I Can Assimilate Everything

The information was shocking, and due to the nature of the material, even more information came

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A choice.

The choice hung before him like a doorway leading into unknown territories.

But Achilles had not achieved his current position by avoiding dangerous knowledge when it might prove necessary for future survival.

"Yes," he said quietly, his voice carrying across the superheated atmosphere to where Rose and Arya were.

The response was immediate and overwhelming!

HUUM!

Every jagged crystal formation in Aethermoor's core suddenly blazed with incandescent brilliance, their combined radiance transforming the planetary depths into something that resembled the heart of a newborn star!

Reality itself seemed to soften around the edges as the memory crystals activated their archival functions, pulling Achilles' consciousness across impossible distances and incomprehensible spans of time.

His vision flickered.

What he saw changed.

The vision that unfolded before him was unlike anything his enhanced perception had ever been forced to process.

Space.

Outer Space.

Space itself swarmed with life. Obsidian-purple forms moved through the void in patterns that suggested both individual intelligence and collective consciousness, their numbers stretching beyond the capacity of even his enhanced vision to count. Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, all moving with the synchronized precision of a single massive organism.

The…Kythernai Swarm.

The name surfaced from the memory like poison bubbling up from deep wounds.

Each individual unit possessed wings that could fold space around them, stingers that dripped with venom capable of dissolving stellar matter, appendages that could manipulate both physical objects and energy fields.

And the weakest among them blazed with the unmistakable authority of Empyrean Star Nexus Transcendence.

They swarmed around a massive pulsing deposit of crystalline formations that stretched for tens of thousands of miles in every direction…a concentration of Voidborn Memorite so vast that it could have supplied entire galactic civilizations for millennia!

But this was not a mining operation conducted by separate entities. This was a hive in the truest sense of the term, a collective organism that had evolved beyond individual existence.

Surrounding the central crystal deposits, titanic purple blue humanoid forms moved with the deliberate patience of beings.

These were not merely larger versions of the swarm units…they were evolutionary pinnacles, Kythernai who had undergone transformation that elevated them to Stellar Genesis Embodiment while maintaining their connection to the collective consciousness that defined their species!

Hundreds of them. Each one representing power that could affect regions of the Star Seas through will alone.

But at the very heart of the swirling mass of crystalline wealth, something else drew Achilles' attention like gravity pulling matter toward a black hole.

Towards the depths of the floating wonder.

Past what seemed like milions of ant like creatures!

The Hive Queen.

Achilles felt his vision pulled towards her.

She possessed a beauty that transcended species boundaries while simultaneously embodying everything that made the Kythernai terrifying to lesser civilizations.

Her form was humanoid enough to be comprehensible to mammalian perception, but the details…the compound eyes that could perceive across multiple layers of space simultaneously, the chitinous armor that seemed to absorb and redirect energy attacks, the graceful movements that suggested both predatory efficiency and royal authority…marked her as something beyond conventional classification.

Her crimson eyes blazed with intelligence that had accumulated across timescales, wisdom purchased through the systematic consumption of entire civilizations.

As Achilles watched, she lifted one of the massive Voidborn Memorite crystals to her mouth and bit down with teeth that could shear through light itself, consuming knowledge and power with casual ease!

And then, in a moment that should have been impossible given the nature of archived memory, her eyes flickered with recognition.

She frowned, her perfect features shifting to express confusion that quickly transformed into something approaching surprise.

Her gaze moved across the memory's perspective until it fixed directly on the point where Achilles' consciousness observed from across time and space.

She could see him. Somehow, impossibly, the Hive Queen was looking through a memory that should have been nothing more than recorded experience, staring directly at his presence with eyes that blazed with sudden, terrible understanding.

Her lips curved in a smile that would have driven weaker minds to immediate madness, revealing rows of crystalline teeth that seemed to catch and refract light from dimensions that shouldn't exist!

When she opened her mouth, the sound that emerged was not quite speech and not quite music…it was communication that bypassed auditory processing and spoke directly to the fundamental structures of consciousness itself.

A screech that carried greetings, threats, promises, and invitations that made reality itself shiver with anticipation!

Greetings, threats, and invitations!

Then…

The vision shattered like glass struck by lightning, leaving Achilles standing in the depths of Aethermoor's core with the taste of alien honey and liquid starlight lingering in his enhanced senses.

Around him, the Voidborn Memorite crystals had returned to their normal pulsing radiance!

The memory's echoes faded like ripples across still water, but the weight of what Achilles had witnessed settled into his consciousness. His enhanced physiology remained perfectly steady in the superheated environment, but behind his eyes, calculations raced through scenarios.

The Kythernai Swarm. A collective consciousness that numbered in the millions, with their weakest members…being Empyrean Star Nexus Transcendenta.

Hundreds of Stellar Genesis Embodiment entities serving as guardians to a Hive Queen whose capabilities he couldn't even begin to measure. There seemed to be a dozen terrifting ant like creatures who protected her periphery that were even more powerful than Stellar Genesis Embodiment!

And somehow, impossibly, she had seen him across the barriers of time and archived memory.

His gaze shifted toward the planetary core where Runescriptures swirled in patterns that had remained undeciphered for generations of Sorcerers and Witches.

The Living Script pulsed with urgent brilliance now, as if responding to his newfound understanding of what lay beyond this world's origins. Where before the symbols had seemed like abstract artistic expressions, now they blazed with the clarity of a star chart written in the fundamental language of reality itself.

Runes.

This…was the language of reality!

Runescripture! Living Script!

Knowledge flooded his consciousness as the meanings crystallized when he now looked.

|Origin point of Aethermoor core fragment has been successfully deciphered. Source location identified in Sector Null-Kythara, approximately 100,000 light-years from current position.|

|Primary Voidborn Memorite deposit - estimated mass 10,000x larger than Aethermoor fragment - confirmed to exist at origin coordinates.|

|Target location analysis indicates massive Kythernai Swarm presence. Hive infrastructure has been detected surrounding primary deposit. Recommended approach: Extreme caution or complete avoidance.|

..!

The memories of the Voidborn Memorite crystals that the Sorcerers and Witches also identified as Nexus Crystals provided waves of information!

Achilles stared at the prompts with the stillness of deep space, his expression betraying nothing of the storm of implications racing through his consciousness.

The largest concentration of the rarest sentient metalloid in these star seas, guarded by a force that made his previous enemies seem like training exercises.

The Hive that even Sovereign Void Imperium and other forces feared and wiped out the moment they even heard of its encroachment!

And now their Queen knew he existed.

He closed his eyes for a moment, feeling the weight of destiny pressing against his awareness like gravity from a black hole.

When he opened them again, his gaze held cold calculation.

"Interesting…" he murmured, his voice carrying across the superheated air to where Rose and Arya continued their work, unaware that the future had just become infinitely more complex!