I can find along the way I can see that the survivors did not deviate. It seems they knew the route to follow well to exit.
Then I encountered a collapsed wall. It had been demolished leaving rocks everywhere.
Various objects that have managed to survive the erosion of time can still be found and show that this place once had human activity. Things like vases, cutlery, various tools.
Although I started moving deeper into subspace to save my energy, I came out and advanced until I encountered the obstacle I had already foreseen.
It seems the survivors wanted to block access to the ship because they demolished part of the passage to completely block this cave.
On the other side of the collapse is the eastern slope of one of the mountains that, although it is within the search range, is very much at the edge of the northern range.
Thinking about the search plans, if Destan had not pointed out Xuexue’s cave I would still have been able to see this collapsed cave, but at least it would have taken us more than eight days.
And that is thanks to my spatial perception ability. Other teams might spend months or years searching.
If I did not have a trap ability we would have definitely failed...
Returning to move my body through the spatial vector, I crossed the rock collapse and managed to exit the mountain. Remembering the map, I have to move southeast toward the mountain where Xuexue’s cave is.
Not wanting to waste time, I extended my dragonfly wings and with all my strength flew quickly.
Although there is still wind it is no longer as strong as in the storm of the last few days. But the sun was already hiding on the horizon and the temperature was dropping drastically.
I could feel the cold air wanting to freeze me.
I was already close to the mountain where Xuexue is when I felt again the sensation of being watched.
"Who!?" I stopped abruptly because I felt with greater force that feeling of someone looking at me directly.
"Come out! I see you!!" To the right I saw someone. Cheating by looking at all of space prevents anyone from wanting to attack me by surprise.
My hands filled with cyan blue light and three small fairies blinked around me with red, orange and blue light.
"I remember you・・・"
In my spatial perception, a spider was walking toward me. But this spider has a torso, four upper limbs and a human head.
"How...?" Hearing the voice I shuddered.
I had never heard anyone able to speak to me through space!
"Still a pup, but great potential・・・" the spider spoke to me again through space, but this time I could see it with my normal eyes.
"You... You are that Queen!" When I saw the entity completely with my eyes and added its form in my spatial perception I could recognize it as the Queen that attacked the Royal Capital!
"Queen? Yes・・・ but not the only one・・・ But you. I feel greater capacity than that Terran・・・ Potential・・・"
I looked around and I cannot see any other insects. Besides, this Zerg Queen has not done anything to attack me. She is only talking to me.
"Potential? What do you mean?" I do not feel any hostility from this Zerg Queen.
I lowered my hands and the cyan light disappeared but I did not lower my guard completely. My fairies are still channeling mana to conjure shields and attack and evasion magics.
"Join me・・・ New Queen of Blades・・・ Escape・・・ this world lost ・・・"
The spider Queen had two of her upper limbs, the longer pair, joined in front. But the two shorter upper limbs are like human arms and she extended her hand toward me in a sign of invitation.
This spider Queen goes beyond the man-beast type of this world. She looks like she came out of a horror movie, but at the same time she has a strange beauty.
The spider Queen does not have that purple fungus that covers all the alien insects we have fought. But she is still that alien race from the hive.
In that Real-Time Strategy game there are two types of Queens, but only one can truly be called Queen because of the functions and abilities she has.
Although the first Queen could fly and is a tactical unit, her reproduction ability was more directed toward parasitism.
The second version of the Queen, although she cannot fly, is more designed for colony reproduction. These girls can actually reproduce and the one in front of me seems to be more of the second type.
Adding to the fact that she just said Queen of Blades. I can guess that the aliens invading this world are from the generation of that older insect Queen sister.
But, what does she mean by saying this world is lost?
