Ell’Hakan received the report as he was on the move, and after scanning it briefly, he nodded, satisfied with the results so far. A second Prima Guardian had been slain without his personal involvement, helping speed things up and further cementing trust in the Prima Guardian Alliance. They now had two confirmed teams capable of handling Prima Guardians, though the report did state they’d lost two fighters, so they would need replacements before engaging the next one.Naturally, that didn’t mean Ell’Hakan was lazing about. He was currently on his way to yet another Prima Vessel, the local World Leader and a party of fighters already waiting at it and ready for his arrival. The Prima Guardian he’d faced on his own planet had been far more difficult than any of these other ones, so he could easily handle this specimen on his lonesome. Such personal displays of strength were always useful to the alliance, and he wasn’t going to complain about the improved system reward at the end of the

The 93rd Universe had entered its busiest period since the integration, at least from the perspective of the enlightened races. The vast, vast majority were fighting regular Primas in what most expected to be a years-long struggle to kill as many as they could before the Prima Guardian would be naturally released. Even at that point, the plan wasn’t necessarily to engage the Prima Guardian right away, but to keep hunting Primas and building strength to eventually beat the boss.All across the universe, planets began to fall to the Prima invasions. Others had joined their local galaxy’s Prima Guardian Alliance to fight back in groups and make coalitions, while a third group had chosen to flee their planets. Most planets that actively participated in the event had chosen to join the alliance, but many never even had the choice. Because World Leaders had one more shitty way to fuck over their own worlds.Jake had never seen it himself, as he hadn’t elected to join the Prima Guardian Alli

Alarge group was gathered in the spacious tent as the teleportation circle lit up. The scalekin World Leader stood side by side with his queen, surrounded by those who remained loyal to him and their tribal alliance. He knew many had been skeptical when he told them help was coming, and when the teleportation circle fully activated, the disappointment from some of them was palpable.A single figure appeared in the center of the circle, wearing a dark, hooded cloak and a wood-like mask that revealed only eyes more reminiscent of a beast than a human. In truth, he didn’t strike the scalekin as that impressive, but he knew looks could be extremely deceiving in the multiverse. There was no way to tell how powerful someone truly was simply by looking at them.“I greet the Chosen of the Malefic Viper.” The scalekin World Leader bowed politely, his wife and others following suit despite their reservations. “We humbly welcome you to our planet.”The human quickly regarded the scalekin, and it

Jake had many ways to approach the fight with a Prima Guardian. Usually, he just killed the creature quickly with everything he had, with the majority of those he had killed so far unable to survive even a single fully powered blow.Out of everyone in the 93rd Universe, Jake legitimately believed he was the one with the most powerful opening attack. For his level, that is. He was also fully aware of how intimidating it was to see a boss you had made preparations for or had even battled and lost to meet its end from a single arrow.The question was if this approach would be the smartest in this situation. It would reveal quite a lot of what Jake was capable of, and he also had to consider that it wasn’t like Ell’Hakan had to ever make any of these recordings public. He could keep them for personal study, use them for blackmail if he thought that would work for some reason, or even just destroy them if he felt like the recording only made Jake come off looking good—and showing off his a

Jake and Miranda met up inside the Prima Vessel to look at the map, which had more and more green flags by the day but also more gray ones, as quite a few of the planets that had tried to face the Prima Guardian event alone had fallen to the attack. This was an expected outcome, as nobody had expected every planet to get out unscathed.The appearance of the black flags was not expected, though. When there had only been one, they had held on to hope that it was some kind of anomaly. Jake had even theorized that maybe the creature had given its own life to somehow destroy the core, or otherwise done something it could only do once.Now, it was clear this wasn’t a one-off. What’s more, the creature known as “I” had figured out how to destroy a core far faster than before. This also fully eliminated any possibility of it consuming these cores in any way, as there was no way in hell it had enough time to digest a Planetary Core this quickly. It was purposefully destroying them, dooming ent