Chapter XV: The World Fleet

Abruptly, the gloomy but calm mental fluctuations came from the eight-legged fungus at the head: "This is the abode of the Great Khan, the metal cans of the other world, just continue to remain silent and humble, the generous Great Khan may leave you a way to live, instead of throwing you into the 'Fusion Energy Network' as a living battery." ”

It seemed to have known that the exploration team was awake, and the strange otherworldly creature even stretched out its forelimbs and tapped the location of the magic armor 'camera', as if to say that it had discovered everyone's 'eyes'.

After these actions, it left decisively and without hesitation with the other eight-legged fungi, leaving the five people still tied to the crystal pillar to stay where they were, in front of the giant hexagonal prism 'palace'.

The Court of the Star Shepherd.

This is what the eight-legged fungus called this palace.

Priest and his teammates looked up at the massive structure beyond the imagination of ordinary humans.

The appearance of the royal court is a pure white hexagonal prism, about 1,200 meters high, and each side is also 1,200 meters, it is bathed in light golden magic light, the white shell seems to be covered with a layer of gold veil, you can see, the pure white shell has layers of grooves, in which there are translucent magic veins are flowing, like the blood vessels of living beings.

The huge white hexagonal prism was pulsating, as if the heart of the entire hive, this 'building' that was larger than the mountains, regular, and orderly, stood in front of Priest and the others, and the incomparable majesty carried boundless pressure to attack, as if blocking all the surrounding air and material activities, making it difficult for everyone in the exploration team to breathe, think, and move even a little finger.

What is the concept of a building more than 1,000 meters high?

What does it feel like to stand in front of a building more than 1,000 meters high?

It was as if everything around me was rapidly magnifying, magnifying, and magnifying again, and then rapidly shrinking, shrinking, until like an ant, a sense of smallness and vulnerability came from the deepest part of my heart, because what existed in front of me was a 'huge' that seemed to be about to collapse at any moment, crushing everything and even the world.

Priest heard his own heavy breathing, he heard the restless heartbeats of his teammates, and the eight-legged fungi threw them here, without any other follow-up, just to keep them in front of the royal court, watching it all.

The white walls have no borders in sight.

The top of the hive shimmers with a light golden light.

The solid living ground was trembling, as if there was a gigantic heart beneath it.

How small are human beings......

Priest felt that all his spirit, all his vision, all his will would be destroyed and encroached upon by this huge, strange 'building', and finally lose himself, and if he was not a disciple of Joshua, all of this was extremely possible.

"Whew"

Exhaling deeply, Priest quickly recovered from the inexplicable mental shock, his pupils dilated and focused, he looked at the huge white building in front of him with a frightened face, and said in a low voice: "This building can erode people's spirits!" And ......"

And it looks like it's still unconscious!

Priest couldn't help but feel a burst of happiness, fortunately, he had followed Joshua to a multi-dimensional sealing circle that imprisoned the black mist some time ago, where he saw a larger structure than the giant central hive, and he had also witnessed the coercion of the warrior's neutron star battle body, if it weren't for these early foundations, he might really lose himself in front of this strange hexagonal prism.

At the same time, hearing Priest's prompt, coupled with the fact that they also often meet and communicate with a certain legendary powerhouse, and have also seen the legendary battle that took place in World One, everyone in the exploration team has also woken up from the coercion that appeared inexplicably.

"This is a 'spiritual' attack!" The caster had a serious face.

"The Seven Gods are ......above," the priest said subconsciously.

"Dizzy, oh my god, something was eating away at my brain...... Let's start with one. "The alchemist drives the armor of magic energy and injects himself with a dose of sobering potion that has been prepared long ago.

"What's going on?" The knight looked dazed.

“…… Hey. ”

Sensing that all five members of the exploration team were free from mental erosion, they came from nowhere, and the grand and majestic will sighed with some doubts.

Then, with a faint surge of magical power, an eight-legged fungus with a pure white shell appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Since Priest and the others were not eight-legged fungi, they couldn't conclude that this fungus was different from other fungi, whether it was majestic or luxurious, but in any case, this eight-legged fungus was different from ordinary people just in the way it appeared, and for a moment, everyone's attention was focused on this strange eight-legged fungus.

"Otherworldly beings who can resist 'spiritual influence'...... Interesting. ”

There was no emotion that could represent any interest, not even any fluctuating spirit, which overwhelmingly came from this eight-legged fungus and forcibly poured into everyone's brains, and it said in a strange, strange and slow rhythmic tone: "You have a strong body, a strong will, and enough technology to teleport in time and space...... You are not ordinary 'bread' and are qualified to talk to the 'Star Shepherds'. ”

Priest didn't understand what the other party was saying, because although it was a spiritual communication, it could ignore language for information transmission, but the other party's arrogant attitude didn't try to make them understand at all, as if throwing a data compression package, and it took Priest and others to decode it for a long time before they could know what it was saying.

The young warrior didn't decode it in the first place, he stared at the white eight-legged fungus, remembering the metal altar they were on when they teleported miserably, the group of eight-legged fungi that first appeared in front of him.

And in the center of that group of eight-legged fungi, there seems to be a distinctive, white eight-legged fungus.

Great Khan.

Is it the Great Khan?

The supreme leader of this otherworldly civilization?

Wrong. Priest sensed that something was wrong, he was a disciple of Joshua, and he often went in and out of the Lord's Mansion some time ago, and he had met with Hotaru and Rin and No. 3 several times, so he was very familiar with it, and the white eight-legged fungus in front of him was not an entity, just a magic projection!

From the very beginning, it was a magic projection! A simple avatar to talk to them, visitors from the other world.

At this time, the white eight-legged fungus was still asking questions in that strange and slow tone.

"How did you find the Star Shepherds?"

"How do you bypass the layers of space-time anchors on the outer layer and directly enter the 'Royal Court Flagship'?"

"Where are you from? The Star Herders have traveled the worlds and have never seen such a strange life as you. ”

The white eight-legged fungus asked Priest and the others in the mental space in a tone that was not in a hurry and didn't seem to care much, and although it seemed to be indifferent, everyone sensed an extremely dangerous aura.

If you don't answer...... There is no doubt that they will be completely wiped out!

Together, ** and soul, were wiped out together! Even the Soul Abyss Ball and the Repair Light Pillar can't be saved, and they will die completely!

But the white eight-legged fungus was greeted by silence.

No one spoke.

Priest closed his eyes.

The Outer Exploration Team's Code of Conduct 13: If you are captured by an otherworldly civilization, you must not reveal any information about the world of Mycrof.

When necessary, commit suicide.

Simple but normal rules, Priest felt that he and the others were not about to lead by example, according to the superb achievements of the eight-legged fungus in spirit and magic, he didn't think there was any possibility of lying in front of these guys, and when the time came, he would definitely be thrown into the net of some kind of energy to be used as a biological battery.

However, it was not time to commit suicide, after all, the question asked by the 'Great Khan' in front of him was actually not directly related to the world of Mycrof, so he really couldn't do it, so he ran away through the return beacon.

The first question, which answers the teleportation failure, I don't know, the second question is the same, and the third question, which tells it that it comes from the Microf world, why not? Anyway, these people don't know the space-time coordinates of the McCrof world at all, it's just a name, just say it, it's not a big deal.

Thinking of this, Priest and several teammates made eye gestures to each other.

The white eight-legged fungus silently listened to the roughly identical spiritual messages transmitted by each of the five people, it did not make any movements, nor did it show any dissatisfaction, and after making sure that everyone was not lying, it continued to ask a few other questions. For example, where was their original teleportation location, what was their purpose, and what level of civilization they had reached.

Priest's brain was running rapidly, and he basically answered all the questions he could answer, and if he couldn't, he directly self-deleted that memory, and most of the others did the same, which was not difficult for specially trained members of the exploration team.

Strangely, the white eight-legged fungus doesn't seem to be as cruel as it first appears, and instead of killing Priest and the others because they don't answer questions or even delete their own memories, it often leaves silent for long periods of time.

And in the long process of question-and-answer, Priest and others also found a strange problem.

The one in front of me seems to be the 'Great Khan' white eight-legged fungus, but in fact, it is not in any special slow tone, but its thinking speed is indeed very slow.

Sometimes, it will even wander and ask the same question several times, which is not an interrogation technique, but rather a real forgetting that it has asked this question.

Although it has a huge spiritual power and incredible coercion, this white eight-legged fungus is a bit like a temporary, crude and rudimentary temporary carrier, just a simple inquiring incarnation, while the body of the Great Khan is dealing with other things.

And such a strange and questioning and answering soon ended.

The white eight-legged fungus incarnate suddenly dissipated for a moment, and a colossal will that was far more than ten times or a hundred times larger than before, condensing the Dao and almost substantial.

In an instant, the sealing circle that originally blocked the five members of the exploration team disintegrated directly, and before the five people could regain the feeling of freedom, this substantial huge will was wrapped in everyone's ** and directly submerged into the white hexagonal prism.

Hum, without any sensation of touching an entity.

With a simple sound of mana, Priest felt as if he had entered a layer of liquid magic like water, and this was the truth of the 'Court of the Star Shepherd', a supernatural power building composed entirely of half-physical magic!

The overly bright golden glow died down, and Priest and the others passed through the barrier of magic, sensing the vast spirit of materialization surging silently beside him, like the grandest undercurrent in the depths of the ocean, and by the time everything had subsided, he and the others were already in the center of the white prism.

In a dark nothingness.

No, it's not nothingness...... It's the void.

The interior of the white prism mirrors the void of the surrounding world like a 360-degree observation lens!

Priest could see that in the chaotic space-time turbulence, there was an incomparably faint starlight flickering, which was the brilliance of the world, and these starlights were thin and weak, and it was obvious that the failed teleportation of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Ground had not deviated too much, and had indeed sent them to the edge of the world's galaxy.

But now, it's not the time to care about needles.

The knights, mages, alchemists, clerics, and the Priests all gasped in unison.

Now, they finally understood, why their teleportation was wrong, why they suddenly appeared in the inhabitation of the eight-legged fungus.

It's all because of this scene in front of you.

In the vast, dark, and silent void, there were some errors in the structure of the space, and it could be seen that the starlight was shifted, the space-time was distorted, and the strange magical rainbow light replaced the light of the stars, making the entire void filled with an abnormal but conspicuous light golden light.

And what emits these pale golden rays is a semicircular 'star world' one after another.

The stars are naturally not real stars, and the world is naturally not a real world, these semicircular star worlds are only as big as a province in an ordinary continental empire, although for a normal size creature, this is already unbelievably large, but for the infinite void compared to the real world stars, they seem to be small.

But even so, this scene was spectacular enough More than twenty semi-circular star worlds were suspended in the void, and the huge mass was mixed with magic fluctuations, forming an incomparably huge space-time anomaly area, and they slowly moved forward in the void, just like a fleet.

And what drives the action of this fleet is one terrifying creature after another that is so huge that it surpasses human imagination.

It is a kind of eight-legged, incomparably huge, just like the lower body of the eight-legged fungus, so huge that it is difficult to describe in words, and only the Void Giant can describe this creature, even if it is not, but when it leaves the mother world and can survive in the void with **, it has become a new Void Beast.

One tiny, semicircular world of stars, like fungi, 'rooted' on the flat backs of these giant void lifeforms, like a hermit crab and its shell, slowly advancing in the ocean called the Void, disturbing time and space, distorting the orbits of the real world, and moving forward with a brilliant momentum.

Priest felt as if his vision could penetrate the shells of those star worlds, and he could see that there were billions of eight-legged fungi living in these worlds, living on the backs of those giant beasts!

The eight-legged fungus lodges its body among the eight-legged arthropods, and they root their world on the same eight-legged giant Void Behemoth, and Priest does not know if it was the eight-legged fungus that cultivated such a large Void Behemoth, or if they had been parasitic on these behemoths since their birth.

But all these questions are meaningless.

This is the 'Star Shepherd'.

This is the World Fleet of the Star Shepherds.

This news must be reported to the Ministry of External Exploration...... No, the Microf civilization must be informed!

In just an instant, Priest made up his mind to pass this information back!

“…… Otherworldly life. ”

The huge will that entered the court of the Star Shepherd with the exploration team is condensing, it is the true will of the Great Khan, it is retrieving its spiritual tentacles that it did not know where to place before, it is condensing into a real will entity, it is preparing to shift its attention to the five people who have been taken into its own 'body', and it will really start interrogating and searching these little souls.

However, it was shocked to find that a series of dark blue space-time ripples were flickering rapidly.

It was created by the legendary time and space mage, Nostradamus by connecting the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Ground, and the highest priority one-time teleportation circle.

The materialized spiritual tentacles stretched out suddenly, wanting to interrupt this space-time teleportation, but how could the space-time circle prepared by Nostradamus be interrupted so easily? It was a sturdy structure that the 150 million degrees of heat and space-time distortion of the Black Mist Mother could not affect, and in a hurry, even the power of the 'Great Khan' slowed down the speed of space-time teleportation, but could not really stop.

After an instant, the shocked Great Khan could only look at the empty interior of the royal court, in a daze.

After a long time, a grayish-black eight-legged fungus entered the royal court.

"The Great Khan."

It respectfully said to the nothingness that was empty, only a faintly distorted incarnation, "We haven't found the path to the space-time teleportation of these otherworldly creatures...... Their teleportation magic is far better than ours. ”

“…… It's nothing. ”

A calm mental fluctuation came from nothingness: "They ...... It's not the life of the galaxy we're in. ”

"It's not your fault, I got it wrong from the start. They are not speculators who have come to follow our secret routes...... It's the aborigines of this 'lost galaxy'. The teleportation props they use are also handmade by beings of the same level as me, and I really can't stop them if I'm careless. ”

"The Great Khan."

The gray-black eight-legged fungus twisted its fungus column slightly, it bent its eight-legged legs, and made a strange 'leaning' movement, it mixed with strange sound waves and mental fluctuations, and said extremely sincerely: "Although this is contrary to your teachings, I must say that this 'Lost Galaxy' is too dangerous!" ”

"Closed for 12,000 years, it only exists in the legendary place of the fall, the absolute forbidden Jedi of the multiverse, the place where the 'World Eater' and the 'Endless Abyss' have fallen...... We have only just entered, and we have encountered such strange otherworldly beings, and creations of the same level as you...... It's too mysterious and full of unknowns, and it's too late for us to turn back! ”

Kumocinda...... The First King of the Void. I know why you're afraid. ”

The distorted spiritual void seemed to be wandering or doing something, and only after a moment did it reply hesitantly: "We all know that this 'Lost Galaxy' enclosed outside the normal multiverse definitely contains infinite danger and unknown. It took us three hundred years to find the passage to this closed galaxy from ancient ruins and legends, and it took us one hundred and fifty years to prepare resources and cross the 'material vacuum' between the galaxies to get to this place. ”

"In this lost galaxy, there are infinite mysteries...... It was once the center of the multiverse, home to the most prosperous civilizations and the most powerful powerhouses, countless ancient wreckage, and the remains of prehistoric civilizations. ”

"Legend has it that there is even a secret here that can resist the 'World Eater'."

The distorted spiritual void, the 'Great Khan' said, "And we have no way back. Returning to the original galaxy, we are greeted only by fire and destruction. ”