Meanwhile, in the space beyond Blue Star.
Inside the main control room of the Emerald Whisper Starship.
Irelia stood quietly before the enormous observation window, gazing down at the azure planet. In the depths of her eyes, complicated emotions swirled—emotions even she could not fully sort out.
Just moments ago, through the shared data link and Xingyu's real-time feedback, she had personally witnessed the Blue Star Civilization, under Lin Yi's leadership, destroy the last Abyss Nest with a speed and decisiveness that defied every rational prediction.
The assessment was over.
By all rights, she should have felt utterly relieved.
Lin Yi had received a Level 7 assessment, and the Blue Star Civilization had received a Level 5 civilization rating. Everything had turned out as she had hoped, without a single mishap.
And yet, a message from three days earlier had left her deeply conflicted.
Her grandmother had told her that the family had made its final decision: while there was still room to negotiate, they would give up their ancestral home of ten thousand years and exchange it with a hostile family for a vast sum of money. They planned to migrate as a whole and seek a slim chance of survival in the vast but unfamiliar territory of the Human Race.
That call had been, first, to inform her of the cruel decision: the family no longer had a "home" to return to.
Second, it had been to ask the family member who had spent the longest time in Human Race territory what she thought they should do with the money and what direction they should take in the future.
At that moment, the first person who came to Irelia's mind was Lin Yi.
The young man who had displayed incredible potential on a planet starved of energy.
His