Getting a Technology System in Modern Day - Chapter 1028: Falling like Dominos III

Chapter 1028: Falling like Dominos III

“Why would you do that?” a Xor’Vak soldier asked, his voice shaking the air around them, making it clear that he was filled with rage.

Unfortunately for him, that was as far as he could go in expressing his rage since his body was in no condition to do anything else about it; blood-filled mucus was currently trickling from his nose, which, in his fully transformed draconic form, was in the amount of liters.

Though every civilization in the top ten had something they were strong in, all of them were weaker in a single thing compared to the Zelvora: mental attacks. Previously, whenever a Zelvora was around them, all of those who could would have had their mental defenses at the maximum possible level at all times. But the current situation had been perfectly set to remove that, as they had gained something from having fought together: trust.

Maintaining those mental defenses consumed large amounts of mana, mana which was needed to deal with other, more important and present threats. The empire had been dishing out these threats every few hours at different scales, requiring all of them to start looking for signs of other attacks, expending large amounts of mana. In order to save on this expenditure, they needed to reduce needless waste.

With the trust they had built from fighting together, many of them had opted to save mana in that aspect. The idea of internal betrayal when they were united like never before against a single, stronger enemy was completely unexpected, especially from the ones known for their thinking abilities and their role as diplomatic glue. This made a blow that would have done a large but still slightly controllable amount of damage into a devastating amount, all due to something the civilizations didn’t previously have for one another: trust.

“It would take longer than the time you have to explain, so you can die with those questions and receive mana’s explanation on the other side,” the Zelvora said as he rubbed the tear from his eyes before clenching his fist, squishing the still-functioning parts of the Xor’Vak’s brain. The tear shed by him and many other Zelvora was not for the betrayal they were undertaking, but for the position they found themselves put in and the options given to their leader, who chose his assured death in order to save all of them and their abilities.

As a result, none of them had too much of a difficult time making a decision to betray someone they knew for less than a few months at most.

Although the initial attack was devastating, not everyone caught in it was killed by it, as some managed to survive due to their natural mental defenses being stronger than the lower-leveled Zelvora in their group.

“I’m going to enjoy skinning you alive and seeing how your abilities work in your brain,” a Trinarian soldier said in absolute rage, enough rage to the point where he ignored the spatial fluctuation in their surroundings. He didn’t care about any of them, focusing only on making sure he killed the Zelvora in front of him who had just killed his comrades, men he had grown up with for centuries.

The Zelvora in front of him, who was strong on the mental side of attacks but weak on the physical side (which could be said for all Zelvora), didn’t so much as tremble in front of the angry Trinarian, who had already chopped off his left arm by tearing the space between them.

“Although under different circumstances, I would have allowed for that, I unfortunately can’t do that,” the Zelvora said as he used telekinesis to forcefully stop the bleeding.

Knowing that he was in no condition to fight the angry Trinarian, having expended a large amount of mental power and mana for his initial blow, and that leaving the Trinarian alive would cause complications for the empire, which would in turn translate to complications for his people, he and many in similar conditions made the drastic decision of taking the nuclear option. They gathered all of their mental power and mana before detonating it inside the mental network…

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

The explosion caused by it was massive, to the point that it even shook the space-fabric in its surroundings as it vaporized everything caught in its vicinity.

But no matter how powerful an explosion is, shaking space stabilizes very fast. The moment that happened, it tore again as a wormhole opened and a mini imperial fleet came from the other side before immediately entering FTL, moving toward the closest planet that was only thirty light-seconds away.

Upon their arrival at the outer atmosphere, they didn’t even bother with the planetary defense weapons firing at them as they dived toward the planet, spreading in different directions. While falling, the ships’ doors opened, revealing a wormhole open within all the ships in the mini-fleet, connected to a logistics base set up by the empire. From the other side, imperial soldier Avatars started raining down.

Unlike the Avatars that imperial citizens could make, which had most of their capabilities limited and required the use of Merit Points to upgrade them, the Imperial soldiers’ Avatars were by default at the maximum of every ability that the soldiers had built into them.

In order to allow the soldiers to fight at maximum strength, the empire had allowed them to create their own custom Avatars as well. The only difference was that they didn’t embody the look of those characters, but a default imperial soldier avatar with those abilities embedded in them. So on the outside, they all looked the same, but each of them had a completely different mix of abilities depending on the soldier’s selections.

As these abilities used large amounts of mana, they were not using an onboard mana generator, as it couldn’t generate enough mana in time, which would limit the use of those powerful abilities. So, to complement those abilities and allow for their full use, all of the avatars had a wormhole open at their core that was connected directly to a massive mana generator. This provided mana in its liquid, purest, and densest form, giving them almost limitless ability use, limited only by their weapon’s durability.

Hundreds of them were being dropped on each planet before the mini-fleets opened a wormhole while still falling toward the planet, disappearing to another destination, leaving behind the Avatars to deal with everything on the planet that was standing in their way of capturing it.