Global Crossing: Empire of Stars

"They're trying to escape!" Marquis Nord pointed to a star system, where a special civilian fleet appeared on the display.

Apart from a handful of escort ships, the fleet had no warships at all.

"Industrial ships, colony ships, cloning ships, and all kinds of specialized vessels—a real hodgepodge," Link quipped.

The next moment, a dense barrage of beams swept across the area, instantly destroying the fleet as it gathered.

"They're trying to escape. Strange—don't they have any countermeasures?" Liu Manyun asked, puzzled.

As Lin Zhichen directed the fleet in its sweep through the star system, he surveyed the entire starfield.

She wasn't the only one who had noticed. In fact, everyone present had spotted it.

Although his demonstrated ability to strike across light-years was practically impossible to counter, it was clearly abnormal for a Super Civilization to have no response after receiving intelligence.

Destroying the fleets gathered in space—especially the colony ships—was a serious blow to a recently revived Super Civilization like the Glimmer Dragon Knight Federation. Its population was the main limitation on its expansion.

Lin Zhichen had just directed the Battle Star's main cannon to blow up a Life Planet and was about to look away when he felt a faint stir in his heart. He looked toward a corner of space, at a patch of empty vacuum without any celestial bodies.

Seeing where his gaze had fallen, everyone focused their senses and carefully examined the region.

"Big Brother, is something wrong here?" Wu Tianyi asked in puzzlement after searching the area three times and finding nothing.

"On the surface, there's nothing wrong." As Lin Zhichen spoke, he suddenly fired a Psionic Shockwave into the region.

The powerful psionic wave slightly warped space, and the dark vacuum immediately revealed something strange: a translucent bubble appeared in space, with