A/N: I just realized I forgot to post a chapter, I didn't even see when, lmao. Sorry, I'll post two now.
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Black Spider easily entered the main Godorian ship, he finally saw the commander of the Godorian fleet in person. He had regrouped with Rick, Slugcat, and Trax, the trio following him as he smiled at the Godora group.
Trax was clean, his pugilistic flames had burned away the blood long ago, but Rick, on the other hand, carried a gigantic sword on his left shoulder, with Slugcat still on his right.
The problem was that the enormous blade was stained with still-dripping blood, the smile on his face was evident, he was clearly showing off.
The Trihexa crew was already used to Rick's "vibrant" personality, so they ignored him, the Godora crew, on the other hand, looked at Rick with evident fear. Perhaps it was because of guys like Rick that mercenaries were so feared and avoided in the galaxy.
In any case, Black Spider didn't care about that, instead, he looked at the pureblood Godoran, as well as his subordinates behind him, but his eyes fixed on a woman and a man not far away. Black Spider might not have known who this woman was before, but when he saw the information about her in the mind of the Dark Star intelligence officer, he finally understood the entire development of the feud between the two parties.
The woman had extremely pale skin, silky black hair, a delicate and cold face with black lips, but her most striking feature was her bright red eyes. She wore tight black combat gear with a plasma pistol at her waist, the overall look made her an extremely attractive woman, but Ringo simply looked at her calmly. He had no shortage of attractive women, and this woman didn't "genetically" attract him, so he just observed her calmly.
The man beside her was even more interesting, with a strong physique that couldn't be completely hidden by the mage's black cloak, but his face wasn't human at all, it looked completely like a raven's head, his face resembling the bird completely, with black eyes and a slightly curved beak at the tip.
Not only that, but from his back, two black wings swayed slightly, and his hands were black with sharp black claws, between his fingers was a short black wooden scepter that was straight at the bottom but soon rose like a hardened black vine, on his chest hung a necklace with a red jewel that looked like a ruby, but Ringo recognized it as a magical core.
The raven man was clearly a magician.
Even so, something about him seemed very strange, even more so than his appearance. Ringo's clone could sense that his emotions were completely confused inside. The clone shifted his gaze to the man's soul, and what he found there surprised him greatly.
A main soul, surrounded by thousands of fragments of his own soul, this seemed very similar to his situation as a Parasite, but while in Ringo's case he could barely find the parasite, in this man's case it was completely evident.
But even so, his situation was even more complicated than Ringo's, his soul seemed like a ruined bridge, with all those souls acting like a strong glue. If you tried to remove the glue, the bridge had a 99.9% chance of collapsing.
To be honest, he's impressed by this raven-man's control, it required extreme willpower to maintain his sanity with all those souls surrounding him.
Ringo could barely tolerate his own parasite, imagine thousands of them...
Ringo couldn't help the man either, he could remove the souls, but as previously stated, the bridge would collapse and the man would die anyway.
The only solution Ringo could think of was to become a BGA, or perhaps get help from a psychic BGA. For a moment, Ringo felt lucky, at least he had the option of accepting Emma. This guy, on the other hand... except for space wonders like the Soul Swapper, which could help him keep his soul stable even after removing the other souls.
Shaking his head, Black Spider refocused on the Godoran in front of him. - The mission is complete, we won't linger any longer, send the payment through the mercenary association.
The money was irrelevant for him now, but the mission itself could increase the credibility of his mercenary group, honestly, at the moment it was only better than nothing.
-Alright, Mr. Black Spider, wouldn't you like to stay for a thank-you meal?- the Godoran fleet commander asked hurriedly. It was difficult to find someone as powerful as Black Spider, even more so a subordinate of one of the four BGAs of the Shattered Star Ring.
The commander clearly wanted to make connections at that moment.
Black Spider was about to refuse, but seeing the two mercenaries out of the corner of his eye, he became interested again. The clone's future vision activated in a fraction of a second. The next moment, Ringo felt Rick tug at his clothes. He looked back and saw a clearly excited look on the man's face.
Ringo saw that he was looking directly at the pale woman with obvious interest.
Ringo rolled his eyes at him before turning to the commander and nodding. -Alright, we can stay and eat.
Commander Godorian was clearly pleased with this, he laughed openly and invited Black Spider to taste a rare wine he had been saving.
Rick, who had been eyeing the woman, turned his head so quickly that his neck cracked. He appeared in front of Black Spider and shook the confused Godorian's hand. -Friend! You're a friend!