On the outer fringe of the galactic center, in a region of space roughly twenty thousand light-years from the Solar System where Blue Star lay, a crimson star system was submerged in a radiation storm.
This place was still sixty-four hundred light-years from the black hole at the galactic center.
Compared with the true purgatory near the galactic center, where even light was warped and devoured, this place could barely be considered "safe."
But that safety applied only to the Demon Clan.
For life from Blue Star, this region was filled with lethal radiation, chaotic gravity, violent particle streams, and stellar storms that could erupt at any moment.
Ordinary organisms could not even approach, let alone reproduce.
Yet this was precisely where the Demon Clan had been born.
The closer one drew to the galactic center, the denser matter became, and the more tightly packed the stars were.
If the space around the Solar System resembled an empty wasteland, this place was like a sea of stars that gravity had crushed and piled back together.
Stars, planets, dust clouds, and shattered celestial bodies were packed almost suffocatingly close.
At the center of the Demon Clan's star system was a red-black star of almost terrifying size.
Its dimensions approached those of the extreme red supergiants once observed by Blue Star's astronomers. If moved into the Solar System, its sheer bulk would engulf the orbits of many inner planets.
Before it, the sun was as insignificant as a speck of glowing dust.
With the extremely high density of surrounding matter, this giant star had captured over a hundred planets, including enormous worlds approaching Jupiter in size.
The satellites orbiting it numbered in the hundreds as well.
The true Demon Clan Home Planet was a special celestial body among them, far larger than