Chapter 1209
Eventually people grew wise enough to not cause any more trouble for Lexia’s planetary escort, though she herself was only a small portion of the deterrent force. Of course, as an Augmentation cultivator some people feared her, but just like sect head Ratna she could only be in one place at a time. Her techniques simply weren’t suited for wide-scale combat. She could take out a significant number of individuals or vessels, but she couldn’t defend a whole planet.
Despite the scale of the Guardians of the Veiled Brilliance, it was still difficult for them to perfectly cover the transported planet either. Most of their forces were needed in their territory, or they were in training.
But Prospero was entirely different. He was perfect for taking out numerous small targets with precision. Strong enough to take out more powerful individuals if they were stupid enough to try to get to him, as well.
The only reason it took so long for the trouble to stop was that he was too effective at taking out incoming groups. The Guardians focused on the more concentrated targets, and he dropped falling stars on everyone trying to slip past and dismantle bits of the planet. Even if a few ships were successful at the first part, they rarely ever got away.
Finally, they reached close enough to Veiled Brilliance territory that nobody was going to act. The potential value was fully outweighed by the consequences.
Except… those consequences were also brought upon those who had been successful early. Ratna had been handling those cases herself, with the help of others from the Veiled Brilliance and some of the delegation from the Distant Shadow Sect. Even if they hadn’t been caught immediately, the energies of any prominent sect or clan had been remembered. Once the Scarlet Alliance had been called upon, they were able to record all of the energy signatures entering the area- at least every cultivation method, if not individual cultivators.
Lexia was most excited about keeping that technology. It was a mix of vaguely familiar formations and ‘electronics’ which were simple on the surface and extremely complex underneath. The most important thing, though, was that they worked. They could do a wide variety of things, but recording was the most interesting. Cultivators had their own methods of recording, but they were usually less precise. Even if they worked, they couldn’t match energy signatures to databases of known sects.
It was a bit of a shame when the journey was over. It was a good station for a few decades. Lexia had gained many merits, and of course the value of having access to a Domination cultivator couldn’t be overstated. Even if she was careful not to be overly bothersome, over the course of the journey she had gained quite a bit of confidence. That didn’t mean she was willing to try to jump into Domination in the next decade or anything… but the idea that she actually might someday was actually quite encouraging. Even if it was in a few centuries. Or maybe a millennium.
Chances were still high that she would fail, but high wasn’t the same as nearly guaranteed. And even if she never took that step, Lexia was encouraged that she could become stronger within Augmentation, at least a little bit.