"Wait, Shen Jun!"
At that moment, He Xi flew over to Aiur's Shield. The sheer size and overwhelming technological sophistication of the Protoss mothership were unlike anything she had ever seen.
To put it bluntly, the lack of imagination in the Angels' early spacecraft designs was obvious at a glance.
The ships from the era of the Male Angels were literally designed like ships.
Hua Ye's Heavenly Palace was the prime example.
After Keisha's uprising, things improved considerably. By the time the main storyline of Super God Academy unfolded, the Angels' standard Heaven Blade Battleships had completely shed their ship-like appearance.
Though it was never explicitly mentioned in the story, Shen Jun guessed that Heaven Blade Battleships could definitely be mass-produced. No matter how much Yan liked Ge Xiaolun, she could not possibly have given Earth a Heaven Blade if their numbers were limited.
Especially when Hua Ye had returned and Heavenly City was facing a great war.
This had nothing to do with emotional intelligence. It was absolutely impossible.
Unless Heaven Blades were not as scarce as imagined, nor were they exclusively the mounts of kings.
The proof was that when Yan intended to send Heaven Blade Seven to Earth, not a single Angel expressed regret. No matter how loyal they were to Yan, they could not possibly have been unaware of the Heaven Blade's importance, right?
Thus, Shen Jun guessed that the "Seven" in Heaven Blade Seven did not mean it was the seventh ship, but rather its generation—the seventh-generation Heaven Blade.
Heaven Blade Battleships had accompanied nearly the entire course of Angel Civilization under Keisha's leadership. They could not possibly have remained unchanged as Angel technology became increasingly advanced, their energy increasingly powerful, their resources increasingly abundant, and their construction chains increasingly mature.
The development from the first-generation Heaven Blade Series Battleship, Keisha's flagship, to seventh-generation mass-produced battle groups was perfectly reasonable. It could even have expanded into the Heavenly Base Series Battleship.
Yet in this era, Angels were still heavily influenced by old technology, and Heaven Blade One was also shaped like a ship. In fact, this was not limited to the Angels; nearly every major civilization in the Known Universe used this kind of design.
Only the God River Civilization stood apart. Shen Jun guessed that Super God Academy had not yet become widespread, and Kiran was preparing the Three Great God-Making Projects. Once they were completed, he would establish Super God Academy throughout the Known Universe.
So when He Xi first saw the Protoss' various warships, she was already captivated by their exquisite and diverse designs, not to mention their wide array of weapon systems. How could a researcher who loved studying weapons technology not be curious?
Especially that mothership, which looked insanely impressive. He Xi had wanted to see what it looked like inside for a long time.
Normally, the mothership automatically cruised through Aiur's skies. It did not need energy within the Psionic Matrix and never landed, so He Xi had naturally been too embarrassed to ask to board it.
Now that Shen Jun was heading for the Sien Star System, He Xi had not thought much of it. She had known about it when she gave Shen Jun the Star Chart, but then she saw the mothership that usually floated in the sky actually move!
How could she let that happen?!
"I'm going too!"
He Xi instantly spread her Wings of Time and Space, sticking close to Aiur's Shield.
Left with no choice, Shen Jun warped He Xi aboard.
He did not know why he had done it. Whether He Xi came along or not would not affect the Protoss' plans, yet he seemed to have given her far too many conveniences.
Aside from the Fleet Beacon and the Robotics Bay, the two core Protoss technology research centers, He Xi could freely inspect any Protoss structure. Even the production lines of the Stargate and Robotics Facility had not barred her from visiting.
Shen Jun's office at the Twilight Council was even a place He Xi visited regularly. She always teased him there, yet he could never bring himself to get angry. It was truly strange.
Even more absurdly, He Xi genuinely did not treat herself as an outsider. She found a scenic little lake near Daelaam and built herself a Small Wooden House, decorating its interior beautifully.
It was worth mentioning that He Xi had already formed an alliance with Shen Jun on behalf of the Angels. However, Shen Jun emphasized one point: any civilization that interfered in Protoss internal affairs would be regarded as an enemy.
And when a certain great war arrived, the Angels had to assist the Protoss with all their strength.
In short, that was how He Xi boarded Aiur's Shield.
After warping continuously for two days, Shen Jun honestly felt terrible. It was like riding a roller coaster for two straight days—nauseous, sick to his stomach, wanting to vomit but unable to.
Seeing that the other Protoss all looked perfectly fine only made him feel worse.
"Hierarch, this is your first experience with consecutive warps. Such symptoms are normal. You will feel much better once you become accustomed to it."
Kerasul comforted him.
Shen Jun thought about it and agreed. Compared with these old monsters who had been warping for centuries, he was practically a fledgling.
By then, the fleet had entered the Sien Star System. The system contained one star and seven planets, with the Sien civilization residing on the fifth planet.
"Hierarch, enormous quantities of Crystal Mineral have been detected on the fourth planet in this system. That will be our mining planet."
Kerasul had naturally begun to include the Sien Star System within "ours."
"We'll have countless mining planets in the future, so there's no need to name them individually. Call this one Mineral Star-1."
After thinking for a moment, Shen Jun said so.
Kerasul had no objection. He marked the planet as Mineral Star-1 on the Star Array, then the fleet headed toward it.
Mineral Star-1 had no atmosphere and was unsuitable for biological survival. Its surface was utterly barren, with even soil being a rare sight. Hard minerals formed the planet's crust and mantle.
Shen Jun casually selected a landing site, and thousands of Protoss ships descended to the ground.
After being transformed by the Blood of Adun, Shen Jun, like every Protoss, could adapt to the extreme conditions of a vacuum.
"The environment here is awful."
He Xi looked disgusted, her delicate brows faintly furrowed as she appeared rather unhappy.
Shen Jun did not know whether to laugh or cry. "Aren't your Angels' mining planets like this too?"
He Xi replied with a serious expression, "I don't know about others, but every Resource Star I find gets renovated."
Simulated ecological environment technology was not particularly sophisticated. Creating an artificial atmosphere, converting a layer of crust into soil, then accelerating the growth of vegetation seeds was easy enough. In less than a month, a desolate planet could become lush and green.
But Shen Jun believed that in the Known Universe, only a beauty-loving woman... a female Angel like He Xi would do something so pointless.
Once the fleet landed, Kerasul led a thousand engineering teams and fifty thousand Probes in urgently constructing the basic infrastructure. They cordoned off a vast area to build the base.
They erected large numbers of Nexus Points, Pylon Cities, Medical Centers, and forges. In addition, residential buildings and a certain level of defensive fortifications were indispensable. Numerous Photon Cannons and Shield Chargers were deployed around the base's perimeter.
Once the base was roughly complete, all the Probes headed off to mine on their own.
Everything at the mining base had entered proper operation, but Kerasul's work was not yet finished, because they still needed to construct a Time-Space Navigation Route.
Constructing a Time-Space Navigation Route required building two Warp Gates. The two Warp Gates possessed a hyperspatial psionic connection with one another, allowing transportation without delay and regardless of spatial distance.
By comparison, the Great Wormhole Bridge was far inferior. The farther apart two star systems were, the longer it took to travel through the wormhole.
However, building a Time-Space Navigation Route was somewhat more complicated than building a Great Wormhole Bridge.
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