Ten years

The war took 10 years to stagnate since neither side advanced in the conquest, on the one hand, the New Federation managed to keep all the portals that connected the solar system under control, in this way the hordes of devourers were trapped inside the planets, on the other hand, the devourers conquered a large part of each planet except for earth and mars, earth was the only planet free from the presence of devourers while mars only 1 of the 2 continents was controlled by the devourers.

According to the various studies carried out by the federation they concluded that the devourers arrived through the magical portal located on the green continent of Mars, despite many efforts to recover the continent by the federation, it was practically impossible to maintain a War on so many fronts, as the federation had to keep each magical portal under control, so the federation opted for a defensive strategy for the time being.

Planet Venus, unknown area within the devouring territory, year 1035 of the new magical era.

As usual during the last year, a group of devourers was besieging one of the forward bases of the federation army, usually in this type of battles the human army was victorious, however, the wear and tear of the troops and The loss of supply was always a problem, on the other hand, the devouring army seemed to be simply infinite, once they started the attack against a base they did not stop until they completely devastated it, although the attacks were repelled, the next day they would attack again, the cycle would repel until the base of the federation fell.

Despite the continued onslaught of the Devourers, the federation learned to defend itself, and in the last year few bases had succumbed to the hordes of devourers, therefore the battle between the horde of devourers and the forward base could be considered a routine, while the battle began, several kilometers away was a group of 5 humanoid figures, all of them measured around 2.30 meters and wore a suit very similar to the one Abel used during the land invasion, however, each armor had a design and different color apart from a number on the right shoulder and the DreamTeach symbol on the left shoulder which consisted of a T and a D.

The blue and black colored armor possessing the number 00 spoke, "02 what's the situation?", The red and black colored armor immediately replied, "There doesn't seem to be any devouring activity around, if I'm not mistaken in these. moments the siege must have started, so we probably have 4 hours to complete the mission ". the blue and black armor spoke again "very well, the plan is simple, we entered the devouring nest, 04 will accompany me to look for the package, 01 and 03 will dedicate themselves to planting the gifts in the nursery room, and 02 you will stay here to inform us of any activity that happens around, stay in communication with the base ".

After 00 finished speaking, they all responded at once, "Got it", the most striking thing about the exchange that just happened is the fact that if someone had been next to the group they would not have been able to hear something, since the sound it was transmitted only between the armors, in turn, the voices could not be distinguished in genres since they were all heard as if they were a machine.

Once they decided on the plan, 4 of the 5 armors began to move, they were on a hill, right at the entrance of a valley, the whole area was deserted, there was no single plant, it looked like a desert only that was not yellow as on earth, since much of the earth in Venus was dark, everything is due to the large number of volcanoes on the planet, therefore the desert was gray, once they went down the valley they reached a cave, the entrance of the cave was huge it could easily measure more than 30 square meters, this place was the entrance to a system of caves that devourers usually dig, they are known as nests and basically it is the place where they reproduce and grow, the Federation discovered this type of structures very late during the war, since many planets were full of these nests there were so many that it was almost impossible to exterminate them all.

The four entered and did not find any creature as they entered the tunnel network, they soon found an interception and divided into two groups, the devourers usually follow a basic structure to build their nests so they already knew more or less to Where to go, 00 and 04 entered the upper tunnels, while 01 and 03 went to the lower tunnels, the tunnels were really wide, since the devourers usually move in large numbers and are usually always large numbers so the Space was a necessity, it should be noted that there are not only nests under the ground, there are nests on the surface, under the sea even floating nests, the devourers were highly adaptive creatures so they could nest and reproduce in almost any climate.

Once they reached the deepest tunnels they came to a chamber, which was quite wide, it was a chamber several kilometers wide, and easily more than 10 meters high, the walls of the chamber appeared to be made of meat and despite that the chamber was wide, many pillars that connected the floor with the ceiling were scattered around, these pillars as well as the walls were covered with a tissue very similar to meat, from all this fleshy tissue several bulges the size of a ball came out of football, this bizarre room was known as the nursery room, and from each of those protrusions devourers were born, once they both entered the room, 03 could not help but curse "Whenever I enter one of these rooms it turns me on the stomach, as always these damn monsters are disgusting even when they are born ". 01 advanced while answering "we better hurry to place the gifts, the faster we finish, the faster we will leave this place", without saying a single word more, both rushed to place small circular devices around the place.

While they were placing the spheres, they noticed strange sounds coming from all over the room, it was the same sound as if you heard someone swallow very slowly, while the sound continued, the bumps started to move and after a few seconds several bumps opened up and dropped little creatures, 01 and 03 knew very well this process taken from hell itself, even though the newborn eaters were not dangerous, they knew very well what happened after the eaters were born, so they quickly got into a mode. alert and headed for the entrance of the room.

Just when they reached the entrance of the room, they could see several creatures that easily reached 4 meters, these creatures had a body very similar to a mantis however, they had 4 upper limbs, a pair of huge claws and a pair of limbs that They were like pizas, however the clamps had 4 forming a kind of star-shaped clamp, this creature was known as a breeder, and its function was to care for, move and feed the newborns, they were easily stronger than a stalker but inside there were a limited number of each nest apart from the fact that they were quite slow.