'Brother? What a strange way to address someone.'
Hearing Lucian wanting her to call him brother, Saran couldn't help but feel a strange sensation.
If she remembered correctly, it was a term used only by family.
"Can I really call you that...?" Saran asked hesitantly, her fingers nervously rubbing together. "Won't you feel offended? I mean... I'm just..."
She was, after all, merely a weak slave, a no one.
How could she be qualified to call a powerful being like Lucian her brother?
"Offended? Why?" Lucian asked calmly before she could finish her words. "Alright, I want to hear your true feelings. If you can, do you want to call me brother or not?"
Upon hearing this, Saran fell silent for a moment before nodding gently.
"Brother..."
As Saran called him 'brother' in a soft voice with a somewhat shy expression, Lucian couldn't help but feel pleased.
Now, the future Arbiter-General, known as the Merlin's Claw, would have to call him 'brother.'
It also meant that a future Emanator of the Hunt had accepted him—someone who was an Emanator of Abundance, originally her nemesis.
"In that case, as your brother, I'll give you a new name so you can start a new chapter." Lucian said with a smile. "Feixiao... it means soaring to the skies, rising above the clouds."
He picked up a tree branch and wrote the new name in the ground for Saran to see.
"Feixiao... soaring to the skies, rising above the clouds... Mm, I like this name..."
Saran—no, Feixiao—followed Lucian, writing her new name stroke by stroke, making sure to remember it.
Needless to say, this marked the start of a new journey in her life.
She was no longer that former war slave, but the younger sister of an Emanator of Abundance.
"Brother... Neergul told me she wants to learn borisin technology so she can help you build spaceships and weapons in the future, so I agreed to let her manage the borisin laboratory. Is that okay?"
Feixiao scooted a little closer to Lucian and casually brought up a new topic.
"You can decide whatever you want." Lucian did not mind at all and replied bluntly. "I don't care about anything else—I only care about you."
"..."
Hearing no response for a long while, Lucian turned his head in confusion.
He saw Feixiao with her head lowered, drawing circles on the ground with her finger.
Her cheeks were quite red, probably because of the firelight.
===
As the next day came, a mechabeast appeared on Koolur.
However, it only seemed to scan the planet's surface before flying away into outer space.
Noticing the mechabeast, Lucian, with a sudden idea in mind, decided not to stop it.
A mechabeast was a spaceship that belonged exclusively to the borisin—a living biological vessel created with biotechnology, capable of feeding, attacking, and reproducing.
From what Lucian knew, this kind of biotech was very common in the borisin civilization, so it was considered quite ordinary.
As for the mechabeast that had just left, it was clearly sent by another borisin pack on a different planet.
In the borisin civilization system, a tribe was known as a 'Pack,' while a coalition of several tribes was called a 'Great Pack,' which ruled over the smaller ones. Each pack usually controlled a different planet and often interacted with one another, and some borisins were even sent away to other galaxies to develop new territories.
For that reason, the borisins could never truly be wiped out, as they could be found scattered everywhere.
'Perfect, I have a brilliant idea, but haven't found a chance to try it.'
In Feixiao's script, the System had drawn up a conceptual ability called Absolute Hit, where any projectile or launched object from Lucian would always hit its intended target.
Lucian couldn't help but wonder—what if he threw a whole planet?
He smiled at what he planned to do next.
When he went to the borisins' laboratory on Koolur to search for information, he found plenty, including the space coordinates for other borisin packs' locations.
He had to admit, the Eclipse Pack residing in Koolur truly had connections everywhere, knowing the coordinates of many borisin-occupied planets.
Lucian memorized one of the coordinates, then set out into space alone.
===
Lucian arrived at the surface of a gray planet and placed his hands on the ground before giving it a gentle push.
"Hit the planet at coordinates 74815.8944.69844.1."
*BOOM!*
In the next moment, the gray planet started moving through space at quite a speed, like a bull charging ahead!
'As expected, I do not need to actually throw something. As long as I make the motion, the concept of Absolute Hit is triggered.'
Even though Lucian had not used any real force, just made a gesture, the gray planet shot out like a cannonball.
Such an outcome meant that in the future, if Lucian did not like someone, he could just use a planet as a missile!
'Logically, since it will absolutely hit, the projectile will not be destroyed until it hits the target, right?'
Sure enough, just as he thought, the gray planet collided with another planet, but instead of mutual destruction, it was like a rock smashing an egg—the other planet shattered, while the gray planet continued forward as if nothing had happened.
"Heh, hope you all like my present."
Lucian planned to share this good news with Feixiao, sharing the happiness.
Before that, Lucian also tried to write a letter and throw it to his future self using Absolute Hit, but unfortunately failed.
Apparently, the concept of Absolute Hit could only strike targets that existed in the present, so since the past and the future were basically not 'present,' the conceptual ability could not be triggered.
===
At the same time, somewhere in the galaxy, a fleet of starskiffs flew toward a certain set of coordinates.
A green-haired, fox-eared woman stood on the deck of the largest starskiff leading the fleet, holding a star map in her hand.
"A few days ago, Koolur sent out a powerful energy wave. It seems to have become a living planet."
"But there are still too many foxians who haven't been rescued..."
"Damn it... Looks like it'll be much harder to save them in the future..."
Muttering to herself, the woman frowned, her mood heavy as she wondered whether the planet had been awakened or revived.
If it had just been revived, that would mean the followers of Abundance had done it.
If it had been awakened, that would be much worse, as it would mean another Emanator of Abundance had appeared.
She remembered that the last Emanator of Abundance had almost destroyed the Xianzhou Alliance, costing countless lives to defeat and seal him. Now, with these new signs, her unease only grew.
"General Yueyu! An unknown planet has been detected heading our way!"
A foxian female officer suddenly ran over and reported urgently to the woman named Yueyu.
"Why are you panicking? Just change its trajectory—it's nothing serious."
Looking up at the officer, Yueyu responded calmly, then walked out to deal with the approaching planet.