Brood Nest

Xu Wuyi and the others' achievements were fully publicized across the Federation the very next day.

At seven in the morning, the Federation News Network's morning headline was replaced with a new title—

"Slain in Three Minutes! Federation Grandmasters Join Forces to Kill Enemy Deep Within the Star Realm."

The accompanying image was a processed schematic of the star region, with red arrows marking Darkwing's route into the encirclement.

Three golden points of light represented the ambush positions of the three Grandmasters: Xu Wuyi, Lu Zhenshan, and Luo Qingluan.

The report was restrained yet forceful. It revealed no tactical details, merely stating the outcome objectively.

Three Federation Grandmasters had successfully ambushed the Feathered Human king-level powerhouse "Darkwing" in the northern Star Realm. The battle lasted three minutes, and the target was killed on the spot.

Yet these few simple lines caused enormous waves within the Federation.

Because everyone knew that this was another great victory against the Feathered Human Civilization—and one even more intimidating than any before it.

In modern warfare, Grandmaster-level combat power was the true core.

Ordinary armies merely handled the peripheral work. Whether they cleared Star Beasts or occupied resource planets, it could not alter the fundamental direction of the war.

Grandmasters, however, were different. Every Grandmaster was a strategic deterrent force. Their lives and deaths directly affected the balance of strength between entire civilizations.

Killing one Feathered Human King was more meaningful than wiping out ten of their armies.

What surprised the Federation even more was that Xu Wuyi's name had once again appeared in an official announcement.

Although the report did not explicitly state who the main force had been, the implications in its wording were obvious.

This twenty-three-year-old young Grandmaster had not only participated in the operation, but had also played a crucial role