"Please take a look. This is a carefully designed standard solution for 'Elite Pioneers,' tailored to your party of five thousand."
Advisor Old Chen's voice rang out, tinged with pride.
He raised a hand and waved. In the empty space, light seemed to be kneaded by an invisible hand, quickly gathering into shape.
The first thing to appear was a warship with sharp lines, about five kilometers long.
Its entire hull was dark gray. A deep-blue Source Energy Crystal, pulsing slowly like a living thing, was set into the bow. Complex Source Energy conduits traced both sides of the hull, and a chilling air of slaughter came rushing toward them.
"This is the North Wind comprehensive attack ship. I recommend it as your corps' flagship and Command Core."
Old Chen introduced it. "It's equipped with a large Deep Blue Pulse-V Source Energy reactor, with powerful, stable energy output.
"Its main weapon is a single-mounted heavy Arbiter Source Energy Impact cannon. Its secondary weapons are eighty eight-barrel Thunder Arrow rapid-fire Source Energy turrets. It also has close-defense systems, force-field generators, unmanned craft attack platforms, and a full-coverage Prism force-field shield."
As he spoke, the scene changed. Everyone seemed to be pulled instantly into the warship's command bridge.
A massive curved observation window filled the view ahead. Data streams, flickering with Source Energy runes, flowed across the virtual control consoles.
The simulated battle began. The deep-blue crystal in the bow suddenly erupted in a dazzling azure glow, and a thick torrent of destructive energy roared out, instantly blasting a distant asteroid into vapor.
At the same time, a three-dimensional energy shield, woven together like diamond-shaped crystals, appeared around the ship. It firmly blocked the simulated "enemy's" dense energy attacks. Ripples rolled across it, but it remained as impregnable as a fortress.
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