Qin Ming, dressed in military uniform, sat in the captain's chair, his expression somewhat serious and tense.

"Report, we are five minutes away from the battlefield!" the adjutant reported from the side.

Qin Ming took a deep breath and clenched his fists nervously.

Although the royal army's three thousand interstellar warships were guarding his flagship, he was still quite uneasy for some reason.

It's okay... nothing will happen...

I will soon ascend the throne. I will become the Great Emperor of the Starry Empire. As long as I kill those two people, no one in the Starry Empire will dare to stop me.

Qin Ming kept mentally preparing himself.

What was the purpose of his operation of the Prince Party and his many years of ups and downs?

That's exactly what we're after.

Suddenly, Qin Ming saw a point of light in the holographic image. It was located in front of the royal army fleet, which was the direction they were heading.

The next second, Qin Ming felt as if a halo of light flashed past his eyes.

"What was that just now?" Qin Ming looked at his subordinates in surprise.

The subordinates were also confused about what had just happened.

Then a crew member in charge of data monitoring hurriedly shouted, "We have detected instability in the space ahead!"

"Spatial instability? What's going on? Could it be a celestial catastrophe ahead?" The adjutant immediately went to investigate.

But when he saw the data fluctuations, the adjutant paused, muttering, "This...it looks so much like...the spatial fluctuations when activating the stargate..."

Upon hearing what the adjutant said, the other crew members took a closer look.

He chimed in, "It really does resemble the spatial fluctuation data of a stargate!"

"But this is the edge of interstellar space, how could there be spatial fluctuations from a stargate here?"

Qin Ming frowned as he looked at the group of people: "Now, can anyone tell me what exactly happened?"

The adjutant and crew looked at His Highness with difficulty, unsure of what was happening ahead.

Just then, a video call message came through intermittently.

The screen was flickering.

"Report... Your Highness... the Dragon... suddenly... disappeared..."

Based on some of the words, Qin Ming roughly knew what had happened, but this made him even more puzzled.

Have the JF-17 Legion disappeared?

How could three thousand interstellar warships suddenly disappear?

Even if they were to travel at warp speed, he had already ordered people in the surrounding star systems to closely monitor this place. Even if they were to enter the warp speed phase, their warp contrails could be detected, and various interception measures could be taken.

But there was absolutely no news.

This reminded Qin Ming of what happened when his younger brother besieged the Little Princess's fleet in the Cangyue Starfield.

At that time, a mysterious fleet, suspected to be from the JF-17 Thunder Legion, rescued the little princess, but then suddenly disappeared without a trace.

"Make contact with the Imperial fleet that is fighting the Wyvern Legion!" Qin Ming said urgently.

"Your Highness, all Imperial fleets engaged in battle with the Dragon Legion lost contact just now, at the very moment that halo appeared," a crew member reported.

Qin Ming swayed, enveloped by an unknown fear.

"Your Highness...look ahead!" the adjutant exclaimed, pointing ahead.

Qin Ming looked up and saw a truly shocking scene.

Those were the wreckage of interstellar warships.

Some are reduced to fragments, some still show the outline of interstellar warships, and some have engines that still faintly emit particle light, but these are gradually fading over time.

Suddenly, the wreckage of a giant interstellar ship appeared before him.

That was a T4 Borei-class heavy interstellar battleship... The bow cannon was gone, and the entire area was dented with a large hole.

Meanwhile, there are signs that the ship has been bombarded by dense interstellar missiles.

Several locations show signs of being penetrated by powerful weapons.

At this moment, there were no signs of life on the T4 Borei, but the huge hull stood there like a corpse, giving people a chilling feeling.

"This is...this is the flagship of the Imperial Army's 13th Legion...the T4 Borei-class heavy interstellar battleship, D03." The adjutant quickly looked up the data on the interstellar battleship and said in astonishment.

Qin Ming remained silent.

As the royal convoy continued its voyage, such scenes became increasingly common.

The vast majority of these interstellar warship wrecks belonged to the Imperial Legion.

One after another, the 'corpses' of T3-class interstellar warships.

It's not that there are only T3-class starships here, but rather that it's very difficult to find T2-class starships with identifiable hull types; they've mostly been reduced to tiny fragments.

Two more large wrecks of T4-class interstellar warships have been discovered.

“That’s the flagship of the 15th Legion of the Imperial Army, the T4 Star Emperor-class medium-sized aircraft carrier S11... The one next to it is the legion’s secondary flagship, the T4 Borei D19...” The adjutant swallowed hard.

The Royal Legion fleet continued forward.

At that moment, they spotted the faint glow of interstellar warship engines ahead.

"All fleet on combat readiness!" the adjutant immediately ordered anxiously.

But they quickly identified the ship in front of them as their own interstellar warship.

Communication gradually resumed at this time.

"This humble general, Zhao Ziying, greets Your Highness." Zhao Ziying bowed to the Second Prince Qin Ming with a look of lingering shock.

"Tell me, what happened here!" Qin Ming asked anxiously.

A flicker of fear crossed Zhao Ziying's eyes, but his strong military mentality allowed him to calm down and slowly recount what had just happened.

Zhao Ziying was ordered to intercept the Xiaolong Legion and engaged in fierce combat with them for nearly an hour.

During that hour, Zhao Ziying experienced firsthand what it meant to be a terrifying interstellar warship and to be bombarded by interstellar missiles.

In just one hour, the Imperial Legion lost nearly 10,000 interstellar warships. Fortunately, the Imperial Legion received reinforcements from both sides.

Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to stop these guys at all.

Just minutes earlier, the JF-17 Legion made some unusual moves, starting with a barrage of interstellar missiles, followed by an interception by interstellar torpedoes from an interstellar stealth bomber.

This temporarily freed the Dragon Legion from the Imperial Legion's encirclement and pursuit.

Zhao Ziying immediately ordered the pursuit to continue, but just as he was about to catch up, the drone he had dispatched captured a very horrifying scene.

In the direction the Xiaolong Legion fleet was 'escaping', a peculiar interstellar warship actually opened a stargate, and then the Xiaolong Legion fleet passed through the stargate and disappeared instantly.

The moment the stargate closed, a burst of incandescent light rippled outwards.

Subsequently, the surrounding communication signals were also interfered with, and have not been restored until now.

"Mysterious starship? Stargate? Vanished in an instant?" Qin Ming's eyes widened, unable to process this for a while.