Three more chapters of this are left after this chapter. This will be a very difficult chapter for the Peruvians and other peoples on the South American continent, for the Negaverse will continue to expand their control over part of Earth, unfortunately. This chapter basically describes the Negaverse's most recent activities in South America. But there is still one major battle left in this story that will lead to many substantial changers for any number of people in it, And most of them won't be good ones, for sure, in any case.

Without further ado, then, back to the story. There will not be much open action here, if any at all, but it's still setting the scene for future events, whatever those might then be. Until later, then, TUS out.

Somewhere In Dark Earth Zone One

Potosi, Peru, Earth

February 19, 987

Meanwhile, as the Monitors, Scouts, and many people of various kinds now in the Peruvian Empire were either training or mourning the loss of several of their friends and comrades, Epusaconio and his Negaversers were either mainly preparing for future battles against the inhabitants of Earth, or mainly celebrating their recent success in combat against several of those very same people.

Granted, the Negaversers had taken some losses when their scouting party near San Ignacio had encountered a dozen Monitors, but they'd still basically wreaked havoc on most, if not all, of those Monitors. They quite easily won that engagement, due to their overwhelming numerical advantage, at least, if not for any other reasons whatsoever as well. They'd not been able to kill all the Monitors they'd just faced, of course. But they'd really took down the Monitors they'd killed during the battle quite hard. And they'd inflicted injuries on another Monitor that'd just proved fatal to her, by this time here.

For their recent victory against those Monitors, they'd lost about one or two hundred of their number, if even that many, in order to gain control over about a thousand or so more square miles, at the very least. And no more than about another five to ten thousand square miles, in any case at all. Those losses were basically called rather acceptable, due to the increasing size of their forces in the area of the Peruvian Empire they'd taken over so far. Sure, they didn't like losing so many of their number against their enemies. But they realized that in order for them to gain a strong enough foothold on Earth to possibly attack the Moon Kingdom from, they'd probably take some losses because of those people that they were trying to take down, if not out, while they were trying to establish such a foothold on Earth's planetary surface.

So they considered their losses acceptable losses, at least as of the current time. And they probably wouldn't worry too much about their losses in their current theater of operations, at least until their losses got to be at least one or two million beings of their number, because they had many millions, if not billions or trillions, of various kinds of sentient beings currently at their disposals from anywhere in the Negaverse. And Beryl was not currently opposed to keeping Epusaconio in control of the Negaverse forces now in the Peruvian Empire on Earth. As long as he and his people continued to gain a stronger foothold, she wouldn't likely mind their forces taking at least some losses in the process of gaining that foothold, on Earth's planetary surface. Supposing that they were given enough people to work with when they tried to take over a certain inhabited part of Earth, or of the Universe, many people could probably do the same against any number of inhabitants from that part of Earth or the Universe, of course. Such was currently the feeling of Queen Beryl and others who were currently still somewhere in the Negaverse, including Jeddite, Nephlyte, Zoisite, and Malachite. Even given the present conflicts between any and/or all of Beryl's just-mentioned minions. So none of those minions of Beryl's was actively working against Epusaconio. Or at least not obviously enough, for the obvious reasons. They might be working rather secretly against him. But if so, they weren't making it obvious enough, of course.

As time went on, then, Epusaconio and his people continued to increase the amount of territory under their control. Even if they lost at least a few percent of their people per engagement against members of the Empire's military forces, including Monitors, of course, they still continued to increase the amount of territory that was under their control rather easily. And they continued to do this for much of the rest of February 987, if not the rest of it. Or at least until the Peruvian Empire managed to convince the leaders of at least one other nearby land, if not more than one such land, to try to help them against their current enemy from the Negaverse. That nearby land, or those nearby lands, were in the eastern parts of South America, somewhere north of both Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro, at least, if not also north of the future Brazilian city of Brasilia in what might later be called Central Brazil, perhaps. The Negaverse's progress on land was then halted, at least for a time, after that land, or those lands, came in on the side of the Peruvian Empire. The nearest part of the war's front lines to Cuzco were just about ten miles or so northeast of Cuzco. And those very same lines also ran just east of Puno, about half of Lake Titicaca away from Puno in the Peruvian Empire, and just south of a line that ran between Camana and Arequipa there to the Pacific.

Now, just off the coast, the Negaversers also had several thousand ships and other water-based craft mainly trying to make sure that nothing at all got into Peru from the sea, if not more. They also had many such ships and water-based crafts trying to make sure that nothing at all got out of Peru to the sea, of course. And in the air above whatever part of the Peruvian and Brazilian Empires that they currently had control of, they quite naturally had total air superiority over anything that their enemies might possibly be able to put in the air against them. Nothing that they thought might be sufficiently important to any or all of their enemies was allowed to fly over the area of Earth they now had control of, if it could possibly be avoided, no matter what it was, in fact. They didn't bother the wildlife any more than they absolutely had to, if they could possibly avoid doing so. But they also didn't realize that at least one of their enemies' greatest strengths was the rather simple fact that they could associate easily enough with many of the animals from those lands the Negaverse was now trying to take over, if not with all of them. Or at least they didn't yet realize it, if they ever would somehow realize it, in actual reality.

They continued gaining control over a larger area of Earth's planetary surface, whenever possible. But they mainly had to do it via use of their ships and other water-based crafts, for their land forces were currently being held up for a time by elements of at least two South American Empires' military forces, if not more than two of them.

Currently, the Peruvian Empire had control over much of the future Earth nations of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, as well as all of the future Earth nation of Ecuador. Their Brazilian allies had control over an area running from about Manaus to Belem to Salvador in the future Earth nation of Brazil. And their Surinamese Empire allies were holding territory running from roughly Tapurucuara to Belem to Morawhanna in the future Earth nations of Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, and Cayennesia.

However, the three Empires' enemies now held most, if not all, the southern half of South America, as of February 26, 987. Only a small part of the future Earth nations of Argentina and Uruguay still remained in Peruvian Empire control by then. And even those parts of those future Earth nations were just barely being held by the Allies now opposing the Negaverse's current invasion force. They were barely able to be held, because the Negaversers in that part of South America were not yet strong enough to force the Peruvian Empire's military personnel away from those parts of the Empire easily enough. Of course, that didn't mean that the Negaverse forces wouldn't ever be strong enough to kick the Peruvian Empire's people out of those areas. It just meant that they weren't yet strong enough to do so, if they'd ever be strong enough to do just that, someday, somehow, and somewhere in the Peruvian Empire.

Three chapters are left now of this story, and the climax of this story will happen in the next chapter, I believe, folks. After that happens, many things will no longer be the same for many in the Universe, especially if they're from the Peruvian Empire and/or the Moon Kingdom. This next chapter will be very hard to deal with in the future, and with the Negaverse still holding much, if not all, of South America in their control, it may only be a matter of time before they might expand their control to other parts of Earth somehow, of course.

Prepare for a lot of danger ahead, folks. There's still much of it yet to come, and more than three or four years of the relevant timeline are yet to pass here, if I remember correctly, before the end of the Moon Kingdom ultimately occurs. MANY people will most certainly die, at the very least, if not anything else as well, for sure.

Until the next chapter, then, I'll close this here. TUS out.