[+$312.5 trillion! Exchange successful! Account balance: $584.8 trillion]
Within a few breaths, the Golden Fleet—enough to drive anyone mad and make the defenses of any planet recoil in fear—
slowly vanished into thin air.
All that remained were the lingering spatial ripples in the sky, gradually settling.
Sovereign, Golden War Hall.
"Crack—"
The screens of every drone pilot exploded simultaneously.
Tens of thousands of combat personnel stared at one another.
None of them had any idea what had happened.
They only remembered that, in the final moments before their spacecraft were destroyed, they seemed to have been siphoned somewhere by some kind of force.
No matter how they operated the controls,
they could not resist it.
The icy delight and vengeful fervor on Ayesha's face froze instantly like a golden mask.
Then it shattered piece by piece.
She abruptly rose from the Golden Throne.
Her flawless golden face twisted with shock and disbelief.
"No... impossible!"
She screamed, her shrill voice nearly piercing the Sanctuary Dome.
Not a trace of the High Priestess's former poise or majesty remained.
On the massive holographic star map before her,
the densely packed green dots representing the golden drones
all turned into glaring blood-red dots representing loss of control and destruction in an instant!
Then, as if devoured by an invisible black hole, those red dots crazily collapsed and converged toward a single coordinate!
"My fleet! Sovereign's glory! The supreme golden creations!"
Ayesha's body trembled slightly, her golden pupils contracting violently.
She stared fixedly at the massive energy marker on the star map representing that terrifying aggregate.
"What kind of power was that?!!"
She had expended countless treasury resources.
The Golden Fleet she had been so proud of, symbolizing Sovereign's supreme technology and artistry,
had been kneaded at the enemy's whim like