"We... we're already at the Imperial Capital?"
Viscount Ironwall stared at the glittering cluster of celestial bodies in the distance, disbelief written across his face.
He knew the small spacecraft he was aboard was astonishingly fast, but he had never imagined it could be this outrageously fast.
Three days!
In a mere three days, he had traveled from the distant Horton System to the heart of the Empire!
Even by the Wulf Empire's highest technological standards, this was an utterly unimaginable miracle.
"So this is the Wulf Empire's Imperial Capital? It really is magnificent!"
Nie Yun was no less astonished than Viscount Ironwall.
Although he had seen plenty of information and footage about the Imperial Capital, reading about it and seeing it with his own eyes were two different things.
The Wulf Empire's Imperial Capital was more than ten times larger than the Twin Stars' home system.
This glimpse alone told a much greater story. Gazing at the suffocatingly vast planetary sphere of the Imperial Capital, Nie Yun almost felt he could look back through the river of history and see the splendor and glory of an ancient interstellar civilization.
"Um... how are you planning to get inside? You're not really going to barge straight in, are you?" Viscount Ironwall asked.
He admitted this warship was extraordinary, but however extraordinary it might be, he doubted a frontal intrusion stood much chance against the Imperial Capital's defensive system, which had weathered thousands of years of trials.
"Of course not. I'm not here to declare war." Nie Yun rolled his eyes.
He checked the current time and the spacecraft's coordinates, then began slowing the ship once he confirmed everything was correct.
About thirty minutes later, the spacecraft's radar flashed.
A luxurious cruise ship, platinum-white from end to end and lavishly designed, was