Chapter 1073
It was quite impossible for Anton to ignore that Airus felt like Xaphioth- and it was a simple atmospheric similarity. Their natural energy felt like it was part of one whole, even though there was no pathway from planet to planet. At least… not on the outside.
However, just as he felt something deep within Xaphioth, he felt the exact same thing deep within Airus. A connection of some sort. Anton didn’t really need to know much more than that to begin piecing things together.
It was more than a tangential connection. Various planets within a system could share a particular sort of connection, but this was different. It was deeper. Was it… a shared worldheart? How would that even work? Was it even intentional?
But it also answered other questions. Like how the planets could have even had conflict without space travel. However, Anton supposed that they must have once moved freely between them to be able to establish such a connection. Now, whether it was some sort of teleportation array or a continuous portal or some other method entirely, they remained connected. And even Anton could tell that attempting to undo that connection would be disastrous.
So at some point the two planets had drifted apart. Then they had come into conflict. Now, they had returned to being uneasy neighbors. The actual details would be quite different, but Anton knew stories of the sort. At least they were in a better state than Tenoun’a and Shrenn, both in terms of their current conflicts and their actual prosperity.
Nowadays, those two planets were merely the core of a healthy system. Their ancient conflicts had been settled, and there was no reason for anyone to try to steal what little the others had. Compared to active war, this place should be easy to handle.
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Limbani frowned, looking at what Anton had helped grow. “I see that it develops quickly, but plucking off each mushroom without using energy when it’s clumped together in such tight confines… it’s a rather labor intensive process.”
That was one of the perils of using mushrooms bred for use by meerkats. Humans were massively bigger. Even so, Anton shrugged as he held up some long tweezers, grabbing one growing from the back of a pillar. “It’s good practice. And they taste much better if they aren’t exposed to external energy at the last moments of their attachment. But there are plenty of other options.”