I Can Assimilate Everything

Chapter 389: The Gathering Storm! II



The words tasted like defeat, but defeat was preferable to extinction!

They had built their power through careful independence, maintaining just enough autonomy to avoid becoming mere puppets while providing sufficient tribute to avoid unwanted attention from their cosmic overlords.

To request active protection would mean surrendering half their territories, reducing themselves to vassals in exchange for survival.

But the alternative was following Edmond into whatever darkness had claimed him.

They did this because they knew their power was well known!

If someone killed Edmond, they knew full well about them and did this regardless!

What did this mean? They either didn't care, or they were already targetting them next.

Vaelthara rose from her throne with movements that carried their own gravitational authority. "I will carry this message to the Imperium personally. My clone will accompany me…if negotiations fail, at least one instance of my consciousness will survive to report the outcome."

Her decision carried the weight of necessity rather than volunteering. Among the four, she possessed the most sophisticated understanding of Imperium politics, the best chance of navigating the complex hierarchies that governed cosmic tribute relationships.

"Half our controlled Planetary bodies, worlds, and Planes of Existence," she continued, her voice steady despite the magnitude of what she was proposing. "Offered as tribute in exchange for protection during this crisis period."

Without waiting for further discussion, she began dissolving into streams of silver light, her consciousness preparing to transfer across spatial barriers to whatever distant location housed her physical form.

Her clone, a crystalline projection indistinguishable from her true self…followed moments later, both instances of her awareness focused on a mission that could determine the survival of their alliance.

As her presence faded from the mountaintop, the remaining three Kings settled into the grim work of force consolidation. Across the crimson plane, energies began to stir as ancient technologies awakened from dormancy!

Military assets that had been scattered across dozens of conquered worlds began converging on this single location!

Above them, invisible to conventional perception, currents of the Regulation of Destiny moved like tides in an ocean of possibility.

Across the Star Seas, pieces on a board too vast for mortal comprehension began shifting positions in response to choices made in crimson shadows!

Each decision created ripples that would spread outward through space and time, touching lives and civilizations in ways that none of the players could fully anticipate.

The game was changing. The rules were being rewritten! And somewhere in the void between stars, new powers were preparing moves that would reshape the nature of nearby Star Seas!

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Meanwhile, across vast spatial distances.

The Adrastia Continent floated in the sky above Ethemia like a jewel suspended in crystalline seas, its boundaries constantly expanding as more landmasses joined its ever-growing expanse.

The Sea of Thalassara stretched across the heavens in patterns that defied conventional understanding of aquatic physics, its blue radiance casting everything below in hues that suggested serenity and infinite depth.

Within those celestial waters, Achilles' main body floated in a state of meditative contemplation, his consciousness expanded beyond the boundaries of individual perception to encompass the vast networks of power that flowed through his enhanced physiology.

Around him, currents of energy moved with glory!

Before his awareness, crystalline prompts materialized like messages written in the fundamental language written on Runescriptures.

|The Inheritance of the Heart of Thalassara has reached optimal integration parameters. Expansion into stellar void is now achievable. Activation will result in Planar Saturation followed by Extra-Dimensional Propagation. The Sea of Thalassara will encompass the entire Plane of Existence before extending into surrounding Star Seas.|

…!

The implications of those words sent ripples through his consciousness that had nothing to do with the waters surrounding his physical form!

The Sea of Thalassara was not merely a local phenomenon…it was a fragment of something much larger, an inheritance from civilizations that had once commanded respect across thr Star Seas- something he obtained from his Lienage Dreams!

A second prompt materialized beside the first.

|Successful stellar expansion will enable reconstruction of the Underwater Empire, a thalassocratic civilization whose dominion once extended across seventeen sectors of the Star Seas. Marine-adapted populations under Thalassarian influence will gain access to enhanced technological and biological capabilities previously available only to extinct species.|

Seventeen sectors!

The number resonated through his enhanced awareness like a bell tolling in the depths of space.

Such an empire would have commanded resources that dwarfed entire Planes!

Additional information flowed into his consciousness.

|The Aquatic Genetic Synthesis feature is available upon stellar expansion. Capability enables fusion of genetic material from multiple species to create enhanced Chthonian Thalassarian variants. Resultant organisms possess adaptive advantages optimized for deep-space aquatic environments and extreme-condition warfare.|

…!

The concept was staggering…the ability to create entirely new forms of life by combining the most advantageous traits from different species, guided by knowledge accumulated across eons of marine evolution. Such beings would be perfectly adapted for existence in the unique environment of stellar seas, capable of surviving and thriving in conditions that would destroy conventional life.

One final prompt completed the assessment!

|Current energy reserves you hold meet 90% of requirements for stellar expansion. Recommended additional acquisition of 20% more reserve capacity before initiation of transformation protocols. Note: Expansion process will be irreversible once initiated.|

Ninety percent!

So close to the threshold that he could taste the possibility like ozone in the air before a stellar storm. The power to transform not just his own plane of existence but to extend his influence across the void itself, to reclaim an inheritance that had been lost for millennia!

Around him, the Sea of Thalassara pulsed with currents that seemed to respond to his thoughts, its radiance deepening as if recognizing the momentous nature of the choice before him.

Below, the people of Ethemia continued their daily lives, unaware that their world stood on the threshold of transformation that would elevate it from a hidden refuge to a cosmic power!

The future stretched ahead in multiple directions, each path leading to possibilities that could reshape his family's survival.

In the depths of stellar waters, surrounded by the inheritance of empires, Achilles contemplated choices that would determine not just his own fate, but the destiny of entire sectors of the Star Seas as the name of Adrastia Emperor King…would have its foundation as a true power across the Star Seas with the expansion of Thalassara!


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