Crimsonbreaking Faction's Base

Heian Ciemnosc turned around to face his Ornament and entered it. His Team followed suit, not wasting time. When he started floating upwards, hundreds of Fighters and dozens of spaceships flew out of the hangar, entered space, and flew onwards. Heian Ciemnosc followed the trend and was immediately amazed. Everything he saw left him baffled and feeling so tiny.

“...!” Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes looked at the immense figure stagnant in the base. It was ‘held’ in the middle of the space station and was inside a huge hole. Even then, with the immense space station lacking cities and livelihood of ordinary people, other than the absolutely necessary, the nearly finished ‘project’ the Faction has worked for decades was there, before him, and it was glorious!

Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes were locked onto the long object extending from below to above the disc-shaped space station when sounds from the coms diverted his attention slightly. He heard Ruo Wei’s voice echo. “Look at him. He must be salivating right now.”

“Yeah, I remember little Moy in his big brother’s lap, and not remembering he had a mouth, with his jaw wide open for hours, haha!” Sandra added, commenting with giggles as Moy remained silent. Beto’s sigh through his nostrils sounded comfortable as Heian Ciemnosc slowly recomposed himself. Clanton laughed and commented, not caring about men’s dignity, “Wuah! I forgot how many spankings he endured that night after the commander watched him! Hahaha, Moy, the commander’s favorite. Looking too silly to be true. Who would’ve thought?!”

“...” Heian Ciemnosc ignored them as they engaged in small chatter. For them, this was the usual every year or a couple of years after service, but for him, this was new. It was the first time he witnessed the creation of a Mothership. Then, just as they were flying towards their incomplete Fleet’s port, far from their headquarters, Beto spoke to Heian Ciemnosc in the Team’s coms. “Use any speed you want. The port is everyone’s paradise. You can come out and hang in space whenever you want. There are more rules and strict regulations here, though. Our civilians are few, not even a trillion, but they’re our little treasure. You’ll know more later.”

“Heard,” Heian Ciemnosc nodded and said in a small voice. He continued looking at the incomplete Mothership, and for the first time in his life… he felt he was too useless to even ask something about such a marvel.

Veem~, veem~, veeem~...

The Team continued on their way, and Heian Ciemnosc watched as the spaceships and Fighters he’d seen for over half a year docked everywhere they wanted. However, even as everything seemed messy, they selected their spots according to the Team and spaceship they belonged. Also correlating with the Flotilla they belonged to.

Heian Ciemnosc quickly docked his Ornament in a place where he was last, with Moy docking his Bulldog Fighter to Heian Ciemnosc’s right before taking his SC Fighter out to park it behind the former. Heian Ciemnosc only used his baby Ornament, and it had been repaired and resupplied weeks after the mission, so it was squeaky clean and fearsome-looking as he exited its cabin and set foot on the floor.

“...!” When Heian Ciemnosc felt his feet on the port, he felt a strange resonance from his medallion and dark Soul to the space station. At the same time, he felt as if he could feel his superior’s eyes on him, just as their hearts ‘cared’ for him and every other soldier unit. It was baffling.

“Wake up!” Moy shouted, waking Heian Ciemnosc up and patting his shoulder heavily. Heian Ciemnosc’s face made Moy smile. His opportunity to bully a newbie in the Team finally came!!

“Hahaha, feeling it is too much? Don’t worry, you’ll get used to it soon. If I know my Elder Brother right, he’ll pick a few patrolling missions to acclimatize you. Then, we’ll probably go pirate hunting. He had doubts about you facing others with a higher cultivation base than you, like… to his level… at least in space. But you’ve proven yourself, don’t be like that, okay? We’re rooting for you, honorary fucker! Haha!” Moy said, in a good mood and was also proud his Team now had an Honorary Experience medal with them.

“Thanks… shouldn’t we hurry?” Heian Ciemnosc said, pointing to where the Team was leaving and making Moy’s face pale. He picked up Heian Ciemnosc’s shoulder clothing and hurried him over, “Shit! Hurry! If we get late, not only will our commander punish us, commander Choliac as well!! Our commander might not spank us anymore, but commander Choliac… hurry!!”

Step! Step, step, step! “...” Heian Ciemnosc wore a disgruntled, confused expression as he looked sideways and above. There were many stars everywhere, and the endless blackness was decorated fashionably. Some traces of nebula showed here and there, surprising Heian Ciemnosc as he contemplated how the Crimsonbreaking Faction, his wife, chose this place. Then again, thinking back to commander Choliac’s reputation. Heian Ciemnosc wanted to know what made him so fearsome, but the incomplete Fleet’s fellows disappointed him.

They were too disciplined and strict with themselves! Heian Ciemnosc only knew of a few mistakes here and there, resulting in soldier units having to do some menial work for the next 10 months or so. It would’ve bored a citizen to death, but it was more time to practice meditation while moving around and doing other stuff for cultivators.

Thus, Heian Ciemnosc remained oblivious to how strict the acclaimed commander Choliac was. All he could do was to think of a way to gain a punishment. Not only at the result of regulations and being faulty at one matter but that punishment everyone talks about.

“... Hmm…” Meanwhile, as Heian Ciemnosc thought and devised a plan. Up in space, Alyona looked through the Carrier’s structure and set her black-coffee eyes on his departing back. Her hands were behind her back in a slightly lower position, and her intentions were clear to the team of experts around her.

These people didn’t say anything. They had seen their Chairwoman treating that brute Heian Ciemnosc candidly and encouragingly when she taught him a few things nearly 2 decades ago. Naturally, the experts’ team wouldn’t react to seeing her starry-glazed eyes when connecting with that brute’s back.

“Looks like someone cannot stop making silly, little noises when someone appears in their retinas, eh?” Hong Mei’s voice sounded, and the experts’ ears increased in size, ready to hear. However, Alyona put up a sound barrier with her Spirit Sense and smiled at her dear younger apprentice sister and fellow co-wife.

“My, what is the most important wife from our husband’s harem doing here? Is the Carrier prepared?” Alyona smiled lightly and said but returned to an indifferently casual expression as if she had just greeted a coworker she was in good relations with. Hong Mei kept her sweet smile as she spoke. Nothing strange or out of the ordinary was happening. “Mhm. It can be taken out for several rides of at least 3,000 years each. How is our baby?”

“...” Alyona followed Hong Mei’s gaze, which looked behind Alyona after she finished speaking and nudged with a motion from her head. Alyona breathed in before letting it out with words. “Yes, everything’s prepared, too. We need a Mother Nature’s grandmaster to do the hard work, and it will be finished. Are you willing, Little Mei Mei?”

“Mou,” Hong Mei lifted her left index finger and tapped it in the middle of Alyona’s large, meaty lips. “I thought we weren’t going with pet names out of the bedroom?”

Alyona rolled her eyes before taking her wrist and sending it away. She crossed her arms and said, wearing a bitch face, “Says the wife to play with the latest co-wife to join us. Really, do you now know how innocent you were before-”

“Before our evil husband made us entwine?” Hong Mei said, narrowing her eyes as Alyona’s face lit up when she said that and stepped towards her. Alyona completed Hong Mei’s words as she placed her slender hands around Hong Mei’s shoulders and trapezius muscles. “Before I taught you how to make our husband like us more?”

“Even though he didn’t need to? Because he already did?” Hong Mei said flushing pink as the shorter Alyona narrowed her eyes, and the hotness between them increased like crazy. Alyona shook her head, remembering all those wild nights of foursomes with only husband and wives… Sigh, that had to be postponed from now on. It hurt them both.

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“Alright, ehem,” Alyona crossed her arms again but kept her feet 1 foot from Hong Mei’s. Thus, her astounding bosom pressed Hong Mei’s flat rack. But, of course, Hong Mei didn’t mind. Hong Mei nodded and spoke, looking towards the incomplete Mothership again, “Leave it to me. Mn. Since I’ll be busy there. Tell Milyy to come find me there. With her cultivation base, she doesn’t need to use the portals. Let our hubby use them so we can enjoy the feeling of him running towards us, no?”

“...” Alyona grinned and shook her head before they lowered their gazes and stared at the man who captured them both mercilessly and swiftly. Love ushered across their eyes as Heian Ciemnosc exited the port and boarded a transporting vessel towards his incomplete Fleet’s headquarters.

…At the same time, Heian Ciemnosc was flying in a spaceship, about 100 meters in diameter but only about 30 meters long and 40 meters wide, with many floors within that separated the aircrew and citizens and cultivators could take simultaneously. It was rhomboid-shaped, more or less, but it wasn’t ‘just one of a few’ in the sky. As the Carrier returned, and citizens and civilians alike rushed to the borders of their cities, where only cultivators and citizens as Auxiliary Soldiers or Soldiers could go in and out without permission, tens of thousands of such vessels flew synchronized, taking to the skies and advancing at nearly the same pace. It looked like a parade, but it was just their people returning after servicing the Faction.

“Look, that one’s ours.” Beto walked to Heian Ciemnosc and said, with a drink in his hand and gesturing towards a direction. There were only walls around them. But an array formation was activated when Heian Ciemnosc showed signs of wanting to look through, and the walls turned to glass only for his darkest eyes. Beto was already looking beyond them, and its activation wasn’t global.

“!” Heian Ciemnosc was a little surprised seeing how smooth the array formation worked and looked at the place where their headquarters was. It was like a distinctive square, separated from the other buildings and roads, like a simple place where a business would be located, but he could see the concealed array formations despite being unable to detect them. The pure energy working around that small palace was too much, and Heian Ciemnosc would have to be stupid if he couldn’t see it.

Heian Ciemnosc was already fascinated but hadn’t seen anything yet. Beto and the rest of Heian Ciemnosc’s teammates looked at him and grinned at his cute stupidity. Other soldier units from the same incomplete Fleet looked at this development and didn’t say anything. There was still mockery and some disdain, but it wasn’t like before, although they still thought the same.

Whoooosh~! Whoof whoof whoof, whooof whoof whoof…!

The transporting vessel slowly landed on the ground, still a few hundred meters away from the headquarters Heian Ciemnosc had just seen, but this only built more expectancy in Heian Ciemnosc’s chest as he had seen the few thousand kilometers long area from above. And although it was a small area with cities around it, it had to have everything an incomplete Fleet’s crew members would need, right? They were an armada and didn’t just focus on naval battles. Space battles were all-in-one, not a ground or sea battle.

If it wasn’t enough by how the machine guns could all rotate around the spaceships, and only artillery guns and rocket launchers were stagnant, even in the Crimsonbreaking Faction’s Carrier. It should’ve been by how differently shaped an Armada’s Fleet spaceships are. The transporting, merchant, and speeding spaceships follow a typical cylindrical shape that accommodates civilians without complications to a more airship-like appearance for speed in not just space but within Kingdoms.

“Mn. Follow me, and we’ll enter the headquarters together. It is rudimentary every time we return,” Beto said, finishing his drink as the hatch in their floor opened and freed everyone as the walls were lifted and gangways slid downwards and forth. Heian Ciemnosc followed after Ruo Wei and Moy, saying, “Okay, understood.”

“You’ll know more once we’re there. There’s nothing to worry about. We’re home now. The only bad thing that can happen is to piss our incomplete Fleet commanders off.” Cara said, lighting the mood. Heian Ciemnosc wasn’t worried but was thankful for her words nonetheless. He kept quiet as they walked and didn’t take a vehicle to drive into the headquarters. Heian Ciemnosc watched how many civilians from kilometers away waved at them, shouting things, knowing they could be heard.

“Weeeelcome!” - “Good hunting this year, huh?!” - “Hello, handsome fellooooows~!” - “Hello, ladieeees~!” - “Slut!” - “W-wh- what?” - “What does it feel, huh?” - “What?!” - “Thought so! Hmph!” - “???!”

Heian Ciemnosc kept walking and quickly compared the streets of this space station, Crimsonbreaking Faction's mobile base, to the Wrath Nihility Academy’s territory. It was more or less the same. He could see the same level of caring for their civilians, but while the Academy had it in their territory back then, the Crimsonbreaking Faction has had it for decades, and it was only a few decades old, too.

Some civilians were in the streets near the headquarters, meaning it was their turn to be here, where any cultivator or citizen would pass by and could get interested in trying some food. And from the looks of it, it wasn’t rare to see soldier units come and buy those goods. Even as Heian Ciemnosc and tens of thousands walked through the streets, they were formally walking to the same place, but there were empty spots here and there with soldier units Heian Ciemnosc never saw in the Carrier buying from tens to hundreds of packages as take away.

Heian Ciemnosc saw some cultivators in front of food stalls, waiting a minute or more before receiving ginormous amounts of recently cooked food. They didn’t store it in their Covert Space bags, and Heian Ciemnosc could only attest it to them wanting to retain the natural warmth and readiness to eat it with tremendous enjoyment.

Heian Ciemnosc had thought about this effect in the past but had forgotten all about it since he was sent to the Blauw Empire. And now, he wished he could have implemented this type of business before leaving, but he was sure Elena wouldn’t miss the chance to gain favorability within her ally’s turf. She was crafty and sneaky enough to plan that.

“There it is, behind me, you rats,” Beto said. The Team rapidly stood behind him, even as they were still a little under 100 meters from the eastern entrance to the headquarters. Heian Ciemnosc stood the farthest behind and watched their backs as if they were little children walking across the road.

Heian Ciemnosc walked with his Team, crossing the road with a few other tens of thousands who walked with tranquility, seemingly not finding the need to be fast. They quickly passed the crossroad and were stopped at the gate, which looked like a simple civilian business stand to enter the precinct. They were near the first Teams to walk in, so Heian Ciemnosc and his Team didn't have to wait long before they were attended.

Even as other Teams entered before him, Heian Ciemnosc couldn't see the other side from the concealing array formation. With his medallion out, Heian Ciemnosc showed it to the guards at the entrance, who rapidly read through different information repeatedly before they were granted permission to go in. This was also not obligatory every time they wanted to come and go. The guards would still secure the veracity of their identity like now, but not in Teams or stopping them until they were close enough to be seen face-to-face.

Heian Ciemnosc would have to introduce his medallion through the space station's grand array formation, which the headquarters would use for identification, and the process would happen even if he was a few kilometers away, but not beyond that. All so the flowing traffic between headquarters' entrances wouldn't be congested in the daily livelihood of the Crimsonbreaking Faction's space station.

Step, step, step... Heian Ciemnosc's head was cleared as he finally entered the headquarters. Just before he went through the entrance, and he felt like tendrils of electrifying sensations draw his body inwards, the guards to the sides looked at him with stern, somber expressions. They stared at him, his 'status' and eye-catching emblem. It was impossible to not see it when only the legendary figures of the Faction had worn it before, including the fallen comrades.

Pshift~~...!

"..." Heian Ciemnosc finally walked through the entrance, and the barrier drawing him was touched by him. He crossed it, and the moment his darkest eyes met the sight inside, his body shuddered slightly.

Whooosh... stomp, stomp- run! Vroooom~, swish swish!

Dozens of incredibly tall buildings were surrounded by more structure, not as tall but broader, with people coming in and out constantly. Vehicles drove everywhere, with some Fauna flocking or riding through the air or on the ground. Dirt prevailed everywhere he looked, and dust was lifted wherever these went, including some training civilians learning about the cultivation world in the headquarters' open areas where everything and everyone moved.

Pat. Heian Ciemnosc felt his back hit. He looked back to stare at Beto, who smiled politely and nudged towards a direction behind him. Heian Ciemnosc turned around and faced it, finding a place where everyone was walking in disciplined lines and formed to enter the building.

'Holy fucking shit...' Heian Ciemnosc was stunned. Not only were the people in that building in the Third Step, withholding auras that reminded Heian Ciemnosc of the Security Elders in the Carrier but the civilians training here were also dozens, each of them had astronomically good talent. One of these people could contend to become a Genius in the Wrath Nihility Academy and had a slight, good chance to be recognized as a Gifted.

"That's where we must go, you know that, right? Come, we'll let the Faction officially know from which Team you come from. Aren't you excited?" Beto said, pushing Heian Ciemnosc a little, finally placing him before anyone else, in a different position than before, as the last, and directly at the head. "You little devil."

Beto's additional words brought some embarrassment to Heian Ciemnosc. He capitulated and let his team leader bring him to the front and wait for a long yet quick-to-progress line...

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