It wasn't even an Hour as I sensed Another Immortal Approaching, I froze time and went to meet them, they were at the Black Hole, I saw them carrying out a Sort of Spaceship that looked like a really large Chestnut. The Immortal was a really Handsome Alf, alas a male, but he wasn't the only One, as two other Ships appeared next to his, with another two Immortals.
One looked like a Hideous Insectoid type, dragging with him a weird cocoon like thing in the form of an asteroid, battered and downtrodden.
The last one looked like a weird Chimera, a fusion of different animals of sorts, forming what could hardly be called humanoid as it had six arms, if you could really call them arms, it was more like a chimera Octapus of sorts, It was carrying however a really flashy Spaceship, that seemed rather impressive and technologicaly advanced.
When they saw me they first said something, but I didn't understand what they were saying.
"Erm, do you speak..."
Before I could finish my sentence, they had already activated their Domains, I could feel that they were a bit weaker than myself, they probably hadn't fused all of their domains yet.
I activated my own and waited to see what they would do next, I don't know what they were expecting to happen as they approached me, their domain touching mine, but nothing seemed to happen, since mine was in a league of its own.
Two of them retreated and the Chimera Octapus guy, entered my domain, I don't know what he was trying to do, but when he discovered that my domain didn't hurt him at all, he approached with more confidence. Until he discovered that his own domain didn't hurt me as well, he then switched to another domain, this one seemed weaker, but he didn't switch again, he simply retreated as fast as he could, I could taste his fear as he rushed away.
The Insectoid was second, He activated his domain, this time it had some effect as I couldn't move at all once his domain touched me, but I didn't have to move, all I had to do was give an order.
"Hit yourself"
The next moment it punched itself out of my domain, feeling a bit dizzy as it could not control the power with which it hit itself.
At that moment another Immortal Arrived, but he came from our side of the Galaxy and not through the Black Hole, he looked a lot like those Water thieves, but I knew it was a different person.
The Alf didn't even fight, all he did was throw two spirit stones into space and took his Walnut and left back into the Black hole, the other two did the same, taking their own crafts with them.
-So are you my neighbor or something?
-Kllkllkllkll
-So we can't communicate after all
It wasn't long before a third person arrived, this one was someone I knew I could communicate with, it was Immortal Gufuguluk.
-Is it over already?(Gufuguluk)
-KllKllKllKll
-Is that so, very interesting
He then collected the Spirit stones, gave one to the Kalamari and four to me, I don't know why or what their use was.
-Young Immortal, you were a bit too overwhelming for our guests from our neigboring galaxy, It seems they run away before we could even make it here, but the main point was that they were too scared of you because they couldn't communicate or negotiate with you, otherwise, we could have had a nice conversation and more gains
-I don't know what you wanted to talk with them about, but they activated their domains first
-They were probably trying to test the waters, but since you could take on three of them on your own, it means that the next time they arrive it will be more of them, maybe we will even have the honor to see one of their Queens
-I didn't even have the time to organize my city because of them, and how do I communicate with other species? It's not like I have your racial ability
-Well, it's not hard, after all I gave your three manuals with the basic Intergalactic language, it's mostly made up of Will Pulses that convey a message sort of like how you humans use the Morse code
-Well I didn't even have the time to translate it, but thanks anyway
-No problem, also my friend here is asking if you would like to trade your spirit stones for some cultivation Pills, that would do wonders for low level cultivators, also he wants to know how much you will sell your water for, his species loves the stuff, it's sort of used as an aphrodiciac of sorts
-Just perfect, selling viagra to space kalamaries, just what I wanted from my life
-Young Immortal gests, the water of Syren planet is used in many things, for example the Alfs can create longlivity potions with it, the Mitongs use it in alchemizing water based pills, although mostly as a substitute, but of course the Kaliul use it to procreate, without this water their population will decrease and in around 100 or more years they will die out
-Is that so, so what's the accepted price in spirit stones for the water?
-There is no accepted price, it can go from 10-100spirit stones, but the amount taken is always in large Barrels, I think I saw one of the Kaliul Ships at your system when I left, just take the proportions from their barrels and you can't go wrong
-Oh, is that so, well how about we first make another deal, you teach me this intergalactic language and I will give you these spirit stones
-No need for that, I'll teach you for free, after all we will need your help one human year from now, We are going to launch our own Invasion on their Galaxy, I hope that you will have a few capable men by your side at that time
-No need for others, I alone will be enough
-I like your enthousiasm, but your underlings will need the practical exercise of battling others in order to grow, in these invasions you will sent your underlings to loot the enemy Cities and fortresses, to gather resources and capture people, we Immortals only act as deterence, like how on earth you have Nukes, but don't use them
-So you are telling me that If I go to their world and Steal an Island or City it will seem like launching a Nuke?
-Well to tell you the truth there aren't many that can accomplish the same thing you did, but it's not unprecedended, there was an Immortal that stole a mountain once in order to refine it into an Immortal treasure, another stole a whole planet, but this was a Demonic cultivator and he used the planet's inhabitants to break through to Immortality, Thus I would recommend you to let mortal matters to mortals and only attend to the matters of Immortals
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-So which are these Immortal matters I should be paying attention to?
-That's helping your subjects to cultivate and become stronger, establinshing your own Influence in the circle of Immortals, making friends and acquaintences as well as making some spirit stones for yourself, for instance these 6 spirit stones are High quality spirit stones, each of them is worth 100 mid quality spirit stones, which in turn can be exchanged with 100 low quality spirit stones each, so what you have in your hands is in reality 40.000 low quality spirit stones, the formation we set up at your planet only used four low quality spirit stones
-Is that so?
-In simple words, the water barrels will cost 10-100 low quality spirit stones each, depending on the deal you make, when people say "Spirit stones", they mean regular low quality ones, so don't just give them a High quality spirit stone by mistake, because people can be really greedy at times
-So what can I do with these Spirit stones?
-The best thing would be if you ask a Formation master to build a Spirit pressure tower for your people, it's a must have Item, I'm sure our Friend Kilulu could make one for you, for just one High Quality Spirit stone
-Isn't there something more useful I can use them on, for example what if I want a planet Terraformed?
-That's a rather interesting request, it can cost from thousands to millions of Spirit stones, depending on the people and the requirements
-That expensive?
-Well you can't create something from nothing, the people will have to expend their own energy to change the planet into how you want it to look
-The how about just filling it with regular Water and Air?
-Well that isn't too hard, if you want our friend Kilulu can help you with the water problem, in exchange for a few barrels of Syren Water, as for the Oxygen and other Gasses you need, We also have a solution, but it will cost you a High quality spirit stone, to get him to travel half the galaxy to find you
-What if I help with the Travelling time?
-If you mean as fast as you transported this city, then I think It won't take more than 1000-2000 spirit stones, but this Kululu friend says he has a few items you might be really interested in
The first item they showed me was a "Bag of Holding" as they called it, all you had to do was add Ki into it and it could suck inside an item or bring it out, it was a rather weird item, more interesting as a toy more than anything else, next were what he called Immortal Weapons, they were all low rank, but they could cut the hardest steal sword like butter, if you injected Ki into them.
Before however we could give hands and finalize the deal, the Black Hole had some movement again, This time Nine people came out, Five of them were Alfs, two Insectoids and two Chimeras.
This time the one to communicate was Gufuguluk, but seemed rather concerned, he then turned to me and explained what was going on.
-The Alf Queen Wishes to Challenge us to a duel, She wants to know if we will accept the stakes, the loser will be the winner's subordinate for 32 human days
-Isn't that too short?
-We're talking about Immortals here, in frozen time that's no different than 320 years
-Before I accept, I have to ask, will it be called indecent if I fuck my subordinate?
-You mean like that slave?
-Well something like that
-You can do anything you like to her if you win, but if you try to take her life, she will retaliate
-Then I agree!
Gufuguluk seemed to not be very enthusiastic about this deal, he sighed as he continued his negotiations with the queen, her face, became distorted for some reason as she looked at me like an angry bitch.
-I think that the Queen will try to kill you during your fight, so be extra careful, be sure to evade her Immortal Treasure, it's known to attack your very soul
-So can we start?
-Nope the first to fight will be the Mitong Immortal over there, standing next to his brother
The Insectoids I had seen, they looked sort of disgusting, but judging by his prior words they must be good at alchemy, whatever that might be.
Everyone made space so that we could fight, I looked at the creature but couldn't tell what it was thinking, at the next moment I felt a pain on my chest and the creature appeared behind me, I broke the seal and everything froze once more, I found myself moving as if in slow motion, I turned behind and saw the Insectoid was also moving, but slower than myself.
I had the advantage, but the problem was how to use it, should I kill it? otherwise how do I not kill it? I have no idea how their body works, If I hit the wrong spot I might just kill it.
From the audience's seats it looked as if we moved really fast, they could hardly tell where we were from our Qi, which shone like a ligthouse to their eyes, but they couldn't tell what was happening, it was like a super fast fight, all they knew was that the first attack of the Mitong was a success.
A considerable time passed and Domains came into play, the Insectoid begun to buzz something and I heard Gufuguluk shouting "Show her Mercy!"
I don't know why he would say so, I hadn't even touched the bug, all I did was freeze it in place.
You have to know that all Immortals communicate with their Will, meaning that they don't need neither Oxygen nor to even open and close their mouths to communicate.
I released the Insectoid and looked at my wound, it was already festering with some sort of green goo, I used my domain to expell it and healed myself, causing everyone present to begin talking among themselves.
-I'm sorry for Interupting your fight, but killing an Immortal might cause bad blood between us and you don't want 100 Mitong Immortals coming here for revenge, this Mitong is now your subordinate for 32 human days
-So can I fight the Queen now?
-That, well the queen wants buy her way out of this deal?
-So how much does she offer?
-5 High grade Spirit stones
-I don't know she seems really sexy, can I say no?
-Well she's kind of Married and her husband will be coming next, also she's a lot stronger than the Mitong you just faced
-That Mitong was rather weak, It just surprised me that it could move almost as fast as me, truth be told I didn't know how to fight it in order not to kill it
-Believe me the Mitongs are one of the toughest races to kill, even if you took all of its limbs off, it would still be alive
-So you are saying that the next time I fight one of them I should cut off all its limbs?
-God no! that would've been barbaric and horrible, all you had to do from the start was activate your domain and make them give up
-It's that simple?
-Of course it's simple, it's not like you have some life and death grudge or something with them, if your domain is stronger, then you win
-So you are saying that I should take the Spirit stones insted of fucking her?
-It depends, truth be told I would have loved to see her being tortured like that slave, but are you sure you can win?
-Are you kidding me, I'm 100% sure
He then went on and said something to the Alf which made her and her entourage really angry. The next to come to fight me was a male Alf while another went inside the Black Hole, seemingly to ask for reinforcements or something
The battle was patheticaly short, I immediately activated my domain and I forced the Alf to say "I surrender" in a human tongue, it sounded really forced and nobody other than Gufuguluk understood what the Alf had said.
-So now what? Is it over?
-Young Immortal, you surprise me every time, making him talk in your own language can hardly mean that he surrenders, what you have to do to make him surrender is...
The next moment I made the Alf do as he told me, The Queen Alf Shouted in terror as she saw the Elf trying to cut off its own ear, in the Alf Race an earless Alf is either a criminal or a slave, it's the greatest disgrace for an Alf
I stoped him in time as the Alfs looked at me in horror, as if I was some sort of monster, that Alf however was now my second Subordinate.
The Alf Queen took out a weird Red as if it was scorching hot whip, she seemed rather mad at me, we both activated our domains, hers looked really pretty as if roses were blooming all around her, I seemed to be mesmerised for a moment, but since she moved in slow motion, I could still evade her, the whip however moved at normal speed, it was really hard to evade. Until I came up with the Idea of commanding it to freeze, she had already hit me thrice, the pain was exhilating, it was so painful, but also so satisfying at the same time. I think I want to take her even more now.
The audience was shocked as my face was too scary, it was as if after being hit thrice I had turned into some sort of Demon, the Alf Queen was trembling as she was trying to escape the control of my domain, while her domain was desperately trying to affect me, but couldn't.
The whip in her hand could no longer move, I was about to touch her, when an Angry Alf flew out of the Black hole and jumped right into my domain.
I stopped him of course with my domain, only for both of them to escape my domain's control. It seems that even I couldn't control two Immortals at once.
Immortal Gufuguluk however was enraged by what had just happened he begun to bark like a dog at them, his face looked rather angry, but I was still excited from those Whip attacks, I asked his without thinking.
"Can I kill him?"