Shining World, Reynolds Cluster, Geralton System.

The joint exploration team of the Krent Empire in the field of war is carrying out the preset plan step by step, and the fleets that take the range of exploration are like paint brushes, slowly painting the gray unexplored areas on the star map into the explored green. The stargate transportation network inside the first sector was gradually built, the planets were explored, the detailed information was entered into the database, and a large number of space buoys were left in the passing area.

The exploration process on this side of the war field has been uneventful, and there are many resource planets in the Geralton system, but so far they have not encountered a single indigenous civilization.

Heber had been very idle for ten days, and the huge fleet worked on its own according to the plan, and he did not need his command, so he found a star to hone his strength.

On a red-hot red star in the star zone, Heber walked on the surface of the star, and the plasma-star energy within tens of kilometers in diameter formed a moving vortex that revolved around him. Under the stimulation of qi, the cells in his body devoured the intense radiation around him in a special rhythm, transforming them into their own energy, and dazzling incandescent patches appeared on the skin on his body.

The stellar furnace exercise method that Han Xiao extracted came from Hebour, and every martial artist is a fitness addict, and if he doesn't practice for a day, he will feel uncomfortable.

Call...... Herber exhaled a breath and expelled the excess energy from his body, spewing out an arc of sun-like energy, like a red foehn wind.

With a kick of his legs, the huge force turned into a diffuse shock wave, and the surrounding red-hot energy vortex was dispersed in an instant, and Heber was wrapped in dense gas and flames, breaking through the strong gravitational pull of the star, and ejected, like a beam of light shooting towards the universe, and soon left the outer region of the star and returned to the fleet that stayed outside.

Walking into the spaceship, Heber casually put on his own big hat and took the communicator handed by his subordinates, which was news from Krent's side.

"Your Excellency, we have just received news that the Commander-in-Chief has issued a directive to the Black Star Legion, asking them to destroy a native force."

"Attacking the native forces?" Herber paused, "The Empire's rules of exploration do not allow for the use of violence at will. ”

"Our people who stayed in Lighthouse Star inquired that the situation encountered by Black Star was special, that local force was a marauder entrenched in the center of the star cluster, and it was discovered by the people of the Black Star Legion by coincidence, and the empire wanted the planetary information accumulated in the hands of this local force, so the commander-in-chief allowed the Black Star Legion to destroy this force."

Hearing this, Herber frowned slightly.

Their side is developing steadily, and the Black Star Legion has already started to jungle?!

If the Black Star Legion gets the information accumulated by the local forces, it is a great feat, and it can get a large amount of information about the planet at once.

Originally, the galaxy they explored was more fertile, and the exploration results could stabilize the Black Star Legion, but unfortunately Black Star was a little lucky......

Herber shook his head.

He didn't want to see the Black Star Legion get this result, but he could only watch and couldn't help but feel a little depressed.

"Your Excellency, our commander has a bold idea...... Krent's liaison officer added.

"Against the Black Star again?"

"That's right, we're going to ......"

"Alright, stop talking nonsense." Without waiting for the other party to finish, Heber interrupted the other party, "I have reached a truce agreement with the Black Star Legion, and now I don't want to provoke them, you better not do it, there is no point in this kind of thing." ”

With that, he hung up.

The Krent Emperor is a thief, and he doesn't want the enemy of the Black Star Legion to get the credit smoothly, and Herber doesn't want to mess around with Krent's group of pit goods.

This time, the commander sent by Krent was a radical faction of the secret war, so he had a deep hostility towards Han Xiao, he just planned to snatch the credit of the Black Star Legion, disgusting the Black Star, in Hebber's opinion, the success rate was slim, not to mention, it would also cause the dissatisfaction of the Black Star and the Empire, and it did not have much influence on the Black Star Legion, it was really worth the loss.

In the Shining World, Heber really doesn't want to be hostile to the Black Star, such a big cake, how good it is to honestly explore his own area, and stumbling with the Black Star Legion will only cheapen other Imperial allies who will participate in the exploration in the future.

……

In the 4.0 version of the previous life, when the player entered the shining world, many star clusters had already been explored, and a large number of external forces were stationed and fought against each other, so the player had a large number of fighters to ...... Today, things are different.

Now it is version 3.0, and Han Xiao has let players get in touch with the plot of the shining world one version in advance, and while gaining the first opportunity, he is also facing a different environment from his previous life. In the early exploration, only the empire and its allies existed, and each other was their own people, so the player lacked the plot line of the faction conquest, and there were not many fighting opportunities.

Therefore, as soon as the mission of [Destroying the Great Universe Corps] was released, all players who followed the Black Star Legion to explore the shining world actively participated in this collective action, and the number of people in this mission was not limited, and the vast majority of players chose to participate.

Han Xiao was happy to see this, because the players were in different exploration teams at this time, and they were relatively scattered, so he casually arranged tens of thousands of spaceships to reunite these players to form an expeditionary fleet.

This expedition team has only a small number of Legion NPC warriors, most of whom are players.

Because it takes a lot of time to reach the central region of the Gaolu Star Cluster from here, Han Xiao doesn't plan to let the player stay in the spaceship all the time to hurry, which is a waste of the time of these high-quality laborers, he plans to let this expedition team also carry out linear exploration along the way, explore some planets along the way, and make the best use of things.

Similarly, in order to make it easier for players to return, they have to build Star Gates along the way.

In this way, the exploration plan of the Black Star Legion also changed, and the large army slowly explored the border system, the first task force led by Hardaway opened the passage from the south to the east of the cluster, and the second expeditionary team where the player was located opened the second passage from the south of the cluster to the central region, which is equivalent to a three-line operation.

As a result, the Legion's manpower was once again thinned, and Han Xiao instructed Sylvia, who remained at the Shattered Star Ring Headquarters, to send a second fleet as soon as possible to supplement the exploration team.

After the development of the first two versions, today's players can already have B-level combat power, and millions of legion players are enough to take charge on their own, Han Xiao is quite relieved.

With the change of version, the player's strength is getting stronger and stronger, and he will gradually grow into a force that cannot be ignored, gradually get rid of the identity of cannon fodder, and slowly step onto the stage of the universe.

After sending out the player expeditionary team, Han Xiao didn't care about them, he commanded the fleet to explore the resource planets one by one every day, and used his free time to expand the mechanical troops, during which there were no accidents, and the wind and waves were calm.

Two more star areas have been explored, and more than a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Han Xiao finally received Philip's report that he had gone to the player expedition in the middle of the star cluster and finally encountered the scout troops of the Great Universe Corps.

……

The scout force was met by a detachment of players who were setting up space buoys, with only a small reconnaissance ship carrying just over 300 players, while the opposing scout force had three warships.

The skirmish broke out immediately, and as soon as the scout force spotted the group of players, they rushed up to engage in a broadside battle, preparing to capture the enemy with their numerical superiority and interrogate the Blackstar Legion's intelligence.

A series of shells hit the shield of the small reconnaissance ship, causing a series of explosions, but the flickering shield remained unmoved.

"Alert! The ship is under attack, and the shield has 97.1% of the remaining energy...... 99.7%…… Charge complete, threat assessment is underway...... After the assessment, the enemy's fire could not break through our shields, and the threat level was extremely low. ”

The hundreds of players in the spaceship looked at each other.

The ships of the Black Star Legion use perfect galaxy-level technology, and even have the level of star clusters in some aspects, such as energy cores, weapons, and shields, compared to the ships of the Great Space Legion, which are too backward and do not have a huge number gap, and cannot pose a threat to the ships of the Black Star Legion at all.

The broadside battle was exactly what hundreds of players wanted, and after the three enemy scout ships approached, they were about to dock the hatch, when more than a dozen catapult capsule pods sprayed out from the side of the small reconnaissance ship, "biting" through the three enemy ships at once, and embedded in the hull of the enemy ship.

The players in the assault cabin are like tigers coming out of the gate, killing inside the enemy ship, all the way, this group of players is basically above level 100, and the members of the enemy ship are basically ordinary people.

It didn't take long for hundreds of players to sweep away the enemies inside the enemy ship and capture the three ships.

On the other side, Artemore, who was leading the army, also received news that one of the scout troops had encountered and lost contact.

However, he had not received the footage that the Scout Force was supposed to have sent back, and the strength of the Black Star Legion was still unknown to him.

"Before the scouts lost contact, they only sent back the news of their encounter with the enemy, and then the link was broken, and we don't know how they engaged the enemy." The adjutant was puzzled.

"It's the same as Chikigar's time......" Atimo's eyes narrowed, a rare solemnity flashed in his eyes, "The enemy's quantum technology may surpass ours......"

When the battle broke out, Philip invaded the enemy's intelligence along the quantum network and forcibly blocked the other party's communications, so as to prevent the leakage of the legion's intelligence, and it was the same when Chikiga encountered the ancestor, so to this day, Atimo still doesn't know how many ships the Black Star Legion has and how high the combat power is.

Instead, Philip figured out the location of Etimo's large force from the quantum link, recalled the detachment that was exploring, and ordered the expeditionary team to march straight in the direction of the enemy's large force.

No matter what kind of war, it is impossible to ignore the importance of intelligence, the virtual technology of the legion crushes the other party, and the Great Space Corps is like a group of blind people in comparison.

Since dominating the "universe", Artimo has not encountered an enemy who can make him feel pressured, but this time the appearance of the Black Star Legion out of thin air has shaken his confidence in winning every battle.

This is probably the toughest opponent he's ever faced.

"Black Star Legion, not bad." Atimo's tone was calm, "I'd like to call you the strongest. ”

"But...... Nothing will change your fate when you meet my fleet! ”

Atimo's eyes were cold and full of confidence, he brought all the combat power with him this time, and there were 100,000 warships!

This is the fleet he has accumulated for many years, and it is the confidence of his domination of the "universe".

In his mind, such a large force was enough to sweep away all enemies.