……

in subspace.

The Queen of Glory-class battleship known as the Vengeful Spirit roams the subspace, and it does not have a device called Geller's Stand, so that the subspace creatures can approach the ship without hindrance, and strange creatures with twisted shapes can be seen from every position on the ship.

It's the same in the bridge.

Abaddon stood inside the bridge, staring at the wizard in front of him.

Occasionally, a demon would pop out between the two of them, but as it was so common, they both chose to ignore it.

"How's the ceremony going?" Abaddon asked, looking at the wizard.

The wizard's appearance was always changing, and he now had a peculiar appearance, with a head between his legs, two arms on his head, and feathers and pustules growing from the surface of his body...... If it weren't for the fact that the wizard was still useful, he would have been stabbed by Abaddon.

"Wait patiently. We are not in the physical universe right now, and the ritual may be over before we speak, or it may be halfway through the ritual in the next second. The wizard's beak opened and closed up and down, replying in a voice that disgusted Abaddon.

Abaddon was a little impatient, but he knew the wizard was right, because there was no time in the subspace.

"Be patient." The wizard suddenly began to circle around the bridge as he reached out and poked his pus, dipped in pus to draw an indescribable mark on the floor.

Abaddon frowned at the wizard, he felt that his Vengeful Spirit had been desecrated, but he could only endure it, because everything the wizard did was for rituals, and it was not the first time he had done such strange acts.

The wizard continued to paint with his own pus, occasionally tearing off feathers and sticking them on the floor.

The floor of the bridge is not the floor of a house, and a slash with a power sword can only leave scratches, but the soft feathers of a wizard can easily stick to the floor.

"As soon as the ritual is over, you will receive a gift from the dark gods."

"Your fleet will appear on Cadia, and you will slaughter countless terrified ants."

The wizard muttered to himself as he drew the sigil, words that Abaddon had heard countless times, as if he were making a wish to the dark gods.

"That abominable being can't stop you, and you can't stop the gods."

"Every word I say will become true."

“……”

The wizard drew an eight-pointed star pattern, which did not appear to be made of pus, but rather to be a delicate image.

"It's over?" Abaddon asked.

The wizard didn't answer, he stood in the center of the eight-pointed star, his body stiffening until he became a statue.

Abaddon frowned and had a bad guess in his mind that the ritual might have failed.

This ritual has been going on for several years, and nearly a hundred imperial worlds in the entire hazy star field have become ritual nodes, and the Black Army has protected these nodes at all costs, and everyone has gone to every corner of the star field according to the arrangement of the wizard, and has sacrificed tens of billions of people so far, turning eighty-nine imperial worlds into demon worlds...... Could it be that the end result is that the ritual fails, and the wizard is counterattacked?

Just as Abaddon thought so, a battleship suddenly appeared around the Vengeful Spirit, a cruiser of the Red Pirate Wargang, which was fighting the ships of the Tyrone Navy in the last second.

This was followed by the second battleship, the third...... More and more warships are suddenly appearing around the Vengeful Spirit, and they are even neatly lined up as if they have been taken from the material universe into subspace.

As the ships appeared, a chasm opened directly in front of them, and the rift shrank and widened.

Abaddon observed these situations, and he realized that the ritual had not failed but succeeded.

This is what the wizards call "the Dark Gods' Gift", and ships fighting in various parts of the Misty Star Domain are sent to the subspace to raid Kadia as long as they pass through the rift.

There was a price to be paid for receiving the gift, and it wasn't huge, just continuing to attack north after capturing Kadia until the Black Legion opened a passage from the Eye of Fear to Tyrone.

When Kadia falls, the Eye of Fear will expand countless times over, and it will be easier to repay the price when the time comes.

Abaddon was happy to accept the price.

……

An hour later.

Kadia High Command.

The vast majority of the people in the headquarters were already in disarray, and they were in a hurry to pick up information from across the galaxy, and then put it together and sent it to Creedna.

As Creed reviewed intel from the orbital defense platform, Kyle pushed open the office door and carried the box full of papers to his desk.

It wasn't long before Klein entered the office.

"My merchant ship has been attacked!"

"Someone is attacking my merchant ship!"

Crane yelled at the office as soon as he entered the office, shouting several words, but each one repeating one thing: the merchant ship docked in Cadia's orbit was under attack.

Creed just glanced up at Klein and continued reading the intel that had been sent.

One thing this information from all over the system is saying, and that is that a rift has appeared near Mandeville Point in the galaxy, and more and more enemy ships are pouring out of the rift.

Fortunately, the Imperial Navy had already sent a lot of warships to garrison the galaxy before, and it was impossible for them to defeat more and more enemy ships, but they could delay for some time.

"Calm down." Creed looked up at Crane and motioned for him to sit down in front of him.

However, Crane could not calm down, and he was in contact with his crew to learn that the merchant ship had been drawn into the fleet battle.

As Crane stood at the window of his office and looked up at the sky, he could see his merchant ship in orbit wrapped in a dazzling blue ball of light.

The blue orb of light is a shield, and the shield is only partially visible when attacked.

Now that the shields have become balls of light, it only means that the merchant ship is under the most intense attack, and the shield device is already in a state of extreme operation, and will soon be overloaded.

"Isn't the Dimension Engine ready?" Crane asked, staring at the sky.

His eyes were stung by the glow of the Eye of Fear, and blood flowed from the corners of his eyes and nostrils, but he remained staring at the merchant ships in orbit.

"The Dimension Engine is ready!" The communicator heard Klein's most wanted words.

The blue ball of light in the sky disappeared in an instant, indicating that the entire merchant ship had jumped out of the galaxy.

"Whew......" Klein breathed a sigh of relief and sat down against the wall, his bloodshot eyes looking at Creed, "what are we going to do?" ”

Creed was still calm, his eyes fixed on the information in his hand, and after picking up his cigar and taking a hard puff, he sighed, "What a hell of a life." ”

(End of chapter)