Chapter 146: The Dim Sun
“Maybe, but sorry, Queen Keisha, allow me to refuse.” Meng Huaifeng said without hesitation.
Keisha was silent for a moment, then chuckled lightly: “Could it be that you have someone in mind? Alright, I understand, I won’t force it. What a pity, I still wanted to find a male god for them, looks like it won’t happen.”
For the mating issues of a large group of older single angels in the Angel Civilization, Keisha had racked her brains.
“Someone in mind? Who?” March 7th asked in a daze.
“You believe whatever others say?” Meng Huaifeng looked at March 7th and sighed.
“Oh, so it’s fake, you scared me.” March 7th lightly patted her chest a few times and breathed a sigh of relief.
Meng Huaifeng roughly rubbed March 7th’s pink hair a few times, making March 7th glare at him angrily.
Himeko smiled as she watched this scene.
A Xing plucked one of her own hairs, flew in front of Keisha, and handed it to her: “Here.”
“I’m finding male gods for the angels.” Keisha said, feeling somewhat speechless.
If it were lilies, the Angel Civilization had plenty of their own, no need to look outside?
“What’s the difference between me and a male god? Whatever a male god can do, I can do too.” A Xing said unconvinced.
“Missing something.” Keisha said.
A Xing was about to ask more, but Himeko pulled her back and said apologetically: “Sorry, A Xing is still young and doesn’t know many things yet.”
“That’s understandable, she is indeed still a child. Many angels don’t learn about that stuff until they’re hundreds of years old.” Keisha said nonchalantly; she had long known their ages from Yan.
“I’m not young, I also want to protect angel sisters.” A Xing pouted, she just wanted to stick close to beautiful girls, what was wrong with that?
“We have Teacher Dan Heng staying behind to guard the train who didn’t come. I wonder if he’s willing; Dan Heng is amazing, lots of people online say he’s the perfect male god.” March 7th boasted for Dan Heng.
“Oh? Then trouble you all to ask him.” Keisha said with interest.
March 7th quickly contacted Dan Heng: “Dan Heng, Dan Heng, do you want a wife?”
“??? Why suddenly ask this?” Dan Heng asked in surprise.
“You didn’t come, Angel Queen wants to find male gods for the angels on our train, so I’m asking you.” March 7th said.
“Did the others agree?”
“No, Uncle Yang and Po Xiao both have families, and Huai Feng refused too.”
“I don’t need one either.” Dan Heng refused without hesitation.
Sustainers of the Hunt have no reproductive ability, and he had no desire for that either, so what would he need a wife for?
For Dan Heng, recognized companions were the most important and closest.
March 7th awkwardly looked toward Keisha; everyone had refused, would it make the Angel Queen lose face, thinking they looked down on angels?
It seemed better not to have mentioned Dan Heng.
But this was good news, how could she forget Dan Heng for good deeds?
“Um…” March 7th smiled awkwardly, wanting to explain.
“Queen Keisha, we Nameless explore the universe, pioneer the unknown, and all possess to some degree the spirit and will of free adventure. We instinctively resist any forced arrangements like destiny or matching, so please forgive us. We value like-mindedness and naturally formed feelings from living together day by day even more.” Meng Huaifeng said.
“You might have some misunderstanding about our gene matching; it’s not mandatory, just providing both sides a chance to get to know each other. Whether they end up together is up to them.” Keisha sighed.
“Sorry.” Meng Huaifeng said sincerely.
“Never mind, Azhui, take the guests on a tour of Angel Holy City. I’m sure you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the angels’ beauty. Miss Himeko, may I see the methods of the unknown universe?” Keisha challenged Himeko.
Yan had sparred with the train crew several times, but both sides’ levels were limited, unable to showcase many things.
“Of course.” Himeko agreed.
Keisha and Himeko soon left the Angel Nebula and began combat in cosmic vacuum.
Himeko released various powerful tech weapons: star-destroying cannons, antimatter cannons, high-energy particle cannons, etc. Drones were just one of the least notable.
“Eye of Insight.”
“Reading failed due to influence from unknown tech and energy.”
Keisha had expected this; the train crew’s juniors could resist the Eye of Insight, so how could the elders not?
Countless attacks enveloped Keisha.
“Sacred Domain.”
The various attacks visibly weakened in power, and when they landed on Keisha, they were easily blocked by her silver wings.
Himeko threw a grenade that exploded near Keisha, instantly forming a black hole.
This was the product of Himeko’s research on Welt’s quasi black hole.
Keisha rewrote the local space curvature formula, and the black hole quickly collapsed and vanished.
“Sacred Interference.”
“Interference successful, cannot destroy due to unknown energy influence, interference being corrected, estimated time 1.32 seconds.”
Himeko’s tech weapons instantly went silent for a moment. The pioneer’s blessing allowed pathfinders to quickly adapt to various environments, and weapons influenced by pioneer power were similarly protected.
Keisha immediately controlled her silver wings to attack Himeko, with silver wing judgments slicing toward Himeko and her weapons.
Keisha’s sacred interference could briefly alter physical rules, making tech weapons fail, but Himeko’s strength didn’t rely entirely on tech; her destiny power was equally strong.
Previously, Himeko’s strongest means was tech power, but since Meng Huaifeng joined the train crew, Himeko had surged ahead on the pioneer destiny, while tech couldn’t keep up with research updates. Progress on the destiny of knowledge was limited, somewhat unable to match Himeko’s strength.
Casually releasing a shield to protect her weapons, Himeko swung her single-molecule saw at the strongest section of the silver wing judgment.
Countless sparks flew; a huge gash appeared in Keisha’s silver wing, and Himeko’s single-molecule saw also lost a few teeth.
The aftermath of the silver wing judgment rippled Himeko’s shield, but it was ultimately perfectly blocked.
The corrected weapons bared their fangs again, attacking Keisha. Enhanced by the destiny of knowledge, each attack could destroy a planet.
Sacred Domain ran at full power; suns in countless galaxies dimmed slightly.
Keisha’s abilities had strong suppression against the science side; pure tech weapons couldn’t deal with her.
Himeko in her red attire was aggressive like fire, charging at Keisha with her saw.
Silver wings dispersed; countless streams of light shot toward Himeko from all directions.
Dozens of drones were released, circling Himeko and knocking away the streams of light one by one.
Keisha briefly rewrote the rules again, defining speed as 0.
The drones froze; countless silver wing blades broke through Himeko’s defenses toward her.
Himeko blocked all the silver wings in front, while activating the protective badge she had once given Meng Huaifeng.
The protective badge was a combination of tech and pioneer destiny, enough to withstand several envoy attacks, and less affected by Keisha’s interference.
Himeko was approaching Keisha; a wormhole was rapidly opening in front of Keisha.
Himeko threw a space disruption device; the wormhole in front of Keisha instantly collapsed.
“How many years since I last fought hands-on?”
Keisha sighed, taking her King’s Sword from the sacred treasury to meet Himeko.
The two figures constantly intertwined in vacuum, surrounded by countless silver wing lights and drones entangled with each other.
High-power tech weapons with obvious attack trajectories were no longer useful.
The King’s Sword, which could easily destroy divine bodies, was like an ordinary weapon against Himeko; even solid hits only barely broke defense, with no special effects, not even minor injuries as they healed quickly.
Keisha’s divine body couldn’t withstand Himeko’s attacks, but the divine body could recover quickly. Blazing flames encircled Himeko’s single-molecule saw, burning Keisha’s divine body, requiring more energy to recover.
“Huh, the sky suddenly got so dark, is it a solar eclipse?”
March 7th, touring Angel Holy City, said puzzled.
Meng Huaifeng looked up at the sky: “Not a solar eclipse, the sun isn’t blocked, it dimmed itself.”
“Your sun isn’t going to go out, is it?” March 7th exclaimed, looking at Azhui.
“No need to worry; if it goes out, we can drag one from another galaxy. This is Queen Keisha drawing energy. Miss Himeko’s strength is truly powerful, actually requiring Queen Keisha to use so much energy.” Azhui answered.
“Casually drawing stellar energy, there aren’t enough stars in the universe for you to squander.” Meng Huaifeng couldn’t help but complain.
“We usually use dark energy too; only when combat is too intense and dark energy isn’t enough do we draw stellar energy. And we use stars from galaxies without life or civilizations.” Azhui said somewhat embarrassed.
Influenced by Shenhe Civilization, gene god-making technology in this world developed too far ahead; other aspects couldn’t keep up, and with the threat of ultimate fear looming, they could only constantly research and upgrade divine bodies to become stronger against ultimate fear.
Energy aspects were considered, but couldn’t match divine body consumption, so they crudely used stellar energy with extremely low energy utilization rate.
Angel Holy City mostly housed retired angels, not too many in number; aside from nice scenery, it felt extremely desolate.
Full of ethereal aura.
In other words, lacking popularity.
Fine for a short time, but boring after a while.
“Boring, this place is beautiful but not as fun as Earth.” March 7th said somewhat listlessly.
“If you’re bored, how about playing in my laboratory?” Skybase King Huxi walked out from somewhere, saying to the train crew.
“So pretty.” A Xing praised.
“You have good taste.” Huxi also praised A Xing.
“You want to research us?” A Xing said like an expert.
“Don’t make it sound so scary; you’re guests of the angels, how could I do that? I just want to understand the essence of your power. Well, are you willing to cooperate?” Huxi said somewhat tactfully.
“Gotta pay extra.” A Xing said with strong business sense.
“No.” Welt stopped her.
They had allowed Herta to research A Xing before because Herta made promises, and they knew Herta.
But Huxi, they didn’t know her; what if she really dissected and sliced A Xing?
“What’s fun about a laboratory.” Meng Huaifeng also said.
He wasn’t sure if crafty Huxi would do such a thing; Huxi herself wasn’t one to follow rules, caring little for other civilizations except her fellow angels.
Keisha’s justice order wasn’t a big deal in Huxi’s eyes either.
“Then right here, just let me touch the nature of your energy.” Huxi said somewhat disappointed, settling for second best.
“That should be fine.” Welt nodded.
Once the two universes connect, angels can easily access these things.
The train crew displayed their powers one by one.
“Hmm, imaginary energy, pioneer power, destruction power, power of preservation…” Huxi touched them one by one; the dark matter computer behind her frantically analyzed and calculated.
Finally reaching Meng Huaifeng.
“Yan said you have an ability similar to our divine code?” Huxi asked with interest.
“Correct, aether editing from Punklor; aside from locals, few outsiders in the universe can master it.” Meng Huaifeng said.
“Want to exchange?” Huxi proposed.
You have one thing, I have one thing; after exchange, each still has one.
But with knowledge, you have one kind, I have one kind; after exchange, both have two kinds.
Angel Civilization had exchanged with Superdimension Academy, even collaborating on power of the galaxy; they didn’t reject knowledge exchange.
Of course, only on equal terms.
Huxi wouldn’t exchange divine body knowledge for other third generation divine body knowledge.
If using third generation divine body knowledge for something like divine body level, that’d be different.
“Aether editing is basically impossible for ordinary people to learn.” Meng Huaifeng reminded.
“Coincidentally, divine code is hard to maximize without divine body. We just need to learn by analogy, take the best of both, right?” Huxi said.
“Then, I agree.” Meng Huaifeng nodded.
The two connected information, transmitting aether editing and divine code to each other.
With a new research goal, Huxi eagerly left.
Meng Huaifeng suppressed his urge to study divine code and continued accompanying everyone to learn Angel Civilization’s history.
After some more time, Himeko returned, seemingly in a new outfit.
“Sister Himeko, how was it, did you win?” March 7th asked excitedly.
“Didn’t win.” Himeko shook her head; pride appeared on Azhui’s face.
“But didn’t lose either.” Himeko continued: “Couldn’t decide in short time, but fighting on would extinguish many stars, too wasteful.”
Himeko looked reluctant; those galaxies currently had no life or civilization, but who knows after billions of years?
Seemed other civilizations in this universe were the same, even more wasteful than angels; supposedly, one calculation by Great Clock on universe civilizations consumed thousands of stars’ energy.
There were indeed many stars in the universe, but that’s no excuse for wanton consumption; many seemingly vast resources are thought inexhaustible until nearly depleted.
Wondering like this, in dozens or millions of years, how many voids this universe would have, the entire starry sky pitch black.
Unintentionally wrote some dark side, suddenly remembered this is light comedy; last time dark side story tanked scores, immediately deleted and rewrote emmmm
