Chapter 495: The Calamity of the First Born
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Like many ecological planets in the Plane of Dreams, Tannagost was born due to the sowing of the Seed of Origin. The First Born was buried in the depths of the planet, and the Tannaeans were the second batch of life from the Seed of Origin.
What happened on that planet of Holletta (the people in Becky's hometown had not named their planet yet, so Hao Ren could only temporarily refer to it as Holletta) also happened on this planet: the First Born woke up frantically and attacked the Second Borns mercilessly. Unlike those on the planet of Holletta, the Tannaeans had significantly worse luck: the First Born they faced was not controlled by any security device. The planet's biosphere was reshaped, and the Tannaeans who had created a glorious civilization were killed.
"Even here…" Lily already had a phobia of the First Born. She had goosebumps the moment she saw the huge tentacles. "I feel the hairs on my tail standing up!"
"Looks like what I guess is right. The First Born is a common phenomenon of the plane of Dreams. Many of eco-planets are created by the Seed of Origin, and probably all the first life created by the Seed of Origin are the First Born," Hao Ren said, and then gulped. "The goddess of creation is really a great god… How many planets has she transformed?"
"No matter how many planets have been transformed, the point is why the First Born here has also become violent," Vivian said and looked at the sea of tentacles, a large group of bats slowly appeared around her. "We should expand the scope of exploration."
A large group of bats scattered in all directions, and the next second they had become a bunch of blurry dots in the sky. Lily did not forget to remind Vivian, "Do not forget to take them all back, we don't need a Hessiana No.2."
Vivian suddenly shivered, stared at Lily and said, "Can't you say something nice?"
"Those tentacles seem to be dead." Hao Ren looked at the sea of tentacles and asked, "Shall we go and have a look?"
Vivian nodded, then turned to look at Anna and said, "You have to go back first. The exploration is not just 'dangerous'. We are going to face with an ancient creature that is far beyond your imagination, even the remains can be a huge threat."
Anna was terrified when she saw the horrible tentacles outside the city. And now she finally stopped trying to be brave. So Hao Ren nodded to Lily and said, "You send Anna back, directly back to the entrance of the underground palace. And take this..." Hao Ren was handing over a silver-white gadget while speaking to Lily. "Put this near the crack. This is the energy sensor. If there's any Vengeful Spirit passes through the cracks, we'll know it."
Lily carried Anna on her shoulder, and soon she was far away from them. Nangong Wuyue shouted to remind Lily, "Run a little slower! Control your speed! Anna is an ordinary person!!"
After Lily had successfully sent Anna away and came back to join them, they sped towards the sea of tentacles. They passed the broken buildings along the way and also saw the ruins of the protective wall. There were 15 layers of thick alloy armor on the periphery of Alamanda. Those arc-shaped armors were more than 10 meters thick. They were not only made from special materials but even molded with the base of the entire city.
However, even such a protective wall had fallen under the powerful force of the First Born.
The First Born was rooted in the earth. Part of its body was even deep underground for several kilometers or even dozens of kilometers and supported a whole piece of geological structure. Hao Ren once saw this power in Dragonspine Ridge. When the First Born woke up and stretched its body, it could easily destroy the whole area, no doubt Alamanda also suffered the same fate. The protective wall of the city itself was made of alloy, but the First Born must have created a severe earthquake under it, causing the thick armor plates to become brittle. The First Born's tentacles were then stabbed along the fragile cracks into the city. On the outer layers of protective walls, Hao Ren saw the giant tentacles that had been pierced deeply into the armor plates. Those tentacles had died and decayed, but it was still frightening.
And at the outermost layer of the city, there were some tentacles with a special structure that meandering along the protective walls, trying to invade the inside of the city from above. These tentacles, looking like vines, had traces of scorch on them, and at the top of the inner wall, they could see a structure like a weapon fort. This was also the remnant of that terrible catastrophe. Tannaeans' technological prowess was indeed more powerful than the mage-emperors, at least the Tannaeans was able to hurt the First Born and temporarily block it outside the gate.
But in the end it was meaningless: almost all 15 layers of armor were breached, and the Tannaeans had completed the transformation of their life form at the very last minute.
They walked along a wide passageway drilled by tentacles and left Alamanda protected by layers of armor. Hao Ren looked back and found that, from this angle, he could see the shocking situation of the golden city more intuitively. Its walls were strewn with rifts, and the vines of the First Born almost completely encircled it, everything was enveloped in death and eerie atmosphere. Alamanda was like being dragged into the abyss by a demon. And this scene froze their blood.
"Those should be the wreckage of the shield generator, and there are some weapons towers." Data terminal said while it used a light beam to indicate a mechanical device on the surface of the protective wall. "It's a pity. This should've been a very promising civilization."
"These tentacles are indeed dead," Vivian said and stooped down to examine a tentacle that spread from the depths of the underground. The tentacles were withered and turned gray and had been dead for a long time. "I don't feel any breath of life in it... The parts connected to this tentacle were also dead."
"Look at the plants in the distance," Nangong May said and gazing into a distant hillside, where she could see the dense and slightly golden woods: The woods were growing on the remains of the tentacles. "The woods were probably grown after the biosphere was reshaped."
The First Born would try to reset the ecosystem of the entire planet after it gone crazy. If it did it, all life in its coverage would be extinct. The First Born of the Tannagost apparently fulfilled this mission. So now any creature that appeared on this planet must have been developed after the biosphere was reshaped. Looking at the trees that thrived on the remains of the tentacles, Hao Ren could roughly guess what had happened after the First Born had destroyed this planet.
The last part in the chain of creation-madness-destruction-remodeling seemed to be filled.
"It looks as if the First Born will wither after successfully destroying the biosphere, and then the new ecosystem will be born out of its remains," Hao Ren said, "Since the First Born and the Second Born have consumed the 'Lifeblood' contained in the Seed of Origin, the First Born has acted as the Lifeblood in the process of resetting the biosphere."
"So after Tannaeans and their biosphere perished, the tentacle was dead," said Lily. She kicked the tentacles at her feet and continued, "Why would it do that? Have no advantage at all... After it destroyed the world, it's dead as well."
"Yes, why would it do that?" Vivian repeated. "There's a rumor in Holletta saying that the ancient mage-emperors' blasphemy angered the First Born. But what about here? What did Tannaeans do? They're just studying all sorts of poses to get struck by lightning. What's wrong with that?"
Hao Ren remembered the remains of the First Born at Y'zaks's hometown and said, "Perhaps they were crazy. After all, the First Born was able to communicate in a normal state and was gentle. The data terminal, check the age of the death of these tentacles."
Data terminal answered directly, "Don't have to, just like what you guessed, it's about the time when the goddess destroyed Holleta."
"Perhaps all the First Born of the Plane of Dreams had gone mad," said Lily with a slightly trembling voice, "the same thing could have occurred in every planet that was seeded by the Seed of Origin… So the aliens who made a pact with the mage-emperors didn't come, so the Origin Scourge occurred in Tannagost, so there were so many otherworldlings on Earth: they were not all from Holetta, but from the whole Plane of Dreams... They are all refugees."
Many of the previous speculations had finally turned out to be true. The problem had to be at the root of all the First Borns—the goddess of creation.