Chapter 2872: Hidden Under The Nose
Chapter 2872: Hidden Under The Nose
Lucas narrowed his eyes in response. “We are already cruising at 80% of the speed, which you know is the protocol. Why the sudden request?”
Flavio began to explain what his spies found inside Lisan Universe. Naturally, Lucas did feel a little surprised. “If this Sacred Cultivation Land really exists, that means the inhabitants of Lisan Universe got access to the Chaos Origin Source. That’s pretty impressive for a backwater Universe like this.”
Flavio agreed with that point. “Indeed. That’s why I need you to come faster. Otherwise, the experts inside will definitely get stronger by the time you arrive. There is a time-accelerating formation in that Sacred Land, after all.”
Lucas pondered a bit and finally decided. “All I can do is go up to 90% of the speed. More than that might damage the spaceships, and you know that. However, if something breaks on our way to Lisan, you will be responsible. Do you agree?”
“Yes,” Flavio didn’t mind. “Are you sure you can’t come at 100% speed?”
“I can’t,” Lucas shook his head in response, although he understood Flavio did have a good reason for that request. “If we break on the way, we might end up wasting more time than initially. Not to mention, I would be the one responsible for the consequences, and Kaberta definitely wouldn’t like it.”
“Fine.” Flavio didn’t insist. Even he didn’t want to be on Kaberta’s bad side.
The transmission ended right after, and Flavio got back in his seat. A few minutes later, one of the cultivators on the bridge reported the new arrival time. “Sir, the reinforcements have accelerated. The expected time for their arrival is now approximately two years and nine months.”
Flavio nodded and closed his eyes.
Back in the Lisan Universe, work progressed as the various powers dismantled the spaceships that were taken down during the last war. All the Divine Origin Cores were gone, and any survivors found in those ships were captured or killed.
Most of the valuable content had already been stripped out, but the spaceships were skill gigantic structures with thousands of kilometers of length. Each one of them was just like the Ruins of the Stars, but bigger and more advanced. Much of the technology there couldn’t be understood by the Lisan Universe experts.
With the approaching of the next war, the efforts slowly shifted away from these abandoned ships. You could still find a few experts exploring these ships here and there, but those spaceships were not a priority anymore.
No one noticed that a block of broken parts floated in space near one of these spaceships. Such things were everywhere around the spaceships, so no one really paid attention to them. They are just debris, expected to be there because of the war.
However, this one specific piece of debris wasn’t really part of the spaceships that were taken down during the war. Without anyone noticing, it entered the range of the spaceships and mixed with all the other debris floating around.
That pile of metals slowly floated until it hit one of the spaceships.
*Clang…*
However, instead of bouncing like any other inanimate remnant part of the destroyed ships, it seemed to glue to the spaceship hull. From the midst of that pile of metals, a small tinge of silver could be seen. If someone looked inside all that metal, they would notice a hexagonal structure of a few meters in diameter.
‘Seems like I truly did it…’ a thought went through the mind of that hexagonal structure. Sure enough, the hexagonal cube was none other than Hex, the artifact spirit that was born inside the Beacon. He was the one responsible for the Garisan Forces’ arrival.
Hex took a good look around and immediately stopped moving.
A group of experts looking for some lucky remnants passed nearby, ignoring the pile of metals where Hex was located. Once they were gone, Hex began to move again.
His body then touched the hull. Following that, the hull began to open on its own. Turns out that that location was one of the entrances into the spaceship Hex was targeting. Hex, as a Universe Space Temporal Beacon from the now-gone Lingan Universe, still had much information regarding his previous owner. These spaceships were quite different from the ones he knew about, but some basic structures could be easily identified, including these compartment entrances.
Hex slowly made his way into the compartment and used his Divine Energy to close the hull again. ‘Phew… finally inside. Let’s take a look.’
Hex moved to one of the terminals there. A lot of damage could be seen around. The Foreign Fragment that powered this spaceship was also gone, so little energy was left throughout the ship. The equipment barely worked, too, since the ship had been stripped of many of its important components.
Hex didn’t care, though. He connected himself to the terminal, which surprisingly identified him. This was a Garisan Spaceship, and Hex was supposed to be a Beacon of countless years ago. Yet, his access was guaranteed somehow. ‘This piece of shit. They truly took almost everything. How do they expect me to find th- hum?’
Suddenly, Hex found information about something interesting. ‘Seems like my luck isn’t over yet.’
Hex spent the next day moving through the fallen spaceship while using his connection with it to locate any possible danger from Lisan Universe experts. He was nervous the whole time. Even though he had a strength equivalent to a Peak Space-Time Realm, he was certain this place was still being watched. If a Divinity Realm expert came out, he would definitely be captured. His only advantage was that he didn’t really have a cultivation and that he didn’t appear inside the Natural Spatial Perception of others.
*Ziu!*
Finally, the door to another deposit of the spaceship opened. Hex entered it, and on the back, he found what he had been looking for. ‘To think they truly managed to hide this thing under the nose of the Garisan Forces…’ That same day, the Universe Space Temporal Beacon became an empty shell. No Artifact Spirit could be found there anymore.