(Spent the entire weekend on the move, sleeping a total of six hours over two days and two nights...)
At the border defense colonel's furious roar, the order to open fire was instantly carried out across the entire fleet.
The space behind the Young Eagle warship was blanketed in a dazzling torrent of multicolored energy beams.
"I've even made a round through Capital Star. You think I'm afraid of you!?"
Inside the bridge's command room, Mu Fan's feet remained utterly still as fourteen flexible steel cables shot out and firmly secured his body in place.
With the High Crystal Stones fully activated, the entire warship erupted with five times its normal thrust, its hull wrapped in a hazy blue radiance.
A steep-angle ascent, twenty-two full spiral thrusts, Cobra maneuvers, high-speed wave rolls without deceleration...
One textbook-grade warship evasion maneuver after another unfolded before the autonomous border defense forces.
In fact, every individual maneuver exceeded the safety thresholds laid out in the textbooks.
The consequence of these out-of-spec maneuvers was that less than one percent of the border forces' firepower could hit the opposing warship.
"Is that warship's captain insane!? This is a warship, not a mech!"
"Can a warship's metal armor withstand twenty-two consecutive full spiral thrusts at that intensity, with wave rolls that don't even slow down in between?"
"Even if the metal can take it, what about the people inside!?"
"Are they all robots? Are they willing to throw their lives away just to break through?"
The colonel roared in fury. He probably never could have imagined that the ship really was being piloted by robots.
As for the only human aboard, he possessed a physique even more terrifying than a robot's.
What they could never have imagined was that within the belly hold of that "Armed Freighter,"