"Found it?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, we found it!"
"Quick, let me see!"
At that, the guard respectfully handed over the tattered book in his hands.
"So that was it..."
Half an hour later.
Cartero set down the book in his hands and muttered to himself with a disappointed expression.
Indeed, the book recorded what he wanted to know, but the crucial issue was that the method it described was simply impossible to implement now.
"Could it be... there's no other way?"
At this moment, Cartero was in despair.
The entire Xilbeila Empire was in despair as well.
Federation Year 2965.
In the blink of an eye, more than four hundred years had passed.
But in the Black Hole Cavity Era, four hundred years truly was not a long time.
After all, even a casual long-distance trip now took several years. Everyone's concept of time had long since changed from what it had been in the age of the universe.
Today was somewhat special.
For the first time, the Federation's Cross-border Scanning Device...
had detected an anomaly!
Azure Dragon Realm, Federal Fleet Headquarters.
"Marshal, Meridian Valley 178 reports that it has discovered traces of a large-scale fleet. There is a high probability that it is the target!"
"How many?"
"More than thirty thousand legions!"
"Then it should be them. After all, none of the first-, second-, or third-order Black Hole Civilizations would possess a fleet on this scale. How many Black Hole Cavity Realms beyond us have our detection devices extended?"
"Following your orders, they have extended outward by the distance of ten Black Hole Cavity Realms. The monitoring devices are currently gathering and transmitting intelligence data back. I believe a detailed report will arrive soon—retracting my previous statement, the report is already here."
Just as Liang Xue was halfway