Chapter 973: All of them
"We have a problem!" After Jabba entered the hall, he threw the person in his grip forward like a pile of trash *Paa*
Pythor turned and frowned at the sight... That Shadow Sword was in a pitiful state, half of his bones were broken and he was bleeding from everywhere, and worse, his lower jaw was completely destroyed and his eyes were senseless!
"What does this mean?" The Seventh Prince immediately stood up.
"I found him while I was monitoring the Shadow Capturing Net, he was talking to a spy from the palace servants so I went and killed the servant and captured this intruder to find out anything useful from him," Jabba kicked the Shadow Sword and then looked back into Pythor's eyes, "...I fear that the True Beginning Empire has attacked one of your planets."
"What?!" Pythor stood up as if the Great Durger himself had bitten him in the leg, "Which one of them? And how did this happen?!"
"I don't know! The Shadow Swords are highly trained and can't reveal secrets, I've been tired of extracting any clues from him," Jaba quickly thought to himself, "But there is a clear way to find out which one was attacked, try to establish a connection between this portal and your planets' portals, and the unresponsive portal will be the planet that was stormed, Robin Burton definitely wouldn't leave a portal working!"
"Damn it!" Pythor jumped into the square and rushed to the portal *swoosh*
It is impossible that Robin Burton knew the coordinates of the portals in these planets, only a few people know them and Robin Burton cannot extract information from them, which means he sent warships to the planet he invaded?! But when did they go and when did they arrive?! He arrived a week ago, and before he came everything was fine!
"I'm coming too!" Jabba quickly jumped after him.
"..." The Seventh Prince followed Jabba with his eyes until they both disappeared, then jumped after them towards the portal.
"The Dwarf World Planet should be safe.." Pythor quickly approached the control panel and began entering a mixture of numbers and spells while muttering, "The Dwarf World Planet must be safe!!"
The Dwarf World Planet was the first planet they invaded, and after they subdued the Dwarves who resisted them with all kinds of cannons and strange weapons, Pythor decided to kill 90% of them and chain the rest in tight places so that he could control them and dictate their numbers, then he forced them to use their enormous talent in construction and mechanics to build his fleets and in return, he would allow their race to survive.
They actually helped him build ships faster, and even strengthened the cannons further! So Pythor decided to move all the shipyards to the Dwarf World Planet and even moved all the weapons and armor factories, maintenance centers, and basically everything needed for warfare... The Dwarf World Planet may not be rich in rare natural resources, but it is undoubtedly a treasure that cannot be squandered, with the help of the survises of its inhabitants he was able to conquer all the other planets.
But he also relied on them too excessively, now without them he can no longer make anything new or maintain anything old!
*Click* After the last number he entered, Pythor looked towards the portal center with open eyes, hoping...
*Silence*
"Oh no..." Pythor took a step back, putting his hands behind his head, "This is the worst possible scenario!"
"....." The Seventh Prince frowned and then walked towards the control panel where his father was.
"And you!!" As for Pythor himself, he turned his anger towards Jabba, "You are the one who assured me that something like this would never happen. You said that your Master was a coward who could not initiate an attack. You told me that he would remain in his place and tremble when he heard about the damage caused by the cubes!!"
"I meant planet Nihari, he really was a coward and didn't dare attack us here, didn't that happen? That coward went to attack a defenseless planet without any decent protection!" Jabba shouted in his defense, "But it's okay we can ignore them, he just wants to keep you away from Nihari, focus on taking control of Nihari completely then we'll see about the Dwarf World Planet later."
"To hell with what you mean you fourth chosen shit!!" Pythor waved his head forcefully, he was holding himself back as much as possible not to atack Jabba, "Because of you I lost the most important planet in my group, losing the Dwarf World will make it impossible for me to launch any big future attacks against the True Beginning Empire, and will even halt the growth of my empire for hundreds of years until I recover all those lost industries!"
"Damn it!" Pythor forced himself to look away, "No, I must recover the Dwarf World planet no matter the cost!"
"...Your Majesty, I think we have a bigger problem here." From behind, came the voice of the Seventh Prince
"What now?!" Pythor shouted at his son
Who in turn pointed towards the silent portal, "I just entered the coordinates of the Poison Rock Planet portal..."
"...?! He dare? No it can't be... HE DARE?!" Pythor shouted madly then turned back to look at Jabba with extreme anger, "You..."
"...!" But he found Jabba confused and surprised as well, he couldn't find anything to say so he turned back to look at his Seventh Son, "Try the rest of the portals quickly!!"
Five minutes later--
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The three of them looked at the space portal in disbelief, none of the linking attempts worked, even the portal hidden in Planet Gudah was no longer there.
"...All of them? The nine planets that I spent ten thousand years nurturing?!" Baithor started to mumble, then suddenly shouted, "All of them?!"
"I don't know how he went there and how he found those portals, It is a fact that he is there now, and it wouldn't be like our attempt back then when the True Beginning Empire managed to repel our attack on the three planets." The Seventh Son raised his eyebrows, in his eyes his true home was the middle planetary belt so he didn't seem too affected, "But this time we don't have the power on our planets to stand up to Robin Burton and his army, I'm afraid we have to assume that they've all been occupied."
"What do we do now? Maybe he's waiting for his grip on the nine planets to tighten before he reveals this truth and uses them to threaten us." Jabba looked worried, "We can use the fact that he doesn't know about us to send the army to those planets immediately!...But if we retreat from Nihari he will definitely come to Nihari."
"Shut up!" Pythor shouted at Jabba, then thought to himself again, and came to the same conclusion.
He can't defend Nihari and his other nine planets at the same time, if he and Robin Burton keep playing the game of who goes to Nihari and who conquers the rest of the planets, no one will win, they've each done it once now, but as long as the main army is intact and the Planetary Emperor is alive, all these games are useless.
And in this game, he's in a far worse position, because he has to defend nine planets, when Robin Burton only has to defend three...
He has to choose between Nihari and his nine planets to have peace that lasts for a few centuries, or he has to kill Robin Burton!!
... After a few minutes, Pythor turned back to Jabba, "Fix that Shadow Sword as soon as possible, I want him to deliver a message for me."