Thirty-three days at sea, and everything they had endured along the way, had left every crew member aboard the Bosang exhausted.
Now, the brightly lit city that appeared before them on the pitch-black sea was like a ray of hope for salvation, shining into their hearts!
No more icebergs blocked the waters ahead. The Bosang steamed toward its destination at full power!
After five thousand years of occupation by the Interastral Peace Corporation, this City of Bones no longer bore any trace of its original appearance.
From the outside, it was nothing less than a steel fortress built on the sea!
As the capital of Deep Blue Star, Skorint was shaped like a disc, hundreds of thousands of meters across.
Along the city's edge stood a massive steel wall that rose a thousand meters above the sea, a sight that left people sighing in awe.
Without a doubt, defenses on this scale had been designed with quasi-military specifications in mind.
But why had the Corporation spent so many resources building a military fortress here?
Was it the belief in building cities for Preservation? Or was there some enemy that warranted such precautions from the Corporation?
The natives' level of technology could not breach this steel defensive line. After all, by the time the Corporation began building Skorint, the natives here had already been beaten back into a civilization armed with cold steel.
And the enormous creatures in Deep Blue Star's depths rarely entered human territory. Only the giant whales were an exception, actively integrating into human civilization.
Still, these creatures posed little threat to the Corporation. If anything, the Corporation posed a threat to them.
Every year, the Interastral Peace Corporation harvested vast quantities of biological resources on Deep Blue Star, turning the waters around its capital, Skorint, into a