T5 Hades-class Starship Dreadnought - Bridge

"JF-17 frontline base report. The Warhammer coalition forces are withdrawing from the battlefield. Sixth Legion Commander Medusa requests permission to pursue and annihilate them," the bridge communications officer reported.

"The Warhammer Alliance has also withdrawn?" Zhao Chen was somewhat surprised.

Prior to this, he had learned of the Holy Radiant Empire's expeditionary force's retreat, which was not unexpected.

Presumably, it was the performance of the T5 Hades-class interplanetary dreadnought that led the governor to choose to withdraw his troops.

However, the retreat of the Warhammer Alliance was unexpected by Zhao Chen.

Is the Hades-class interplanetary dreadnought really that powerful?

Suddenly, a video window appeared in front of Zhao Chen; it was his secretary, Lilith.

Although Lilith is currently not by Zhao Chen's side because she needs to take charge of the logistics and management of the Dragon Legion, she will still handle most of the matters.

There must be some important reason why they are contacting me directly now.

"Commander, something terrible has happened." Lilith immediately raised the atmosphere upon entering.

Zhao Chen frowned: "What happened?"

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Just then, Zhao Chen's handheld terminal flashed, indicating that Charlotte was contacting him.

Zhao Chen clicked on it, and another video window popped up.

"Commander, something terrible has happened! Warhammer is in turmoil!" Charlotte said nervously.

Zhao Chen looked at the two of them in surprise: "Are you two talking about the same thing?"

Charlotte also saw Lilith in the video window on the other side at that moment.

Lilith shook her head and said, "I'm talking about the Holy Radiant Empire."

This made Zhao Chen even more puzzled. How could the Holy Radiant Empire and the Warhammer Star Union have both experienced major events at the same time?

Judging from Lilith and Charlotte's expressions, this is no small matter.

“First come, first served, Lilith, you go first,” Zhao Chen said.

Lilith then dropped a bombshell: "A level-five cosmic wormhole has appeared in the central star system of the Holy Radiant Empire, and it's permanent!"

A permanent level-five cosmic wormhole?

A Level 5 cosmic wormhole—this has never happened before in the history of the Galactic Alliance.

And it's permanent!

It's important to know that because of the permanent level-four cosmic wormhole created in the Snow Swallow Starfield during the Star Glory Empire's civil war, the Star Glory Empire now needs to station troops there long-term and periodically clear out any swarms of Zerg fleets that emerge from it.

If it weren't for the Beiyan Group under Xiaolong supplying those interstellar warships to the Xingyao Empire, this would definitely be an extremely stressful task.

In the Holy Radiant Empire, specifically in the Central Star Region.

A permanent level-five cosmic wormhole has appeared?

Even Charlotte on the other side was surprised by this news.

"What's going on? How could a permanent level-five cosmic wormhole suddenly appear in the Holy Radiant Empire?" Zhao Chen found it unbelievable; how did it suddenly appear out of nowhere?

Could it be...?

"According to our intelligence, 'insect eggs' have appeared in the central part of the Holy Radiant Empire." Lilith dropped another bombshell: "They should be the nine missing insect eggs we've been investigating."

Zhao Chen's expression was unpredictable.

During his last conversation with Qin Longcheng, he told him about the mysterious doctor and the so-called 'insect egg' technology.

According to Qin Longcheng at the time, due to limited materials, the mysterious doctor only built ten 'insect eggs'.

One of them was detonated in the second star system of Xueyan Snowfield. The remaining nine 'insect eggs' have always been a time bomb in Zhao Chen's heart.

Even during this military operation against Warhammer.

Zhao Chen ordered the Star Glory Empire to continue investigating the nine missing 'insect eggs'.

After all, the permanent level-four cosmic wormhole in the Snow Swallow Starfield was caused by a single 'worm egg'.

If the remaining nine 'insect eggs' were to suddenly activate, it would cause great trouble for the Starry Empire.

But who would have thought that these nine missing 'insect eggs' would actually appear in the central star region of the Holy Radiant Empire?

"Do you have any detailed information?" Zhao Chen pressed.

"We don't know the specific details yet."

However, this is based on a general outline of intelligence information.

I believe this is how things should be.

The mysterious doctor took nine 'insect eggs' to the Holy Radiant Empire. During this process, it was likely that someone or some force cooperated with him. We don't know who it was, but we speculate that it was someone from the Holy Radiant Empire.

According to intelligence, the central area of ​​this Level 5 cosmic wormhole is an interstellar technology research institute!

It is possible that this mysterious doctor developed the relevant technologies in this research institute.

According to another piece of intelligence, nine cosmic wormholes appeared simultaneously in that star system at that time, and these nine cosmic wormholes merged together.

This eventually led to the formation of the current permanent Level 5 cosmic wormhole.

"It must be the new technology developed by that mysterious doctor!" Lilith said, revealing the information she had pieced together.

Zhao Chen squinted; this made sense.

The only question is why that mysterious doctor created these things in the first place.

From Qin Xiaotian, the King of Northern Yan, to the Holy and Glorious Empire.

What on earth is this guy up to?

"What about the Holy Radiant Empire? What have they done?" Zhao Chen asked, guessing that things must be in a mess there.

Previously, the level four cosmic wormhole in the Snow Swallow Starfield was brought under control with Zhao Chen's help. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

And one can imagine the enormous impact this permanent Level 5 cosmic wormhole will have.

The crucial difference between Level 4 and Level 5 is...

To deal with the T4 Zerg mothership, each Empire still has its own T4 starships.

However, a Level 5 cosmic wormhole can produce a T5 worm mothership.

Zhao Chen had already put in a lot of effort to deal with [N O V E L I G H T] the artificially controlled near-T5 Zerg Hive Mothership. If a genuine T5 Zerg Hive Mothership were to appear, even the old Zhao Chen and the JF-17 Legion probably wouldn't have been able to handle it.

Another issue is that the Level 5 cosmic wormhole is permanently open.

Nobody knows how many T5 Zergling Motherships will emerge from it.

Even without the threat of T5 Zerg motherships, the sheer number of T4 Zerg motherships and other Zerg fleets alone would be enough to throw the Holy Radiance Empire into chaos.

Regarding this situation...

Zhao Chen felt no joy at the moment, but rather worry.

Logically speaking, shouldn't Zhao Chen be gloating over the Holy Glory Empire's misfortune?

In other circumstances, Zhao Chen might have gloated and celebrated with a hot pot meal.

But it poses a threat to the Zerg.

Zhao Chen was well aware that this was the common enemy of all interstellar races at present.

If the Holy Radiant Empire falls, then the Starry Empire will follow; no one can escape it.

This situation directly disrupted all of Zhao Chen's current battle plans.

"Charlotte, what's the news over there?" Zhao Chen rubbed his temples and looked at Charlotte.

There shouldn't be any news more important than the Holy Radiant Empire on Charlotte's side.

"The chieftain of the Dragonkin tribe, the current monarch of the Warhammer Starfleet Union, the Dragon Emperor, has died in battle."