Jingle-ting! Jingle-ting!
Ten thousand golden bells rang across the starry sky as a fleet of pink silk carriages burst out of the deeper folds of the Mirage-Moon Nebula.
The carriages were pulled by nine-tailed pink peacocks and trailed clouds of sparkling rose petals across the vacuum. In the blink of an eye, they fanned out in a half-circle right across the newly laid golden tracks of the Galactic Anti-Illusion Food-Street Highway, blocking Engine #1’s path.
The curtains of the lead carriage parted, and a woman stepped out onto a floating lotus platform.
She was Hu Meiniang, the Chief Commander of the Demon Empress’s personal guard and a Rank 8 Peak (Solar Furnace) illusion master. She had two snow-white fox ears twitching atop her glossy black hair, nine fluffy white fox tails swaying behind her waist, and a sheer pink silk dress that fluttered in the solar wind.
Behind her, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine elite Charm-Fox Envoys (all Rank 6 to Rank 7 Peak) stepped out of their carriages in unison, holding pink feather fans and smiling with deadly sweetness.
On the vanguard flatcar at the front of the Star-Train, fifty thirty-foot Titan engineers and five hundred human railway guards immediately raised their heavy shovels and iron shields.
