Space pirates had always been one of the things the Little Lords feared most. No matter how good their background or starting resources were, encountering those desperados meant they could only accept their losses, because a Celestial God who had yet to mature truly had no power to resist.
Besides, there was no way to tell whether those star-level pirates were really pirates or merely arrangements made by hostile forces.
That time, Borton had been gravely wounded. The planet provided as his starting resource was destroyed, his people were plundered, and all the supplies he had brought from his Abyssal elders were seized. Even several valued juniors whom the elders had trusted him with and sent to grow alongside him at the very beginning had died horribly!!
The Fallen Angel royal candidate of that time had been among them.
That loss had left the Abyssal Demon Race elders extremely disappointed in him. They had even begun preparing to select a second Celestial God.
He had not even dared return to the Abyss at the time. Instead, he had become a Drifting Lord...
But his misfortune had ended from that moment onward...
He had encountered the Starting Point that changed his fate—the mysterious intelligence!
The intelligence had guided him to a new planet. It had been a new Starting Point, an opportunity to start over.
He had risen again because of it!
After that, the intelligence had guided him in obtaining countless resources, including some ancient, hidden treasures. In just a few million years, it had enabled him to personally earn the resources of an entire star system. It had also given him the qualifications to return to the Abyss and regain the trust of the Demon elders!
Now, he possessed more than a hundred star systems. Sixteen star systems had