After Lu Li's figure vanished into the light of the teleportation array, Benjamin withdrew his gaze and began arranging for the Black Giants to evacuate the lava planet in batches. Across the lava plains, temporary teleportation arrays lit up one after another.
Silvery-white light rose and fell across the scorching ground, making even the churning magma seem to cool for an instant.
Several million Black Giants carried the remaining construction materials and dismantled temporary equipment, filing onto the teleportation arrays in neat ranks. Their heavy footsteps interwove with the deep resonance rumbling from their chests.
Benjamin did not interfere much.
The Black Giants had become increasingly adept at these evacuation operations. Everything was already sufficiently secure.
He himself flew beyond the planet's atmosphere and entered space, hovering at the center of the refinement array from earlier.
Before him was an immense fireball still burning fiercely.
Calling it "immense" was no longer quite accurate.
After the entire star had been refined, its volume had shrunk to one ten-billionth of its original size. The fireball was now only about the diameter of a medium-sized planet. Yet the light it gave off was even more blazing than the original star's. Even through the protective layer of the Return to Void Armor, Benjamin could feel a wave of heat rushing at his face.
The fireball's color was completely different from that of the previous star.
It was no longer the ordinary hue of a star's surface, blazing white tinged with blue and yellow. Instead, it was an extraordinarily vivid scarlet, as though the bloody color of the entire star had been forcibly condensed into a single mass of fire.
And at the deepest part of that scarlet, countless silver points of light flickered and flowed without end, like an entire galaxy embedded within a