[You have yet to give your Crimson Knight an order.]
"Join me and let’s fight this War together for the sake of our survival, Cherry. Just you and I. Us against them. Let’s grow stronger together."
[Order Given: Allegiance]
[Your Crimson Knight will now follow your desire for victory as if it were their own.]
[Congratulations: Your Blood Army Grows.]
[Your Blood Kingdom grows]
’Damn you, Ace. I hate what you’ve done to me....’
But at the same time, she loved every second of it.
[Back on the Granian Ship to the Cyclitharans’ Planet]
The Blood Knight, now promoted to the Crimson Knight rank, sat in her room by herself with nothing else but her thoughts. With her eyes closed, the Crimson Knight reminisced about the fight she had with her brother.
The memory was so vivid that her body reacted almost as though it was happening in the moment. The pain, wounds, and dark energy that tormented her body were all too horrific yet at the same time admirable.
’He was right,’ Cherry spoke to herself in her thoughts, remembering the words her brother shouted to her. ’If that were a stronger enemy, I would have been killed. If Ace is this scared about the Ethisians and their Blood Mutants, how strong are they? Has he...sensed them with his dark energy?’
With her eyes closed once more, Cherry relieved the entire fight, conversation, and rank-up process all too well that it nearly moved her to tears; not tears of sadness but of anger, regret, gratitude, self-pity, and all the other emotions she was going through.
’What if it WAS someone stronger I was fighting and Ace wasn’t there to back me up? When...when was the last time I actually fought someone far stronger than I am who actively tried to kill me?’
Ever since the Crimson Knight and the rest of her kind were abducted from Earth, only Ace had fought seriously difficult and challenging opponents who were after his head. The two High Grades, Enoris, and Commander, were by far the strongest opponents the Blood Bishop encountered and had the chance of defeating.
Meanwhile, the other four humans hadn’t fought challenging-enough opponents capable of pushing them to new levels of strength. The only ones with enough strength to do so were their "allies" or simple beasts engineered and lab-grown for training purposes.
’We’ve been too reluctant of late. At this rate, I doubt if we’ll be able to touch the Ethisians’ Humans. Maybe Ace might but we’ll be of no use to him.’
At last, the realization of the gravity of her situation kicked in. Cherry now began to slowly see where her brother was coming from, even though he failed to execute it properly. Still, the message was delivered, and with that came an urge to grow stronger.
’...Let’s grow stronger together.’
Grow stronger. Become more powerful. Become unstoppable. Become untouchable. All for the sake of winning this War for the Granians.
That was the Crimson Knight’s thought process despite her and the other four being under Granian brainwashing. Had they been their normal selves, they would have already started slaughtering the Granians one by one, starting with the higher-ups.
But thanks to this brainwashing, the Granians were too confident that the Humans wouldn’t harm them, a fact that was shown clearly by them no longer using Blood Blockers.
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[Cyclitharan Home Planet]
[Middle Ring of Akrina]
[Planet type: Biologically diverse Planet]
A large, teal-blue planet with beautiful rings of smaller planets, moons, and colossal meteors orbiting it floated in the deep vacuum of space around a giant blue star that was a few million kilometers from them.
The Blue Star, slightly larger than the planet, gave said planet a beautiful glow which was made possible by its thick clouds and dense atmosphere.
Around the planet were hundreds of thousands of ships moving in and out in a somewhat organized manner, all having different species moving in and out with either goods to sell or bought goods/slaves/minerals/beasts.
This lucrative business the Cyclitharans indulged in made them one of the wealthy and strongest species in all of Akrina and they took much pride in it. Rather than fighting with almost every species they came across, the Cyclitharans offered peace and services in exchange for what they deemed useful to their cause.
They made sure to have as much of what they needed whether it was strategically placed planets, vast resources, slaves and laborers, or beasts.
"Didn’t we once think of overthrowing these species?" Gravax and Grim stood in the cockpit room of their leading ship while their convoy made it onto the planet. Discussing among themselves, the two Granians reminisced about their former desires to overthrow the Cyclitharans. "Imagine if we did. We’d have had a bit of control over this side of Akrina."
"I was the one who brought the idea," Grim answered. "But Lord Grania had other plans for us at the moment. He didn’t deem it important at the time."
With a malicious look in his reptilian eyes, Gravax turned to Grim and asked, "Do we have time to add them to our radar? Surely it would be useful with them under our control."
Grim, sighing at first, pinched the bridge of his long nose between his eyes and responded saying, "There’s a reason these beings haven’t been touched by us or the Ethisians. They have a formidable army and one Cyclitharan is as strong as two decently trained Granian soldiers. Besides, they govern hundreds of thousands of colonies, and with that comes a large number of involuntary soldiers. We’ll be crushed before making it to their capital."
"My Lords," one of the pilots piloting the leading ship approached the two Granians with a report. "The Cyclitharans have sent word of our arrival and are currently deploying ships to escort us straight to the capital. Their ruler wishes to be the first to interact with the two of you..."
"Ver well then. Proceed as planned."