The voice of the gem emperor was calm and mellow, but deep in his mind, his thoughts were churning violently. He was so anxious that he wished he could enter the Aries world immediately and go to grab the black ship.
It was unfortunate that he couldn't enter the Aries world. If he tried to force it, he would be lost in the sea of darkness. So he could only send the strongest gem kings serving him to retrieve the black ship for him.
He used to have 8 peak gem kings serving him. One of them had his body destroyed and needed to start all over again, while two other seems to be lost forever. So the five peak gem kings that he is sending are the last of what he can provide.
For now, he wants to monopolize the ownership of the black ship. This is why he didn't ask for help from other gem emperors now.
If the five peak gem kings prove to be inadequate in getting him what he wants, then he will have no choice but to ask for help and share the ownership of the advanced space-faring technology.
After telling them about the main goal, he also said something about other, less important goals that he wants them to achieve in Aries.
He said, "If you can, try to retrieve Spike and Crage's heart stones for rebirth. You should also try to capture one of the leaders of the foreigners and send them here. If you can't capture any leaders, capture their subordinates too."
After thinking about what he said, he changed his mind and said, "You know what, don't bother to target the leaders of the foreigners. Capture any foreigner that you see, no matter how weak they are, and send them over."
"We need to get the spatial coordinates of the world of the foreigners, so send as many foreigners as you can get your hands on. If we can get the spatial coordinates of their world, then we will have the upper hand."
The Ivory gem emperor gave them more instructions, which took more time. Then he left to attend to other business.
After the gem emperor left, five peak gem emperors appeared. The five of them didn't speak at all. They just plunged headfirst into the transparent leystone.
Because some people had entered the leystone, it froze and stopped displaying the scene of the other world. Instead, it froze with the picture of the first peak gem king on it.
The frozen picture of the first peak gem emperor in the Leystone was slowly getting bigger and bigger. The speed of enlargement was very slow. But the quartz gem person and the other kings waited patiently because when the picture is fully enlarged, the peak gem king will come out of the Leystone.
The leystone is the best means of communication and transportation between worlds that the gem civilization possesses. They don't have any way to traverse the sea of darkness, which is why the ivory gem emperor wants the black ship so much.
Leystones work in pairs. The one in Aries is working with another one in their home world. This connection between leystones is known as the leystone network.
The leystone network can be used to transport both energy and matter. The bigger the leystone, the larger its bandwidth.
That means the bigger the leystone, the more it can transport at a time. As for speed, that is a more complicated matter.
The transportation is dependent on both the size of the connection and the quantity of energy or matter that is being transported through the leystone network.
A small amount of energy, such as the quantity of light and sound used in communication, can be transported from one leystone to another leystone almost instantaneously. This is usually the case regardless of the size of the leystones and the distance between them.
The transportation of energy is very fast, but matter takes much longer to transport. Of course, this is only in comparison to instantaneous transportation.
In fact, the minimum speed of transporting matter through the leystone network is the speed of light. For short distances, the speed of light is fast. But for the distances between worlds, the speed of light is very slow.
Powerful objects and beings like gem kings can move between worlds through the leystone network at speeds faster than light. But because of the large distance between the two worlds and the interference of the world spirit and other forces with the network, the time it will take them to arrive can be as long as months.
They are experienced with the Aries world, so they know that it will take 5 weeks for the five peak gem kings to appear in Aries. This is only because Aries is weak. If Aries were stronger, it would take them longer to arrive.
During this period of time, the gem people didn't make any rash moves. They hid and waited for reinforcement. This left the Sun King to resist the new invaders.
The Sun King wasn't enough to stop the new invaders, so the foreigners were able to make progress. The phantom of the golden tree at the North Pole grew bigger and covered more of the world.
The growth of the golden tree weakened the world spirit of Aries, which led to the weakening of the Sun King. So if the situation were to continue like this, the Sun King would be killed, and no one would be able to stop the new invaders from destroying the leystone and cutting off their reinforcements.
The only silver lining in this situation is that the weaker the world spirit of Aries becomes, the less interference it can make on the leystone network, and the faster the reinforcement will arrive. So something that should take 5 weeks might only need 4 weeks.
Meanwhile, the war for the world of Aries raged on. It was a war that was fought with blood and tears. The entire world came together to fight the new invaders with a determination that seemed endless.