Heaven, Earth, Me

Chapter 1108: Arriving at the Port in Feldur World.

The place they arrived at was very unique. The girls could see tall buildings and flying metal boxes weaving between them in a strangely orderly manner. Below, at ground level, many humans moved through the streets between these colossal buildings. Evelyn looked at everyone down below and rubbed her chin with surprise. "The clothes worn by the captain and other soldiers were peculiar. However, the mortals down below have so many different styles I've never seen before."

Angel muttered. "I prefer our dressing style." She smiled as she continued. "Long robes with wide sleeves that flow elegantly with the wind~. A gorgeous and clean appearance that enchants those who look at you!"

The girls didn't disagree. Their cultivation robes had a certain ethereal charm that set them apart from the mundane. Andrea, with a full-metal armor that hid her entire body, wore the strangest combat clothes between them. Even then, it was not too out of place.

Tatyana looked at the captain's frowning face and asked. "Can we explore this place?"

"You can't."

The captain said sternly. Even if he was afraid of Tatyana and the others, he was still stubborn, following the discipline and trying to keep as many people out of trouble as possible. The girls admired this mortal man to an extent. Even after tasting a fraction of Tatyana's power, he didn't break down and maintained a firm and resolute stance.

Tatyana squinted and asked, her tone threatening. "I had asked a sign of formality, not intending to listen to your words. However, since you've dared deny me of my whim, I want a reason that can convince me."

That pair of gorgeous red eyes made the captain break into cold sweat. Still, he maintained his expression and blurted his reason honestly. "The ladies are too beautiful. A normal mortal man or woman without training will be irreversibly altered when looking at the majority of you. If all of you descend, you'll create chaos."

Tatyana's eyebrow rose when an actual decent reasoning came out of the man's mouth. Andrea smirked and looked at Tatyana. "He has a point. We shouldn't create chaos in a mortal world. The karmic ties that we can create are too many."

Valeria agreed as well. "Andrea is right."

Tatyana rolled her eyes. "Do you think I don't know? I might've killed many people, but even I know not to mess with mortal societies. For starters, I first interacted with them because of the large souls I detected back then. This place caught Little Treasure's attention, so there must be something of value here for her."

The captain looked at them and sighed in relief. 'It seems that they are tied by something not to mess with us. That's good. With their godlike powers, a single wave of their hand feels as if it would be enough to flatten a city.'

Even in his wildest imaginations, his estimates still fell short of the actual strength peak-level Dantian Spiritualization Cultivators could exert. 

The large spaceships reached the landing port and slowly descended, each one entering a hangar of some sort that could house the massive machines. One they landed, the captain looked at the nearly sixty women and asked. "Ladies, do you have a way to hide your faces?"

Tatyana and the rest looked at him for a few seconds, but eventually, they waved their hands and transformed their clothes. Everyone wore clean white robes with long skirts and sleeves. They were like clouds sewed into clothes, with embroideries of blue and green mountains and rivers. 

On the faces of all the girls, veils that covered half their faces appeared. While their enchanting eyes were fully visible, the overall charm they emitted was reduced by more than half. What substituted it was a mysterious charm that tempted the viewer to uncover the secrets. 

For cultivators at their level, even if they had sheets covering their entire bodies, their mere auras were enough to entice mortals. Hence, hiding more than they were was redundant. 

With their appearances somewhat concealed, the captain and other soldiers circled around the group and escorted them down a long ramp. Angel tilted her head and asked, curious. "Why are they escorting us? We do not need protection, right?"

Evelyn chuckled and patted her head. "They are protecting others from us, Angel. We are being escorted so that no one provokes us."

"Ohh!" Angel nodded twice. 

Kali looked around with a slight frown, a gesture that Cecile didn't miss. "What's wrong, Kali?"

"Nature on this planet is… very lacking. The air is strangely stale, and while there is no apparent contamination, there is no freshness as well. It is a very… insipid atmosphere." 𝘳Ά𝐍Ο𝐛ĘŜ

The captain heard Kali's words and decided to explain a little. "As our society advances, we need to extract resources. We've developed technologies to substitute trees and create a breathable atmosphere even without nature. Some natural reserves are maintained so we don't drive nature to extinction. Still, they are far and few in between compared to how the world was a few tens of thousands of years ago."

Once they touched the ground, a female's loud voice reached them. "Captain John! What's the meaning of this!? Why have you ignored all protocols and landed here!? If we hadn't confirmed that you hadn't been hijacked, the AA defenses would have shot your spaceship down!" 

While her tone was angered, one could hear a hint of concern in her voice. 

Looking over, the girls saw a relatively tall and slender human woman. She was wearing a tight black set of clothes with many pockets and other accessories. One could see a belt with different articles hanging on it. Between them, the girls observed a smaller version of the guns that Tatyana explained to them about. Andrea tilted her head. 'They must be very easy to create en masse if they can change their size this much without using any type of energy blacksmithing.' Andrea hummed, her eyes squinting. 'Perhaps I can create one for myself.'

"You can't."

Andrea looked at Tatyana, the one who spoke, and knew that the senior read her mind. Tatyana chuckled. "This type of weapon will dull your battle style. You'll need to start from scratch and also learn to combine an incompatible foreign technology with Spiritual Blacksmithing. You are already threading a new path with your combinations of old and new styles. Adding this one would be too much."

Andrea knew that Tatyana was not someone who would stop them from experimenting. She would interfere only when she was one-hundred-percent sure that their efforts would be in vain or lead them astray. 

John straightened and spoke firmly, his disciplined demeanor without flaws. "Warp Commander Senna, we've come across unidentified people with large amounts of power. If we had resisted, we would not be standing where we are. After understanding their abilities, I figured that becoming enemies with them would be a big mistake and decided to comply with their orders."

Senna frowned deeply and moved her gaze toward the group of women in white ethereal clothes. Even though there was no wind, the dresses were gently floating behind them, giving them the aura of celestial maidens that fell from the heavens. What surprised her the most besides their beauty was that many had animal characteristics like wings, tails, and ears. 'These… Aliens?'

Tatyana stepped forward, not wanting to give the captain a hard time. He had been doing his job perfectly until now, so there was no need to punish him in any way. "I am Tatyana Dravory. We are part of the Astral Sky Sect and come to find some information." Tatyana scanned Senna up and down and smiled faintly under her veil. "We've come to ask about people like you whose souls are larger than the others. How are you making your souls grow and take such clean shapes?"

Senna's face paled for a second, not expecting Tatyana to see through her specialness that easily. Still, she was disciplined and didn't lose her cool. "I don't know what you are talking about, Lady Tatyana. If that's what you want to ask, I recommend you search elsewhere."

Tatyana blinked and sighed. Captain John felt a strange chill when he heard that sigh and swiftly interrupted. "Commander Senna! Please answer her questions. She has no ill intent and said she would trade with items of similar value!"

Tatyana paused and looked at John with a hint of interest. 'Oh? He knew that I was going to put a bit of gentle pressure on this woman~. Interesting mortal.'

Senna was surprised when he heard the rush in John's voice. This man was usually impassive even in front of death, yet he had raised his voice to her. Senna was not a stupid woman and understood that this was John's way of warning her that the people she was dealing with were far from normal. Senna looked at Tatyana and the others for a few seconds. 'Are they really that strong? What if we ambush them? One shot from a V7 Elephant Railgun can even make holes through a mountain. These people shouldn't be able to resist that.'

Suddenly, one of the shortest in the group tilted her head while looking at Senna. "Why are you planning against us? Didn't we say that we were here in peace?" 

Senna's heart jumped in fear. 'H-How did she know?'

Angel looked at Tatyana and commented innocently. "I don't think we are using the correct dialect, Mommy Tatyana. They do not understand our words."

Tatyana hummed twice and smiled, patting Angel's head. "Perhaps. You must understand that we look very foreign to them as well, Angel. Look how different we are clothed compared to the people here."

Senna looked at John and saw him staring at her intensely. He was basically begging her not to test their patience. Senna bit her inner cheek, not knowing what to do. After a short while considering what to do, Senna looked up and took a deep breath. "Lady Tatyana, I understand that you might've scared someone like John using powerful weapons. However, I need to at least see what you can do before I know how to deal with you."

John closed his eyes and sighed. He had tried, but he knew that believing his words at face value was just too difficult. Who would believe these people had a seemingly medieval boat that could traverse millions of miles in a heartbeat? That their mere presence was enough to make thousands kneel? 

Meanwhile, Senna saw Tatyana smile under her veil and was confused. She then blinked, and the person standing in front of her disappeared. 

Senna was confused. 'Huh? Where is she?'

Meanwhile, everyone around Senna felt their hearts skip a beat, and their bodies break into a cold sweat. Tatyana was behind Senna, holding an elegant longsword and pointing at Senna's nape. "Hey."

Senna was startled and turned around, spotting Tatyana. She froze for two reasons. The first one was that Tatyana had somehow appeared behind her. The second one was because of the cold and sharp metallic tip touching her throat. "Is this enough? Can I now know or see someone who knows about what is making your souls so abnormal?"

Senna gulped, making the blade lightly pierce her skin due to the motion of her throat. The slight drop of blood falling down her neck was a testament to the incredible sharpness of the sword. A single thrust and Senna would be dead.