?Erich had spent hours conveying to Daelia that which he had already told Lunaria years ago. He had even provided the evidence that Mirage and her secret agency had gathered. The fact of the matter was that with Tia's help, extra galactic travel was entirely possible.
aning that the GSE had been busy these last few years sending recon probes into Androda. They had, in this ti, learned a lot about the whereabouts of the Naraku. In fact, the Naraku behaved vastly differently in Androda than they did in the Milky Way so far.
In the Milky Way, the Naraku were a nomadic insectoid race, once that devoured all biological life they ca across, stripping entire worlds bare in the process. And while this seed to be the case in Androda, sothing else was observed that the recon probes recorded.
After stripping the galaxy bare, the Naraku then invested significant resources into rebuilding the barren worlds into giant hives ant to sustain the Naraku population, and contribute more bugs to the hive fleets which would then venture to a new galaxy and start over again.
Perhaps the reason the Naraku, already in the milky way did not attempt this was because they were rely an advanced scouting force, and instead simply ravaged worlds for the biological material necessary to in a sense sustain their mission.
This created a terrifying prospect. That the universe was composed of entire galaxies like Androda, where the only species that existed where the Naraku, and they existed in incalculable numbers.
If this were the case, then it was entirely possible that Naraku infested galaxies were the majority of galaxies in the universe rather than the minority. This was a haunting prospect, as it ant that even if Erich united the Milky Way together to defeat the Naraku Invasion fleet originating in Androda, then there would really be no end to their war.
As Erich's newfound unified empire, or whatever form of governnt ca to replace the currently fractured state of the Milky Way, would have to travel across the universe, purging galaxy after galaxy, until finally after countless millions of years the Naraku were entirely defeated.
If even one Hive Queen survived, then they could simply start over. It would quite literally be an Eternal Crusade. This was the best-case scenario for the Milky Way. And Erich did not hesitate to sugar coat this horrifying prospect to Daelia.
By the end of the discussion, Daelia was so mortified that she almost felt like giving up on life then and there. It took well over ten minutes for the ancient shadow queen of the Dark Elven race to realize what she was being told, and what she was seeing in docunt after docunt of solid verifiable evidence.
In the end, she shook her head in disbelief and asked Erich what exactly he planned to do about this.
"If what you say is true... Then.... Then we are well and truly fucked, aren't we? I an, even if we managed to unite the Galaxy in a solid front against this extra galactic invasion, they will eventually just co back with more numbers, right? I an, it is exactly like you say, we would have to take this fight to the Naraku. In a never ending crusade just so we can consider our civilizations safe.
How long do you think it would be before the other galactic leaders back stabbed us? A century? A millennium? Even if you build a long-term alliance with Lunaria based upon blood ties, and marriage. How long do your people live for? 250 years? Will your successors be willing to engage in this eternal crusade of yours?"
Erich smirked when he heard this, scoffing as he approached Daelia and lectured her, while complinting her in a way that was both flattering and unsuspected.
"You're beautiful when you're anxious. You know that right? But you don't need to worry. You are forgetting sothing about my people, aren't you? We are exactly what you say we are, a bunch of up jumped barbarians who idolize war. An eternal crusade against a never ending nace of bugs? My people will volunteer to join the front lines even if they never needed to do such a thing.
War is our way of life, and besides, I'm not going anywhere. Like you and Lunaria, I have cheated death... No, I will be here leading my armies into the vast unknown until either the Naraku is well and truly vanquished, or until the heat of death of the universe occurs. Whatever happens first, I suppose...
The question is, Daelia, will you join on this crusade? Or will you be one of those cowardly, and selfish galactic leaders, ones who would stab and Lunaria in the back as we fight to defend you all?"
Daelia blushed upon hearing Erich call her beautiful. It had been a long ti since man had the nerve to flirt with her. But she imdiately understood there was so hidden aning in Erich's words, and was quick to ask just what he was implying.
"What... What exactly are you asking of ?"
Erich smirked as he heard this, before leaning in close and whispering the words into Daelia's ears that she thought she would never hear.
"Marry ..."
After saying this, Erich walked away and looked out the window while proposing a wild idea. All the while, Daelia recoiled in shock at what she had just heard.
"I ant what I said. Marry . Join your sister in matrimony as my brides and end this pathetic little feud the two of you have over ancient history. Together, the three of us can bring the Ghimderi, the Asurans, and the Ennead to heel. And ensure that they will never be in a position to backstab us.
With my warriors on the front lines, and the might of the Elven fleet supporting us, we will wage an eternal crusade against the Naraku until the last bug has been crushed beneath our boot.
And after we have liberated the universe from the Naraku nace, we will look to the future, enjoying ourselves in the peace we have created.Think about what we can accomplish if we unite our races together into one Empire?
So I'll ask again, marry ?"
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