The hivemind is conquering for me?

Keyla looked up at me as though I had ripped her soul from her body. ”But, but, but. You promised me a blood orgy!” Her voice was soft and meek, a complete contrast to the entity that had been killing countless over the past day.

Stroking Keyla’s head softly, which she seemed to really enjoy, I replied. ”You are right. I did promise you intimacy... After the battle was finished. Right now we are simply in an interlude as Jewel begins creating the new bio forms. ”

Keyla looked displeased with that piece of information, but was understanding. ”Fine, can I at least get a proper kiss to hold me over? Your love will help keep my head level... So I won’t accidentally try and eat you again.” She mumbled at the end, quiet enough that I didn’t quite hear.

I grimaced slightly at her request, but I agreed. I can withstand a little grossness for my loved ones after all. Picking Keyla up like a doll, I then brought her up to my face and connected my lips with hers.

The blood in her mouth did not taste nice, but I gave her a fair share of my love, leaving my face and chest a bloody mess by the time we separated. When I pulled back, Keyla chased my lips for a moment with her eyes closed, but did not attempt to initiate further as a calm smile spread across her lips.

”Oh yeah, it’s all coming together. Killing and kissing is the perfect combination.” Keyla wanted to suggest that perhaps when they return to Spartari that they should try torturing a person together to see if that felt even better, but she thought Apollo wasn’t ready for that step in the relationship...Yet.

After putting Keyla back down, Orchid scooched her way over and tugged my wrist softly, looking up at me longingly. ”Oh fine you cute little milk dispenser, come here.” After kissing the Orchid, I looked around the surroundings. The Hive was still swarming ahead, but the drones had made their way up to this point now, acting as scavengers eating all the dead bodies with a few warriors and freethinkers to oversee everything.

”So, Orchid. Where does Jewel want us? We can’t stay here making out all day after all.” I said, causing a silent glance between Orchid and Keyla. ”We can’t stay here making out all day!” I followed up once more seeing the gears working in their individual brains.

”The queen wants us to begin helping out the areas we are struggling with. A Freethinker Wing ripper is coming to pick us up now. The queen is enjoying the fact that the god entity is stuck within its domain, so the queen wants to wipe out the rest of the defensive forces before causing a mass encirclement. The queen wishes for the god entity to feel fear and weakness before she devours it, these types of entities taste the best when they realise their power is nothing against her.”

I stared at Orchid for a moment, fully aware that Jewel was observing me through the open link. ”Wow, sweetheart. I did not know you had a thing for torturing gods... Kind of hot, not going to lie. Very well. Let’s help out all the other cuties around and begin the siege proper!”

...

Two Days Later:

The ascended Aeletha frowned to the best of her featureless capabilities. The hunger over the course of this defence had been acting much differently than the past few decades. Talks of abnormal creatures and the use of ranged creatures completely ruining the current defence plan was all she had been hearing.

Aeletha had not been a complete sitting duck however, with the lack of attack inside her domain, Aeletha had been able to fire out massive amounts of energy into space and the area surrounding her domain causing losses in the hundreds of thousands each time she charged up.

Also, the change up of the enemy attack strategy caused a change in the defence strategy. Since it had essentially become a standard warzone, the defence leaders had begun sending Thurx drones en masse to the now wasteland while bringing back as many flesh and blood defenders into Aeletha’s domain to prevent the hunger from eating and creating more creatures.

Still, roughly 50% of the planetary defence force had been lost and the fleet had all taken cover within Aeletha’s domain, ready to initiate evacuation when the defence was down to its last 20%

Aeletha charged up another whip of cosmic energy and lashed out at the edge of her domain where the hunger had been waiting for a few hours. Her entire domain was now ringed. Surrounded on all sides, but while the rest of the planet had indeed fallen, with her and the constant upgrades to the defences, Aeletha still wagered the odds to be in their favour.

…

I was mounted atop a Wing ripper. I had been using it for the past day to bomb locations from above with giant Psionic bombardments. The actual attacks were beyond crude, essentially just a big ball of Fire energy, but with the planet so thick with energy and said energy constantly replenishing me, the tactic was beyond absurdly effective.

Over in the distance, a massive lash of energy unlike anything I ever seen just wiped out an exorbitant amount of bio-forms. The sight angered me, but Jewel assured me it was ok and that it was a part of her tactic as she got everything into position for the upcoming assault.

With the sheer amount of defenders that were on the planet, Jewel had lost about 25% of her entire fleet on this world alone. Usually she would be seething at the biomass lost, but against a god. To devour it, Jewel would sacrifice the entire fleet and not care in the slightest. And on top of that, she expected to lose another 10% instantly as she begins to flood the gods domain. And that was bound to rise exponentially as she was still adamant on not descending herself. The flesh of a god that dies to her mere skin cells tasted the best after all. The shame added something that could not be replaced.

Another hour later, millions of dead bioforms turned to ash, a warrior began moving forward. It placed its leg into the gods domain and suddenly turned into ash just like the rest of its caste had done before.

The process repeated over and over again. Hundreds of millions began pouring into the domain, draining the seemingly endless energy from the god so the others could begin the hunt.

After countless deaths of bio-forms. One warrior finally made it fully through the barrier. It then took two steps inside before being shot hundreds of times by the defenders of a nearby fortress.

Still, that was just one warrior. Nothing. There were millions more now breaching the barrier. Some died to the concentrated energy of the god while the rest were beginning to make ground before being moved down. Either way, The siege had begun and Jewel could practically taste the flesh of that god inside her throats already.

Looking below from my ripper, I noticed a familiar shape of a Bloodfiend making her way through the barrier. The second she was through, Keyla somehow began growing and I remembered something Orchid told me about the energy from a memory of a Psionic being she ate.

Apparently the excess energy could only be used by beings born of this galaxy, which is why I had been able to use so much Psionic energy without repercussion. I was born within this galaxy after all.

Still, watching Keyla suddenly getting larger, which I did just assume meant she had gotten stronger, I smiled as I relayed to the Wing Ripper to fly me inside. If my Psionic energy got stronger from being within the domain, I would essentially become an aerial artillery piece with the power increase.

...

The ascended Aeletha suddenly felt a strange sensation in her domain. An entity from the hunger had just entered her domain and her domain registered it as being originated within the galaxy. This was bad for Aeletha. Her current power was solely to deal with outside threats. It could not damage anything that originated within the galaxy. It was the main reason she could not just whip this out against the Spartari. And the Drakoshi had been here too long now as they had begun colonising their region instantly, before they declared war against the Coalition.

Just before Aeletha could garner attention towards the second blip that entered her domain, she looked up into the stars. A terrible energy had just entered the galaxy, moving at way beyond FTL travel speed and was in a direct collision course with the planet.

Aeletha attempted to strengthen her domain’s protective elements at the cost of a great deal of power, but it was too late as a red laser of doom crashed into the planet, sending the hunger and her own beings flying in multiple directions due to the energy of the contact.

The red laser disappeared very quickly, much to everyone’s relief, but shortly after, a roar that made even a god’s heart skip a heart began reverberating Throughout the world. To the Defenders, its sounded like the call of death, but to the hive, the intent of the roar was clear.

”APOLLOOOOOOOO!!!!!”