Familiar smells, familiar hissing.
Zhang Xiu returned to that dense forest and began talking with his "companions."
From them, Zhang Xiu learned of his identity as a Bounty Hunter, and that their battle against the Antimatter Legion had reached a fever pitch.
But the Antimatter Legion was still the Antimatter Legion. Without any particularly powerful Pathstriders among the band of Bounty Hunters, they had been kept firmly on the back foot.
Both sides had come to the Duyu Star System because their leaders had heard the whispers of [Finality].
The army's leader had conquered planet after planet, building a vast civilization.
But every three days, he would forget everything, and the sense of achievement his conquests brought would naturally vanish like smoke.
Yet when he saw the Duyu Star System, an unnatural ecstasy filled his body and mind, and he resolutely embarked on another conquest.
The whispers [Finality] brought the leader were: "He launches conquests; he builds civilizations; he finally finds the self he lost."
His self was undoubtedly what he longed for.
The leader ordered a navigator to remember those words and repeat them to him every three days.
There was no way to know what the Bounty Hunters' leader had heard, but there was no doubt that she had led the Bounty Hunters into this slaughter.
And that woman's eventual fate...
She was shot dead by someone secretly in love with her.
The fact that the Bounty Hunters had not yet been wiped out meant this war was only at its beginning.
The future in which the Aeon of [Propagation] ascended was still a long way off.
"I just want this damned war to end already, get my money, then grab a drink at the Tavern."
As he spoke, a bearded man in a cowboy hat tore a