Traces

With the spiritual leader of the Milky Way Arbitration Alliance present, the journey could not have been simpler.

She directly used the Rainbow Bridge to jump to the wormhole's entrance, bypassed all the queues completely, and blatantly exercised her privileges to enter the wormhole.

So much for a neutral civilization, as there was not a shred of that supposed grace in sight.

In the words of this Arbiter of the Scales, this in itself was a manifestation of fairness. Moreover, the decision had been made by the sixth-tier civilization where the wormhole was located, which had nothing to do with them.

Immediately following that, their group passed through this wormhole and was cast directly into the Milky Way Galaxy, seven million light-years away...

As a one-way wormhole, the destination was not connected to another corresponding wormhole. Yet compared to the dead-silent starfield from which Immigrant Ship No. 27 had previously come, the exit on the Milky Way side was far more vibrant.

After all, this was a developed one-way wormhole; the other side was still in use with decent traffic, whereas the wormhole Immigrant Ship No. 27 had encountered was an abandoned one lacking exploitation value.

Projection billboards of all sorts were suspended everywhere in space here, constantly broadcasting signals to the surrounding public channels.

They introduced the upcoming routes and the docks and ports ahead.

This was a trade route spanning seven million light-years. Because the other side served merely as the entrance, it was controlled by just a sixth-tier civilization that simply collected some taxes.

As for the Milky Way side, however, the trade was controlled by a seventh-tier civilization.

Furthermore, there was thoughtfully another trade route here; upon completing the journey along this commercial path, one could reach another one-way wormhole that led back to the