Chapter 1532: Carver and Cultivator
The Carver of the group, the one capable of manipulating the ground, began doing something. He created a massive crater in the middle of the asteroid by carving chunks out of the crater and moving them elsewhere.
He didn’t take away part of the ground but rather morphed it. The lip of the crater was made by removing the matter that would otherwise be inside of it.
Ning moved closer to the group of 6 to see just what was happening.
The Carver didn’t stop moving at all. He continued working, making the crater bigger and bigger.
Ning sat by the side of the crater and watched.
At some point, the Carver had moved from making the crater, and instead added onto the lip of the crater, making large walls grow out of it.
The crater was now about 30 meters across and nearly 15 meters deep. Instead of being in the shape of a bowl, the crater was more in the shape of a pan. It was mostly flat at the bottom.
The wall extended out of the crater, going another 5 meters above. Now Ning was really curious just what they were doing. Setting up some location to protect themselves from objects flying around in the solar system? Setting up a place for some sort of observatory?
Ning thought of many possibilities, but in the end, the truth turned out to be much much more simple.
The Carver made an opening on four different sides, then moved on to flatten the land around those openings. Then, he rested for a bit and did something that shocked Ning to his core for a moment.
The Carver, a man in his late 30s, pulled the side of his suit, momentarily revealing his bare skin to space. Vacuum pulled on his air at once, sucking away everything, and the man felt the pull as well.
He handled it for a second and quickly reached to the floor, grabbing onto a few fists full of Sparks before dumping them into a special compartment inside of his suit.
As soon as he filled that compartment with Spark, he closed it. He half-collapsed to the ground, breathing heavily. The few seconds of revealing his body to space had not been a very good idea on his end.
Ning began moving toward that man, intending to heal him. He had done something stupid, but he shouldn’t die because of it.
However, before he could get to him, another person came up to him. It was a woman who placed her hand on the man and did something.
Within seconds, the man was up and full of smiles. He still had the look of pain and fear, but it was fading away too.
‘What did she do?’ Ning thought. She had healed the man.
‘Oh… is she a Cultivator?’ Ning thought.
He had heard about what Cultivators were capable of. Usually, they were farmers, the ones who grew crops and cattle. They were the ones who fed the people that lived underground.
However, that was not all they did. Cultivators were people capable of improving one’s rate of cell regrowth, so they were also excellent healers in cases where one could heal by themselves.
They couldn’t regrow limbs, but they sure as hell could heal someone who was just cut or had some internal issues. They could even help their body produce more white blood cells to fight diseases.
All in all, Cultivators were great doctors, and Ning had just seen one in action.
‘No wonder,’ he thought. He had assumed that the man had been stupid to do what he did, but it had all been according to plan to begin with. The only reason he had dared reveal himself to the space was because there was someone here who could heal him within seconds.
‘They planned everything perfectly,’ Ning thought. He was rather liking watching these people at work. There was a certain entertainment in watching people who were good at their job do their job.
The Carver, now healed, stood up and fixed the pouch inside of his suit where he had placed the multiple fists full of Spark. He now had more than half a kilogram of Spark inside of him, and he seemingly was going to use a lot of it.
The Carver began consuming the Spark inside of his suit by directly snorting it from the inside. As the Spark entered his body, he opened his eyes, a look of clear power inside of him.
There was a lot of power inside of him, so much so that any more and he would end up being Sparkless if he consumed even more. He turned around and moved in one direction, the chain he was attached to the ship with lengthening as he did.
He went far away, nearly 100 meters away. Then, without waiting, he began doing what he needed to.
Once again, he began Carving.
Ning felt the ground shake and wondered what the Carver was up to this time around.
The grounds shook and they began deforming once again. Part of the ground rose, slowly becoming a hill on the asteroid.
This was different from the crater.
The Carver continued working and Ning realized it was not a hill he was making. It looked like mountains, but they were clearly not.
“Waves?” Ning thought.
It was most definitely a wave. And it was moving.
Like a tsunami without an ocean, the Carver moved the ground itself, slowly bringing it toward the crater. The wave got larger and larger, and it curved at the top seemingly gathering everything.
It gathered all the Spark that was on the ground.
The man was moving the ground, and with it pulling all the Spark that had gathered in this asteroid for the past few years.
Ning finally understood their plan.
They weren’t here to chart the stars or to set up an observatory. They were here for what they were always anywhere for.
Spark.
Spark was life itself to these people, and they would go to any length to get it.
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