Path to Becoming the Greatest Space Mercenary-Chapter 94 A Peaceful Journey?

Traveling from hyperplane to hyper lane, eighteen days passed without incident.

A few times some scout ships that obviously belonged to pirates made an appearance on long range sensors, but they quickly disappeared when they noticed the size of the Moonrise merchant fleet and the number of guards protecting them.

Avery made sure to take advantage of these peaceful days to strengthen his bond with Kasandra and Jasmine.

At first there had been a bit of uneasiness between them, but that had completely faded by this point. When people were stuck together on a small ship for an extended period of time, they either grew closer, or learned that they hated each other. Lucky it was the former in this case.

Both Kasandra and Jasmine were getting along swimmingly now. Like they were sisters. And they certainly had no problems showing their affection for Avery either.

While they needed to be somewhat alert when exiting and entering new hyper lanes, there was no reason to be on guard when traveling through one.

Instead, they lazed about reading, playing games, or enjoying some quality time in bed.

"Looks like I win again." Jasmine said, revealing her hand to Avery and Kasandra.

They were currently playing a traditional card game popular throughout the Alliance.

Avery had by far the least experience with it, and while Kasandra was familiar with the game and had played it quite a bit, neither of them could hold a candle to the experience Jasmine had.

Around seven times out of ten she beat them. With Kasandra winning about every two and a half times. And Avery only coming out on top around once every twenty games. Almost always by sheer luck.

"This really has been fun. It’s almost like a vacation really. When I still worked for the Alliance Police. I never had this much time to goof-off."

Jasmine was far more relaxed than before. She no longer had any pressure to worry about from the station she once held. And at least for now, she was satisfied that they were doing good work by protecting one of the most reputable merchant companies that operated within the Alliance.

Right now, there was really nothing for them to do but answer the occasional communication. This was simply the nature of mercenary work. A lot of the time it was just sitting around, waiting for the next big moment to arrive. Something that was soon to happen to the Moonrise fleet.

"We’ll be dropping out of hyperspace into interstellar space in one minute." Kasandra said, alert at the copilot’s station.

The hyper lane they were in continued going farther, but in a direction away from their destination. They would need to exit it, and travel at light speed for around seven hours to reach the next hyper lane that would bring them directly to the Phregon System.

"Reentering normal space in three, two, one."

Immediately upon dropping out of hyperdrive, the Dauntless’ sensors started blaring warnings.

A minefield had been set up outside of the hyper lane exit and was waiting to surprise anyone that came through the area.

"Sh*t!" Avery cursed as he hastily maneuvered the Dauntless to avoid a mine that was right in front of him.

Thankfully his ship’s impeccable thrusters and reaction speed to commands was enough for him to avoid triggering the mine, but the same could not be said for the Moonrise flagship.

The moment it entered the area from hyperspace, it detonated several mines that engulfed it in a fiery explosion.

Its shields were just barely able to hold out, but when the other massive cargo ships started to come out of the hyperspace exit, it was forced to move or be crushed.

"Kaiden, Ezra, start destroying the mines outside the proximity of the flagship and clear a path for it. I’ll disable the ones closest to it." Avery said, instantly sending out his orders the moment he recovered from the unexpected situation.

Activating his EMP blaster, he quickly went to work disabling the mines that would cause collateral damage if they were destroyed. Fortunately, they were the type that used electronic sensors to perceive whenever something got with in range, rather than having a pressure based mechanism that went off whenever it came in contact with anything. Though the latter type was more archaic and hardly used anymore.

With Avery’s, Ezra’s, and Kaiden’s assistance, the flagship was able to navigate the minefield without fully losing its shields.

Some of the other merchants and mercenary vessel were not so lucky, but at the very least none of them were destroyed. Only taking some light damage to their plating and outer systems.

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"Setting up a minefield outside the exit of a public hyper lane is highly illegal. How did the Alliance Police patrolling this sector miss something like this?" Jasmine said in a huff.

"It’s not too extensive, so I’m guessing it was set up fairly recently. And I don’t think they care about Alliance law." Avery responded, zooming in on the approaching vessel with the main viewscreen.

Now that they had been weakened, the ones that had set up the minefield were coming to finish off their prey.

Around sixty vessels from small to large classification were approaching them. They had been sitting in wait just outside of normal sensor range and bidding their time while the minefield softened up the merchant fleet.

"They don’t have any signatures… and none of those ships are of Alliance make." Jasmine said in astonishment as she analyzed the scan data of the incoming hostiles.

Not having signatures was one thing, but the vessels themselves being foreign to the Alliance was another.

While Avery did not have any data on these ships, Ezra fortunately did.

"Those are all military fighters from the Reswen Theocracy. They’re all four or five generations old, but they’re still warships equipped with high output weapons."

Ezra quickly transferred what data he had on these craft over to both Avery and Kaiden.

The Reswen Theocracy was one of the larger powers that bordered the Dramid Alliance. Right now, the two had a tenuous peace, but they had been at war multiple times in the past. Perhaps this was the start of a return to hostilities.