PS: The chapters kept getting blocked from last night through today. It's mainly because end-of-volume notes aren't allowed now.
Negotiations went nowhere, so I deleted them after all.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
"Back when this was still the Earl's Territory of Blood Rose, Grand Duke Seaton had laid siege to the city.
That was when the Sky Peng Horizontal, still a Star Destroyer, made its spectacular debut and subdued everyone in one fell swoop.
As expected, Grand Duke Seaton's fleet fell apart in an instant, and Xia Longque even defected outright!"
An Yu's gaze grew a little distant.
"If it were today, and the Sky Peng Horizontal—now a Death Starship—made an appearance...
Wouldn't countries like the Free State Conglomerate meet the same fate as the Seaton Duchy?"
An Yu's words brought that scene back to Wang Dong.
He had to admit, that feeling of a "God of War returning home" in a spacefaring version really was quite something.
"I never thought I'd get the chance to set foot aboard a Death Starship-class Kindling Warship!"
Zhao Wan's emotions ran even stronger than Lin Xiaogui's and An Yu's.
"The New Song Kingdom had all its vast resources, and spent a thousand years striving.
It tried again and again, yet never managed to have a single Star Destroyer cross that threshold.
As a result, it remained stuck in the position of hegemon of the Changpan River System for so long...
If the New Song Kingdom had a Death Starship right now, I'm sure the current situation couldn't have deteriorated this badly."
As she spoke, her eyes grew moist.
Wang Dong understood.
As it turned out, one of the major reasons the New Song Kingdom pursued mercantilism was to amass wealth!
A large portion of that accumulated wealth had been invested in cultivating