The Most Swift and Thorough Heist!

Li Zongxu climbed into the escape pod and deftly started the engines.

He was in luck.

Although it hadn't been replaced in years,

the pod had been kept on standby, so it was still in decent condition.

Within ten seconds, its operating system had finished rebooting and running its self-check. That was the kind of efficiency an escape pod needed.

Otherwise, if it took as long as some civilian ships—more than ten minutes to start up and complete a self-check—

the opportunity would be long gone!

The escape pod powered up, and the hatch opened.

Li Zongxu piloted the small pod away from the asteroid at speed and out into space!

But he was still frantic with worry.

The Star Destroyer Cannon's power was no joke.

He was a military academy graduate, and Shannan Kingdom was a nation that owned Star Destroyers.

So Li Zongxu had some idea of just how powerful one could be.

It was terrifying firepower, capable of destroying even an ordinary planet!

A mere asteroid, if hit head-on, would be reduced to dust!

But—

the moment he entered space, he froze.

There was no other explanation.

Above the asteroid he had just left, a planetary shield had somehow appeared!

Li Zongxu's mouth fell open. Acting on instinct, he piloted the small escape pod through the planetary shield and plunged into the vastness of space. Planetary shields usually blocked attacks from outside, not within, so getting out was easy, while getting back in was hard.

Only then did he realize—

once he'd left the protection of the planetary shield, he might not be able to get back in.

"Bah, I'm overthinking it.

If a planetary shield could withstand a Star Destroyer Cannon, would a Star Destroyer still be called a Star Destroyer?"

Li Zongxu spat and pulled