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The Heavenly Martial Empress Returns Chapter 308: Life Of Saturn
🕑 Added 2025-04-22 20:02:35 +0000 UTC-----
“GRRRRR…”
Once I calmed down the alien creature, it let out a relaxed groan before floating in front of me without making another sound.
“Wow, did you tame it, Mom?!” Orion asked.
“Something like that… It seemed really distressed,” I said. “Did this guy come alone?”
“We found him alone, I think!” Athena said.
“Yeah!” Rainbow Eyes said. “Mom, can we eat it?”
“I don’t think you should eat it. Even though you might be able to, it probably tastes awful,” I said. “Better to let it fly away. I’ll ask him for something.”
I looked at the beast, closed my eyes, and transmitted an order into its very soul.
“Could you bring us where there’s more life or more like you?”
“GROOOHHH…”
The giant alien flew away, and we followed it, finally finding a large area where there was a lot of life! Primarily, gigantic jellyfish-like monstrosities of bright, twisting, and shifting colors, with long tentacles and whole worlds over their heads.
“Wow, what’s that?!” Athena asked.
“They’re huge!” Orion said.
“Probably bigger than a few kilometers…” I nodded. “Must be some sort of mega lifeform, and they seem to be always surrounded as well…”
We moved toward the nearest one we could reach. It was surrounded by a variety of manta ray and fish-like floating creatures, which flew around rapidly. Darting through the skies were also strange, sharp-headed, balloon-like wasps, which pierced the little manta rays with their spear-like heads and then fed on their blood and flesh while flying away.
As we descended onto the head of one of the titanic jellyfish, I called for my family to come see this wondrous thing, teleporting them to my side and showing them this wonder—a gigantic forest on top of this creature, made of bizarre brown, red, and black “trees” and “plants,” which were mostly all fleshy and tube-like, filled with air, constantly exchanging strange, toxic gases.
“Wooow!” Yanisse was shocked. “T-There’s life?! And there’s this giant thing?! And there’s a forest on top of it?!”
“An alien forest at that! Look, these tree-like things exchange gases to generate their own food, similar to those from our worlds… but too different at the same time,” Peperina analyzed. “Fascinating! I gotta take more photos!”
“It’s certainly an amazing view! And so alien…” Urbosa agreed.
“Indeed,” Merkite smiled. “Hey, Hekita, don’t run away too far!”
“But it’s so bouncy here! Hehehe!” Hekita bounced off the jellyfish’s surface, having her own fun.
“My, this place… is surely not my style. It looks so weird. I cannot imagine myself living here,” Bloodclaw said. “But it is certainly amazing to see…! I wonder if the Saturn of my universe has life as well.”
“Hmm, I wonder if there’s anything we could catch and cook around here…” Mursha smiled, licking her lips. “Been a while since I had something like fish or octopus… Look at those big ones! Are they tasty?”
“Fiery Hair wondered the same!” Fiery Hair nodded.
“I would rather not hunt or eat anything around here…” I said.
We continued exploring, finding new species of creatures—bug-like or starfish-like, with hundreds of tiny legs. Some were like masses of red flesh rolling around and capturing anything they touched, and a few were… kind of like weird, rock-shaped crab-bug things.
Among the trees, aliens resembling octopuses with spiraling shells balanced with super-long tentacles, glaring at us with curiosity using their massive, rainbow-colored eyes. We were never attacked, though; it seemed these creatures were too small to see us as prey.
We hopped to another of these titans, finding a different ecosystem. There were swamp-like biomes here, with strange, gooey water everywhere, where little fish and bug-like thingies swam and crawled.
There, we found something odd. My daughter Kalana called me to go see it.
“Mama, look, there’s an alien fishing!”
“What?”
I ran to see what she meant, hiding our presence behind one of these tube-like trees. We saw a group of three strange aliens using a rudimentary fishing tool to get food from this strange swamp.
They looked like the shelled octopuses from before, with hard, scaled brown and red-colored skin, big rainbow eyes, and spiraling shells, but they were considerably bigger, letting out strange, melodious sounds as they communicated.
“Guoogoooooh”
“Guguguuhh?”
“Guaaaah!”
Trying to understand what they were talking about, I put my mind to deciphering their language, and in just a couple of minutes, I could understand more or less what they were saying.
“The weather today is nice; there are no black clouds.”
“Yes, I want to eat some pakrukis.”
“I think you made your tool wrong. It appears to not be working properly.”
“Aaaahhh…”
They spoke… like normal people, I guess? They sounded rather young, but not exactly childlike—more like young adults? But that’s all.
“Wow! So that means they’re sapient?!” Yanisse gasped. “Amazing, so Martians weren’t the only other sapient species aside from humans!”
“I guess we can go with the Saturnian name?” Peperina asked.
“Sounds good!” I nodded. “But I guess… eh, it’s better to leave them alone, right? I wouldn’t want to scare them off.”
“Yeah… but can’t we see if they have a village or something?” Yanisse asked.
“Sure…” I nodded.
After a couple of minutes, they managed to catch a big, tentacled fish-like creature, which they seemed joyful about, running back to their village inside a large cavern formed in the interior of a dried-out shell from a large tentacled creature.
There, we saw about seventy of these people. They all had distinct colors and appearances, with different shell shapes and paintings on them. They also cooked their food inside a pot with boiling metallic liquid hydrogen before cutting the large beast into chunks and consuming it.
“Gruoohooo!”
“Guuugugoooh”
“Gigigigiiiii!”
As they ate, they seemed to get happy, as if it was tasty, and celebrated by dancing and wiggling their tentacles. They even had their own strange music. They were honestly an adorable little species of people, and I found them very endearing.
That’s why it’s better to leave them be, but we took a lot of pictures to show once we return home… I wonder how people on Earth would react if they saw this.
I mean, with the Tower there and aliens already coming from those planets, I suppose the public won’t be as shocked anymore.
Nonetheless, after seeing them, we quickly left Saturn, moving to Uranus.
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