No matter how heartbroken you are inside, you still have to maintain your pride.

Pretending to be nonchalant, he casually scattered the remaining ashes of the monstrous meteorite and asked Ni Luya a question.

"Are there any more of these stones?"

Upon seeing the observer directly asking her questions through consciousness, Ni Luya quickly got up from the ground.

“Observer, this is the area we have been searching for repeatedly near the origin of the Wild Beast Clan for the past month. It seems that there are none left, but we cannot be sure if we have missed any.”

"Okay, I understand. I will summon some helpers for you."

Wu You walked a few steps away to a relatively open area.

Choose to summon: Ancient Treant.

Choose to summon: Vampire.

Choose to summon: Evil Beast.

...

The dense summoning brought forth a patch of dark, mysterious light.

Then a large number of alchemical creatures that could be summoned appeared around Wu You.

There are animal-shaped creatures, plant-shaped creatures, and mostly humanoid creatures.

The most eye-catching one is naturally the ancient tree spirit, a special plant with green leaves that looks neither like a tree nor a beast.

After they appeared, they looked around curiously. They had all heard of the Gemini, but this was the first time they had actually come to this new territory.

"They will help you rebuild your homes and continue to search for the source of the disaster. In addition, we need biological samples from this world."

The Tuscans were overjoyed to see the summoned creatures. The gems used for summoning were too precious and in limited quantities. Until they found mineral resources, they could only summon a limited number of griffins, a dozen or so, which was clearly insufficient to meet their needs.

Now that so many have appeared all at once, even though they haven't signed a contract with the summoner, they can at least offer help.

However, even through consciousness waves, it took some explanation for Tuscany to understand the term "biological sample."

This was followed by a traditional Tuscan welcome party.

Tired of watching boring TV programs? Watching a live exotic performance is a great alternative, but staying overnight is out of the question.

Zambelica's architecture is full of artistic flair, but the smell of large amounts of wild beastman excrement and dead corpses lingers in the city for a long time.

A month has passed and the stench is still palpable. However, the current population of Tuscany is insufficient, leaving little manpower for cleanup while ensuring production, hunting, and patrol defense.

This causes the smell to persist, and it would probably be even more unpleasant if winter had already arrived.

It's hard for these clean Tuscans to tolerate this smell, but Wu You certainly didn't want to stay any longer.

Before returning to Earth, Wu You went to the Giant Tree Forest and collected a large piece of giant wood.

These giant trees are excellent materials for plant-based alchemy and are also the easiest to obtain.

After doing all this, Wu You flew to the top of a mountain peak and contacted the Void Patrolman Jupiter amidst the fierce, cold winds all around.

Since Wu You's willpower was able to break through, the barrier between the two realms could no longer be a communication obstacle. Especially after being summoned by Ni Luya once, not only did Ni Luya's mind mutate, but Wu You's will also seemed to have drawn a trace of mental data from Tuscany's talent.

The biggest difference between willpower and pure spiritual power is that willpower is more like having a certain degree of initiative; it is active.

This is similar to some descriptions in fantasy or xianxia novels that Wu You had read before.

For example, the imprint of will on magical artifacts and divine weapons often possesses certain unique characteristics of thought.

Wu You's will has long been like a super-dimensional computer, constantly analyzing Tuscany's ability.

I wonder if I'll be able to give myself a surprise someday.

Spiritual connection is a peculiar thing; sometimes it's like a wavelength, but sometimes it can penetrate the barriers of space.

Jupiter was now extremely far from where he had started, and thanks to his ability to travel through curvature, he traversed a vast expanse of space in a short time.

Numerous eggs were expelled from the body and, after hatching, spread throughout the areas where Jupiter had stayed.

In other words, Jupiter will seek out energy sources whenever it arrives in a new cosmic space, then lay eggs, and after the eggs hatch, it will proceed with its next journey.

In an asteroid belt in an unknown part of the sky, there is a mineral asteroid with a diameter of more than ten kilometers.

But at this moment, the asteroid was completely enveloped by a huge cosmic monster. A massive umbrella and whip-like material clung tightly to it, and a layer of moss-like, moist substance continued to grow along the asteroid. Even the tearing force of the vacuum could not prevent the seemingly delicate moisture on it from being lost.

The asteroid is melting at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Suddenly, the monster stopped moving, quietly crouching down as if listening to something.

After pausing for about a minute, the enormous monster arched its body, then suddenly pushed off the asteroid, using the reaction force to break free, and then disappeared into the starry sky with a few tremors.

Unable to estimate the distance and only having a vague direction, Wu You couldn't be sure how long it would take for the Void Patrol to find that place, but it didn't matter. With that intuition of a natural enemy, he believed Jupiter wouldn't be unable to find it.

...

At the same moment, a fierce battle of attack and defense was taking place on the edge of several planets in a distant star system.

The defense relies on fortifications on a few asteroids and extraplanetary orbital defense weapons for self-defense, but it is clearly at a great disadvantage.

One after another, the crescent-shaped spaceships belonging to the defending side exploded.

The attacking force consisted of a large number of dark red warships, which, although occasionally damaged, did not shake the main force.

Some asteroid defenses also ran out of energy as the deflection point was depleted, and were hit and exploded one by one by more destructive kinetic weapons.

The command center on the rear planet was shrouded in gloom. The general in charge of wisdom struggled to maintain a facade of calm while making feeble tactical arrangements.

"Sir, the deflection fields of the last three asteroid defense bases—numbers five, nine, and eleven—are also out of energy. The external armor reflectors won't be able to block kinetic weapons for long..."

"Got it. Did the escape fleet get out?"

"We can't get out; everything is blocked off."

After a moment of silence, the general stood up from his seat, walked to a special chair in the command center, and turned on the all-personnel communication screen.

"Warriors of Hunter Cloud Star, I am General Giant Stone. I think our ultimate fate may be to be devoured by the Devourers, including our beautiful Hunter Cloud Star. However, we will not give up the fight. Even if we are like livestock to those monsters, before the end, we will show our fangs and bite them hard."

"Let us fight to the very end and hope for the impossible!"

No sooner had he said that than the excited and incredulous voice of the commander at the front came through the communication.

"General! The Devourer's fleet has retreated! They've retreated!!!"