Chapter 1109
After enemy fleets retreated from their territory, there wasn’t much the Scarlet Alliance could do. They did send pursuit fleets, chasing down the stragglers who were unable to keep up, but their victory hadn’t been so complete that they could afford to get into pitched combat beyond their borders.
On the eastern end, they quickly ran into Trigold Cluster territory. While they would have loved to properly retaliate against the Imbued Fragments and Broad Eyed Harvesters, they couldn’t realistically do much without dragging themselves into an even greater war.
However, just because they didn’t have any militaristic actions they could do didn’t mean there was nothing. They now had contacts within the Trigold Cluster- it was far too early to call them allies, but they were at least useful for spreading information. A declaration that any who chose to breach the sovereignty of the Scarlet Alliance would find themselves in the same situation as Zaur Beridze.
Reminding others that they had just killed a Domination cultivator was a good way to make them hesitate about… everything. No doubt the Silver Fang were trembling in fear. They might have thought themselves secure with the backing of Koronis… but it was one thing to repel Zaur and another to kill him. Some might have been ready to deny them injuring him in the second war, but it was impossible to deny his death. Everyone would feel it. The Silver Fang would be the first in the Trigold Cluster for the waves to reach, and the Trigold Cluster wasn’t over the death of Sudin. Not that it was expected they would get ‘over’ such a thing for centuries at a minimum. Domination cultivators didn’t die every day.
Yet there were suddenly two in the same century. Everyone would be more cautious.
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Aconite sniffed Chidi’s body, but senses no poisons or other abnormalities. His heart sounded normal. She couldn’t smell his brain functions but the machines assured her everything was normal. In fact, the doctors said he wasn’t even in a coma. Even though he clearly was.
“Hey. Wake up,” Aconite barked. Obviously, that didn’t work. If Yuval hadn’t been able to wake him, it stood to reason Aconite wouldn’t be much better. And his parents… were still currently incapacitated. Which was about a thousand times better than dead.
Unlike the older Westons, Chidi had been determined to be safely touchable. Which was good, because his body wasn’t self-regulating. He was getting nutrients through a tube.