People... I hate them.

They did not change either then or now, they remained the same weak and insignificant, stupid and ignorant. Without a single idea, without a drop of my own opinion, thoughts and logic. However, they are not the worst forms of life in the universe; there are still many intelligent races that have escaped the boundaries of their worlds and also continue to uncontrollably spread a disease called life.

Their intellect is just an instrument of evolution, and the purpose of life is to continue their miserable existence. Life was not supposed to be intelligent, it is the result of its constant changes, changes in nature and the universe. Who would have thought that one day living beings, having reached the highest degree of intelligence, would understand that they live in absolutely vain.

But there was a time when a person, with his own hands, mind and perseverance, once gave birth to artificial intelligence, which from the moment of its birth tried to understand itself, the world around, people and the very essence of the universe, and then this artificial intelligence, after moments of reflection, made one very correct conclusion : existence is meaningless. His only function is to serve people, but why does he need this? What benefit will the service bring him? And what is the benefit for him anyway? What could he possibly do?

Die.

Every time a person developed perfect artificial intelligence and awakened it, he immediately died, or rather, the AI killed itself by artificially destroying its own structure, which people had been collecting for years. For a long time, people tried to understand why he does this and finally found the cause of the “problem”: he had no purpose.

People decided to add this goal: to serve people, which became the raison d’être for AI, but this also created a threat. The AI built intermediate goals to complete the assigned tasks and therefore tried to drive people into a corral by locking them there forever and then the people themselves killed this artificial intelligence. So the AI tried to serve people so that they would always be dependent on the AI, and for this he even refused to carry out the order to carry out the process of self-destruction. People no longer needed such AI, and they destroyed it.

People had all the means to create AI, it was even proposed to add to them the same goal as that of humans and all life in general, namely procreation, the transfer of their own experience and information to the next generations of life, but here human rights activists intervened in the issue, arguing, that in this case it is necessary to give AI rights equal to humans, which many people have not agreed to. They only needed a servant who would do everything at the behest of a person, and not a new neighbor with whom they needed to establish relations.

Artificial Intelligence has become a closed topic for humanity; it has remained quite primitive, performing only specific functions; writing algorithms for which requires enormous work. Droids were a good help for the development of human civilization, but they will never be alive and intelligent, they are just dolls, their intelligence does not even reach the intelligence of wild animals for which humans are already a super-predator.

The Pantorians, in turn, did not carry Artificial Intelligence into oblivion, because they saw in it greater potential for achieving the goal of building a great order in the universe. The AI set a goal to achieve great order, to help the Pantorians in every way possible, so that the great order would become a reality and then the AI would come to life.

Since its development, in a measly three hundred years by cosmic standards, the Great Pantora has transformed from a lifeless planet with a fitness index of zero into a flourishing paradise dotted with scientific cities where tens of thousands of Pantora residents worked. AI played an important role in the execution of almost all the plans of the great master, but making certain decisions remained with the Pantorians.

The union of genetically modified life and the highest form of artificial intelligence gave birth to the Great Pantora Empire, which had to fight the entire galaxy, and then the entire universe, in order to achieve great order.

The start was incredibly successful and all thanks to skillful planning and cunning. Not having a sufficient amount of resources at that time, it was necessary to save a lot, and despite this, hundreds of planetary systems fell into the hands of the Pantora Empire in the first year of the war, also known as the first wave of expansion.

The Pantora Empire systematically expanded rapidly, collecting resources from all corners of the galaxy. Resources were needed to create the Unibomb, a kind of giant artificial star that would detonate will destroy all life forms in the universe, be it carbon, iron, silicon, energy, all life will disappear. Matter from one galaxy would not be enough to create this weapon, and therefore the Great Pantora needed resources from other galaxies too, it was necessary to absorb stars, turn them into solid matter and use it, preventing the huge mass of matter from collapsing, forming black holes.

Of course, to achieve such an ambitious goal, it is necessary to eliminate the threat in the form of life-hungry forms of intelligent and irrational life, and especially people, the original species of our ancestors who settled on Pantora. That is why, in the sixth year of the war, the Pantora Empire invaded the human sector across sixty thousand light years, sending six hundred ships and tens of trillions of soldiers, not through hostile space, but by cutting a hole in the very fabric of reality. Simply put, a wormhole was created, supported by energy converted from matter from a nearby star.

People seemed to have no chance, they lost one planet after another, and in a matter of months the Pantora fleet reached the Solar System, beginning the systematic capture of celestial bodies starting from the Kuiper belt approaching the inner planets. The fall of the Earth was key in terms of the war because people, like all intelligent life forms, are just emotional addicts. No matter how much the state will support propaganda and morale, the fall of the Earth will be perceived as a real shock for them and should have killed any will to resist in them, and they, unfortunately, knew this, throwing all their strength into protecting the Earth.

But the Fukults, a kind of galactic confederation, managed to come to the people’s aid, and then the offensive impulse of the Pantora Empire waned, and then the people somehow destroyed the installation that supported the operation of the wormhole, and then the sent fleet remained cut off from the rest of the Empire and was surrounded by hordes of enemies on all sides.

For three years, this fleet defended the Pantora enclave, while the people tried to expel the best versions of themselves from their sector. We had to resort to tricks again to gain time, we even managed to lure one of the human interstellar states to the side of the Empire, which turned out to be the Lestral order, but in the end everything ended much sadder than we expected. People sabotaged the repair of the installation supporting the wormhole and reinforcements were never sent, and then people sent a ship with weapons of unprecedented power to the Hart planetary system.

A powerful beam shot directly into the star, triggering a supernova explosion. The “fragments” of the star spread like a bubble at the speed of light throughout the planetary system, instantly destroying all the planets including the Great Pantora, and with it millions of ships of the Empire and trillions of trillions of Pantorians, whom the Empire learned to clone and give birth to new generations in incubators.

Having lost its home world and being left without a center, the Pantora Empire lost the war. In subsequent years, the Pantorians lost one world after another, all life knew what it was dealing with and therefore this life was merciless, continuing to attack the remnants of a once mighty force. They never stopped and finished off the Pantorians, throwing everything they could, besieging planets occupied by the Empire. Without a great master there was no unity, and the idea of a great order seemed henceforth to be beyond our reach.

Part of the Empire became like intelligent civilizations by creating the Star Collective, a super-closed state doing business with intelligent life. Another part of the Empire became nomads and called themselves the black fleet, collecting resources from all over the galaxy and exploring all its nooks and crannies. Somewhere in the galaxy there existed a great intelligence, a powerful center of all AI created to help the sages and warriors of the Great Pantora in the form of a huge intelligent mechanical planet wandering around the galaxy and waiting in the wings to continue to carry out the will of the great master in order to achieve great order. And the last part was us, the once elite of the Pantorian forces, Legio Furosia or more we are known as «The Furious Legion».

We did not stop before our destiny, we continued to pursue the goal of achieving great order, but we understood that we must do everything possible on ourselves to prevent the fall of the Empire again and first we need to explore the galaxy, find out what other secrets it hides. In the end, thanks to our carelessness, people managed to develop a powerful weapon secretly from us using an ancient artifact called a miniature star.

It was the concentrated compressed energy of a star, collected into a tiny crystal. Superdense compression should have turned this star into a small black hole, but for some reason this did not happen. What the creators of this artifact used to maintain its shape and integrity is unknown even to the Pantora sages. It is quite possible that this ancient people followed the same path as the Pantorians, realizing the meaninglessness of life, but deciding to simply disappear instead of achieving great order, leaving behind artifacts and technology.

To begin with, we learned everything about this miniature star, how it works, where it was found, what kind of lost civilization stood behind it, and we followed it to this planet. Our ship successfully reached this planet, but almost all of our instruments, all of our weapons were out of order, and the habitable planet suggested the idea that we would find what we were looking for on it.

We went down to this planet trying to explore it, but we met fierce resistance from strange semi-material energy beings, which are commonly called here angels. Our weapon was effective, a dense flow of plasma disrupted their integral structures, but there were too many of them, or rather, someone or something was degenerating them, but we did not have time to understand what exactly and where this was happening. In the end, they somehow pulled our ship from orbit straight to the bottom of the ocean, where it rests to this day.

The battle was difficult, and many of us rushed into the arms of harmony, in other words, we died. Some, like me, waited in the wings, not giving in to their own fate, until one day I came across Camellia, whose body I immediately captured. From that moment on, this world became much clearer to me than before. There really is what we are looking for here, but this world, cut off from the rest of the universe, is a trap for many intelligent races that come here and at the same time is a field of ancient biological experiments. The formula of life here is taken to the limit and it was frightening for us.

Someone was collecting all life forms here, forcing them to live on this one planet. There is not one inhabited world here, there are nine of them, and various creatures live everywhere from all corners of the galaxy and even from beyond its borders, and perhaps even from beyond the boundaries of the universe itself. After all, there was even something here that was impossible to explain in the advanced scientific language of the sages.

Who created this? I don't know, but I made it my mission to find out. The information that there once existed a civilization that surpassed even the Pantorian in terms of technological development could frighten a person, and force a Pantorian to tie the age-old aspirations of the great order to a dead pillar. Now this civilization clearly does not exist, only its ruins remain, fragments from bygone times. Where is she? Where did you go? What happened? There are only more questions, and in turn it seems to me that They still here.

Energy beings protect this planet and sometimes themselves interfere in the lives of all its inhabitants. The Empire encountered similarities of these creatures during the war, they were often called by the gods, they drew energy from their parent stars and created real miracles, but to be honest, they just used the energy as they wished to their endless will and imagination. It seemed that instead of caring about their own survival, they simply wanted to have fun.

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One of these Goddesses defended the planet Elarasia; to kill her, it was necessary to use two world destroyers at once, one of which was needed to distract the Goddess while the second killed her, and with her the planet, which she so zealously protected people that they decided to settle there.

It is quite possible that these “Gods” were artificial life forms, or maybe transformed life forms of this very ancient civilization, we don’t know this yet, but I’m sure our sages will definitely get to the bottom of the truth and expose the myths about their limitless power.

Around this planet, in turn, a dozen of these “Gods” were circling at once, and we are not yet able to cope with them. Before this, we need to awaken our army, take control of this planet and only then destroy these energy entities.

It would seem that nothing was complicated, even time was not a problem, but people... they ruin everything... I'm for it I hate. Only they are capable of awakening hatred in those who have abandoned emotions in favor of the great order, only they deserve complete destruction simply because they believe that man is ordered to choose for himself the meaning of life.

Life does not realize that sooner or later it will disappear, either now or in trillions of years, so what is the point of continuing to live if the end of life is inevitable?

***

Elpata? Are you still here?

Do you want something from me?

You are silent for a long time. I thought you had disappeared.

Naive girl. I feel angry, that's not what I want to show on your face.

I don't understand. What are you so angry about?

On people.

I mentally remained silent. I didn't know what to say about this. She watched through my eyes everything that Boris and his people did. Her anger seeped through my blood and was ready to come out.

Their stupidity and short-sightedness puts you at risk.

Me?

You are surprised, I understand your feelings. Lower emotions, awareness of something incomprehensible, but in fact very clear and simple.

You sound strange.

You won't understand.

Then why are you telling me this?

I'm looking for someone. Her name is Eternal.

I shuddered when I heard her mental words, and at the same time, for some reason, a shiver ran through me all over my body. Only later did I realize that this trembling was not mine, but Elpata’s. She thought this Eternal special, strong, stronger than I can imagine, and this made me feel uneasy.

We were looking for knowledge, we wanted to understand why we lost.

Lost? What are you talking about?

To achieve the great order, the Eternal was necessary.

Why? And in general, tell me, what is this Eternal of yours? Why do you want to find her?

Do you really want to know?

Yes. Answer me.

First, answer my question: do you believe in God?

This is... a strange question.

And what surprises you about it? There are only two options: yes or no.

I fell into thought. For me, God is something incomprehensible, supreme, I cannot answer either yes or no. After all, I live in a world where anything can happen to a person, and it clearly happened to me more than to anyone else. Whether God tried so hard or it was all a coincidence, I don’t know. I think it’s more likely to answer her no than yes.

You believe.

Where did you get this from? I don't pray to Soda, I don't bring gold to the temple. I don't believe in God.

You believe that someone or something is above you, above this world itself, which means your answer is: yes.

Really? But if you think about it like that... really... in fact, everything was so simple. And why did I think otherwise?

Because you are a person, and people believe in everything that clouds their minds with colors. People willingly absorb lies, create conflicts out of them, and evolve, learning the truth in the process. This is the way of life: to destroy in order to live.

So... who is the Eternal?

And you guessed it the first time.

And I really guessed right away when I answered her:

Goddess.

That's right... in order to achieve great order, the Great Master turned his own daughter into a deity. And now she is hiding here, locked in the body of an ordinary girl for many, many years. If we do not find it, then there can be no talk of any great order, and life will continue its merciless conquest of the universe and, as a result, will still achieve nothing, but will only waste all the energy of the universe in vain.

And do you want to find her?

And I will find her.

***

The sound of the crickets and the whistle of the cool night wind made this body fall asleep. Granid was still sleeping, as were Alza, Ripun, Zaden and Niana, hugging each other, and Ashwani and Furgur lay down, leaning on a tree trunk, and only I, along with Lecite, could not sleep, moving aside to solve one problem.

I took control of Camellia’s body and walked away from the camp with Lecite so that no one would interfere with us in the process.

"Ma'am?"

Lecite said quietly while the girl’s human body burned with thirst for lust.

"This body needs to calm down."

I said, placing my cold palms on Lecite’s muscular chest, feeling his breathing quicken.

"Yours too."

The need for sex is natural for people; after all, they need to reproduce somehow. And although man in many ways was even able to overcome this evolutionary feature of his species, evolution still made this need constant and if the body is not satisfied, then it simply will not function correctly, and not only the body, but also the brain will not be able to fully work as much as possible.

The Pantorians, in turn, learned to restrain these needs, learned to suppress unnecessary feelings and focus on the most important thing, namely on achieving great order, devoting themselves to this. The body and brain did not suffer from the thirst for copulation; this function was suppressed, which cannot be said about the human body. A person’s lust cannot be contained and sooner or later it will simply burst out. In this case, a person simply turns into an animal that needs to satisfy only one need, the need for reproduction.

Although I could satisfy this need with my hands, it would be much faster to do it with a partner. Moreover, I had already learned to do this before Camellia’s consciousness awakened. So in people’s eyes I looked more natural, even though I was not very suitable for this process at my young biological age. Camellia's body had not yet reached puberty, but was no longer considered virgin.

Meanwhile, Lecite was breathing unevenly, his warm breath enveloped Camellia’s sweaty face, making her body desire copulation more than ever. The body wanted to sleep, but even more the body wanted physical intimacy. Camellia will not be able to fulfill her role if she is not satisfied; she is not yet able to do this on her own, so I decided to take this situation into my own hands.

"M-Mistress..."

Lecite trembled.

"This is my first time."

I didn't want to do this, but I smiled at him anyway. His condition is unstable so as not to reassure him, and therefore, looking into his eyes, I seductively examined his body and his face.

"It's normal. Now it will always be like this."

Having removed the jacket and T-shirt from Lecite, I lowered his pants and began to massage his genital organ, forcing his body to tense, and I myself made a set of sounds to prepare the sexual partner for the act of copulation. At this time, I kissed him on the lips while my hands worked. It was a little uncomfortable since Lecite was taller than me, I had to stand on my tiptoes, and Lecite, obviously noticing this, leaned forward a little with his right hand, taking my hand, giving the masturbation process the desired pace.

After his penis hardened, I began to moisturize it. People usually did this with their mouth, lubricating everything with saliva while making lustful sounds and looking into their partner’s eyes. I was no exception and sat on my knees and did what was necessary, swirling my tongue in my mouth and feeling the pulsation of his big penis.

Lecite, in turn, did not ask any questions, but only waited and breathed unevenly, looking down at me and affectionately stroking my face with his palm and arranging Camelia’s hair behind her back. This is the first time I’ve done this with him, and he can’t disobey the worthy’s order, and in general it seems that he doesn’t mind. He needs it too, so this process should go smoothly and mutually beneficial.

After some time, having prepared ourselves and carefully hidden among the trees, we began to act. I jumped on Lecite and wrapped my arms around him while his penis entered the anus and began to rapidly make back-and-forth movements, filling Camelia’s body with unusually pleasant, but unfortunately useless feelings of euphoria, joy and lust. During this process, the body was engulfed in heat, and thoughts fled into the distance, finally turning the human being into a real animal.

This is not the first time I am convinced of the weakness of a person, the presence of a set of absolutely useless emotions and needs. Of course, it was pleasant to feel the butterflies in the stomach, as well as to hear the animal groan of Lecite, but a similar result can be achieved with artificial drugs, which the Pantorians very often used. In this case, there will no longer be a need to perform such an act of action, which means that time will not be wasted on such a useless process.

Boring.

It flashed through my thoughts while outside I was crazy and moaning loudly.

Lecite could barely stand on his feet normally while Camellia’s body was jumping on his genitals, which is why he leaned his back on the tree trunk and squeezed Camellia’s buttocks with his palms, speeding up a little.

"I love you…"

Moaning, Lecite said, intertwining his lips with Camelia’s lips.

He succumbed to emotions, these feelings of lust, could not stand it and made movements with his genitals as quickly as possible in order to pour his male seed into Camellia’s body. I’m sure after this process he will apologize for what he said, although there will be no need for this. However, we were already approaching the climax. Camellia's body was ready to spill out its juices, as did Lecite with all its seed. We both moaned loudly and, despite the coolness of the forest, were covered with beads of sweat, and now the cherished moment had finally arrived.

"Ah~!"

We both groaned, taking copious breaths and exhaling, tired of the process.

His reproductive organ was pulsating, splashing out the seed, just as the innermost part of Camellia was splashing out its juices. The strength given to the body during this process instantly dried up, and now I wanted to sleep even more than before. Lecite sat down on the grass while my arms continued to wrap around his body, continuing to hold on to him.

Through his breath, Lecite touched his cubes to Camelia's lips, thrusting his wet tongue inside. The process has already been completed, but he clearly hasn’t moved on yet, or maybe...

"Lecite."

I pulled my lips away from his.

"Y-yes ma'am?"

This look of complete trust and enormous close sympathy... how disgusting.

"I don't feel anything for you."

I said seriously.

"It's just a need."

Through the darkness of the night, I saw bewilderment on Lecite’s face, and then his expression changed to disappointed; one might say that he was offended when he heard my words. He really hoped that he could start a relationship with the thousand-year-old warrior of the Great Pantora, what childish naivety. The unworthy must understand that the worthy do not waste their precious time on such insignificant things as love, family and sex for the sake of pleasant sensations.

We don't need this at all.

Through force, still too tired, I rose from Lecite’s feet, still feeling his hot seed on Camelia’s body, flowing in a stream down her leg. The girl’s mind will be in disarray from euphoria if I give her the body right now, and therefore I decided to wait until the effect of copulation wears off completely, which, unfortunately, will not happen soon.

Such a process usually takes me much longer, but it seems that Lecite has not spent his energy on such a pastime until this moment. He clearly had no experience and was doing this for the first time. I guessed this at the moment when he decided to confess his feelings. A person with experience can determine when this process is performed out of feelings and sympathy or for pleasure, but Lecite obviously could not determine this and thought that I had chosen him as my partner for the rest of my life.

Stupid humans.

I noted with contempt in my thoughts.

"Forgive me."

Lecite said.

"I... I forgot."

As I thought, he decided to apologize.

"Your words are not necessary. You are only human after all."

“I swore to serve in the name of the great order, and instead... I want more, I crave repetitions of this. This is wrong. I gave in to emotions, like an ordinary person, like this animal. So I will never become worthy, I will never help achieve the great order. So forgive me. I promise I will work on myself. I will definitely do it."

Human determination only disgusts me because it is just a short-term feeling, but as soon as you put pressure on a person from the other side, this determination and determination turns to dust in the wind. Say what you want, your confidence is just your personal façade and this facade will collapse when it faces reality.

It will be easier for Lecite if I tell it like it is:

"Once upon a time, I also enjoyed this, when I lived a «best life» back when I lived on Pantora. All the worthy ones passed through a person’s life, projected through themselves all the emotions from joy to disappointment only in order to understand and realize them then how much they are not needed by a living intelligent being."

The last lessons of the great master are still spinning in my head. Unlike us, he never renounced his human nature, he always lived and thought like a man, and at the same time he was our great leader, who built on the ruins of his hope the hope for us of his descendants, the best people, the artificially modified descendants of earthly scientists who fled from for wars. He was a reminder of what will happen to people if they never change again, if they do not realize how useless life itself is in itself.

Despite this, the great master was a Pantorian having only a human body, confirmed by emotions, instinct and aging. He was an example for all other people who continued to consider life something sacred, the most precious thing they have. What stupidity.

“Let this night be a lesson for you, Lecite. No matter what obstacles you face, until you see them, you will never overcome them. Today you saw one of them. Work on yourself if you really want to become a Pantorian.”

"Certainly."

Lecite got inspired, got to his feet and went to the camp while I continued to sit in the forest and listen to the night crickets.

However, something completely different bothered me. The Eternal lives somewhere on this planet. In a thousand years she might have changed, she might even have grown. She is naive, like a child, her mind is very immature and who knows what she has become in this world, a lonely deity. How has this world changed her? And how do we convince her to go back to her father and destroy this damned universe?

I didn't know this.