AFS: The Final Act 5 - Killing the Motherbrain?! (Story End?)
Because the ship was equipped to go into battle, it had a ch ergency bay where chs would be repaired quickly during battle so they could go back out and kill more Space Crabs.
It took so minor bribes, but I managed to convince the guy responsible for repairing chs to allow to use a single ch bay for my repairs.
I brought out MingRen’s dium-sized ch. With its big arms, it looked almost like a brawler.
I poked it, and it flew back a bit. Then it started to fly around my group.
Maybe Chad had given us a bad one so we couldn’t call for help. I eyed it suspiciously.
“Professor Glass! I’d like a different spy drone.”
He opened up a screen on his light brain and glanced at so numbers. “Your drone is fine, Miss Lin. It just… likes you. They do that.”
Do they? I glanced at everyone who seed like they had sothing better to look at than in my direction. Even my team. Fuck, whatever.
“Now that you have your drone. It’s ti for you all to enter the shuttle. These are being piloted by so very brave shuttle pilots. Be sure to follow their instructions when it cos to exiting with your ch and staying in your group. The last ti we did sothing like this, several students didn’t follow directions and ended up flying into the middle of a Space Bug swarm.”
Professor Glass looked like he wanted to keep lecturing us for a few more hours but instead briefly closed his eyes. “You have been the best students I’ve ever had the pleasure to teach. I hope to see you all again at the end of this fight.”
Through speakers, a cool voice said, “Infiltration teams, please get ready! You will be clear to go in four minutes!”
We ran to our designated shuttle and boarded it. Each of us put on our six point safety harnesses and sat in the big bubble area of the shuttle.
The pilot called out on the speakers, “Alright you crazy kids. You should be trained on how to wear your ch in case we take fire and my ship goes boom right?” He cackled.
“Mr. Pilot, you’re not giving us a lot of confidence,” MingRen yelled.
“I’m not! Well, buckle up then, because it’s going to be one hell of a bumpy ride. We’re gonna go straight up this Mothership’s ass and ride her behind until we co in for a driveby landing.”
There were so many things wrong with that last statent that I didn’t know where to start. Did the fucker Chad assign us to the crazy pilot?
Fuck it. Sotis crazy is what got you through in a fight.
“Everyone be prepared for ergency ch materialization!”
“Will do!”
A soft woman’s voice ca over the comms. “Captain Lee. You’re free to depart in, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.”
Even with the inertia dampeners, the acceleration we experienced during take off was significant. Of course, they probably took into account that we all had at least S Rank physiques and could handle a few extra Gs.
Our pilot cackled madly as we raced forward. A massive gas giant took over a small portion of our screen, but even at this distance, we were considered too close for comfort. Gas giants gave off a fuck ton of radiation.
SS Rank physiques could take a certain amount and still be fine but the fuck would I take any chances.
And speaking of, I double checked the radiation shielding on my spacesuit. It was working as it should.
Soon a small pinkish black dot appeared on the screen. It quickly started to beco larger and larger.
We spent several more minutes like that until we were so close to the Mothership that I thought we might crash if we kept our speed and course.
“Alright. This is where you four get out of your harnesses and into your chs. We have one more minute before you need to be ready to start flying under your own power.”
We quickly unbuckled our harness and flew to the back of the shuttle.
Already everyone was taking out their chs and entering the cockpit. I took out my own.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have ti to admire its magnificence, because it was ti to go!
I entered the cockpit and booted it up. I could almost feel the personality of the ch.
“Alright, you crazy kiddos! You’ve trained for this, but I’ll go over it one more ti. Once I release your chs, you’ll need to use your flying pack to adjust your trajectory. Find a nice empty hole to enter the Mothership and hide as fast as you can. While the bugs will have our ch distracting their asses, you need to do your job and kill this Mothership’s fucked brain. Shit! Ready or not, your chs will be ejected from the shuttle in, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!”
The shuttle turned and the small ch bay in the back opened up to the vacuum outside. While our shuttle increased its acceleration in the opposite direction, we kept going.
“Everyone use your packs to slow down!”
I expanded my divine sense and found a nearby tunnel that was empty.
“Follow my lead.”
I sent everyone the coordinates of the tunnel just in case they got lost and booked it… and by that I ant slowing down in that general direction, but whatever.
I avoided a few random shots that weren’t exactly aid at us but more at the ships we ca from. Actually, these Motherships didn’t exactly have the best defenses against chs, which was one of the reasons the Empire used them against the Star Bugs.
A few minutes of slowing down while avoiding getting shot later and we landed outside the tunnel. I ran forward for a bit and watched each of my teammates safely land.
When Jessica touched down she said, “I don’t think I’ve ever been so grateful for space being so big and for us being so small.”
I know, girl. I know.
“Where do we go from here?” MingRen asked.
Derrick adjusted his rifle. “I think we’re the first ones to land.”
“Well, let's get deeper into this tunnel before we decide anything.” I said.
We flew for a few minutes. The architecture of this Mothership was strange and organic. Fortunately it had decent lighting, though that didn’t matter between our variety of sensors and my divine sense.
And speaking of my divine sense. I’d already located the Motherbrain and calculated the safest path.
“Alright. Our goal is to get to the Motherbrain in 10 hours. And get out within 16.”
There were several shocked gasps coming from everyone’s comms.
I grinned. “Follow , and you’ll never go wrong.”
***
When Wang MingRen first heard Fairy Lin say that she’d take everyone to the Motherbrain (shit, now he was calling it that) he thought she was just insane. They estimated three days for a reason.
However, as they passed empty corridor after empty corridor, he had a weird suspicion that she knew where the bugs were going to be before even they knew.
Was she so kind of diviner? And if this was the case, then he wondered why she’d trained them so damn hard… Fuck. Everyone was going to die on this mission, weren’t they? That was the only thing that made sense.
Oh, there had been a couple of small skirmishes with the tiny Star Bugs that patrolled the hallways, but that was mostly a quick assassination. Most of the ti, the bugs didn’t know what hit them.
He’d also been thinking about what she’d said about immortality. But, rather than thinking about what it would be like to be immortal, he couldn’t help but consider what her life must have been like. She must have been so alone on her path. And, if she chose to go down that path again in this life, she’d be even more alone since there would be no one to fight against. No one to discuss things with.
Instead of being alone with many equals, she’d be alone and unequaled.
And when he saw her so easily doing things like lead everyone through the most dangerous mission they’d ever signed up for as casually as taking a walk in a garden, he realized that…
Well, that would be for later. If they made it out of this alive.
He still didn’t trust this string of good luck.
***
So, one of the reasons I made it take 10 hours instead of zooming there within six, was because I knew from the novel how long it would take Prince Chad to et with the Humanoid Star Crab.
Except that it had already been 9.75 hours and Chad was literally on top of the Motherbrain. All he needed to do was turn a few corridors and he’d reach it! Also, why the hell did he leave his team behind? The fucker wasn’t invincible.
Oh wait. He was a Shojo male lead, so maybe he was.
I grabbed my ch sized pistol and fired it into the brain area of one of the small crabs that was blocking my path.
We needed to speed up or Chad would make it there first.
I turned the corner just in ti to see Chad’s ch stop in shock a few yards from the entrance of the room. Then he ran for it. Shit he was fucking faster and closer!
Just after he entered the doorway his ch flew directly out of the brain room and even crashed through a few walls.
I, very cautiously, took a step back behind the corner and signaled my team to stop and be fucking quiet.
Then I used my divine sense to track the humanoid alien as it flew after Chad. The two started to really fuck shit up so bad that the ships walls shuddered
“It’s going to start getting dangerous from this point on.”
“You an that infiltrating a goddamn Star Bug Mothership wasn’t already dangerous?”
“Are you okay, MingRen?”
“I… let’s just kill this brain and go back to the ship.”
“Not so simple. According to previous successful attempts to kill a Motherbrain as soon as it senses danger it will start calling all the nearby Star Bugs over to protect it. And that would include the humanoid Star Bug that Prince Chad is so kindly taking care of for us.”
That caused everyone to give a silent fuck in the good prince’s honor.
From there, I assigned Jessica and Derrick to guard outside while my nominal brother and I entered the main room.
That was when I finally laid eyes on a real Motherbrain. It looked different in real life than in the videos I’d seen before. Well, it visually looked the sa, like a massive glowing blue ss of aliens brain matter. But now that I could actually feel it with all of my senses, it changed how I perceived it.
Because it was filled with various different energies. Almost as if this brain was the Dantian of the Star Bug ships.
Just to MingRen, I sent, “Because of the possible danger to the mushroom. I’ll need to collect it first before we attempt to kill the brain.”
His ch nodded and seed to tense.
I put my ch away, and it turned into a beautiful blue ring that I wore on my right ring finger.
I imdiately walked over to a corner of the room and received a shock. Not only was the Mushroom there, but there was also another spiritual flower. This particular flower, Three Tears Pink Fire Lotus, was known for being the main ingredient in a Perfected Nascent Soul Dan. It was a good thing that I’d brought more than one jade box.
First, I used my dagger and a brief use of Any Blade is my Sword to cut the hard material of the brain room. This way, I could take the shroom and so of its root system. Finally the Mushroom, the whole fucking reason I was there to begin with was safely stored away inside of my spacial ring.
Next was the lotus. It wasn’t actually a lotus but whoever nad it thought that it looked close enough.
Collecting it was a bit more tricky because I had to dig through the hard ground to get to the glowing golden roots. Eventually, I managed it.
Finally! Now it was ti to kill a fucking alien ship.
“Fairy Lin! Are you done?”
“I’m done. Just let get back in.”
I brought out my ch just in ti to see the first few small crabs start to attack Jessica and Derrick.
Fortunately, the two had good chemistry… when working together. I wasn’t sure if they could work together in… different ways.
Well, may as well get this party started.
I pulled out my special sword, cast a shielding technique and walked toward the Motherbrain that was larger than my ch.
I could feel the thing hum with energy.
“Hurry up! They’re coming at us on all sides.”
Grimacing, I threw a slash of sword Qi at the base of the brain. It barely scratched the surface… and its stalk connecting it to the ground (or ceiling?) of the room was as thick as a 500-year-old tree trunk.
Considering all the energy running through it, I had expected it to start fighting back. But maybe the brain was really defenseless.
Well, I was probably thinking too much. According to the reports, the brain could only be killed by cutting off the stalk. If we tried to attack the brain matter, the whole thing would explode… which would basically kill us, the crabs and the other teams inside. They had hamred ho the importance of killing it by cutting it off.
MingRen started to hack at the base using his plasma sword. He had the sa problem that my Sword Qi had.
“MingRen, move back and back up Jessica and Derrick.”
“It’s going to take you forever to slice it off if we don’t work on this together.”
“Trust .”
“Okay.”
The first thing I did was grab the damn spy drone and throw it out of the room. It buzzed at with sorrow but then went to spy on the three kids fighting a horde of bugs outside.
I could get away with using a small slash of sword Qi while it watched, but what I was about to do wasn’t sothing I could let others witness. Because I was about to pull out so really good moves.
The first thing I did was use the fake Any Armor is my Body technique on my ch to fully integrate myself with it. Frankly, I wouldn’t be able to pull this off otherwise.
Because this was a technique that I could only do at Golden Core and up. Though at Nascent Soul, the way cultivators fought changed from more physical to more taphysical, so it had been awhile since I last did this. The last ti was… when I showed it to a few sword cultivators to help them gain insight? Yeah. Whatever.
This ti would be different though since I was casting it through a spiritual tool like this ch, but it should still be effective.
I concentrated on connecting with the sword I’d created. It was a spiritual weapon made with these futuristic materials. But a sword was a sword.
Once ready I flew forward and stabbed straight through the stalk… but that wasn’t the end of it as a hundred swords made of sword Qi, then stabbed out of the stalk at the sa plane, severing the trunk cleanly.
“Sword of the Hundred Petaled Flower.”
The brain, released from its location, started floating in space as the small bit of artificial gravity turned off. And the massive amount of energy that had been inside the brain slowly started to seep out.
No. This could be useful as a power source to create a powerful weapon. This might be my one chance to steal it since I doubted the military would let keep it as spoils of war. I opened my cock pit, wrapped my spiritual energy around the leaking brain, preventing all of its energy from escaping. Then I threw it into one of the spacial rings I’d made before returning.
Since spirit stones didn’t exist, I’d have to find new energy sources to use so I didn’t have to constantly drain my own energy. This Motherbrain could be one.
***
Now that it was detached from the ship, and the systems were starting to shut down I could sense the panic coming from the various swarms of Star Crabs.
However, the ones attacking my team weren’t letting off. Instead they beca even more desperate. Even as so of them failed due to lack of gravity.
I quietly flew out of the brain room and watched for a second as Jessica protected everyone from a mass of confused and desperate Space Crabs.
I thought she was doing pretty well but she turned on the comms, “This… this is almost like all those cross section virtual missions we failed. My ch’s energy is draining too fast.”
“It’s not that bad,” MingRen said.
“No. It’s worse because we're down the team leader.”
She threw off several crabs with her shield and stabbed another two small crabs through their brains. “I’m sorry. I don’t think I’ll be able to last much longer under this onslaught!”
Uh huh. My protective talismans hadn’t even activated yet.
“You can do it!” MingRen said and sliced a few more bugs that she couldn’t get to at her angle. “Let’s just back up to the brain room.”
Just then a mantis crab ca out of the mass of small crabs it had been hiding within and sent several strong blasts at our heavy ch’s cockpit. From the angle it was coming from, it would perfectly bypass her shield too.
“Jessica!” Derrick’s rifle ch got between her and the blast.
My protective talisman activated taking the hits in his stead but, maybe they both didn’t notice in the heat of the fight because she said, “Derrick!”
He must have thought he was down because he said, “Jessica. I want you to know... that I like you more than rifle schematics!”
“Oh Derrick!”
Fucking nerds. Still, they were a little adorable.
“The Motherbrain is dead so the one controlling these bugs is probably that Mantis crab,” I announced. “Also, you’re not injured. Fortunately, MingRen covered for you both while you had your little mont there but he can’t last that long.”
They both coughed awkwardly and started fighting again.
I joined in for a little while, then beca frustrated as fuck.
“Hey, MingRen. That spy drone is being a bother. Interrupt its sensors for a sec.”
He coughed. “Um… Shouldn’t we call for backup?”
“Naw. Too annoying. Besides, the only one close to us would be Prince Chad’s team.”
He finished slicing a few of the crabs in front of him then grabbed the spy drone in one of his massive hands.
“Finally.” I grinned at all of these little small fries. And slashed towards them, “Ten Thousand Cuts!”
Not only did all of the small bugs slice into two, but even the walls took on massive amounts of damage. This only left the large mantis.
“Uh, team leader? What was that?” Jessica asked.
“Sothing you’re going to keep your mouth shut about… because even if you say it, no one will believe you.”
“Y-yes!”
“Derrick, kill that Mantis — I don’t feel like wasting my energy.”
“Yes, team leader!”
The Mantis knew what was up and made a run for it… well, since the gravity was out, it was technically a ‘fly for it.’ Derrick aid his rifle at the back of its neck and pulled the trigger, sending a high-powered blast straight through its neck with perfect aim.
“Good work.”
“It’s all thanks to your technique.”
I cleared my throat. “So, now that the corridor is clear, do you two need a minute?”
“Please just… Can we leave now?”
“What? Why be embarrassed now? That was a very sweet way to confess your feelings.”
“I’m gonna go change schools now.”
“Fairy Lin,” MingRen, probably trying to be kind to poor, embarrassed Derrick, caught my attention, “can I release the spy drone?”
“Let’s move out of the area first.”
***
We spent another twenty minutes flying through tunnels. Any of the Space Crabs we ran into were so busy running around trying to figure out what to do while they lacked the Motherbrain’s instructions that they completely ignored us.
While leaving, I tried to keep my divine senses open so I could tell where the dangerous places were.
Of course, one of the dangerous places was the fight going on between the Male Lead and the Humanoid Space Bug. These fuckers were crashing through walls and seriously compromising the internal structure of this ship.
I had thought that the pathway out of here that I’d chosen would have been way the fuck clear of their fight, but it appeared like they would intercept us at any mont…
“Goddamn it!”
I quickly sent instructions to MingRen’s ch to go down the pathway I’d set. Then I grabbed all of their chs with spiritual energy and threw them behind right as both the humanoid bug and Chad’s golden panther ch fell through the wall right in front of .
The golden panther stayed still. But the alien did not. Got to its bare purple and pink feet and turned it’s fucked up humanoid head to stare at my ch with it’s beady black eyes.
This wouldn’t have been so disturbing, except part of its head had obviously already been clawed off… and it was still going like the fucking wound was nothing.
I contacted Prince Chad’s ch through my own. “Hey, are you still awake?”
The alien took a step toward .
Fuck. Chad was supposed to beat this thing. Why the fuck was he out already.
“If I have to kill this thing for your ass, I’m going to demand extra paynt.”
Still no word. I cursed. Considering how much energy I used just killing the Motherbrain and all those crabs earlier, I was down too much for a prolonged fight. Looked like I’d have to rely on my physique here.
Sothing bumped into my ch, and I realized that I’d forgotten to toss the damn spy drone to the others.
Motherfucker!
Well, I’d have to find a way to kill this bot. I an, it didn’t do anything wrong, but I couldn’t have it recording ... and it wasn’t like I'd nad it Steve and beco emotionally attached to it.
Shit. Its na was Steve now.
That was when the evil, pink bug flew toward at speeds that my current physique couldn't follow. Fortunately, my divine sense and spiritual energy could keep up with it.
I pulled out my side arm and fired several rounds that bounced off the bug’s head.
The fuck was this thing made of? And could I use it to make a weapon?
I holstered my ch-sized gun and pulled my sword back out. This was no ti to hold back. I inserted my spiritual energy into the ch just like I had when I first arrived, only this ch was one I’d designed specifically to take it.
When the alien neared , I slashed towards his torso in an attempt to slice him in half. His purple skin… wasn’t actually skin. It was a hard shell. Harder than any other crab I'd co across since I’d co to this ti. But only slightly harder than the Mothership’s brain stalk.
To kill this thing, I’d need to use another Sword of the Hundred Petaled Flower.
But, with my spiritual energy as drained as it was, I could only do one more before I needed to ditate for an hour or two.
The problem was that I could easily waste it if I wasn’t careful.
This pink crab person was no joke.
He flew towards my cockpit as if he were about to fly straight through it. I flew to the side using my thrusters, avoiding him.
His hand barely ca into contact with my armor and left a nasty scratch on the surface, but that was it.
We turned to look at each other, both of us gauging the skills of the other. I was sure we’d have a lot to talk about if the crabs bothered to learn the human language or if humans could even fathom the strange crab language.
In a last attempt to wake up the male lead, I said, “Fine, if you don’t co help beat this thing, then I’m gonna tell Miss Liu that she can find a better guy than you!”
I thought for sure that it would work. Eh, too bad. Looked like I was on my own here... Aside from Steve that kept fucking running into .
We exchanged a few more testing blows, and I realized that, while this crab person was strong, and had a deep spiritual pressure that could make those under SS rank suffer, it couldn’t use its spiritual energy in an attack.
Of course, that didn’t an I had the advantage. The bug was like dealing with a pure body cultivator in-between Golden Core and Nascent Soul.
Just then, a strong blast of ch rifle fire hit the injured side of the Star Bug’s pink head.
Goddamn it.
Over my comms, I heard MingRen’s voice. “We’re not leaving you to fight this thing alone.”
I scowled. “You should. You’ll all just get in my way.”
“At the very least, I can hold that annoying spy drone for you.”
Then his stupid looking ch with its big arms appeared around the corner and snatched the stupid spy drone from mid air.
“Its na is Steve.” Everyone was looking at my ch strangely but whatever. “But you’re right. We shouldn’t let it see this.”
“And I can distract the Space Bug with a few well placed pot shots,” Derrick said, while firing another blast at the crab person.
Then Jessica’s heavy ch ca barreling around the corner, her shield in front of her, ready to take a hit. “And, at the very least, I can protect these two so you don’t have to worry about them.”
“I thought you were running out of energy?”
She coughed. “I replaced my battery pack.”
“It’s why we took so long getting back here after you threw us out of danger.”
I grimaced and exchanged a few more blows with the Alien.
“Alright. If you all are willing to face this Crab Person with then so be it. MingRen, hold that damn spy drone in one hand and fire your pistol with the other. Derrick, you fire on him from there. We need to get him cornered enough that I can attack him with a special technique I have.”
“Yes, Team Leader!”
We exchanged blows. I managed to keep him in check by blocking his creepy crab hands with my powerful sword.
The two just barely managed to get him to move by taking shots at him.
One more sword slash from and he was stuck to the corner of the room.
I powered my thrusters to get maximum acceleration and used up the last bit of my sword Qi in a final thrust... my sword pierced through his stomach and a hundred blades of sword Qi exited from his body, bisecting the fucker. Only... as its purple blood leaked from its mouth, it smirked at ... It fucking smirked at ! Then it grabbed my ch’s wrist and used its claws to bypass my shield and slice my arm off!
Pain shot through my mind. This was another consequence of my pseudo-Any Armor is my Body skill.
Motherfucker! I lost another arm! Granted, this was a ch arm, but still.
Then, the damn crab started fucking eating my arm! The wound I just made partially closed.
Seriously. The fuck was this thing?
“T-team leader?”
“I’m fine.”
“What do we do now?”
There was only one thing left to do... use a technique that I’d loathed with every fiber of my being. But, it was effective.
“What I’m about to show you all, must never be spoken of to anyone. Do you understand?”
“Y-yes, Team Leader,” Jessica said.
“I will take whatever knowledge you’re about to share to my grave,” MingRen said solemnly.
“It’s only right that we exchange things we don’t want others to know,” Derrick murmured.
“Derrick. If we’re ever in the sa group again, remind to double your training.”
He coughed. “I an. I swear I won’t tell a soul!”
I couldn’t use a giant ch for this. I pulled the cord that turned my ch to a ring on my finger.
Now that I was looking at this fucker, he was actually pretty big, wasn’t he. Almost half the size of my ch.
The look on its face was full of amusent as if saying, ‘This? This is how you choose to face ?’
I gathered up the spiritual energy within and perford several hand seals.
The crab person leisurely walked over towards , even taking a few pot shots from my teammates who were likely freaking the fuck out.
That was when I finished my last hand seal and pointed two fingers at the pink fucker. “Storm of Delight and Solace!”
An army of spiritual puppies appeared behind carrying pineapples on their backs. One ran through the air and licked the face of the crab person, their adorable tails wagging. Then, after they licked his face, the pineapple on their back flew high above them and crashed on top of him. Since it was a spiritual attack, it didn’t matter that there wasn’t any gravity. This was a pure attack on one’s spirituality... and my eyes.
Seriously, attacks were supposed to be badass. But this one...
Another dozen puppies licked the Space Crab and their pineapples crashed into him. When he realized what was happening. It was already too late.
He attempted to run, but puppies were, in the end, dogs. And dogs could sniff out what they wanted.
By the ti the army of dogs finished their licks and pineapple bombardnt, the pink crab person’s spirit was utterly obliterated.
I brought out the ch my body’s father made for her because it actually had both arms and was structurally sound. Then I used the sniper rifle that ca with it to shoot every single part of the prone alien. Because like fuck did I want to deal with sothing that could heal by eating my own fucking ch!
Then... because it would be a waste. I grabbed its body for later use in a weapon.
My teammates finally connected to my new ch’s comm.
“Um, Team Leader. What was that?”
“Sothing we don’t talk about.”
“But.. puppies.”
“We don’t talk about puppies or pineapples!”
“Right.”
Another comm connected, this one, unexpected. “Lady Victoria. What happened?”
It was fucking Chad. “Prince Chad! Good to see you up and well. We took care of the Motherbrain and what was left of the humanoid Star Bug.”
“My team?”
“They’re fine. Once Steve reported the destruction of the Motherbrain, everyone started to head back toward the exit. We should do that too.”
His ch stared at as if confused. “Who is Steve?”
***
Once the bugs didn’t have the Motherbrain or the Humanoid Crab to give them orders, the students and teachers of the military school quickly wiped the rest of the crabs out.
Of course, this was just one Mothership. There were hundreds, maybe even thousands out there still causing havoc in their quest to eat the universe.
Once we returned to our cabins onboard the Blue Jaguar, MingRen anxiously asked if he could co in and talk.
“This isn’t about that which we don’t speak of, right?”
“Of course not!”
“Then co in!”
He sat down at my desk and bit his lip.
I raised an eyebrow at him. “I do need to cultivate to replenish my energy, you know.”
“Actually, cultivation is what I’ve been thinking of.”
“Ah, so you finally realized that you were being brainwashed against immortality.”
“That’s not it. It was about walking a path alone. I realized that if you continue to cultivate, that you’ll be alone. I... I want to walk that path with you, so you aren’t alone.”
That... was shockingly sweet coming from soone who currently thought immortality was a curse.
Well, if he was the reincarnation of Bloodsword, then he probably had a lot of fate with immortality. Perhaps he’d be able to keep up. Maybe It would be nice to walk this lonely path with soone who could have my back. Alright. I would give this nominal brother of mine one chance.
“I’ll teach you to cultivate, but you’ll have to take up a Daoist na of my choosing. From now on, you’ll be called Spring of the Universe. Little Spring for short.”
“Ah, Little Spring sounds like a kid’s na.” He pointed to himself. “I’m an adult.”
Kid, you are still just a child in my eyes. “Fine. Then ‘Spring’ for short.”
He smiled. “I’ll take it!”
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