The edge region of the Enrogete central star system.

Under the dim light, a solid planet with a dark gray surface quietly orbited in its own orbit.

This is the outermost planet in the Enroget Central Star System.

Nori – that's the name the Enroget civilization gave it.

Its core had long since cooled down.

At this moment, it was like a long-dead corpse being dragged along by the gravity of the host star.

In the vast universe, there are many planets like it.

If we use the core temperature of a planet as the criterion for judging life on a planet, then this vast universe is probably a chillingly large "morgue".

As an iron-rich planet abundant in various mineral resources, its fate would normally be to be mined into various resources by nearby civilizations and used to create various technological artifacts.

But it was lucky.

Located in the Enroget Central Star System, it is protected by the Enroget Alliance Interstellar Resource Mining Law.

It is precisely because of this that it has steadily accompanied this civilization as it has grown from weak to strong.

The spacecraft that passed by it gradually evolved from probes less than a meter long to massive starships thousands of meters long.

The light from the host star traveled a long distance, making its way to this remote corner, bringing a fleeting warmth to this cold world.

One million kilometers away.

A massive warship, nine thousand meters long, slowly emerged from the darkness.

The powerful radiation generated by the antimatter engine swept rapidly around it like a wave, leaving traces on the dust on its surface.

Unlike usual.

The massive warship did not pass by it, but hovered silently in this cold, dark universe.

...

In a spacetime beyond the reach of conventional instruments, tachyons traveling faster than the speed of light transmit messages.

"The operating power of the ship's antimatter reactors is being increased!"

"50%!"

"60%!"

"..."

"The antimatter reactor is now operating at full power! First test complete, output power has reached the threshold!"

"Space weapon, first test activation experiment, commence!"

As the final message appeared, the massive amount of energy generated by the antimatter reactor converged in the pipes and rushed directly toward a huge device fixed in the core area of ​​the flagship.

The intricate network of pipes haphazardly laid out on the smooth, flat surface of the hemispherical device evokes a strong sense of incongruity.

This feeling is as absurd as a car having its engine removed and a few horses put in front to pull it.

Anyone who sees this scene, even without much scientific literacy, will have the same thought: it seems that the smooth-surfaced hemispherical device does not belong to this seemingly advanced warship.

With the influx of a large amount of energy, this long-dormant, unknown device finally awoke from its slumber.

Using a principle unknown to the Enrogett Alliance, it transformed this enormous energy into an unknown force field, which was then transmitted through its two antenna-like devices.

Each antenna has a diameter of eighty meters and a length of over five thousand meters.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a pillar of heaven.

These two antennas run across the ship's hull, from the central core area of ​​the flagship, directly to the bow of the flagship, and extend to the outside of the flagship.

The flagship, which was originally well-proportioned, now looks like it has grown two straight tendrils, which is extremely incongruous.

outside world.

As energy gradually flows in, the power of the unknown device also gradually increases.

Suddenly, an extremely deep darkness appeared in the vacuum between the two antennas.

Like a black hole.

Even with bright searchlights covering the Enrogett flagship, the darkness remained.

A few seconds later.

That patch of darkness stretched out rapidly, like a thin thread.

Like a neat crack on glass, the black line extended rapidly to both sides.

0.1 seconds later, its length had reached 10 kilometers!

This is even longer than the Enrogete flagship!

Whoosh!

The thin black line broke free from the constraints of the two antennas and shot straight forward.

The moment it completely left the antenna region, it suddenly disappeared from the Enroget civilization's high-precision observation device—it vanished from the visible universe!

...

A piercing alarm then blared within the Enrogett flagship.

"Space weapon test run successful!"

"Spatial rift successfully generated!"

"The spatial rift is 10 kilometers long!"

"..."

The cacophony of reports echoed within the flagship and simultaneously reached the command center on the home planet.

The elderly scientist stared solemnly at the screen in front of him.

"It...disappeared?" The Alliance leader stared blankly at the screen, asking in a low voice, "Did the experiment fail?"

"No."

The old scientist slowly shook his head: "Its flight speed has exceeded the speed of light."

"It is no longer visible to the naked eye."

"Only a spacetime fluctuation detector can detect its location."

"Warp state?" A hint of doubt appeared in the leader's eyes. "Can it also enter a warp state?"

The elderly scientist shook his head again and said meaningfully, "The so-called curvature state is nothing more than making the space in which the starship is located move."

"It is part of space itself, so how can it be said to have curvature?"

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