The moment the device activated, the holographic star map suddenly went completely dark. Then, faint lights gradually began to appear. Those points of light flickered like stars, yet seemed connected like veins, outlining some hidden psionic network.
Countless rays converged at one point, turning it into a dazzling sphere of light.
"This is the psionic network behind the Kilik Swarm that Archon Ronnis revealed to us," Adra said. "And this location is Fefze, also one of the nodes where psionic energy converges."
Meanwhile, Sefrans-Tann looked at the optical feed from elsewhere. Ronnis's Apocalypse had stopped about sixty million kilometers from the system's star, bathed in the star's fierce radiation.
Suddenly, a holy radiance began to emanate from the top of the warship, as though an eye had opened in the void and was gazing upon that distant psionic network.
At the same time, on the holographic star map before Adra, the rays of light gradually began extending outward. Ronnis was following the trail, continuously probing beyond Fefze.
Sefrans-Tann watched as the line behind Fefze extended directly toward the galactic core, and her brows furrowed tightly.
That direction was already beyond her fleet's striking range.
Simply put, the Unknown Regions covered roughly two-fifths of the Western Reaches on the Milky Way Galaxy's planar star map. In other words, the western side of the galactic center was also part of the Unknown Regions.
Moreover, the closer one got to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, the denser the stars became. Deadly astronomical environments such as black holes, gravitational traps, and high-density nebulae also became exceedingly numerous. Under normal circumstances, there were no hyperspace routes through the galactic center.
Because no route could possibly cross such a chaotic and complex galactic center.
Except for that mysterious Nexus Route.
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