Chapter 1154
As Velvet left the bounds of the Scarlet Alliance’s territory, she was briefly able to look upon it as an outsider. If she had the choice, she absolutely wouldn’t intrude upon the region, as it was terrifying. A mighty presence, standing vigilant ready to defend the area.
The worst part was that Velvet didn’t know if Timothy could actually guard their whole territory at once or not. It seemed a bit extreme, but with the spatial distortions it wasn’t unreasonable. Unwanted intruders would be brought to their most well defended system, that of Xankeshan, and then they would have to face him.
And Catarina, but for all that she was probably far more dangerous if she had time to prepare, she wasn’t particularly intimidating. At least, as far as Domination cultivators went. Velvet had gotten the opportunity to properly observe five of them throughout her life. Everheart didn’t count, since he hadn’t been around since his advancement, but beyond Timothy and Catarina there were Ratna, Koronis, and of course Zaur Beridze.
The latter had seemed more bluster than strength. For all that he had appeared to handily defeat any individual who matched up against him, they had for the most part survived. Mainly due to luck, numbers, or planning, but if so many factors could limit Zaur then he wasn’t quite as powerful as he appeared.
As Velvet continued to drift away from the Scarlet Alliance, she brought to mind her mission. She was to investigate to determine the weakest and least stable of the colonies beginning to worm their way into the Scarlet Midfields. Studying their various rivals among the opposite factions would be most useful if she could manage to get them to call each other out for breaking the pact without getting the rest of the midfields into a war. Not the easiest task, but that made it all the more necessary.
The Scarlet Alliance was slowly expanding to fill the midfields, but unless something suddenly changed it would be another thousand or two thousand years before they truly encompassed the majority of the area. They could place nominal outposts wherever they wanted, but the only areas they could be said to truly control were those that they had encompassed by the spatial distortion.
Some of the planets that were occupied were close enough to the southern border that Velvet could count on Anton’s ability to reach them now that he was a Unity cultivator. However, it wasn’t feasible to assume he could handle more complex operations than simply annihilating people. If they got to that point, the upper realms part of the Alliance would handle things themselves since he would be best reserved for what might happen afterwards.
It was too bad he couldn’t come to the upper realms. He would probably be able to cover all of the Alliance’s territory without the spatial distortion. He hadn’t been entirely forthcoming about his limits, potentially because he didn’t know but Velvet suspected it was more likely so that people didn’t count on him. At least, not in that way.
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