Galaxy Domination Guide

Chapter 402 393 captures Taoran Star

Bai Zhongqi had planted a super fusion bomb inside the Benefactor's flying saucer, which directly destroyed the Benefactor's base, as well as four warships of the Benefactors that were docked at the base. These warships could have possessed very strong defensive capabilities, but since they were docked, their shields were not activated. When attacked by the super fusion bomb, most of their hulls and internal equipment were destroyed. Most importantly, all the personnel manning the warships perished.

This attack allowed Bai Zhongqi to eliminate the Benefactors on Taoran Star without any cost. After the annihilation of the Benefactors, even if their vassal species survived, these vassals could not independently command or combat.

Two warships that were not at the base during the attack luckily escaped destruction. Even though Bai Zhongqi only had three people and a landing craft on Taoran Star at that time, the weak force of the Benefactor's vassal species did not dare to continue their search mission. After the attack, these two warships immediately took off, leaving Taoran Star and escaped the planet at warp speed.

Thanks to Bai Zhongqi's intuitively strategic deployment beforehand, the Yinglong Cruiser had left a camouflaged reconnaissance robot on the second satellite of Taoran before leaving. The departure of the two Benefactor warships didn't escape Bai Zhongqi's notice; he knew that Taoran Star had been abandoned by the Benefactors, and the short guerrilla warfare he persisted in had ultimately been victorious.

A day later, Xu Lanzhou, leading the 33rd Fleet of the Universe Army, arrived at Taoran Star and picked up Nan Ma and Hu to return them to the Star Alliance's home planet, Earth. Once Nan Ma was freed from the communication black hole interference of Taoran Star, he immediately started making calls, as many affairs at Flashpoint Company awaited the attention of this Star Warrior who aspired to be a major figure in the entertainment industry. When Hu left Taoran Star, he did not give it a second glance, nor did he make any demands to Bai Zhongqi about the future of Taoran Star. He was quiet and reserved, preferring to read books, always seeming to stay out of worldly conflicts.

As for Bai Zhongqi's agent, Bai Zhongqi had left Agent Number Five there. Xu Lanzhou did not need to talk with the agent, as Bai Zhongqi's live video communication from Earth appeared on her screen.

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This war was inevitably escalating.

Previously, he had defended the Danlu Interstellar Cloud under relatively favorable conditions. Even though his enemies were stronger, he still managed to leverage his advantages. Now, as the war expanded into the local Bubble Star Region and the Xunyi Star Zone, with the expanding influence of the Star Alliance, Bai Zhongqi also had a larger area to defend.

Beyond the Danlu Interstellar Cloud, Lingge Star, Gigite Star, and now Taoran Star were all territories the Star Alliance needed to protect. Continuously dividing his forces naturally weakened the military power of the Star Alliance, and if the worst-case scenario occurred—the simultaneous assault by the three slave-master civilizations—the Star Alliance would face its most severe crisis.

Fortunately, the Star Alliance was rapidly growing stronger. Just like Teizene, which had seen a third of its military power diminished by the Star Alliance, if they continued the war, the Star Alliance had nothing to fear. The biggest reliance of the Teizene people, their Shield Array, had been broken. Without activating the Shield Array, their technology was vastly inferior to that of Star Alliance warships, making any exchange ratio unbearable to witness.

The Benefactors, being larger in civilization scale than Teizene, could deploy a larger fleet. However, the military prowess of the Benefactors was not highly regarded within the Galaxy; they relied mainly on their vassal species and had various weaknesses in their military force, with experience only in bullying lower civilizations. This led to a general perception that the Benefactors were large but weak.

The Controllers, however, were entirely different.

The Controllers had not undertaken any major external operations for hundreds of years, but no civilization's spacecraft that entered their Element Star Domain had ever escaped. The Controllers had defeated several powerful mid-level civilizations and even repelled a high-level civilization once. Although the exact military capability of the Controllers remained unknown, they were generally considered to be very strong.