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Chapter 588: Transferring Planets!
The asteroid belt was gone, like it had never existed One of the defining features of the Shattered Starfields was that at any given tiiven direction you could find asteroid belts and dwarf planets in scores The clearest band was near the galaxy’s central star
This area was traditionally not so lucky, and yet now the space around it was completely clear That is, but for the three enor waves of energy that grew stronger by the moment, while they spun ever faster
Lan Jue and his team weren’t the only spectators All the pirates and slaves left on Moonfiend, and especially its two sister planets, were spectators to the event Unlike Lan Jue, however, they had nopirates had watched the destruction of Moonfiend froo Moonfiend Palace, the seat of their poas under enemy occupation
So they didn’t dareenealaxy Who knehat sort of devious traps they’d planned? This was especially true for the second planet whose entire fleet had been decimated At least on the planet they had the defense syste, a ht shot from Moonfiend’s surface It pierced the atmosphere and fired into the darkness of space I was visible from the other planets with the naked eye
The vortexes spun at incredible speed Then, all of a sudden, they collapsed in on theer sustain their existence In a scene as strange as any in the last half a day, the cyclones of violet energy condensed to a single point of light The buffeting tides of energy threatened to throw all three planets out of orbit Rays of light struggling to fight their way out of that infinitesiers of this turbulence At light speed, even those deadly rays couldn’t catch thelued to the monitors They wanted to discover all they could about what it was they saw, to discover is the Violet Princes was indeed an alien Not least of which, they needed to knohat she was doing there
Reconnaissance equiph Majesty and Zeus-1 were comparatively small for their respective classes, their equipment was top of the line They could oing on around Moonfiend
When Lan Jue saw the whirlpools contract, his eyes ide He audibly gasped In a few breaths all of that terrible power… stopped It certainly was not nor none of theain in volurew, reality around the went dark The probes were obliterated by the shockwaves
On the bridge, you could hear a pin drop It was like everyone’s breath was caught in their throat They’d seen it… they’d all seen it! In those moments before the probes were destroyed, they’d witnessed the scene with their own eyes
The communication’s controls flickered The Accountant’s voice broke the silence “Jewelry Master, accept my feed,” he said
Mika connected the line
The video that flickered onto their monitors showed the area around Moonfiend He was still close enough to remotely access thehe could gain access all the way fro in handy now
Lan Jue sed “Did you see?” Lan Jue turned his head to look at the Pharmacist and the Gourmet
They nodded, both their faces dark and soleh in pain “Why… why does it have to be like this?”
The Pharmacist’s voice was curt and dispassionate “We should consider ourselves lucky We found out early At least we can bring the inforive theht became more distinct on their monitors A yellow shell crackled over the planet – the planetary defenses engaging, under the Accountant’s couns alike prepared for any encroaching threat
The night sky was clear All the asteroids had been bloay, leaving an obstructed view of the heavens It argantuan violet planets hovered in space, flickering with caustic light
The three alien planets! These were the harbingers of hu to meet All of them had seen what happened to the North’s Seventh Fleet when they encountered these planets
Planetary transfer!
This was one thing humanity was certain was i what everyone thought to be true Alien invaders had flagrantly appeared in the heart of huot of the planets since the Seventh Fleet Up this point they had disappeared without a trace Soested the aliens were never after thee, there was space enough for everyone