Hilda was not unfamiliar with Planet Horleta—or more precisely, with the Kingdom of Horleta. After all, when she had crossed over, she had been dumped within that kingdom's borders. However, she had passed through in a hurry and never learned much about the planet as a whole. She did not even know what lay beyond the Great Prairie and Beinz Diocese, so Hao Ren still needed to brief her. After hearing the information about the "Firstborn," she was completely stunned.
The light around Hilda flickered brightly and dimly for quite a while before finally stabilizing. She folded her hands over her chest and asked Hao Ren seriously, "Are you sure it's a plant?"
"If you insist on calling it an animal, that works too. Plants capable of whipping people with tens of millions of tentacles are rare, after all. But judging by its current condition, it's rooted deep in the planet's crust, so it's closer to a plant," Hao Ren sighed and handed Hilda a holographic data disk. "This contains information about the Firstborn, a unique species of the Dream Plane. You should be glad they only operate in the Dream Plane."
Hilda browsed the contents of the data disk, her expression growing more and more astonished. Clearly, that impossibly powerful supernatural creature had opened Her Majesty the Queen's eyes. In the end, Hao Ren had to remind her, "Ahem, relax. The Firstborn won't attack this place—you're practically flickering to a rhythm."
Hilda hurriedly stabilized the brightness of her body. Then she suddenly remembered the enormous ancient spaceship in orbit around New Erem. "Wait a minute. That spaceship currently parked in geosynchronous orbit... The shapes of those tentacles are very similar to the information on the data disk."
"That's right. That's a Firstborn," Hao Ren nodded. "But don't worry—it's thoroughly