Chapter 506: Light and Shadow
The Zerg Royal Palace in the West Vitello Galaxy.
After finishing her business for the day, Sevier chased away a group of noisy servants from the main hall.
After a moment of peace, she rubbed her slightly swollen forehead.
Augustus walked behind her, reached out and rubbed her temples, and Sevier leaned back into his arms.
"There's been a lot going on these past few days, and the alliance is making a lot of noise, it's giving me a headache."
At this point, Seville gave a wry smile, "Now I can somewhat understand why our ancestors isolated other star systems and didn't like to unite with them. They were indeed very annoying."
Augsis placed his hand on her cheek and chuckled, saying, "It's not like you're a newcomer to this world. Are you missing Anunu?"
Sevier closed her eyes and gave a muffled "hmm". "Anunu has been sleeping in the abyss for ten years. Of course I miss Anunu after not being able to see her for ten years."
At this point, Sevier sighed, grasped Augustis's hand, and said, "Now I know your suffering. You waited for me for three hundred years; it must have been even more unbearable than this."
Augustus lowered his head and kissed her. "It's not hard. I know you've always been here. No matter how long we wait, our souls will always be together."
Sevier's lips curled into a smile, her agitated mood calmed down slightly.
Augsis comforted her, "The Dark Light Queen said that Anunu could wake up at any time during this period, and then we will be able to see Anunu."
Sevier focused her attention on the consciousness network for a while and said, "Anunu has been having a lot of dreams lately, which could very well cause her consciousness to become confused."
The Zerg's consciousness is different from others because it is inherited and stores a large amount of information. During their slumber, their consciousness also goes into slumber to avoid confusion and the inability to distinguish between dreams and reality.
"There's one more thing."
Sevier opened her eyes and said to Augsis, "The Shadow Clan is showing signs of activity again. Our retinues on the outer defense line have been attacked, and we have discovered traces of the Shadows."
This was the consciousness uploaded by other members of the council just now. After Augsis and Seville quickly exchanged consciousness in the consciousness network, their expressions also turned slightly serious. "The Shadows didn't just show up recently. They emerged not long after you entered the Abyss to sleep and left traces near Anunu's breeding nest. However, at that time, Anunu had already been stolen by the people of the North River system."
Sevier tapped her hand lightly on the armrest and said, "The Shadow Insects split from us in the very beginning of time. After several great battles, we drove them out of the Insectoid race. In the consciousness of our ancestors, they appeared a few times and even fought back, but they were defeated in the end and gradually disappeared. We thought they had become extinct, but we didn't expect them to reappear."
In the early days when the Zerg developed intelligence and built the most primitive society, the Zerg had many branches. These branches differed from the current ones, which were based solely on abilities and physical appearance. At that time, many Zerg were quite different from each other.
However, in the end, due to the convergence of genes, they only split into two major branches: one is the Zerg they are now in Sivitro, formerly known as the Light and Shadow Zerg, and the other branch is the Shadow Zerg.
The defining characteristic of the current Light and Shadow Zerg is that they all emit light; their insect patterns, spines, horns, and other markings glow.
The insect patterns on the Shadow Zerg do not glow and are mostly black or red, with their bodies also only being black and red.
Other civilizations in the universe always have the impression of the Zerg as cold-blooded and brutal. This is because they are incredibly brave on the battlefield, unafraid of pain, and the Zerg do not like to communicate and unite with other races, which has led to exaggerated and fabricated stories.
In terms of brutality and cold-bloodedness, they are less than a tenth as brutal as the Shadow Zerg.
Today, this branch of the Zerg still possesses emotions. Even if the subordinates have a very weak emotional perception of these emotions, they are not entirely devoid of feelings. Moreover, with the support of the Zerg's consciousness network, and with each generation of genes passing down, one day, the Zerg will no longer be a bunch of dull machines, and the Overlord who sits on the throne will no longer be lonely.
But the Shadow Zerg are different; if they possessed emotions, they wouldn't be called Shadow Zerg.
Even today, the Shadow Zerg occasionally contain genes from the Dark Zerg, which is how heretics within the Zerg are created.
They were originally of the same race, but their genes diverged later.
"Let's wait and see," Sevier said calmly. "With me here, I won't let them set foot in Sivitro again."
Augsis said thoughtfully, "Since they can attack our outer defenses, it means that their development is not weak. More than two hundred years ago, they also appeared in the palace. With such capabilities, they must have established a huge civilization somewhere. It's just that we haven't found their settlement over the years."
"They, like us, need a lot of energy to survive, but none of the planets in the star systems discovered so far are similar to our Sivitro. After so many years, even with energy assimilation, they have assimilated a planet with a large number of energy stones."
Sevier stood up and said, "The universe is so vast, and undiscovered civilizations are as numerous as dust, and even the universe itself is as numerous as dust..."
At this point, Seville stopped and exchanged a knowing glance with Augustis.
If the Shadow Zerg's lair has not been found in their universe, is it possible that it exists in another universe?
They are only speculating at the moment. By questioning the Darklight Queen, they learned that the Shadow Zerg have appeared more often in the last thousand years than in the past, especially since they have also tried to make contact with Anunu.
This is very unusual; it's already sending them a signal that the Shadow Zerg are very likely to make a comeback.
They must be prepared to respond.
Anno had a very long dream, and sometimes she herself didn't know whether it was a dream or reality. Memories stored in her consciousness would also interweave into her dream, making it increasingly difficult for her to distinguish between them.
This time, however, her dream was not like the one in her memory, which caused her much suffering; instead, she lived a peaceful and happy life.
Each dream begins with her wandering outside, experiencing different lives.
Not just her different lives, but also everyone she knows.
Perhaps it's because her life began in her memory as a wanderer, so every beginning of her life in her dreams is like that, leading her to subconsciously try to make up for it in her dreams, so that even with such a beginning, she can live a better life.
Fragmented memories appear in her dreams from time to time, and she can hardly tell which one is her life anymore.
She felt herself sinking deeper and deeper into a dream from which she could not escape.
She began to create dreams for herself using everything she remembered. Everything in her dreams was perfect and exactly what she wanted.
She created towering palaces, a crowd of people whose faces were obscured, and countless strangely shaped flying objects in the sky. The sky was an inverted blue ocean, and beneath her feet was the sky, filled with magnificent clouds. She rode a giant whale named Yapda, soaring through the heavens.
Those creatures called Momo traverse between the clouds and the ground, creating happiness for themselves—a safe yet solitary happiness.
She always felt something was missing, but she couldn't remember what it was right away.
Suddenly, a pair of giant hands appeared in the ocean and sky. Those giant hands toppled the palaces she had built and turned everything she had created into a chaotic mess of paint.
She became angry and grabbed a finger that was standing in front of her, biting it hard.
Those warm hands cradled her in their palms, carrying her upwards, escaping this abyssal illusion.
Anno awoke from a deep dream.
After waking up, Anuo was in a daze for a long time. Before her eyes was a shimmering sea of stars. After looking closely, she realized that they were some floating and moving luminous creatures.
They floated and swam in this darkness, the abundant energy everywhere allowing them to obtain the energy needed for their physical activities without having to eat.
A luminous creature with a long tail, resembling a jellyfish, circled around her. She reached out to touch it; it felt soft and slightly cool.
Where is this place?
She held her hands in front of her, her porcelain-white skin radiating a soft glow, with beautiful lines spreading across her skin.
She glows, just like those glowing creatures.
Wait, she was born to glow.
hiss......
Anno felt a dull ache in her head. She sat up, holding her head, and found herself on a high platform that resembled an altar. The place beneath her was made of some unknown material that was warm to the touch. If you poked it with your finger, you could make a small hole, which would quickly spring back. It also emitted a particularly comfortable energy.
She was having a great time poking around when suddenly a pair of hands picked her up.
Anno stared at the person in front of her for a while before realizing that she seemed to have shrunk, become very, very small.
"Why has it shrunk so much?"
Anguang held Anunu up and looked her over from left to right, feeling that there wasn't enough for her to touch.
The abyss and the temple are connected, and Anunu was cared for by her during the years she recuperated in the abyss.
After Anunu returned from the Lyca Galaxy, in order to fully repair the core, at the suggestion of Darklight, Sevier and Augsis agreed to let her sleep in the Abyss, a sleep that lasted for ten years.
She also has the core of the Flying Star within her body. The combined energy of the two cores allows her to recover at a speed several times faster than before for Sevier.
Having slept for such a long time, and with her consciousness control not being as strong as Sevier's, coupled with what she had experienced, she was unable to seal her consciousness, which meant she had been dreaming for ten years.
Time flows much faster in dreams than in the real world. Anunu feels as if she has experienced decades or even centuries in her dream and needs some time to recover.
She looks like she's still half asleep.
Anno looked at the beautiful woman in front of him and asked, "Who are you?"
He gently kissed her little face in the dim light, saying, "I am your mother's mother."
Anuo said "Oh," and replied, "It's my maternal grandmother."
Darklight said, "We Zerg have no grandmothers, only mothers."
Anno tilted her head and asked, "Then what should I call you?"
Darklight said, "Call me Your Majesty."
Anno: "...So domineering."
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