Global Era of Star trekking

In the central square of Baihe City, the usually bustling streets were eerily quiet today, and the few pedestrians who were there all looked tense and hurried along.

A virtual game blogger who had just woken up yawned as he walked out of his building and was taken aback by the scene on the streets.

After finally stopping a passerby, he quickly inquired about what was going on.

"What's going on? Have you been hit in the head? Didn't you hear that huge commotion just now? The Tros Family has been annihilated, not a single soul spared. I heard it's because John Tros's previous actions of hunting down juniors were exposed, which provoked retaliation from the seniors of the other side."

Listening to this explanation, it felt like something out of a novel, which made the game blogger scratch his head, somewhat doubting his life choices.

As a native of Baihe City, the Tros Family in his eyes was an absolute top-tier wealthy family. Yet this powerful family, which was daunting in his eyes, had been wiped out in the span of time it took for a nap, which he found hard to accept.

And there were thousands in Baihe City at this moment who were just as slow to come to terms with what had happened.

...

As for the subsequent events in Baihe City, the Song Family and their entourage naturally had no idea. After annihilating the Tros Family, they quickly tallied their gains, cleaned up the battlefield, and left White Tower Floating Land before the public outcry began, heading out towards the heavens.

As to why they cleaned up the battlefield so quickly, one would think that since there was a secret realm, careful consideration of how to handle the secret realm and its entrance would be necessary. Not to mention the various resources within the secret realm, just managing its entrance is a huge challenge.

Destroying an entrance to a secret realm is easy, but trying to open another entrance in a different Star Domain that leads to the same secret realm is as difficult as scaling the heavens.

To accomplish such a feat, even a Stellar Sea Creature of Fourth Rank Level would not suffice; it requires a power of at least Fifth Rank Level and above. Otherwise, the Moruo Royal Family would not have kept the entrance to the Moruo Secret Realm in Star Region 0155 for thousands of years.

Even if Star Region 0155 is riddled with spatial rifts, it was once the heart of the Moruo Civilization, and it's inevitable that some creatures would try their luck there, relying on special abilities or Strange Objects.

For example, the two "Void Membrane" components that Song Ming Song obtained were exactly that.

Therefore, having the Moruo Secret Realm in Star Region 0155 is extremely dangerous, far riskier than relocating it to where the remnants of the Moruo Royal Family are now hidden.

If there were not a lack of Fifth Rank Level combat power present, they would never have left it so vulnerable.

Thus, there is only one possible explanation: the Tros Family did not actually control any secret realm.

Inside the Furious Lion Cruiser, Song Chao, Song Hai, and others looked puzzled, and the younger members of the family like Song Chi were even more so; they distinctly remembered that John Tros had personally admitted to having control over a secret realm.

Everyone's gaze turned toward Song Ming Song and Song Shan, who were the first to enter the Tros Family's underground chamber.

At the main control station, Song Ming Song, while operating the Furious Lion at high speed, laughed and said,

"Alright, stop teasing you all, come with me!"

With that, he switched the warship to its automated piloting mode, commanded by the semi-autonomous onboard intelligence of the Furious Lion; he led Song Shan and the group toward the engine compartment behind the main control room.

Hearing this, everyone's interest was piqued, and curiosity surged anew within them.

Judging by the tone of Song Ming Song, it seemed there was still hope.

The engine compartment of a cruiser is naturally very large, but what captured everyone's attention was not the vastness of the Furious Lion's engine compartment but the warship in the center with its front half caved in.

This was the Covenant Escort Ship.

When a Torch Ship Captain dies, two things generally happen.

First, if the captain issued a self-destruct command before death, then the Torch Warship will sink with them.

Second, if the Torch Ship Captain died without any commands, then the Torch Warship will go into preservation mode, until a second Seed of Torch comes to merge with it.

As previously mentioned, each Torch Warship can change captains up to three times. This condition only applies to warships that have been under no more than two captains. If already on its third, even if the Torch Ship Captain didn't issue a self-destruct command before death, the Torch Warship would sink upon the captain's death.

The Covenant at this moment clearly belonged to the second category, with John Tros previously serving as its initial captain (the first). This meant that the warship could change captains twice more if it didn't sink.

Seeing his grandfather and uncle heading straight for the Covenant, Song Chi raised an eyebrow.

"Could the entrance to the secret realm be inside a Torch Warship?"

Turning to look at Song Qi, Song You, and the others, seeing that they too were visibly perplexed, Song Chi realized that their guesses were likely the same as his.

But as they stepped onto the Covenant, the confusion in their eyes deepened even more.

At least Song Chi could not sense the slightest spatial fluctuation inside the escort ship.