Silver Stars (Guardian of Aster Fall Book 8) by David North

Author:David North [North, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: High Peak Publishing
Published: 2024-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20: Verdant

Alora’s world, Verdant, was a shining green gem in the Void. It was a different hue from Emerald, warmer and full of life.

It had been a long time since he’d seen it and as he headed for it, a slight smile quirked at his lips. He’d promised Alora he would return, so he was looking forward to her reaction when he showed up unannounced.

With the time compression, it had been nearly two centuries since he’d last seen her, so hopefully she and her world both were flourishing.

They’d been on the brink the last time with barely any Fourth Evolution defenders, much less Fifth or higher, but the defenses he’d given them to protect the world should have helped.

He’d left an entire flotilla of warships, each of them linked to the inexhaustible energy of the Wild Tree. They couldn’t travel very far beyond the world’s edge, but while they were next to Verdant, they were nearly indestructible.

His arrival should be a good surprise.

He was expecting a wild and flourishing world and the branches of the Wild Tree reaching out across the Void as they touched the nearby dimensions, ready to welcome him.

As he stepped off the astral path, however, it was something else that greeted his gaze.

A flotilla of foreign ships stretched across the system, completely surrounding Verdant.

They were all a short distance away, but that distance exactly matched the range of the warships he’d left.

His eyes narrowed and he paused in the Void, standing between the dimensions as he studied them.

The last time he’d come back, ships had been assaulting Verdant too, but this was different.

He saw some of the same symbols on these ships that marked the Blood Hunters, the race that had attacked before, but this time they were not the only race.

More importantly, these ships had been here for a long time.

There were a few new ones, but he could read the traces in the Void and the remnant energies that said most of them had been here for decades, and some for over a century.

Some had been converted into sprawling rings of wood and enchantment, changing their shapes into an outpost near the world.

He scanned them, counting the total number, and by the time he was done, a sense of anger rumbled in his heart.

There were over three hundred ships from a dozen races here and they’d built more than twenty semi-permanent outposts.

He already understood what had happened, but he continued to scan the energies of the system, reading its full history.

All that had happened was recorded in the chaos winds and the light of the sun. It only took him a little while to find the rest of it.

When he was done, he folded his arms across his chest. Silver stars burned in his aura, flaring and spreading outward as they merged with the Void.

The last time, he’d commanded the Blood Hunters to leave and warned them that if they wanted to access the Evolutionary Node that was part of the Wild Tree, they would have to seek Alora’s permission.

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