Not long after Gemora took Saine in, she received an audience with her father.
The Huya King had evidently also heard about what had happened not long ago. Through his subordinates, he learned that there had been nothing wrong with the vessel Gemora had been aboard at the time—it was Gemora herself who had opened the starship's shield.
When questioned by her father, Gemora explained that she had felt too stifled inside and wanted to open the shield to look outside.
But just as she opened it, a Federation vessel flew over, so Gemora immediately closed the shield again.
The Huya King did not know what the Galente Federation was doing in the nearby starfields. He had merely received a stern warning from the Federation not to deviate from the designated route and to remain ready at all times to submit to inspection by Federation vessels.
The well-traveled Huya King caught the scent of something unusual in the wind.
Of course, through various channels, after leaving the Shi'a Empire's controlled starfields and arriving within the Galente Federation's territory, the Huya King had roughly learned what kind of enemy his people would soon have to face.
In recent years, the Huya King had become somewhat despondent—or rather, burdened with sorrow.
It was not just him. Most of the Huya higher-ups who knew the details of the Civilization War had not been living very happily either.
The more they knew, the more worried they became about the future.
Meanwhile, the ordinary Huya people were still living their little lives, unaware that anything around them differed from usual.
As for the Level 1 to Level 3 Huya warriors, they were sharpening their weapons and feeding their horses, preparing to make a grand showing in the coming war—to bring glory to their people, while