When the Shadow Bee entered the identification zone of the Celestial Pivot Defense Line, Song Chen could already see the artificial Great Wall stretching across the stars in its entirety through the porthole.
He had seen the prosperity of Flowing Light Star, and he had seen the flash of a planet exploding like a star.
But compared to the scene before him, all of that seemed thin and insignificant.
Song Chen's gaze swept over the fortresses one by one before finally settling on a colossal artificial celestial body at the center of the defense line. It was the main structure of the Celestial Pivot Defense Line.
Its city-like structure was precise and complex, assembled from hundreds of millions of enormous metal modules.
Countless defensive arrays and energy shields surrounded its outer perimeter. Uncountable fleets entered and exited its ports like the heart of war that never slept.
At the highest point of the space city floated a luminous emblem, nine rays of light converging into a ring. It was the symbol of the Nine Luminaries Civilization.
"This is the headquarters of the Joint Operations Department..."
Looking at those superfortresses, each thousands of kilometers in diameter, an exceptionally clear thought surged into his mind.
Before this defense line, Blue Star did not even amount to a grain of sand.
Any one of those fortresses, if it casually turned a main cannon, could erase every living being on Blue Star with the aftershock it gave off.
There was no need even to fire. So long as a Deepwinter Fortress passed by Blue Star, its gravitational tide could strip away Blue Star's atmosphere entirely, let alone those true weapons of destruction.
Song Chen pressed his lips together, his gaze turning deep and shadowed.
On the day he became humanity's strongest, he had secretly