Kia's Biehshah Gift

Chapter 36 Rentappenen's Revenge

"They're coming!" Sara's shout set me on edge!

I saw it. Ships came through Pirad's defenses, on the Samar Thaae side of Alb. I would call it the eastern side, if we were looking down at Alb from the top of its sun. The Milky Way center as north.

They got through Pirad! Nothing on our level can do that!

I targeted the lead ship but realized, this is a huge ship! It'll take out Alb if it blows up! It's one of Eriganh's World Destroyers!

But, they have a weakness I can exploit. No Kajarian can get healing from a Biehshah. I sang healing. Targeted all of its crew.

They died instantly. My telepathy is so strong, just a normal Biehshah healing did it. Didn't feel good about that, but it stopped them.

It surprised me that he'd resort to Kajarian troops. That's our level! It means, he hasn't got any troops from upper levels to send. This is Eriganh's last battalion! His elite force, that travels with him everywhere, they left Earth to come here!

I read their minds as I dropped them because Kajarians share everything, it's all or nothing. I saw their entire lives, Eriganh's anger, all of it.

He's mad because Rentappenen used up his troops. All of them. This force, that we're dropping like flies, it's all he has left. Rentappenen demanded all of them. He used his vast forces up. Most of them died on Lisbaar.

Through my Diplomatic Link, I showed Ryonne~, and it floored him. Then I knew how many troops we were talking about. These are measured in world populations, not gazillions!

So many worlds have fighting, it's not practical to list them, so he keeps track of them by galactic groups. Fighting is winding down in The Padrisa, and we won! Eriganh doesn't even have troops there!

Here in the Thirteen, there's fighting in every one of our galaxies! Most of that took place in the 4th Galaxy at Lisbaar, a world.

Lisbaar, Rhaech, and a few other worlds blew up, with their star systems. These few worlds were where most of Eriganh's forces came. Rentappenen wanted to capture Lisbaar and his Collective was there. Lisbaar has all of the weapons from multiple levels that were made for this battle. They used them! Now, Rentappenen's Collective died when Lisbaar exploded, so he has a Cube that has little power. His temporary Collective needs to rest to gain power, and he's overworking everyone. So he is making clones for it and they live, on average, two hours before they die with constant replacement. He's running out of materials for these clones. Scientists are making them so fast, they aren't powerful. Many are coming out flawed. Numbers only increase the flawed ones.

Bottom line, he isn't time-traveling to increase his advantage, or using a time portal to get more clones and troops. That isn't working at this point.

He's still a powerful adversary, but he's a this-level adversary now, except for the slaver herbs and tech at his disposal.

The fact that he's using Kajarian troops, that's telling. The Battle's not a walk in the park, but the odds are more even now.

Knowing that doesn't make me feel better about losing our friends. And I can't bring them back?

I decided not to tell Ir. Too frustrating! He hugged me and I just shared my grief and frustration without words. Telepathy's wonderful that way. We comforted each other. He's known this battle was coming for centuries. That's a lot of stress. But we can look forward to centuries together, if we can just live through this. And, if the Padrisa or the 15th don't decide to execute us! Yeah, just a walk in the park.

Ir laughed. I think of a walk in the park, and I think about Piedmont Park. Ir thinks of the garden, our colony's garden. It reminds him of a place he used to love, too.