Chapter 309 - Chapter 309: They’re Here, They’re Here
Chapter 309: They’re Here, They’re Here
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Today, Duke Stone, the Border Earl of the Imperium and the leader of the Knights of Benevolence, would once again visit the sacred and solemn ancient battlefield after two hundred and thirty years to pay homage to the fallen heroes!”
Similar reports covered the entire Skywalker Empire, as if they were eager to let everyone know what the duke was going to do today.
The usually quiet citizens were now a little more radiant because of this incident. They would more or less mention this duke during their leisure time.
“Duke Stone… The last time we heard this name was during the fire in the capital’s core data city, right?”
“Indeed… Even the latest generation of automatic fire extinguishing systems could not save it. The fire was really… Tsk tsk, I heard that you can even see fire and smoke from space!”
“Isn’t that so! It was said that the culprit was Duke Stone. He did not wear protective clothing as required when he was inspecting the work, and even drank tea in the database! As a result, it caused a large-scale short-circuit, and the entire core data city was destroyed!”
As they chatted, more of the people were talking about Duke Stone’s embarrassing incident and all kinds of rumors. They did not feel much about the memorial ceremony of the ancient battlefield.
After all, the history related to the ancient battlefield was too long ago. They might still sing praises for it a hundred years or a thousand years later, but what about ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years, or even a million years later?
The people of the Skywalker Empire had long since become numb to the past. The million-year-long history made them almost afraid of this high wall.
Although they were deeply impressed by the weight of history, no one dared to say I love history without hesitation.
This was because they had to face hundreds of thousands of pages of history textbooks since their school days. Even with the help of auxiliary machines, they still had to complain endlessly.
In their compulsory education, the most difficult subject wasn’t physics, chemistry, politics, or geography, but history. Just the amount of history teaching materials alone was a lot more than the other subjects.
It could be said that apart from the elites of the upper class who remembered these ancient histories, most people gradually forgot about the past in their daily lives.
They only remembered that the ancient battlefield was the founding war of the Skywalker Empire. In short, the invaders did all kinds of evil, and the heroes showed their might and fearlessly defeated the enemy.
At the end of history, the Skywalker Empire became the Administrator of the galaxy that ruled over the people, and the Heavenly Chasm was a scar left behind by that war.
As for the other side of the Heavenly Chasm, it was the place where the defeated invaders were struggling to survive. The movie that would be played in the Grand Theater Galaxy every once in a while was their way of enjoying the miserable state of war criminals.
In the past, although the memories of the ancient battlefield were a little blurry, it was the history that they remembered the most clearly.
They were arrogant in their bones. The Skywalker Empire ruled all the places they knew, and the entire upper three spiral arms were within the sphere of influence of the Skywalker Empire.
However, they could not go to the lower three spiral arms and do whatever they wanted. Only by seeing the wails of the low-level civilizations in the apocalypse could they satisfy their sense of superiority as high-level civilizations.
“Let’s not bother about these nobles. Let’s talk about our last movie. 1 heard that there were many good reviews. It’s really despicable!”
The citizens returned to their daily lives, and Duke Stone, who had spread the news of his trip, had arrived at his destination, the ancient battlefield.
There were more than 20,000 stars and more than 10,000 galaxies in this starfield. It was a huge territory.
However, as a noble of the Imperium and an insider of the past, Duke Stone knew that the ancient battlefield was just an illusion. The real core was a galaxy within the starfield.
After traveling through countless galaxies, Duke Stone finally arrived at a dark galaxy.
The central celestial body of this place was a black dwarf star, a celestial body formed after the neutron star naturally reached its end.
It didn’t emit any light or heat, so it was almost unnoticeable in astronomical observations.
Around the celestial body were countless shattered planets, as well as a planet with artificial intelligence that was riddled with holes.
It was hard to imagine what kind of drastic changes this galaxy had experienced, to the point that almost all the planets had been shattered, and it was difficult to maintain the appearance of the stars.
However, Duke Stone did not look away. He directed the ship straight toward the Al Planet.
At this moment, there were almost no traces of machinery on the planet, and no robots were working there. In the thin stimulating gas, only metal ruins and broken parts could be seen.
However, Duke Stone walked through the ruins with ease, as if he had been there many times. He soon found his destination.
A nearly abandoned control hub.
The flickering light seemed to indicate that the control center was still alive, and the arrival of Duke Stone made the already weak light glow, as if welcoming him.
When Duke Stone saw the control center, he went straight to the point.”
“We need a method to close or destroy the wormhole. You should have it, right? This is a joint petition from the emperor and us, the pillars of the empire. At the same time…For our petition for the survival of civilization.”
He deliberately emphasized the word survival of civilization, as if this word was the most important part of this passage.
After a flash of light from the control center, the relevant technology was finally transmitted back to the database of the Skywalker Empire through some method.
Duke Stone heaved a sigh of relief when he received the reply. He turned around and left without any hesitation. The pungent smell of engine oil made him very uncomfortable.
Only the half-dead control center remained in place, flashing lights.
A while later, Duke Stone brought the unstable bomb that was used to destroy the wormhole’s structure. The nobles near the wormhole passage were already anxious. They only heaved a sigh of relief when they saw Duke Stone.
“You’ve finally brought the thing. You don’t know that to prevent the civilization over there from coming over, we threw everything that could explode with huge energy into the wormhole. In the end, the wormhole is still stable. If we had known earlier, we wouldn’t have built it so firmly…”
Although there were complaints, they quickly threw the unstable bomb into the wormhole.
However, a huge storm like lightning and thunder erupted in the wormhole that should have been empty. It quickly disrupted the entire wormhole and directly caused it to collapse.
Seeing this, they finally felt at ease, feeling that there would no longer be any threats that could threaten their lives as advanced civilizations.
However, a series of faint signals passed through the wormhole at the last moment and arrived here. Under the cover of the huge fluctuations caused by the collapse of the wormhole, no one noticed it.
It first infected an abandoned unmanned mining drone, then used the drone as a springboard to infect the upper levels, and finally infected a large flagship stationed here.
In the next moment, what the low-level civilizations that they had mocked for fun had done in the Dark Forest happened to them.
The large flagship began to broadcast the detailed coordinates of this place to the entire galaxy uncontrollably, regardless of size.
Someone noticed this and jokingly said to the captain of the flagship, “Brother, are you playing this game too? Do you really think that there would be a civilization that is more ‘advanced’ than us attacking us like this?”
However, as he spoke, the man noticed that something was wrong. He realized that the captain of the flagship was pale and frantically knocking on the order to stop the flagship, but there was no response.
“You…”
Just as he was about to speak, his vision suddenly turned black. The light that shot into the porthole disappeared in an instant, as if it was blocked by something.
A huge sense of oppression and fear made him sit on the ground in an instant. The fear deep in his genes was also aroused at this time, and in just a few seconds, he had to defecate on the spot.
However, this physical fear was not what scared him the most. What scared him more was the dense flashing signal points on the ship’s radar, almost filling the entire radar.
This meant that a fleet that made them despair had arrived.
They did not expect that civilization to still come..