episode_0039

Although our first impression was that we misunderstood each other at gunpoint, we immediately resolved the misunderstanding.

“To be honest, I can’t believe you are from the Starlight Colony.”

Artemis Colony leader Actaeon, who brought us to a laboratory inside the colony, a place decorated like a classroom where dozens of people could sit, stood in front of us with a sad expression.

If you ask why you are being polite when you were speaking informally just a moment ago, it means that the misunderstanding has been resolved and you have started to be polite to each other.

“After combining the information you provided, it appears that everything you said is true. And it appears that no information has been obtained so far. So, let me show you.”

Beep beep.

When Actaeon knocked on the panel, a huge satellite image immediately appeared on the front screen.

“Currently, Starlight Colony is dominated by the Creation Tree.”

“That….”

“Yes. Creation Tree, Red Moon. The Red Moon is currently occupying Starlight Colony with a barrier in place.”

The satellite image showed a huge red moon.

The size of the wide-spread barrier with the Starlight Colony as its core seemed to be thousands of kilometers in diameter.

“That’s not a colony…”

“A planet in the solar system, an ethereal barrier at the level of Earth.”

The students swallowed their saliva as they looked at the Red Moon barrier.

I am the one who came to the colony after working outside until just a few months ago, but for Lavender and other students, the colony is their ‘hometown’.

The hometown is currently occupied by the Creation Tree and the barrier is spread out, and the Creation Tree Red Moon is leisurely flying around inside the barrier with its eyes wide open.

As if waiting for something.

“Why did Red Moon take over Starlight Colony? Although there are various opinions in the world, according to many people’s prediction, it is because the Starlight Colony is what Fenrir, the Creator’s Beast, is targeting.”

“Then that means…”

“Yes. The colony is being held hostage. They capture the colony and threaten it in order to summon Fenrir.”

“Huh….”

Creation Tree – Although it is described as a ‘beast’, its reality can be said to be an ore-type intelligent life form of a highly developed extraterrestrial civilization.

Each one of them is a being with intelligence far superior to that of the supercomputers possessed by humans.

It can be said that human beings are like ‘demon gods’ who cannot dare to make predictions based on human values and judgment.

It’s not just God.

Why was the Creation Water called a beast even though it had divine power?

Even though they are the ones who ushered in the era of space exploration, in the end their actions are not humane and their behavior principles are close to those of animals, so we call them the Creationists.

“So, from our perspective, we would like to ask you a question. What on earth happened in Starlight Colony and Starlight Academy that made Fenrir and Red Moon appear?”

“…….”

“You probably won’t be able to answer that easily. Do you not know, or do you have an idea but it is difficult to say?”

“Are you interrogating us now?”

Captain Edmund stood up, raising his voice.

“We became lost in space due to a sudden situation. According to the Zodiac Convention, I asked for your help and was saved from drowning. But that’s no reason for us to be interrogated like this.”

“No. Yes.”

Actaeon became even more decisive in response to Captain Edmund’s decisiveness and did not back down.

“Red Moon has taken over Starlight Colony, but Fenrir, the Creator, has not yet appeared.”

“We’d like to ask that. We have never seen the Creation Tree.”

“Are you sincere?”

“Of course. Should I risk my soul, or should I risk my dead parents? Since we began drifting, we have had no contact with the Creation Waters. You can also use a lie detector.”

“…Excuse me.”

Actaeon motioned to the side, and a man still in his spacesuit brought out what looked like a scanner and looked Captain Edmund up and down.

“I’ll say it again. We have not encountered any Creation Beasts since we were sucked into the wormhole caused by the clash between the two Creation Beasts.”

Beep beep.

No loud alarm or anything went off.

Even though it is a lie detector, it only detects heart palpitations and blood circulation caused by lies, but since it is highly developed, the detection rate is as high as 99%.

Such a lie detector proved Captain Edmund’s words to be ‘true.’

It’s not a very good way to convey trust, but once you get through it, the truth is conveyed regardless of the process.

“…There were many rude examples. However, since it is related to the creation of the world, please know that in many ways, we too have no choice but to stand up.”

“Why? We are just drifters.”

“Because they disappeared beyond the wormhole, they are just in case. I wonder if you all have the creation tree.”

“……Ha!”

Captain Edmund snorted.

“For those of us who were so hungry that our stomach skins stuck to our backs and endured by melting space glaciers to save a drop of water, there was a water of creation…?”

“…….”

“If there was a Creator, I would have bowed my head in front of him and shouted. Please give us, weak humans, food made of ether as daily bread!”

“I understand. And, I’m sorry.”

Even though Actaeon and other people from the Artemis Colony are now in the position of saving us, there are things to say and things to not say.

“Keuhum. In accordance with the Zodiac Convention, you are currently defined as ‘space refugees’.”

Is it to try to regain the pace he lost for a while?

Actaeon turned the topic to our identity.

“If you want to be released from refugee status, you must liberate Starlight Colony from the Zodiac Alliance.”

“…….”

That cannot be denied.

Since the colony is trapped within the barrier of the Creation Tree, no external communication can enter, and unless communication flows from the inside to the outside, the colony is effectively ‘closed’.

Even if there is a military coup or AI robots revolt, we can still have a conversation as intelligent beings.

But what about the opponent?

That vicious red moon, the red moon.

“While you were drifting in space, there were a total of 46 ‘Red Moon Battles’.”

“…46?”

The students opened their mouths in surprise.

“And, if you say it’s aggressive, it’s actually at the level of destroying the colony…!”

“Yes. Permission to attack the Starlight Colony, which can be said to be the inner core, has already been given permission long ago. As the opponent is the Red Moon, the ‘sacrifice of the cow for the greater good’ was already an immediate decision within the Zodiac Union.”

“…!!”

Students are angry.

“Why in the union-!”

“Sincerely, Student Arthur.”

I turned my head to warn Arthur, who was trying to get up from behind.

“Artemis Colony is not Zodiac. It’s not a 12 constellation colony.”

“Ah, ah….”

“Should we be angry at the people who saved us? I got the street number wrong.”

“…I’m sorry.”

“Sorry should be to the colony representative, not me.”

“…I’m sorry. I, for a moment.”

“…No. It’s okay.”

Arthur obediently apologized to Actaeon, and Actaeon looked at Arthur and me back and forth for a moment, a look in his eyes.

“You….”

“I am an instructor at Trev Cloud Academy. Tongseongmyeong was mentioned before. I would like to formally greet you once again.”

“…Yes. I think I can talk to you calmly.”

Actaeon looked only at me and pointed at the screen.

“There were a total of 46 strategy battles. There is no confirmation as to whether the people inside the colony are alive or dead.”

“You didn’t investigate signals for life reactions or secure signals inside the barrier at all? That’s probably not true. Even within the union, there are people who would at least think about their lives.”

“Yes. But there was nothing like that.”

“…….”

Just because there is no vital reaction does not mean that all humans are dead.

Just because no rescue signal came from inside, it doesn’t mean that all the humans in the colony melted from the heat or turned into humans.

“Probably, the barrier is blocking everything.”

Not only the students but also the officials of the Artemis Colony all turned their attention to me.

“It’s a complicated story, so to explain it briefly, the world inside the Red Moon barrier has actually become ‘another dimension.’”

“…Yes?”

“You can think of it as another universe unfolding within one universe. The only thing that can interfere with that universe is the same Creation Tree.”

“Then….”

“If the Zodiac Alliance had secured the Creation Tree, the attack on Red Moon could have been successful and liberated the colony or investigated the internal situation…”

Total, 46 times.

That number may also include the intention to rescue Starlight Colony.

“It looks like the Zodiac Alliance is doing their best to secure the Red Moon. Even if the Starlight Colony explodes or is destroyed in the process, and the entire population of the colony dies.”

Of course, the intention to capture the Red Moon itself would be stronger.

“But….”

“About an hour before you arrived, the 47th Red Moon Strategy was announced. And now, the real-time strategy battle has begun.”

Cheezy.

Although the signal was somewhat poor, a near-real-time video unfolded in front of us.

“Oh my god…?”

“How many battle cruisers are there…?”

Red Moon – Hundreds of battle cruisers surrounded the planet.

The number of ASs in it may be at least thousands, perhaps even more than 10,000.

It is no exaggeration to say that the entire power of the Zodiac Union has been gathered together, a massive force.

however.

“…It’s no use.”

I can say for sure.

“The Red Moon strategy cannot succeed. Because they have no water for creation.”

About 3 hours later.

Thousands of space battleships and over 10,000 ASs unleashed their firepower.

The red moon was alive and well, without any scratches.