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Chapter 593: Lan Jue’s Suggestion
“I’m sorry to interrupt,” the Speaker said, “but are you the Monarch, Zeus?”
Lan Jue answered with a nod of his head
Chatter ih the chanized as a hero for the East, for huht to his words, and underscored his own strength
The Wine Master had considered this and thus insisted on hi The Jewelry Master’s exploits on behalf of the Avenue earned hie He was a fine example for the youth of Eastern Alliance On the other hand it had beenvictory in the tournament, where everyone saw his face Some of the zeal around the revelation had dulled
As he stood there now, Lan Jue reawakened the memory of his accomplishments in the minds of the representatives Sos But when they saw the resolution in Zeus’ eyes, it was enough to convince theret that I lacked the ability to protect irlfriend was devastated when she heard the news Please continue to watch”
The recording continued It cut to scenes of himself, the Gourmet, the Driver, and the Pharether couldn’t best the Violet Princess
“You can see er now than I was during the tournament Allow me to introduce the others The Driver you likely reentleons He is the Infernal Vanguard, known to us as the Gourmet He has come with us today I am confident that if you’d thrown the Terminator in there with us, we’d still have to retreat We only narrowly escaped death”
Judging only by the video, most of the non-Adepts in the audience weren’t co at It was hard to compare when they had no frame of reference However, Lan Jue’s explanations captured the scope of the Violet Princess’ overwhele that we fled e did In truth there’s more to it than what’s on the video I would like to fornition of confidentiality, since this involves Avenue secrets At this time, all I can tell you is that a friend froed to seal the Violet Princess long enough for us to escape, but not without sustaining injuries We fled Moonfiend as fast as we could”
“I can attest to all of this,” the speaker added
The projection changed again This time it was four separate feeds Soes from the surface of Moonfiend
Lan Jue waited until the whole feed finished before talking “Everything you witnessed is real We’d hijacked the pirate defense syste the raid to monitor the planets as they appeared We’ve added the incident from our perspective as well as our probes in addition to the surface recordings They tell the same – true – story What we cannot knohether the planets will reht show up next It’s the one piece of information we desperately need”
The chamber was dead silent Many of the representatives already believed, and those they claimed not to, knew it deep in their hearts the s They didn’t want to accept it ‘Disaster’ couldn’t begin to describe what they itnessing
Lan Jue chuckled wryly “In fact, I hope they don’t stay out there The Starfields thereatest defense With all the debris we can’t reliably bring any of our larger ships to bear This goes double for Bastion ships If we station those Bastions around the Starfields, there’s nothing to stop the aliens froht into the center of an Alliance systeine the scale of destruction they could cause
“I have spent the last few days in careful thought One thing I can confirm for you all, is that the aliens absolutely have a structure of leadership They are led by intelligent entities who likely deterress into human space I have encountered these beasts before on Taihua Their singular interest is gathering energy Any living thing fuels them To phrase it as the Violet Princess had, we are food Their growth, developy This gives us a reason to believe, then, that although we don’t know the full scope of the alien’s strength, we at least can figure that they’ll need tiy it requires is prohibitive