A Core Ship From The Start-Chapter 2225 - 1507: The Truth of Destruction

Lucky for us, that Mecha Girl hasn’t fallen in battle yet. But when she was called back and saw everything in front of her, she was completely dumbfounded.

"Traveler? What on earth happened here? And the Queen, what about her..."

"Oh, actually it’s nothing much. Your Queen tried to dodge her debts, so I took care of her. I think we get along pretty well, so I believe you’re more suited to be the Queen, and then we can talk."

"Huh?"

I have to say, anyone would be flustered when summoned without a clue and then informed of such big news.

The Mecha Girl was exactly like that.

I was just an ordinary Iron Cavalry, originally fighting on the front line. Suddenly I was called back, and hadn’t figured out what was going on yet, then how did I become the next Queen?

I haven’t even brushed my teeth.

After hearing Duanmu Huai explain the background, the Mecha Girl was completely speechless.

To be honest, according to logic, at this moment she should be desperately fighting to the death with the murderer who killed the Queen. However... for the swarm’s breeding, revenge is not the priority, breeding is.

In other words, there must be a Queen.

Indeed, she really has a strong heart. After listening to Duanmu Huai speak, the Mecha Girl was silent for a moment, then asked.

"Excuse me, if we want to be assimilated into the Tribunal, what do we need to do?"

"It’s simple, just like your current work, the Tribunal needs you to deal with the Insect Swarm... but not in the breeding sense."

"Not in the breeding sense... Okay, I understand, but..."

"Also, I’m not finished."

Duanmu Huai waved his hand, interrupting the Mecha Girl.

"If you want to join the Tribunal, then you will no longer have the blessing of breeding. The strength of the Tribunal will replace breeding as your source of power, and I’ll help you resolve your entropy loss. Do you have any other questions?"

"............"

Facing Duanmu Huai’s answer, the Mecha Girl was left speechless, but after pondering for a moment, she finally... nodded.

"Alright, in that case, I have no reason to refuse... but what do we do next?"

"You first become the Queen, then gather all the Iron Cavalry back. As for how to do it, I think you know very well."

"Understood."

The Mecha Girl wasn’t pretentious, realizing there’s no time to haggle over the situation. Besides — being able to kill a Queen in front of so many Iron Cavalry means they could kill another one...

The Iron Cavalry doesn’t harbor any deep feelings for the Queen. Although they are clones, the entire Iron Cavalry system is completely insect nest-based. So, unlike the ruling classes in human society, they won’t serve their Queen for reasons like emotional factors. On the contrary, it’s more of an instinct, as when a Queen Bee is threatened, the soldier bees attack enemies with all their might, which isn’t because they have feelings for the Queen Bee, it’s purely a matter of duty.

Once the Queen is dead, what they must do is immediately choose another Queen. They wouldn’t shed a single tear for the former Queen; this is the harshness of the Insect Nest System.

When the Queen is alive, everyone fights to the death for her.

But once the Queen dies, she becomes nothing.

In fact, the Mecha Girl was very grateful that Duanmu Huai suppressed the Iron Cavalry present, or else the first thing they would do after the Queen died would be mutual slaughter to select a new Queen.

But now.......

The Mecha Girl suppressed her inner unease and walked to the Queen’s corpse. Frankly, if she could help it, she wouldn’t want to become a Queen; she has her own thoughts and considerations. However, unfortunately, the Mecha Girl knows all too well that she has no choice right now.

As the glow dissipates, the Iron Cavalry Mecha covering the girl disappears. When the girl reappears, she pushes her red-rimmed glasses and looks at the Queen’s corpse, silently sighing.

Then she knelt in front of the Queen and closed her eyes.

Soon, you see the Queen’s body starting to glow, the breeding symbol appearing on her forehead, then transforming into a beam of light, shooting straight into the forehead of the Mecha Girl. Moments later the Mecha Girl stands up again, and in front of her, the previously dead body shatters like wind-dried fossil, turning into dust and disappearing without a trace.

"So you’re the Queen now?"

"Yes."

The Mecha Girl’s expression was a bit complex.

"I can feel everyone’s thoughts and emotions. They... are very uneasy..."

The instant she became Queen, the Mecha Girl felt the emotional flood from her comrades. There was relief for the emergence of a new Queen, but also concern for the future.

Well, this is the benefit of the Swarm System; if replaced by humans, you suddenly make someone the Emperor and who knows what chaos would erupt below.

But there’s no such problem in the Insect Nest System; once a Queen is born, everyone can return to their homes and do their own thing. There won’t be the kind of insubordination a new ruler faces in other civilizations.

So from a certain perspective, it isn’t without reason that the insects can become the greatest threat to cosmic beings.

"That’s good then."

Duanmu Huai nodded, snapped his fingers, and then a large door appeared out of thin air.

"Now, lead all the Iron Cavalry to retreat, enter through here, and I’ll arrange everything for you later."

".......Yes."

Looking at the strange teleportation portal in front of her, it’s impossible for the mecha girl to feel no unease at all, but given the current situation where no one is stronger, she can only obediently compromise.

After Lumiaire unlocked the system restriction of the Iron Cavalry, those Iron Cavalry present no longer attacked Duanmu Huai but lined up obediently, following the command of the new queen to quickly enter the teleportation portal.

"Honestly, I still find it unbelievable."

Watching the actions of these Iron Cavalry, Alicia looked incredulous.

"I thought regardless of anything, we killed their queen, they would at least retaliate against us."

"For the Insect Nest System, power and emotion are unrelated. They are loyal to the position of the queen itself, it doesn’t matter who becomes the queen."

Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders.

"That’s also why the Swarm can become the great enemy of all civilizations in the universe. While a civilization is scheming in parliament, arguing over voting to elect a new president, the Swarm has already destroyed an entire galaxy."

"Emotion... so this is the difference between us and the bugs?"

"Who knows?"

Duanmu Huai watched the last group of Iron Cavalry dive into the teleportation portal, then turned to the three girls.

"You go in too, I’ll handle the rest."

"Eh?"

"Don’t forget why we came here, assimilating the Iron Cavalry was just a surprise, Nuuk is the key."

"But... haven’t we found Nuuk yet?"

"He’s been here for a long time, you just didn’t notice, alright, go in."

Duanmu Huai reached out, slapped Alicia’s round hips, making the fairy girl jump, glaring at him in displeasure.

"It’s very painful! Mister Great Judge!"

"It’ll hurt more if you don’t go in."

"Ugh....."

Even Alicia was at her wit’s end against someone as shameless as Duanmu Huai, and she had to obediently join Lumiaire and Mugeng in entering the teleportation portal.

After which, Duanmu Huai closed the teleportation portal and walked out of the empty council hall with his hands behind his back. He passed through the incubation chamber and arrived outside the royal palace, where a young man was waiting for him.

"What about those Iron Cavalry? And the queen?"

"I’ve taken them away, they now belong to the Tribunal."

Facing the young man’s inquiry, Duanmu Huai laughed.

"Do you like this outcome, Nuuk?"

"This is pointless."

The young man silently shook his head.

"Your struggle can’t change the inevitable end."

As he spoke, the young man looked up, gazing at the distant sky.

"I remember how it used to be, a land rich and prosperous. At that time, we believed we were on the right path, perhaps we’d face crises, perhaps we’d encounter risks, but we believed that regardless of how much we sacrificed, we’d ultimately win. But....."

As the young man spoke, the color of the azure sky started to fade, revealing the mechanical, dead remains of a planet obscured by blue.

"In the Emperor War, the war against inorganic beings, we kept our confidence and believed we would win. We wouldn’t be defeated by those inorganic armies. We destroyed them, destroyed ourselves, we paid countless prices, all deeply believing we would be the final victor. Even when unimaginable difficulties arose, countless citizens died under the slaughter of inorganic beings, and the whole planet was transformed into a mechanical creation."

The sky started to tremble, and the mechanical planet exploded, blazing flames covering the entire planet. But soon, shadows approached again, and a tide of insect swarm covered the burning mechanical planet, devouring its flame that resembled a star.

"But.......we never saw the dawn of victory, the Universal Locust Plague came. Our persistence turned into a joke, our desires became illusions. Even our creations started to rebel against us. They sank into that long dream, already confusing the boundary between reality and illusion.Of course, it boils down to our fault, if we hadn’t implanted false memories into them, perhaps today’s error wouldn’t have occurred."

Saying this, the young man looked at Duanmu Huai.

"But look, this is the end, everything will be destroyed, and all shall head toward the end. I’ve witnessed countless destructions, and then I understood, none of this should have happened. The birth of civilization itself is an error, a distortion, an anomaly that should not have appeared. Our birth, life’s birth, civilization’s birth — what is it for? To one day ultimately be destroyed? If this is nature’s rule, then why does such a rule exist?"

The young man stretched his arms open, looking toward the sky.

"There is only one reason, destruction is destiny’s truth! The birth of the universe itself is an error, civilization after the vast stars emerged quietly as a cancer, dispute is the only common language of intelligent life! To correct these errors, to return the universe to the right path, I... shall become the embodiment of entropy!"

The young man’s body began to swell, his originally pale skin turned into bronze, and his eyes emitted a raging flame.

The world around started to collapse, but Duanmu Huai stood there, not even looking at Nuuk, just reaching out to scratch his ear and blow it.

"Finished talking? Then you can go die."

With Duanmu Huai’s words, the entire Soul Fragment World suddenly exploded!