407. Prey

The Ulmartan Soul Eater is a creature endemic to the Silver Trilateral Wastelands, native to the Ulmartan star system, resembling a shark, but without fins and with a larger head-to-body ratio.

An adult Soul Eater Shark is about a kilometer long, and its sharp teeth can even bite through the shields and armor of a battleship. This creature can not only survive in the cosmic environment, but it is also one of the few creatures known to mankind that can perform superstring jumps with its physical body.

The most incredible thing is that most of the creatures' bodies are hollow, which can be artificially modified and then converted into biological weapons that are not inferior to those of large warships.

The Ulmartan Soul Eater is a loyal companion to hunters, especially the Core Hunters, mutants who are also native to the Ulmartan system. These mutants possess the ability to mentally synchronize with the Soul Eater, and only they can truly manipulate this fearsome interstellar behemoth.

The name Hunter has two meanings, one represents the largest pirate group in the Wastelands, which is mostly composed of mutants and forsakens, who attack all the targets they can attack and destroy all the planets that can be destroyed. Another meaning is to represent the true core of the hunters, the core hunters of the Ulmartan people.

As mutants, the Ulmartan are very different from standard humans in appearance, they are generally more than two meters tall, have a strong body, and have a head that looks very similar to that of a soul shark, although they also have human facial features, but look more like beasts than humans.

Although born on the planet Ulmartán, the people of Ulmartan did not stay to build their home planet, they were born marauders, and the word "construction" is not in their dictionary at all, and the entire history of the Ulmartan people is a never-ending hunting season.

More importantly, although the stomach of the Soul Eater Shark can digest almost all the substances known in this universe, the energy converted from those substances can only maintain the survival of the Soul Eater Shark, and only by constantly devouring humans and ingesting human souls can the Soul Eater Shark grow step by step and have more powerful power.

This is also the origin of the name Soul Eater.

Theoretically, there is no limit to the growth of the Soul Eater, for example, the Soul Eater King Cannibel, who just swallowed Respisio and his flagship, has a 100,000-meter-long body because it is fed by hundreds of millions of human souls.

"You say the director of the transport alliance is a patron?" Through the spiritual connection to his own car, the king of hunters, Gornax Ulmartan, can clearly feel the joy of his companion Cannebel.

The Soul Eater Shark needs the soul of a human to grow itself, among which the forsaken is the worst, the cornerstone is better, the patron is naturally the best, the more advanced the patron can provide, the higher the quality of the soul, the Respisio who has just been swallowed by Cannibel is an intermediate patron, and this level of patron is already rare in the border wilderness.

The head of the transport alliance's branch in the King's System is a very important position, especially Lobanov is extremely proud, and low-level patrons are not qualified to see him at all, so a branch director wants a mid-level patron like Respisio to be the position.

Intermediate patrons are powerful, especially those who have expertise in certain areas, and Respicio is one of them. Unfortunately, the hunter appeared too suddenly, and he was attracted by the explosion of the Flame Queen, and Respicio was swallowed before he could use his powers, and his soul turned into nourishment for the Soul Eater.

Soon, the battle outside the asteroid T3M7151 subsided. Wherever hunters are involved and won, the battlefield must be extremely clean. The Soul Eater's stomach can digest everything, whether it's the wreckage of the battleship or the crew, all of them will be devoured.

Only half an hour passed, and it was as if there had never been a war outside the asteroid T3M7151, and if it weren't for the large-scale assembly of the huge group of soul eater sharks, no one would have thought that there had just been a battle here, 600,000 people, and 5,000 ships were destroyed in one fell swoop.

The Flame Queen flickered again, an eerie blood-red glow that was a precursor to an impending supernova explosion.

If Respicio were still alive, he wouldn't have stayed any longer at the sight of this vision, even if his fleet wasn't ready, he would have ordered the jump to start at once, and if it had been slower, none of the people present would have survived by the arrival of the supernova energy storm.

Even at this moment, the energy storm has begun to affect the stability of the surrounding large area. You must know that superstring jumps need to be carefully calculated, and a small calculation error will cause the deviation of the landing point to be calculated in hundreds of millions of kilometers. What's more serious is that the high-latitude jump has extremely strict dimensional requirements, and once it is interfered with by external energy, the ship may be destroyed at any time.

Speaking of which, the Soul Eater Shark is not only able to perform super-string jumps in the flesh, but also surpasses ordinary warships in terms of speed and range, especially the interval between two jumps can be achieved within a minute, which is also the key to the hunter's ability to successfully round up their prey.

But Gornax didn't mean to start jumping at all. Not only did Gornax have no action, but the rest of the hunters were not in a hurry, and in their opinion, maybe it would be more interesting to wait until the last minute to jump, and those who chose a safe time to jump in advance were cowards!

Hunters are inherently a crazy bunch.

The Flame Queen flickered more and more often, and the strange red light reflected in Gornax's eyes, reflecting all greed and madness.

The prey of Gornakos is not the Queen of Flames, but Braleva, Lobanov's treasure. The human soul is the best nourishment for the soul shark, so what other planet in the wilderness is more attractive to hunters?

Perhaps ordinary people don't know what Lobanov did, but as one of the six kings, Gornax knows exactly what Lobanov did. Gornax even knew that the Transport Alliance was helping to traffic humans, which is why Gornax had never attacked the Transport Alliance's branch in the King's System - he wanted the most perfect soul planet to feed his Cannibel.

Every time he thought that there were more than 10 billion reconciled souls on the planet Braleva alone, Gornax couldn't help but want to start a war and grab this treasure. But although Gornax is crazy, as a king, there is still the necessary rationality. Although the Hunters possessed more than half a million warships, including the Soul Eaters, the sheer number far exceeded that of the King's Guard. But what hunters are best at is sports warfare, using the speed of the soul eater shark to divide and encircle, and eat the prey bite by bite, which is what hunters are best at and favorite combat methods.

Speaking of which, the Soul Eater Shark is a perfect biological weapon whether it is sub-light speed, superstring jumping, or melee combat, but it is a pity that the Soul Eater Shark is relatively lacking in long-range attack means, and the total power of the modified main gun is less than that of ships of the same level due to energy supply.

In particular, Lobanov never took the initiative, he never left the king's sand castle, which wiped out the advantage of the hunter's mobility. Positional warfare has never been a hunter's forte, and Gornax knows that even if he does break through the king's sand castle, Lobanov's guy will definitely blow up the entire galaxy, and it is impossible to leave a single spoil for himself, let alone Braleva.

Until recently, Lobanov seemed to be getting weaker, he did not even summon Respisio for more than a year, did not place any more orders with the transport union, Gornax could not bear it any longer, he sent a reconnaissance fleet. The results soon came out, Colonel Ethan's fleet was completely wiped out, and it didn't even have time to send a distress signal, and then the King's system changed dramatically, and the King's sandcastle was detonated!

This series of changes was too fast, and even a little unexpected by Gornax, but fortunately Brajeva was not destroyed, and just before the Flame Queen was detonated, Braleva broke away from the King's System in a superstring jump.

In addition to the surprise, this time Gornax vowed not to let it go again.

What made Gornax even more crazy was that according to the information in his hands, there were two other soul planets one large and one small, and the soul quality of the larger one was even higher than that of Braleva!

Thinking of this, Gornax's eyes lit up, it was his greed, and the energy storm that had already arrived from the Flame Queen.