Global Crossing: Empire of Stars

The Imperial Fleet made a brief stop to regroup. The damaged warships were gathered together, ready to pass through the Stargate and return to Imperial territory in the Milky Way Galaxy for repairs.

The ships in good condition quickly formed up and headed for the Galactic Core Area.

This time, Lin Zhichen activated the Space-Time Curtain directly. Once the assembled fleet had completed its crossing, they were only five light-years from the central black hole.

"Big Brother, this is a little too close." Wei Peng looked nervously at the endless darkness before them. He instinctively felt that the abyss lay ahead. Whether consciousness or matter, anything that entered it would be swallowed up.

"What's that?" Count Piya exclaimed in surprise. He looked up. The Star Spirits' gazes pierced through space and time, revealing a colossal artificial structure amid the infinite darkness.

It stood within the darkness, like a lotus pedestal rising from the surface of a lake. This miraculous creation withstood the central black hole's unfathomable gravitational pull, yet showed no signs of damage.

As everyone knew, even light couldn't escape a black hole's powerful gravity. Yet the colossal fortress before them defied the laws of nature, standing firm against the black hole's immense pull.

Lin Zhichen studied the enormous structure. At a glance, it looked like a fully constructed Dyson Sphere world. Endless fortress gun emplacements and shipyard docks stretched across its surface, giving the whole place a chillingly martial appearance.

What made it unusual was that, though it appeared to be above the black hole, it existed neither in the three-dimensional world nor in high-dimensional space-time. Instead, it occupied a special dimension between the two, constructed by the black hole's gravity.

That was right. This colossal creation had twisted the black hole's gravity. It drew boundless energy from