The rebellion is finished and crushed. The federation and dynasty surrendered. Now I have to deal with the issue of organizing the three galaxies to work together and not devolve into chaos. I had one Senator already working and acting as my representative in the federation and now I want to do the same with the former Monarch.

I met with him and told him about what I wanted him to do. He refused and told me he would spend time with his family. I told him that he had no money since he was no longer the Monarch and just a regular citizen. He said he had assets done under his personal name. I then asked him about whose money he used to get those assets. He accepted after that with a lot of cursing.

I then gave him a list of people that he would have to get into contact with and hire for managing the galaxy. Once they had been hired he would then manage them and make sure they didn't diverge from what needed to be done. Most things would be managed by Erendial and Aldion to make sure things go smooth. I would also help them make more A.I. like them in the future to help them.

I then had some people work with the existing ships in patrolling the galaxies. I then had some previously unused planets surveyed and looked at. They would be the new homes of the new groups that would be founded. They would be militant and used to help patrol and assist around the galaxy. I got into contact with many mercenary groups that had an excellent track record and many individuals that would be used to train other people.

I decided to keep the many different guilds and groups that had been developed in the federation and dynasty. I got into contact with many merchant groups and guilds as well and had them start to transport materials and goods to the least developed places in the galaxies. I also had to develop new policies that limited the mining and overtly destructive things happening on planets. Agricultural and cultural things wouldn't be affected because of course, they wouldn't.

Instead, harvesting materials would be moved to the many Sub-Spaces around the galaxies. They would then be protected by the many mercenaries and groups around. There would also be many more rules and regulations put out so that people didn't take advantage of others and things like that. There would also be campaigns against the many pirates and criminal organizations around. They would be rooted out and dealt with. I also legalized many types of recreational drugs that could only be used under strict regulations.

I also had many manufacturers start to produce the many types of technology that would help develop and make life better. They would be implemented throughout the galaxies. This would of course take years to do but it wasn't that long in the grand scape of things. I also had training being conducted for the military in preparation for incoming swarms. More fleets of ships would also be constructed in preparation, along with defenses. I also decided to make knowledge of them known.

While this would make people panic I wanted to let them know that we would face them as one. This would hopefully give everyone a sense of unity and make the unity of the galaxies a necessity. This would justify my actions and the war to the people besides just getting rid of heretics. Still, the swarms were far away at this time and weren't moving from their position. They were instead grouping up and forming a massive swarm that was currently planet size.

To delay them and see how durable they were I had several torpedoes and other weapons sent to them. They would pop out at their position and attack the swarm, being operated by Aldion, and we would then see how effective certain weapons were toward them. We could also see how they dealt with these attacks.

They were currently in a distant galaxy far away from us and when they moved it would take several months of travel time to reach us.

Erendial had estimated that they wouldn't move for several years. This time frame gave us a good amount of time to prepare for their arrival. It would also let the situation of these three galaxies stabilize and let everyone get used to how things were going to operate now. Things would get moving and infrastructure would be built. We would hopefully be prepared for them and if we weren't then we at least wouldn't be caught with our pants down.

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Three months have passed and nearly everything has been going smoothly. New laws and regulations have been made and the formation of multiple groups has been made. Each of them had been made and stationed around their home galaxies. One of them is The Knights of Avalon, they are based on the planet named Avalon for its beauty and fair weather. They mostly dealt with humans and operate based on ancient codes of honor, though the codes have been revised and changed to fit the current time.

Another group is the Serpents Of Night. They operated in the Dynalis galaxy, where the galaxy where the Dynasty once was, and operate all over the place. They were based on an ancient folk tale of the Dynasty that focused on how people believed that serpents would help guide people in the night. Many groups were founded upon ancient tales and legends or famous groups with a more positive tone to them.

With them around, it would lessen the strain that would be put upon the military and would also be alternative options for people to find work. The people also liked them around, children especially. It gave them role models and also served as little history lessons for them should they ask about the names of the groups.

With that, I put away the many reports that I reviewed and looked at and stood up from my desk, and looked to the window. I gazed outside and felt the breeze come through it. I stood there for a couple of minutes and watched the sunset down in the distance and hide behind the mountains. Soon the swarms would be hit and we would see what happens.

As I turned around to leave the room I then tilted my body to the side as an icicle flew past where my head was. I turned around just in time to see several explosions take place across the city and destroy several churches and temples. I watched as fires started to spread and creatures came out of the shadows and started to attack the people.

Guards and police were starting to attend to the situation and were helping in any manner that they could. I was about to move to help them when everything slowed and an explosion was set off in my room. I gathered all the energy that I could and formed it around the explosion to contain it. If I didn't then the entire main temple would be destroyed with everyone in it.

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I formed the energy into a bubble and surrounded the blast and contained it. As I contained the blast with UE I was also attacked from all angles by unknown assailants. They shot at me and some tried to stab me, they all failed. Their shots and strikes passed through me and I let some of the explosion out of the bubble I made. The energy that I let out turned the ones that got close to ash and left nothing.

I placed one of my hands onto the bubble of energy and turned around. I cast out my senses as I did so and found the other attackers. I made dozens of icicles and launched them at the attackers. They had moved out of the way as best as they could but the sheer number of icicles made it a useless effort. They were pinned to the walls, the ceiling, and the floor.

Once they were pinned down I then cast streams of lightning at them and they started to seize up. With them stunned and basically paralyzed I turned my full attention to the contained explosion. The 'fight' had only taken less than a minute so by now the energy of the explosion had dissipated and I released the energy I used to hold it in. I then turned my attention to the outside and watched as the guards took care of the unknown terrorists.

After seeing that the guards would clean them up with no need for help I then turned my attention to the assailants that were still alive. Some had committed suicide, while those that couldn't were struggling to either escape or kill themselves. I walked up to one and slammed my foot down against their leg, shattering the bone in the process. They screamed out in agony as I held my foot and started to twist it around.

I could tell that they were in extreme and genuine pain and this told me that they weren't a specialized group nor were they a secret group of assassins. After all, why else would their suicide methods be so flimsy. Plus why leave the option of torture open, along with other details as well. That or they just weren't that good at their job, could be either one.

After assessing the other people in the group that were alive, I knocked them all out with a psychic blast and then moved on to see why my Eternal Guards hadn't burst into the room after the explosion. Even if I contained the blast it was still very loud. I walked to my door and opened it and witnessed all of my guards fighting to a standstill with more unknown assailants.

I then jumped out of the way as someone came barreling toward me at extreme speed. After moving out of the way I saw as they planted the spear that they held into the ground and used their momentum to spin around and charge at me again. At the same time, the rest of the unknown assailants all started to charge and attack me at the same time, though only a few were able to before having to give their attention to my guards after suffering some serious wounds.

I dodged those attacks and then shot a beam of light at the charging man. The beam shot through his leg and severed it at the knee forcing him to fall down. His very large body hit the ground with a loud thump and he moved to use his spear as a cane before I walked up to him and cut his head off with a thin piece of ice. Once he was dealt with I moved on to the rest of the assailants and started to kill them all one by one.

These people were in a whole different class than the other 'assassins'. Even after they suffered grievous wounds and experienced extreme pains, they wouldn't let out a single cry nor would they stop trying to kill me or my guards. Even as I trapped them in their own minds and made them experience illusions, they wouldn't cry out nor would they make a single sound.

With these assassins dealt with I had the guards make groups and help deal with the situation on the planet. I also went to inspect the room I was in to see why there wasn't a single sound coming in or out of it. I would also try and find out how they planted several dozen assassins and an explosive in it without me, Erendial, Aldion, or anyone else knowing. After that, I would try and figure out who was able to have those creatures come out of the shadows and attack the citizens.

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I let out a sigh of frustration as we found nothing, again. I, along with several thousand investigators and my guards, have spent that last week searching for clues and leads about how the terrorist attack had happened. We found next to nothing and the only thing we did find was that the assailants weren't in any records anywhere.

There wasn't a single clue anywhere. Even with Erendial and Aldion scanning the whole planet dozens upon dozens of times. Nothing came up. They were like phantoms that just came out of nowhere and left no trace. What was even more concerning was that there were other events that happened in the galaxies as well.

Multiple terrorist attacks had happened all across the the new intergalactic nation that I had made. Multiple places had been attacked and people had died, though the attacks weren't as big as the one on the temple planet. The politicians that I had placed in office had been attacked as well as key places of industry.

I had to split up the vast fleets of the crusade in order to protect the people and the planets. There had also been religions working their believers up because some of them had been saying that they were being spoke to by their deities. I had to have the new groups that had been formed go and keep the peace. I also had existing orders go and watch over them to ensure the new groups didn't make the matters worse.

There had also been videos, pictures, and sightings of mythical beasts being reported all around the three galaxies. I had to have Aldion take care of seeing and verifying those reports while Erendial helped with whatever she could in the investigation. She was mostly trying to come up with many ways about how the terrorists could have entered the planet and the main temple without anyone noticing.

There had also been a strange surge and shift in the amount of UE that was concentrated in an area. I had experts trying to figure out the reasons of why this happened and whether or not it would be harmful to the general population, after all most people only enhanced themselves to stay healthy and keep illnesses away.

The most troublesome of the problems currently is the Catholic Church. Right now they have been rapidly recruiting people to join their Holy Orders. This included the Order of Solomons Temple, otherwise known as the Knights Templar, the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, The Knights Hospitaller, and others. Currently the Pope is saying that they had received a vision from God and that they needed to take back the Holy Land, also known as Earth, or more specifically Jerusalem.

The other religious groups of humans have also started to mobilize their forces as well but only Judaism and Islam have made their interests known. They had similarly said that their gods, Yahweh and Allah respectively. Interestingly, even though the three religions have similarities they are all have different messages being told. They also aren't coming together at all as well.

Thankfully the Jewish people were taught not to want war and were instead going for a more peaceful approach, though that is only the hope as the hearts of the people sway in ways we do not wish. Islam and the Catholics were also split as well. There were many people in both religious that did not want conflicts to happen at all and that the actions taking place were unnecessary. This made the two religious slow down their rapid military recruitment in order to calm these people down and possibly convince them.

Still, they did not stop. Both of them claimed that they had visions or received messages from their god. This was easier for the Pope as they were the top of the Catholic church. For Islam this was harder as they didn't really have a true religious leader but they did form a council of sorts in order to keep the faith from being used in vile purposes. Still only a few in that coucil said that they had the visions or heard the message from Allah and it would take time for them to convince the others. That or they might just split off from the 'main' group and do their own thing.

Sadly, while the prospect of an incoming rebellion coming to pass with religion at the head of it I wasn't that invested in it. Currently the main problem right now is that a group had managed to slip into the place with the most amount of security in the three galaxies. So while have two religions possibly go to war, it wasn't the most important thing on my mind.

I was also occupied with the fact that I felt a growing connection to the people who believed that I was a god. I was starting to hear their prayers inside my mind and I started to feel their presence. I was also started to feel a connection to a place that was far away, yet close. It was very strange and peculiar. I also started to feel a connection to other beings as well, though I didn't actually know who or what they were. I did know that they were there though.

I also felt my powers increase as well, especially with the power of given to me by faith. I also started to unconsciously emit a holy and comfortable aura around. My eyes also started to gain some gold into them as well for some reason. Still, most concerning was when I entered my new office, on board the Indomitable, and saw a black robbed and hooded figure standing there, facing me.