Although the strange divine storm within the X Sector still showed no sign of abating, the drone swarm's movements in the sector remained completely unaffected.
In response to the emergency mobilization order, batch after batch of drones entered this mysterious, ancient galaxy cluster. Starting from the spatial discontinuity—the "fault"—and extending all the way to the Agent's home planet, where Hao Ren and the others were temporarily staying, the swarm began constructing countless fortresses and factories of all sizes across the vast expanse of space. The work had already begun to take shape.
The barren asteroid belt was anchored into foundations by positioning devices. Spaceports and connecting pipes were built between the asteroids, while enormous space structures gradually took shape in the darkness. Drones shuttled through them day and night. Factories, hives, antenna arrays... These things rapidly multiplied and spread through the galaxy like a swarm of insects, and the first newly produced drones had already flown off the production lines to join the next round of expansion.
Once this terrifyingly efficient expansion machine began operating, the construction on the Agent's home planet quickly received ample "manpower" support and moved forward in full swing into the actual construction phase.
Around the great rift near the outpost, the drone swarm had completed the initial terrain modifications. The scorched ruins had been further cleared, while craters and smaller fissures were covered with silver-white alloy. The rift itself had also been reinforced with a metal coating. Several enormous temporary towers jutted crookedly from the surface along the edge of the nearly fully alloyed rift. Around the towers lay huge cables that had just been secured. More than two meters in diameter, the ends leading to the data center were neatly arranged on open ground outside the rift, waiting to be connected, while the other