"Tell me—how can I transform into a Giant of Light?"
Camearra's eyes locked sharply on Keshiva as she demanded the answer.
"To possess the power of a Giant," Keshiva replied slowly, "there's only one step left. We must journey to Orion—to find the most crucial material."
As he spoke, he took out the shimmering fragment of crystal that had fallen from beyond the stars.
"It's this," he said gravely. "This kind of crystal can permanently contain vast amounts of light energy. To construct a Plasma Spark capable of evolution… the crystal coverage would have to span half the planet."
Keshiva exhaled deeply. Finding that much crystal was near impossible.
Even with Orion as a target, that constellation was vast—searching for such a world there could take an eternity.
Camearra listened quietly, then without hesitation, took the crystal sample from Keshiva's hand. Her gaze turned toward the massive Plasma Spark Tower standing within the laboratory's wide chamber.
Keshiva understood her intent immediately. With a sigh, he handed her the space bracelet specially designed to store the Plasma Spark itself.
"Hudra, Darramb—come with me!"
Camearra stored the Plasma Spark within the bracelet, her voice resolute. Then, without another word, she turned and left the laboratory.
Keshiva did not stop her. He knew his daughter too well—once she had made up her mind, there was no restraining her.
He sighed again, then took out his portable console and transmitted her the full data file on how to install the Plasma Spark once the material was found.
If Camearra truly managed to locate a planet with that much crystal, there would be no way to transport it back. The coverage of half a planet was far beyond what she and her two companions could ever handle.
Instead of heading straight into deep space, Camearra first piloted her craft back to the Island of Darkness, landing amid the barren wastelands. There, she boarded Yu Zhou's ship, taking the one that once carried Tiga himself.
For a long moment, she gazed across the desolate horizon—the empty wilderness that still held Tiga's memory. Her eyes shimmered with tears, but she quickly forced them back.
"Tiga… wait for me. I'll save you."
She issued the command, and the ship roared to life, breaking free of the Dark Realm and soaring into the endless cosmos.
"I'm just glad Lady Camearra decided to bring us along," Hudra said, leaning back in his seat, relief in his voice.
Beside him, Darramb nodded. "Same here. Honestly, I thought she'd leave without us."
It was true. The young mistress and her father, Keshiva, had argued fiercely, and both Hudra and Darramb were technically assigned as her guards by Keshiva himself. They'd feared she would abandon them entirely.
"Hudra," Darramb said with an uncharacteristically gentle tone, "you still don't see it, do you?"
He sighed, shaking his head.
"To Lady Camearra, we were never just guards. She's always treated us more like younger brothers."
Hudra blinked, stunned by the words.
"Think about it," Darramb continued. "Even though we're called her bodyguards, Lord Keshiva is still our uncle by blood. That makes her our cousin—our family."
"Our uncle…" Hudra murmured, realization dawning.
All this time, he'd seen himself only as a servant sworn to protect her, but she had never treated him that way. Her tone when she scolded him, her concern when he was hurt—
It wasn't the voice of a master to a subordinate, but that of an elder sister to her brothers.
Camearra stood at the ship's command deck, the starlight reflected in her crimson eyes. Outside, the universe streamed past—dazzling lights of distant suns retreating at incredible speed.
The ship's onboard AI handled navigation flawlessly. Even at such velocity, it avoided every drifting asteroid and fragment of debris.
No one knew how long they had been flying when they finally entered the Orion region.
"It's enormous…" Hudra muttered, staring out through the viewport at the brilliant clusters of stars. "Where do we even start looking?"
Darramb scratched his head helplessly. "Don't ask me. I've got no clue either."
Camearra, however, remained calm. She placed the crystal sample on the table in the ship's central hall, thinking quietly.
Then, a mechanical voice echoed through the chamber—
"Scan complete. Beginning data acquisition."
The hall's main screen lit up as rows of data cascaded across it.
"Whoa… all this just from one sample?" Darramb gawked at the readout. "I don't understand a thing it's showing, but it looks amazing!"
Hudra gave him a blank stare.
"…If you don't get it, why are you so excited?"
Truthfully, Camearra couldn't decipher the technical data either—but that didn't matter. She already had her next idea.
"Can you detect whether any nearby planets contain this same crystal composition?" she asked the AI.
"Affirmative, Master. Begin scanning?"
"Do it."
Her voice was sharp with restrained hope.
"Scanning initiated."
At her command, faint ripples of invisible energy pulsed outward from the ship's hull, spreading in all directions. The sensors began sweeping through the stars of Orion, scanning each nebula and planet in range.
One nebula after another passed beneath their sensors. The ship flew tirelessly, scanning, searching.
Days turned into weeks.
The ship's systems logged one planet, then two, then ten—hundreds.
None contained the crystal material they needed.
Weeks became months. Camearra's patience began to fray.
"If we can't find it after all this time…" she said softly, clenching her fists, "then we'll go back. Even if Tiga's gone, I'll find him. I have to see him again—no matter what."
Just as she was about to give the order to return, the ship's AI suddenly spoke—
"Crystal material detected. A nearby planet contains large quantities of the specified substance. Do you wish to proceed?"
The words struck them like a miracle from the heavens.
Hudra and Darramb nearly shouted in joy, tears welling in their eyes. In the endless void of space, against all odds—they had found it!
"Go! Take us there right now!" Hudra exclaimed.
But the AI ignored him.
Hudra blinked. "What—hey, why aren't you—?"
"You don't have command access," Camearra reminded him with a faint smirk.
Then she turned to the console. "Proceed to the target planet."
"Affirmative. Setting course."
The ship surged forward, breaking through starlight and shadow alike.
Moments later—
Boom…
They descended through the atmosphere of a glittering world.
"Current coordinates: Orion sector, M78 Nebula, unidentified planet," the AI reported.
"Atmospheric composition—Nitrogen 61%, Oxygen 20%… conditions suitable for human respiration."
The ship landed softly. The hatch opened.
Before them stretched an entire world made of shimmering, luminous crystal.
Hudra's voice trembled. "Lady Camearra… this whole planet—it's made of the same crystal material!"