The Giant Hand (Two Chapters in One)

Sixty-three light-years southwest of the Solar System.

There was a planetary system here with a red dwarf as its main-sequence star. The system was desolate, containing only four planets besides its primary star.

Suddenly, dozens of spatial jump gates opened near the system's fourth planet, and large numbers of Space Battleships streamed out.

"Colonel Tom, proceed according to plan," Commander Li Wei ordered.

"Yes, sir." Colonel Tom saluted and immediately got to work.

Four Space Battleships swiftly detached from the fleet and deployed World Tree seeds on the four planets.

Similar operations expanded rapidly in every direction from the Solar System, transforming an entire planetary system in just a few hours.

Kurapika expected to establish a spherical controlled area with a radius of 300 to 400 light-years around the Solar System before the enemy approached, keeping the flames of war away from it.

Hidden in an unnamed star system in the dark world, Kami also sensed the New World Group rapidly uprooting the planetary systems around the Solar System.

"Lowly ants, do you think this will protect you from my wrath?" Kami's icy voice echoed throughout the planet.

Before him stood more than a dozen grotesque giants, each only a few dozenths of his size.

"My lord, we are ready." One black giant with bat wings dropped to one knee before Kami.

"There is no hurry. Let Olanda draw those ants' attention first." Although Kami hated the New World Group and human civilization to the bone, he had not let anger cloud his judgment.

The other grotesque giants remained silent, quietly awaiting Kami's next orders.

These giants were not actually Kami's own kind, but monsters he had mutated and modified. They came from all across the universe and were enemies of the Space Heroes.

Kami had cultivated these monsters primarily