The supreme commander watched her. This hardly counted as a condition, much less a price.
"It sounds like help."
Ye Buyu nodded without any hesitation.
"That's right, it's help. But you'd probably be more willing to accept the word 'cooperation.' After all, stubborn blockheads like you must think a being like me is up to no good."
With that, Ye Buyu released the restraints.
The soldiers watched Ye Buyu warily, and the supreme commander spoke.
"All fleets, stand by. Lady, it is not that we bear you any hostility, but that thing you brought is most certainly an enemy."
Ye Buyu covered her face. "Uh... that fish isn't what you think."
The supreme commander looked toward the enormous creature floating outside the fleet.
"To be frank, the Woxian Alliance encountered a similar being decades ago. It came from outside and brought a nearly annihilating disaster.
"Even now, there are still people on our planet who have sided with that disaster, and no small number have mutated because of its power.
"Back then, the alliance expended countless resources and sacrificed countless lives to achieve victory. And what you brought is even more terrifying than what we encountered."
That explained it. This place had already suffered a Calamity invasion. Naturally, seeing a Calamity like Little Whale left them shaken.
"I think you aren't enemies. At the very least, this fish certainly isn't."
She extracted a small portion of memories and imprinted them as images, displaying them before everyone.
"Take a look. It's merely a Civilization destroyed by Calamity, the... wail of a Lost Civilization. It became like this to fight back."
Silence fell inside the warship once more.
Unimaginable cruelty struck their minds in all its nakedness.
Outside, Little Whale had no idea what had happened, nor what this person called Ye