(Thanks to Son of the Round Clam, Pete Griffin for the donation. Bonus chapter 8/50.)
The rescue mission for the Traffic Light Trio had been quite an adventure.
First, there was Baron Dallas, the Solar Lord's youngest son. A few months earlier, he had traveled from Terra to Purple Diamond Star on vacation.
He had heard about the work called the Era Promenade long ago and had come specifically to see it.
But at the Era Promenade's starting station, he ran into Li Qinwu. After receiving a warning from him, he turned around and ran!
It was not that Baron Dallas himself was particularly cautious. His security team was.
This was a security team trained by the grandees of Terra, and they were highly skilled!
After Li Qinwu's warning, several bodyguards immediately scanned his appearance with their electronic eyes and retrieved his information from a special Imperium database.
When they saw that Li Qinwu had saved multiple planets and been canonized as a Living Saint, their expressions changed dramatically. They immediately put their security protocols into action!
Had Li Qinwu known that his deeds had already been recorded by the Imperium's highest-ranking inner circle, he would certainly have been shocked too.
In short, the bodyguards took the Living Saint's warning very seriously and tried to whisk Baron Dallas away, off the planet!
But the sacrifice had already begun, and the traitors had used surface firepower to block all aircraft traveling to and from space.
Baron Dallas had a spaceship in low orbit above the planet. It was not especially large, only a little over five hundred meters long. Its main selling point was its lavish, glittering luxury.
The warship dispatched every Shuttle it had, but all of them were shot down by the traitors' surface air-defense units.
Later, the traitors