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Thus, the meeting ended quickly in a very serious atmosphere. The two sides only briefly introduced themselves, and Sarah managed to become a familiar face to Rowan.

"Teacher, the Overlord is truly majestic. Compared to him, I, the former Rat-folk Queen, am still far inferior."

Morgan was also somewhat puzzled. He said uncertainly, "I don't know what's wrong with the Overlord today. He's usually very easy to talk to. But there's still a long way to go. Maybe you'll understand once you get to know him better."

Sarah didn't continue the conversation, "Teacher, what's next?"

"Since you don't plan to go back, then find a career within the tribe to specialize in. However, there are currently many people in management positions within the tribe, but there is a severe shortage of people in military command. Perhaps you could give it a try," Morgan suggested after thinking for a moment.

"But that was just a game." Since the Rat-folk unified the country, under the shock of the "accident," there hasn't been a melee of more than 100 people for many years. Even if Sarah wanted to show off her skills, she couldn't find a place, so she could only practice in the game.

"It's alright. The tribe's fighting style is completely different from that of the Rat-folk, and the tribe doesn't have any enemies for the time being, so there's plenty of time. As long as you're interested, there's no problem."

Sarah considered for a moment and said, "I accept your suggestion, teacher." Back when she was the eldest daughter, she had commanded small-scale conflicts with the Merican Kingdom. Compared to being the queen, she still preferred the days of commanding battles, but the situation had become too stable since then, and she hadn't had the chance to demonstrate her abilities.

The two walked and talked, and because of the moon's weak gravity, each step allowed them to fly a great distance. Before long, they left the underground base and arrived at the surface of the Red Moon.

Looking at the purplish-gray Creep the surrounding mountains and the scattered, towering launch pads, Sarah said speechlessly, "The Empire's observation facilities have been completely taken over by the race, otherwise, as the Empress, I wouldn't have known that the moon had become like this."

"This is the far side of the moon; it's not visible from Origin Star. However, the Empire's observation facilities are indeed controlled by the race. Don't worry about it, Sarah; this is actually for the protection of the Rat-folk," Morgan said seriously.

"I think you're right, Professor Morgan." Sarah thought for a moment and quickly grasped the key point: the Rat-folk's safety depended on whether they were harmless. If they caused trouble because they saw something, given the strength of both sides, the Rat-folk would be the ones who ended up getting hurt.

However, she then realized that she was already dead, so why bother with these things? It was just making trouble for herself. She quickly changed her mindset and asked curiously, "Teacher, what are those big shelves?"

She had already asked what the purplish-gray Creep was in the Spore Sac room. Now, the transmitter standing on it had piqued her interest again.

"Those are our Meteor Launcher. The smaller ones are responsible for precise launches within the star system, while the larger ones are responsible for random launches outside the star system. We have a batch of meteorites that are about to make contact with Planet A7, which may be why the Overlord is so serious today. After all, another planet is about to unveil its veil before the race, which is something to look forward to."

Rowan was indeed closely monitoring information regarding the direction of Planet A7. In the coming days, a total of 31 Spore Sac from the Swarm would be in contact with the opposing planetary system.

For this contact, Rowan mobilized 300 Blade and more than 100 intelligent entities, divided into 31 groups, to dock with and direct the landing of these Spore Sac one-on-one.

This is just the vanguard, because A7 is enormous and has many satellites with varying orbital speeds. The Spore Sac can only land on them when they are facing the Origin Star.

Therefore, it took nearly a year to launch the Spore Sac towards them. Similarly, over the next year, 81 more Spore Sac will arrive and make contact with the numerous satellites of A7.

Of the 31 Spore Sac sent this time, 15 landed on the A7 primary satellite. Depending on the size of the satellites, two Spore Sac landed on each of the A7B3, A7B9, A7B15, A7B23, and A7B25 satellites. A7B7 and A7B21, being larger, each had three Spore Sac landed.

Two hours later, and in another hour or so, the two Spore Sac were expected to make contact with the A7B25 satellite. Rowan and the team members responsible for the two Spore Sac began to prepare for battle.

Although this is a slow launch within the galaxy, the Spore Sac's speed can still reach 30 km/s. With the Swarm's current technological level, there is no armor capable of ensuring the survival of the Seed and Insect Egg inside the Spore Sac after a collision with a planet at this speed.

Therefore, the Spore Sac need to undergo corresponding deceleration operations an hour in advance.

If it's a high-speed, random launch from outside the galaxy, deceleration is needed one or two years in advance after target detection. Otherwise, at one-tenth the speed of light, if a collision occurs, the outcome is uncertain, but the Spore Sac will certainly be reduced to nothing.

It's important to understand that the asteroid that collided with the Origin Star and caused a mass extinction, vaporizing the body of the Rowan asteroid, was traveling at only 70,000 kilometers per hour, equivalent to 19.5 km/s. It was even slower than the slowly launched Spore Sac, yet it still caused such destruction.

If the accuracy of a large Meteor Launcher can be guaranteed, and the projectiles can be made incredibly hard, it might be able to penetrate a small asteroid with a single shot. That would be a planet-destroying weapon, far more powerful than Nuclear Bomb.

However, although the Swarm has mastered the slow-speed firing of the Hyperboloid System structure, numerically speaking, it is only 30 km/s. In contrast, the speed of supersonic random firing can reach one-tenth the speed of light, or 30,000 km/s.

The numerical difference is a thousand times, but in reality, the actual technological gap is much greater than a thousand times. Once a certain level is reached, the difficulty of controlling the speed increases exponentially with each doubling of the speed.

For example, the difficulty of increasing a bicycle speed from 5 kilometers per hour to 50 kilometers per hour and the difficulty of increasing from 50 kilometers per hour to 500 kilometers per hour seem like a 10-fold difference, but in reality, they are not even in the same league.

Moreover, the pinnacle of materials science required to create munitions capable of penetrating planets is no less challenging than developing a controllable high-speed launch device.

Therefore, for a long time to come, Rowan can only dream about things like hyperboloid space destroyers.

Perhaps by the time he develops this weapon, the Swarm will have grown to an unknown size and will no longer need it.