Ten years in the hyper space.
During the hyperspace travel Regalia had not been idle. Inside the spacecraft she devoted herself to research, diving deep into countless subjects for her techniques, she began to form the early model of her cultivation technique. She initiated long-term projects, mapped out essential tasks she must undertake, and outlined research areas vital for her future breakthroughs. Finished the final arrangement of the new lab and made targets on what she needs to research.
The ship shuddered slightly. The hyperdrive engines were superheating.
Regalia gave the order.
"Antis, exit out of hyper drive"
AKNOWLEDGE
The fleet exited out of hyper space.The fleet was still in its shrinkage state—the entire spacecraft and the rest of the fleet was kept at atomic scale. Outside the viewing window, there was only emptiness.
"ANTIS, scan the surroundings," she commanded.
"Scanning... No life signature detected," the AI responded .
"Exit out of shrinkage."
ENLARGING
Out of nowhere, in the midst of the cold, silent void of the Selieum Galaxy a fleet blinking into normal space like a phantom.
Regalia looked out through the transparent panel. Before her lay a beautiful solar system, dominated by a white star—bright, intense, blinding.
Many believed that a sun is yellow in color. But in truth, that was a misconception born from the lens of atmosphere. From the surface of a planet, light scattered, diffused, and refracted—tinting the sun in hues of gold and amber.
But here, in the vacuum of space, there was no filter.Here, the sun revealed its true form It is not yellow It's is a convergence of pure white light—dazzling in its clarity, radiant in its purity, almost divine.
It looked like a white world suspended in space. Orbiting it were three planets. Her ship was still beyond the boundaries of the solar system.
"ANTIS, Show me a clear visual of the star and planets," she ordered.
As the view sharpened, Regalia narrowed her eyes. One planet caught her attention.
"ANTIS, I need information on this planet," she said, pointing toward the third planet orbiting the star.
"This is CylinKyools," ANTIS replied. "It is a supermassive gas giant. Predictions suggest the planet will collapse in the near future. Its core cannot handle any more stress."
"Something seems off," Regalia murmured. "I have a gut feeling, it very much represents Jupiter."
She turned inward. "Eve, do you have something interesting to say about this planet?"
"This planet resembles one from your memories—a gas giant. From my scans... it doesn't have a core," Eve responded. "Which means, ANTI's prediction won't come to pass. No core, no collapse."
"There is no core!? Then how does the planet existing with out a core?" Regalia exclaimed.
"I am not saying the core is empty. I'm saying the core is... occupied by something else."
"ANTIS, send a probe. I want this mission done as soon as possible. Calculate the required time for the probe to enter hyperspace and how long it should stay there to reach the core of the planet."
"Command received."
The probe was launched from the command ship. As it exited, it blinked out of existence, instantly entering the target zone—near the core of CylinKyools.
Preliminary scans streamed in.
"The core does not exist... But my scans does show the probe is right in the middle of the core of the planet" ANTIS said. "There has been spatial tampering. It is likely that the core exists in another space—supporting the planet from a pocket dimension."
"Now the probe is picking up spacial disturbance, so we can be sure that the core exist in another space. but that space is supporting this planet "
"Camera footage," Regalia ordered.
The command center's display came to life.
There it was.
A cube. A black cube with white borders. Suspended in the planetary core. Featureless. Pitch black. But it wasn't being picked up by any sensors. No mass. No signal. Only visible—nothing else.
"Eve... what is that?"
"It appears to be a data package," Eve replied. "Data has no weight. That's why it's not detected. Our current tech can't pick up pure information."
"And the core?"
"ANTIS's theory holds. The core is in another space, sustaining the planet.And this data packet is for someone or something. This gas giant has no value—resources already extracted. Nobody would look here."
"I want it," Regalia said. "How do I extract it? Is it dangerous?"
"You just need to touch it physically. Absorb it into your consciousness. I'll handle the rest. These cubes are built for sharing data in ancient times, with my help you will be able to read it.
"ANTIS, prepare a shuttle. Get me to the center of the planet."
she was teleported from the command centre to the garage bay instantly, there were a large number of AXIS-1 single-pilot aircraft craft. The tiny ship exited the command vessel and immediately entered hyperspace—only for 0.0000001 seconds.
It almost seems as teleportation, Regalia was at the core of the planet. she looked out of the cockpit
There it was. The cube.
The sensors on the AXIS 1 showed nothing. But she could see it.
Donning her nanotech space suit, Regalia ejected from her shuttle, drifting toward the cube. The craft hovered nearby.
She reached out, extending her finger to touch the cube. The suit receded at her fingertips, allowing direct contact. She could instantly feel her tip of her finger burning,Flesh blackened instantly, nerves seared silent as the skin charred and curled.She endured the pain and made contact with the cube. Then instantly
The cube vanished and the nano bots covered her finger immediately
Without delay, she returned to the shuttle and engaged hyperdrive to return back to the command ship.
"ANTIS, prepare the hyperdrives for a jump."
"Ma'am, we just finished a hyperjump. The thrusters are overheated and cannot be used again without risking permanent damage."
"Use the backups and get us the hell out of here. Fast."
AFFIRMATIVE
Antis used liquid nitrogen to cool down the superheated hyperdrive and simultaneously started charging for jump
The fleet shrunk again, reducing to subatomic size. After five seconds, they vanished.
Nine seconds after they left—
Another fleet enlarged 1 light year away from the spot where Regillia was
Their ships were crude. Inferior. Clearly outdated. Not Regalia's pursuers—but another faction altogether.
"Commander, we have reached anomaly area. according to the sensors the planet CylinKyools is collapsing and that is what triggered our sensors"
They had come due to an anomaly detected at the command centre.These people were not humans. They are called The Punned. They were ere tall humanoid aliens, standing over 8 feet on average, with elongated limbs and semi-transparent skin that shimmered like frosted glass. Their skeletal structure was visible beneath the surface, glowing faintly with bioluminescent veins.
"Now we have to wait and conform the death of this planet ."the commander of the fleet said as he sighed
They watch the planet destruction slowly and conformed that the planet is gone. They didnt search why the planet is collapsing because it is already predicted that the planet will collapse because of its old age.
"Update the ANTIS Network. This planet no longer exists"
Their mission complete, they shrunk to atomic scale and started charging .it takes 40 seconds to even charge such an old tech for even a basic jump. as for how they were able to reach here after the start of the planet collapse ? they were already in subatomic ready to engage hyper drive 1 million light years away.
In 2 seconds regillia's fleet is able to travel 3 million lightyears. she single ship is the size of 30.3 million km2 and she has 10 of them at her command. Meanwhile punned's single ship is able to travel 1million light year in 8 second that is the difference in technology the species at the 4th place in the racial council holds.
Regalia's hyperjump lasted only ten minutes.
"ANTIS, scan surroundings and if it clear then Enlarge."
The system did as instructed.
"Eve... where's the cube?"
[It's in your consciousness plane. Sit in meditation.]
Regalia complied.
Moments later, her awareness faded from the physical world.
When she opened her eyes again...
She stood in a vast space—stars glimmering in the distance, nebulae swirling in colors beyond language. Before her hovered a small cube—no bigger than a 3x3 Rubik's cube.
She looked at her hands and her body. It looked like a transparent glass—her shape was intact, but ghostlike. Light passed through her, refracting in subtle hues like mist caught in sunlight.
"Eve, what is this place?"
"This is the consciousness plane," Eve answered. "You will grow it, over time as you cultivate. For now, I forcibly brought you here. This is where the data package can be read."
Regalia reached toward the cube and touched it with her most like hand.
It opened and the cube turned into a back slate and in that slate golden letters were written
the text read
„Gehe zu diesen räumlichen Koordinaten: 8°28'58,6"N, 76°56'36,6"E. Der Padmanab-Tempel wird sich nur bei dieser zeitlichen Ausrichtung zeigen: [Σ19.113 | ∆E:0.0024 | Zerfallend (Halbwertszeit: 90m 22s in 3D) | Anker=Zeta-3]. Erscheine als ein Kultivierender des Anfangs-Martial-Sphären-Reichs. Unter den Erhabenen wird deine Kultivierung unbedeutend erscheinen. Aber fürchte dich nicht—du bist der Schlüssel. Die Ableitung muss abgeschlossen werden."
Regalia stared.
"This is Deutsch! Who even knows Deutsch anymore? Was this an ancient language?"
She expected eve to answer
[ HOW AM I SUPOSE TO KNOW DO YOU THINK I AM A OMNIPOTENT GOD OR SOMETHING ? DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS ? ]
"Yes,"Regillia replied. "It reads:
Go to these spatial coordinates: 8°28'58.6"N, 76°56'36.6"E. The Padmanab Temple will reveal itself only at this temporal alignment: [Σ19.113 | ∆E:0.0024 | Decaying (Half-Life: 90m 22s in 3D) | Anchor=Zeta-3]. Arrive as an Initial Martial Sphere cultivator. Among the Exalted, your cultivation will seem insignificant. But fear not—you are the key. The derivation must be completed."
Regillia strangely felt a connection with this and felt that it is very important to her, so she immediately took action Regalia opened her eyes in the command center of the spaceship .
"ANTIS, analyze the spatial coordina—"
She stopped mid-command.
'Eve, I don't trust ANTIS with this. It's too important. You do the analysis.'
"I have no issue. It'll take time. Estimated duration: five years. I need to simultaneously bypass antivirus nets and triangulate multidimensional space. For the temporal coordinates, I must calculate manually. I can only devote 20% of my power to this task."
Regalia didn't ask why.
"Do it," she said. "That's enough."
She took a breath.
"ANTIS, show me the map of supermassive black holes."
A map appeared.
"Tôn 618," she whispered. "Chart a course to that galaxy—but don't enter the galaxy . How long will it take?"
"Twenty years of hyperspace at 200% output of the hyperdrive. Your engines will be permanently damaged afterward. They cannot be used again."
"Do it."
"Understood. First, a ten-day cooling phase is required. Then, 87 days for charging phase."
"Understood."
Regalia leaned back in her chair.
She began to plan her next twenty years of hyperspace travel.
[Ninety-Seven Days Later]
"Initiate shrinkage and enter hyperspace."
"ACKNOWLEDGED."
The entire fleet shrunk—and vanished.
A twenty-year journey had begun.