Second Headquarters

What had originally been just a reconnaissance mission had, in barely over three months, brought a new Supercluster into Federation territory. None of the Federation's upper echelon had anticipated this.

And with the arrival of this good news, it was also confirmed that the Purgatory forces were located across from the Heres Current passage—in the Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster.

However, this news left Lin Fan somewhat stunned as well.

After all, during the Battle of Vilsert, the forces from the Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster that had invaded Heres had all been fleets of technological civilizations, not legions of biological civilizations.

There was simply no way to explain that.

Technological civilizations and biological civilizations were like two inherently incompatible magnets, eternally repelling each other.

Unless...

Unless the ninth-order Hager was far from the strongest biological being in Purgatory, and the most powerful beings in all of Purgatory possessed strength capable of effortlessly crushing a Ninth Order Civilization. Powerful enough to subjugate every technological civilization in the Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster, including Ninth Order Civilizations!

Only that could explain why both the Purgatory Legion and the two Ninth Order Civilizations that came later had invaded Vilsert from the Heres side.

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"You mean using the Bosnia Supercluster as our main base and continuing our outward expansion in that direction?"

After hearing the proposal from his son, who was currently reporting to him over a communication link, Lin Fan's eyes lit up.

There were still far too many uncertainties within the Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster, and Lin Fan had no intention of launching a proactive attack at this time.

But if they did not open this passage, Purgatory would effectively block the Federation's path of expansion in that direction. After that, the entire civilization's rapid development would slow down, perhaps even come to