May, Imperial Calendar 1347.
The Knosus civil war erupted. All fleet legions stationed abroad were recalled to encircle and suppress the internal Perfection Society.
That October, the Eastern Extreme Alliance and the Penza Empire launched internal investigations, conducting a comprehensive purge aimed at the terrorist organization known as the Revival Society.
Thus, the human empires' civil war temporarily ceased.
In February of the following year, the Star Abyss Beast Tide invaded the Jiudu River System on a massive scale. In several large-scale battles, it slaughtered vast numbers of fleet colonies, leaving dozens of billions of star systems desolate and abandoned.
The representative powers of Jiudu formed an emerging organization—the Alpha Union—and formally appealed to the three great empires for aid.
All three nations dispatched reinforcements in succession.
Thus, humanity's civil war completely shifted into a war against the Star Abyss.
Ten years later.
Star Abyss—Namujia Galaxy.
Within the blood-red Starry Sky.
A burly man wearing a dark crimson, flame-shaped helmet was flashing rapidly toward a certain destination.
Every flash carried him across several light-years.
Like a phantom walking through space, each pause between flashes lasted only a tenth of a second.
As a result, ordinary creatures could see only his afterimage in the instant they caught sight of him.
As the man continued flashing onward, star systems and nebulae alike were continuously cast behind him.
Gradually, a brilliant rainbow-colored mist appeared ahead.
The mist was incomparably vast. From afar, it resembled a planet slowly coalescing.
But as the burly man drew closer, the mist grew larger and larger.
Larger and larger.
Pale grains of sand floating within it began to emerge into view.
Those grains filled the rainbow mist. At a glance, there were at least tens of thousands of them.
The man accelerated his jumps.
Soon, he locked onto