Chapter 1186
Bounty was finally closer to the lower realms than the upper realms, and Three Squeaks and Varghese were tired. That was the case even when they had the opportunity to work with every vaguely appropriate Assimilation cultivator. Providing continuous year round energy for a planet was difficult.
It still wasn’t close enough to get a usable amount of sunlight from any star in the lower realms, but it was drawing in some small portion of the natural energy. That created a better balance for the planet and the people there, which allowed them to contribute their own efforts. It wasn’t just the One Hundred Stars that wanted to help, after all. Most people just didn’t have any idea how.
For the most part, people couldn’t just go without sunlight. Asking an entire planet full of people to adapt to that within just a couple decades was a bit much. Aipra had managed to survive, but it had been an exceptional circumstance. Nobody even remembered exactly when or how people got there.
Rather than focusing on techniques for surviving in crisis, the lower realms focused more on simply improving the situation. If they’d had a couple more decades of warning, they might have been able to create something like artificial suns with mixed technology- but the plan had been close to spontaneous as far as cultivators were concerned. Their departure also hadn’t come a moment too soon.
If they had to move a planet between realms again, they would probably be a hundred times more effective. Fortunately, they didn’t expect they would need to. Velvet’s offer notwithstanding, because without needing to sustain life it was a fairly simple effort in comparison.
Three Squeaks sighed in relief as his shift ended and Varghese came to replace him. “So, do you think you could make that Shelach guy stab himself with his own needles?”
Varghese shook his head. “Not unless he’s a fool.” Speaking wasn’t such a big use of concentration that they couldn’t do it while also creating sunlight. Of course, the sunlight they made was somewhat different than each other and from Anton, as the stars they had bound weren’t exactly the same.
“He attacked Anton. Of course he’s a fool.”
“Fine. Not unless he’s a fool and martially incapable. In which case, he would have never made it this far, nor escaped. As long as he has any amount of defensive energy, I wouldn’t be able to control anything on his body. Not without reaching Unity, which is… a far more distant plan.”