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Chapter 139: Stabilizing the Sea Star Domain - The Mobile Battle Star
Chapter 139: Stabilizing the Sea Star Domain - The Mobile Battle Star
Song Chi, upon entering the Marketplace of All Realms, immediately headed to the special configuration slot area and took out the [Light Concealment Platform].
After sixty seconds of activation, a nearly invisible transparent shield quietly enveloped the outer layer of the marketplace, more precisely, the inner side of the protective energy barrier that surrounded it.
This way, the marketplace’s internal light and energy fluctuations were completely hidden. If the marketplace were to come under attack, as long as the energy barrier did not overload, the concealment shield would remain effective.
The [Light Concealment Platform] was now activated, and the next step was to enhance it.
To ensure that the marketplace’s second-stage upgrade from level 1 to level 2 would not reveal any light or energy fluctuations, Song Chi directly boosted the platform to level 20.
The specific attribute changes included a recharge time reduction from 60 seconds to 30 seconds, and the cooldown time after overloading was reduced from one hour to half an hour.
Additionally, the stealth characteristic was significantly enhanced.
{Stealth: Consumes 5000 energy points to activate the ship’s stealth mode, lasting 120 minutes with a priority level of 800. The stealth mode will be deactivated upon attacking or being attacked, with a 12-hour cooldown.}
Most importantly, the invisible concealment shield was strengthened. After reaching the second stage, its ability to hide light and energy fluctuations was significantly improved.
After enhancing the [Light Concealment Platform], Song Chi did not rush back to the Azure Sky. Instead, he entered the all-attribute training room. Due to the [Flame Warship Crew Certificate] component on the Roaring Lion, everyone had been unable to practice the Energy Guidance Technique for the past few days. Song Chi planned to catch up on his training.
As for further enhancements to the Azure Sky, he had already used up all his second-stage Floating Land Essence, so he couldn’t continue enhancing it for now.
Moreover, it had been over a month since his last marketplace trade and exploration of a foreign star domain. If he wanted to, he could initiate both now, but Song Chi held back.
The "Mid-Distance Star Domain Gateway" near the Silver Spear Floating Land had an unknown cooldown time. If he started a marketplace trade or exploration now, and both parties coincidentally met, his family would likely be delayed for another four or five days because of him.
Song Chi decided to wait until they returned to the Song Clan of the Stabilizing Sea and settled in before arranging these activities.
Several hours later, Song Chi, his body radiating with steam, left the warship summoning room.
The Energy Guidance Technique fundamentally involves a comprehensive refinement of the practitioner’s entire body. Sweating and detoxifying are inevitable each time it is practiced.
The next day, on the 19th of March, 5204 Morning Star Calendar, the news came that the mid-distance star domain gateway was about to complete its cooldown. The Song family and thousands of Flame Warships, all needing to be teleported to the Golden Lion Star Domain, set off once again.
Billions of miles away from the Silver Spear Floating Land, a massive space station capable of accommodating over a million people floated in the dark void of space. Next to this station was a ten-thousand-meter-wide spatial gateway, the mid-distance gateway connecting to the Golden Lion Star Domain.
At this moment, tens of thousands of Flame Warships of various sizes were suspended within this gateway, awaiting its activation.
The spatial gateway teleportation technology, it is said, originated from the Holy Federation, one of the four super-empires of the Flame Human Civilization. Although the cost of teleportation far exceeds that of a single Flame Warship’s spatial jump, and its setup and maintenance are extremely difficult, it has fundamentally changed the expansion speed and controlled territory of the Flame Human Civilization.
Spatial jump devices for Flame Warships are rare, and not every Flame Warship captain can obtain such components.
Furthermore, low-quality spatial jump devices, even when enhanced to their maximum, can only jump a few hundred light-years. Only purple-quality and above jump components can achieve jumps of over a thousand light-years.
In contrast, the mid-distance spatial gateway can teleport thousands of light-years, and long-distance gateways can teleport tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of light-years. The most advanced ultra-long-distance galaxy gateway can reportedly teleport over a million light-years in a single use.
Of course, setting up such an ultra-long-distance galaxy gateway is extremely difficult. A Flame Human Principality like Morning Star cannot set it up independently; it requires a stronger Kingdom to do so.
During the wait, the personnel from the Golden Shark Military in the space station activated the spatial gateway.
Humming sounds and spatial fluctuations intertwined, causing a moderate sensation of weightlessness and dizziness. Song Chi found it tolerable, as it was not the extreme long-distance teleportation used for foreign star domain exploration.
When the sensation subsided, he realized that the Roaring Lion was now in a completely unfamiliar star domain.
Although it resembled the previous star domain, with a large space station platform in the distance, it was, in fact, a different part of the cosmos.
At that moment, Grandfather Song MingSong’s voice came from the main control room.
“This is the Golden Lion Star Domain. We are not far from the Stabilizing Sea Star Domain. One more teleportation, and we will arrive.”
Song Chi could hear the slight tremor in his grandfather’s voice, a result of overwhelming excitement.
He understood the sentiment. After being exiled from the family for decades, a wanderer was about to return to his family’s star domain and reunite with his kin. How could he not be excited?
However, while he understood, he could not truly empathize. Since birth, he had never even seen the shadow of his family, let alone heard of it until his awakening. The same was true for the other younger generations.
Even the eldest among them, Song Qi, was born after leaving the Stabilizing Sea Star Domain.
Following Grandfather’s words, the Roaring Lion’s engines roared softly, and the ship sped off in a specific direction.
Somewhere tens of thousands of kilometers behind the Roaring Lion, several kilometer-long cruisers were closely following.
In the communication group of the three cruisers, a rapid discussion was taking place.
“Brother, that’s the direction of the Stabilizing Sea Star Domain gateway. Could it be that the cruiser belongs to the Song Clan of the Stabilizing Sea?”
“I have a hunch it’s likely. Not just anyone can possess a fourth-stage Floating Land Essence!”
“Should we forget it? The [Apocalypse Annihilation Cannon] is tempting, but we need to live to use it. The Song Clan of the Stabilizing Sea is notoriously protective of their own!”
“Besides, if they have already loaded it, even if we sink them, the chances of capturing the main cannon are slim!”
As the discussion continued, the three cruisers gradually slowed down, signaling their decision to abandon the mid-journey interception.
Onboard the Raging Lion, Song Ming Song's lips curled into a smirk. The moment the three cruisers behind him gave up the pursuit, he immediately noticed and whispered to the holographic communicator beside him, "Alright, boss, they've given up the chase. I'm taking the Raging Lion ahead. Catch up as soon as you can."
Several ten thousand meters to the side, the Mountain—which had already enhanced the blue Void Membrane component to its maximum Level 39—was quietly following. If those three cruisers had dared to attack, the Mountain would have caught them off guard. With the Raging Lion now equipped with the Apocalypse Annihilation Cannon, they had nothing to fear, even in a two-against-three scenario.
Indeed, after spending over a thousand strands of third-tier Floating Land Essence and ten strands of fourth-tier Floating Land Essence to secure the Apocalypse Annihilation Cannon, Song Ming Song had been well-prepared for the possibility of being tracked.
And once he realized he was being followed, he had taken the necessary precautions, merely pretending to be unaware.
However, the three cruisers were indeed cautious. Upon suspecting that the Raging Lion might be associated with the Song Clan of Dinghai, they immediately halted their pursuit. This prudence might have been the reason they had risen to the rank of cruisers.
With Song Ming Song's words, the Raging Lion's engines roared to full power, and the purple thrusters at the rear of the ship worked at maximum capacity, pushing the Raging Lion to an alarming speed.
As for the Mountain, although it was also equipped with a purple engine and thrusters, its enhancement level was far lower than that of the Raging Lion. Consequently, it quickly fell behind.
It took several days for the two ships to reunite.
In the northern region of the Golden Lion Nebula, there was another third-tier Life-type Floating Land. This was no coincidence; the majority of the Principality's spatial portals were located near high-tier Life-type Floating Lands to boost the economy.
However, this time, the Song family didn't linger on the Golden Lion 002 Floating Land. They arrived at a perfect time, just over two days after the last spatial portal activation, with the next transmission scheduled within half a day.
Soon, the half-day passed, and the spatial portal to the northernmost Dinghai Nebula of the Principality reopened.
The Morning Star Principality has stood for five thousand two hundred years. At its founding, the Principality's territory comprised only the Golden Dragon, Golden Wind, and Golden Horn Nebulae. Through multiple expeditions and the efforts of various noble families, it has since expanded to twelve nebulae.
The northernmost Dinghai Nebula was opened by the Song Clan of Dinghai two thousand years ago. This successful expansion earned the clan's patriarch the title of Baron of Dinghai, a hereditary position, and the Dinghai Nebula became the autonomous territory of the Song Clan.
Initially, the Dinghai Nebula had a diameter of only a few hundred light-years, making it the smallest nebula in the Principality. However, after two thousand years of continuous expansion, it now spans over two thousand light-years, with hundreds of Life-type Floating Lands and thousands of ordinary and barren Floating Lands, supporting a population of nearly a billion.
Though it remains the smallest nebula in the Principality, the prosperity of the Dinghai Nebula over the past two thousand years has made it no less vibrant than the other nebulae, and perhaps even more so.
Listening to his father's detailed explanation of the Song Clan of Dinghai and the Dinghai Nebula, Song Chi and the younger generation listened with rapt attention, their eyes shining with excitement and pride.
Though they were not born in the Dinghai Nebula, the grandeur of the Song Clan's achievements in opening new territories for the Principality and the Torch Human civilization resonated deeply with them, filling them with a sense of awe and pride.
Seeing that his words had achieved their initial effect, Song Chao seized the opportunity to continue recounting more stories of the Song Clan of Dinghai.
The reason for this was that, compared to other noble families in the Principality, the Song Clan of Dinghai had the best family ethos. Enhancing the clan members' sense of belonging and strengthening the clan's cohesion were the fundamental reasons for the Song Clan's rapid growth and the significant increase in its power and influence over the past two thousand years.
As a branch of the Song Clan, Song Ming Song and Song Chao naturally hoped that their younger family members would develop a genuine sense of belonging to the Song Clan, rather than just being bound together by blood.
As they spoke, everyone on the Raging Lion turned their gaze to the exterior of the ship.
Song Chi, too, was momentarily stunned, his eyes fixed on a section of the starfield near the spatial portal.
Unlike the other nebulae of the Morning Star Principality, the spatial portals connecting the Dinghai Nebula to the rest of the Principality were all located in the same area, which the Raging Lion had just passed through.
A dozen spatial portals were arranged in a ring, forming a massive transfer station in the dark starfield. This transfer station was larger than most of the Principality's other star stations, with a spherical base station orbit with a diameter exceeding several hundred thousand kilometers, capable of supporting the orderly transmission and docking of a million warships.
This enormous transfer station was only slightly inferior to the one in the Golden Dragon Nebula, the capital of the Principality, making it the second-largest in the Principality.
Due to its massive size and the countless Torch Human warships it handled daily, the Song Clan of Dinghai had stationed a family fleet outside the base station, equipped with two mobile warstars, each nearly ten kilometers in diameter.
What Song Chi and the others were staring at were these two massive, spherical warstars, covered in menacing black armor and bristling with countless cannons of various sizes.
Compared to Torch Human warships, these mobile warstars were more fittingly called war machines, iron behemoths of the star sea.
Seeing everyone's eyes fixed on the two mobile warstars, filled with awe, Song Chao explained softly, "These are basic mobile warstars, equipped with medium-scale controlled nuclear fusion reactors, intermediate nuclear energy shield generators, and Empire Type III super railguns. They possess standard fourth-tier combat capabilities."
"They are also one of the few high-tier combat units in our Torch Human civilization, aside from Torch Human warships."
Hearing the term "mobile warstars," Song Chi and the others' eyes sparkled even more. While their textbooks had provided a brief introduction to these war machines, seeing them in person was far more awe-inspiring than they had ever imagined.
(End of Chapter)
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