One year, two years, three years... ten years passed quietly.
The major civilizations of the United Front, which had always felt this was no place to linger, had long since set out again. By now, they were already two thousand light-years from where they had encountered the Silicon-Based Collective fleet.
However, because their route this time generally headed toward the Galactic Nucleus, the density of stars in the starry sky had not decreased much. Instead, it had grown denser, and they had not yet left the Shield Arm.
Born in the Milky Way Galaxy and raised in the Milky Way Galaxy, Human Civilization had come this close to the Galactic Nucleus for the first time.
There were countless stars here, and the distances between them were far shorter than in the Orion Arm. The average distance was only 2.3 light-years. No matter which direction they looked, the stars shone brilliantly.
Looking toward the Galactic Center was even more breathtaking.
It was a region covered in light, the brightest place in the Milky Way Galaxy. Ordinary optical detectors could not see its true condition at all.
The center of the Milky Way Galaxy was naturally a Supermassive Black Hole, and black holes emitted no light. Thus, the light visible from this position was actually the accretion disk of the Supermassive Black Hole.
After billions of years, the black hole at the Galactic Center was still extremely active.
Even humans far away in the Shield Arm felt their fleet was tiny before that immense majesty. The entire Great Fleet of the United Front seemed the same when compared to such a Supermassive Black Hole, like a few small boats drifting upon a vast ocean.
They had become a Level Six Civilization, yet they still appeared insignificant before the power of nature.
Just