Chapter 1404: Chapter 529: Second Expedition (Part 2)

"The Starry Sky Battlefield changes in an instant. A single piercing hit can easily result in tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of casualties. How can you hold back?"

"Then issuing an order to prohibit the Nanxiang Marquis from deploying troops?"

"It’s meaningless. Liu An certainly won’t deploy troops, but it’s all superficial effort, fooling ghosts. Isn’t he using those pirates in the Shattered Star Ring, who don’t register and don’t use the Empire Super Network, for such covert activities? For thousands of years, many potential viscounts in the Nanxiang Star Cluster have disappeared due to suppression and raids by these pirate groups. Simply put, isn’t it just the Nanxiang Marquis maintaining his own rule? The only mistake was that Earl Red Blade underestimated Liu An’s resolute nature and underestimated the irritation caused to Liu An by having one more earl in the Nanxiang Star Cluster. Perhaps he also underestimated the potential displayed by his Red Blade Clan over a century. Even if the review ends now, Earl Ren Zhong could already achieve the highest level of evaluation. But the more potential he has, the less likely Liu An will let go."

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The outside public opinion was in an uproar, yet they made the situation clearer. It was undoubtedly that everyone thought that Earl Red Blade Ren Zhong, who had just emerged and entered the high echelons of the Empire’s vision, was on a path of self-destruction.

But regardless of what outsiders said, and no matter how Viscount Wen Yuanbo of the Royal Family and other factions in the Nanxiang Star Cluster, who had secret ties with the Red Blade Clan, tried to dissuade him, Ren Zhong’s words were absolute within his own forces, and what he said went.

With his single command, the army amassed by the Red Blade Clan over the past decades boldly took formation and began to assemble in space.

Previously, in order to avoid drawing attention, although Red Blade Star had been mass-producing warships and flying vehicles like dumplings, most were hidden on the planet’s surface, with meteorological satellites creating interference to cover their tracks.

So far, except for the Commander overseeing logistics and directing the overall situation, the ordinary soldiers on Red Blade Star didn’t even know how many warships they truly had.

The commanders of each expedition fleet also didn’t know how many peers of equal rank they had.

Until now, the Red Blade Star, which had been accumulating strength for nearly a hundred years, finally revealed its true capability, announcing to the world what this special race’s hidden skill, besides engaging in research, production, and finance, truly was.

It was none other than war.

One massive warship equipped with Gravity Engines after another rose from the surface of Red Blade Star, densely packed like a river flowing skyward.

Huge super alloy cables draped down from large space stations in orbital paths, hanging over the planet’s surface like banyan tree roots, forming a steel forest that nearly covered the entire planetary surface of Red Blade Star.

Ships not equipped with powerful Gravity Engines were lifted by colossal mechanical arches on the ground to these super alloy cables, latched onto by numerous fastenings, and hauled quickly into the sky.

Massive cargo boxes filled with space single-pilot ships moved skyward along ten Space Elevator lines like a train.

The army took a full half-month to complete assembly.

At this time, in the distant orbit beyond Red Blade Star, there were already as many as thirty thousand large warships formed into a total of thirty massive battle formations.

Beside these thirty thousand warships, another fifty large space stations that originally housed scientific research, production, residential areas, and other purposes completed their stunning transformations, revealing ferocious fangs as they unveiled their true nature as Space Fortresses.

Behind the battle formations, however, there were as many as a million medium-sized warships, each having an average crew size of over a thousand.

As for the even more numerous small-sized flying vehicles, they were hidden within the Space Fortresses and warships.

"Total forces exceeding two billion, with combat scope and simulated evaluation power even completely surpassing the combined total of five entire planetary system defense forces. Military personnel percentage exceeds 20% of the total population! This Earl Red Blade is simply indulging in war to the point of insanity! Isn’t he afraid of affecting economic production?"

When the spy delivered the intelligence back to Nanxiang’s Earldom, Liu An subconsciously uttered this line.

But he quickly realized that his words didn’t make sense.

The reason is simple. The facts speak louder, as the development indices of the Red Blade Clan in economy, production, research, and finance couldn’t possibly be seen as affected.

"What is the origin of these colonists’ genes? How can this be? What is their evolutionary trend? How can they do everything?"

Liu An was baffled now.

Originally, since the Source Star Fleet had the merits of exterminating the Divine Level Demon Spawn and a fourth-class Mother Empress, Liu An once thought this was a human branch with a primary potential for warfare.

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