Jia Yan muttered to himself in some astonishment. He remembered the battleship that served as a guard, the one he had purchased before he departed. Although it couldn’t provide substantial protection, it was, nonetheless, a moderate force in combat.
But Jia Yan found it odd; that old monster, Souwu, why hadn’t he shown up?
However, he didn’t think too much about it. Since the person in question was right there, anything unknown could easily be ascertained by asking directly.
Promptly, he steered the impressive Alight Bay towards the encirclement’s central point, swiftly entering!
He wasn’t particularly concerned about the thirty-something simple battleships surrounding him.
Of course, this was the current him speaking. If it was before his transformation, he would find it tough to face even thirty-something simple battleships. Even if he could escape with his life, it would certainly come at the cost of shedding a layer of skin.
"Hmm?" As Jia Yan navigated through, he also heard a public broadcast message from within the space area.
He opened this message channel with some curiosity.
"You’ve got some nerve, still not believing we are Lord Jia Yan’s subordinates, huh? Just you wait, our Lord Jia Yan will be here soon. You’ve got the gall, indeed, daring to intercept our fleet. If Lord Jia Yan slays you all, don’t say I didn’t warn you!"
Kama’s aggressive voice came piercing through as soon as the channel was opened. That woman’s ’street cursing’ traits were pushed to the limit at this moment, with insults that would make anyone burn with rage upon listening.
"Uh..." Jia Yan felt a little strange upon hearing this. He knew Kama to be a bit impetuous but surely not ? Why did it sound less like a cry for help and more like intimidation?
However, the scene was quite peculiar; the thirty-plus simple battleships, facing the small and seemingly weaker Kuditian ship fleet, hadn’t actually made a move. They were just surrounding them as if indeed frightened by Kama’s words.
"Miss Kama, we’ve heard your words over and over again at least ten times. Whether Lord Jia Yan is actually coming or not, we’re ready to take action if he isn’t. And are you genuinely Lord Jia Yan’s direct subordinates? That such a powerful being would have such a weak fleet seems laughable. We hope what you’re saying is true, otherwise don’t blame us for showing no mercy and killing you all later!"
As Jia Yan continued to approach, he heard another unfamiliar voice and began to understand the situation a bit more.
He guessed that the Kuditan ship fleet had encountered this encirclement of star thieves, and Kama was holding them off with her words, wasn’t she?
"Haha, who is that approaching? Take a good look with your dog eyes!" Kama’s voice suddenly screeched with exhilaration through the communicator!
"Uh..." On the other end, the voice suddenly came to a halt.
Outside the encircling perimeter, a spaceship was seen slowly approaching. It was a ship with no particularly outstanding exterior—just an above-average, ordinary civilian ship at first glance.
Such a ship, if seen by star thieves flying solo under normal circumstances, would excite them immensely because it was akin to a piece of meat delivered right to their mouths.
But now, these simple battleship star thieves, upon seeing this incoming vessel, were gaping, gasping in shock!
For this spaceship had, in recent days, been the talk of the entire Galaxy by major media and powerful factions!
The performance of the ship itself was not as feeble as it appeared on the outside—it was in fact an advanced ship capable of short-distance space jumps within the body of a small vessel!
But this was not the most critical point. What mattered most was that all life forms knew who sat aboard this ship!
That was the very being who had recently fought a heaven-shaking, near-space-shattering battle against five of the Strong Ones in the Central Region of the Galaxy!
He had even stunned Tian Wu, the last of the Strong Ones to appear, into inaction despite outnumbering him five to one!
He was the legendary figure of the entire Desolate Star System of late!
Inside the thirty simple battleships, the most majestic-looking one, which served as the command ship of this star-stealing group, held a member who was utterly astonished. The leader had initially scoffed at Kama’s claim to be a subordinate of Jia Yan, since rumors about Jia Yan had recently been rampant—some true, some false—as anyone seemed to be able to link themselves to Jia Yan in some way. After all, he was a terrifying entity potentially rivaling Lord Tian Wu. And this fleet, claiming only one guard battleship, was also touting itself as Jia Yan’s subordinates, which he found completely unbelievable.
Only when a subordinate mentioned they vaguely recalled Lord Jia Yan having some dealings with a Kuditan fleet did he suppress his desire to attack this big fish.
After all, the majesty of Jia Yan was established in a single battle throughout the Galaxy, and no one who suspected the opponent might be a subordinate of that Lord dared to make a move, even though this ’subordinate’ might be an imposter.
And now, a ship slowly making its approach, seen by these star thieves aboard the simple battleships, caused them to be dumbfounded, lost in a daze. Although they had prepared themselves, actually witnessing the brilliant Alight Bay gliding towards them, these space brigands all started to tremble with fear.