Skyfire Avenue - Chapter 667

Chapter 667

Chapter 667: War Comes!

Jue Di went on . “Right now it’s hard to say . What we can say is the aliens fear our Discipline . We must also acknowledge the strength of our destructive technology . Bastion ships, for instance, can cause real havoc . More specifics will only be made clear when war breaks out . What we do know is that old shyster was right . This is the worst danger humanity has ever faced . Come back to Skyfire . Now that we know she can find you at any time, you’re safest with me . Focus on cultivation, then once you and your girl have broken through you can at least flee if an alien as strong as her comes for you . ”

“Yeah . ”

After speaking with his father Lan Jue felt crestfallen . Not for the dangers to his own life, but because of these aliens’ apparent ability to be everywhere . With the Princesses capabilities and ability to hide in plain sight, infiltrating humanity’s cities was as easy as a wink .

One could only imagine what a creature as strong as the Princess could do in the heart of a metropolitan area . Her kind were even more frightening than the alien planets themselves . At least you knew they were coming . Even humanity’s strongest couldn’t compare .

A cold light flit through Lan Jue’s eyes, mingling with stoic determination . Waiting around wasn’t going to save them from extinction . They had to bring the fight to the enemy, make the alien planets the battlefield at not human civilization . When he returned to the Avenue he would prepare for another scouting mission, maybe thin their numbers a little more .

Star Division left Lyr once recovery efforts were fully under way, and returned to Skyfire . All three alliances had redoubled their war preparations after news from Lyr broke . The West paused in their constant campaign to cause trouble . They joined the efforts of the North and East, carefully searching outlying planets for signs of a progenitor’s presence . Special attention was paid to especially fertile worlds .

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Tragic news awaited Lan Jue and Star Division when they got back to the Avenue!

One of the North’s planets – an administrative planet on the borders, full of life – had been attacked . Just as on Lyr the aliens had appeared without warning, attacking with even more ferocity than the ocean planet had suffered . Surveys of the destruction showed that at least three progenitors had fed on it .

By the time the nearest fleet arrived the planet was a rotten purple globe . The creatures had bled it dry, and the progenitors were nowhere to be seen . All that remained was a broken husk of a world where once life had flourished . The death toll was expected to be over fifty million . Nearly every living thing had been wiped out . The whole world was a necropolis .

It was only the third time aliens had appeared on human occupied land . Taihua had been the first, and thankfully few had died . This was thanks to its low population, as well as Lan Jue and the Wine Master’s quick response . Lyr had suffered and many had died, but at least the planet survived .

But this time, in only two days a beautiful world had been laid to waste . Fifty million lives, snuffed out .

The news sent a shudder through the spine of every breathing human . The North held an emergency senate meeting and declared war against the three alien planets . Demonstrations were held all throughout Northern space while the call went out for soldiers to go on alert . A draft was implemented as well . In an impressive show of force the first, third, sixth, eleventh and thirteenth fleet were dispatched to escort the Tyrannosaurus-class Bastion ship to the Shattered Starfields .

Clearly the alien menace had provoked humanity’s mightiest Alliance .

Meanwhile the North asked the East to send out the scouting party they’d used before as support in their sweep of the Starfields . Already they were moving the Arachnid- and Heron-class Bastions to the border in preparation . The remaining bastions were sent to the bigger planets most vulnerable to alien attack, with their crew on full alert .

At last, after great suffering, war had come to the human worlds .

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“Ahhh!” A woman desperately clutched her child, trying to shield it . The purple blade-like edge that pierced her chest, running her and the child through, was unmoved . Two exsanguinated fell lifelessly to the ground .

The horrifying images flashed before them as a holograph . The Skyfire councilmembers clenched their fists as they looked on .

The North had shared the recordings with them, images from the planet they’d lost .

Tragedy couldn’t describe what had happened . It was a slaughter . Not just humans, but every animal and plant was gone, given no quarter . They were like a plague of locusts, devouring everything .

The image frozen in that terrifying moment .

The Wine Master’s drawn, angry face turned to the others .

“You see it, what happened to the North’s citizens . You’ve witnessed their savagery . Even before all-out war their monstrousness is clear . On a day they turned this beautiful planet into a graveyard . If not for the arrival of military vessels, there likely wouldn’t have been a planet to return to . Ten percent of human somehow lived, twenty percent of fauna . Fifty percent of all plants were destroyed . If not for the quick reaction of the Northern army, those progenitors would have devoured every life .

“Judging by the speed with which they took the world, if something isn’t done all human planets will be striped of life in a year’s time, and most of that time would just be traveling from one place to the other . ”

Everyone surrounding the table knew how terrifying the creatures were . After the auction, Skyfire Avenue especially understood the worth of their vital crystals, but these bloody images reminded them of what they were up against .

“I’ll go and help the North scout out the enemy,” Lan Jue said to the Wine Master . He was, after all, the chairman of the Avenue’s council .

The Wine Master’s brows furrowed . “Their sudden appearance, and the force with which they struck, suggests this was a premeditated effort to strike our scouting capabilities . I’ll go with you, and we’ll leave Star Division here to help the military prepare . I recommend we all brace ourselves, war will soon come to the East . These planets’ teleportation capabilities are to be feared . ”