The five-hundred-foot crimson hologram of [Half-Step Rank 8 Star-Lord Admiral Black-Skull] towered across the starry void directly in front of the [Gu Family Flying Courtyard Star-Fortress].
Inside the bronze orbital socket of the pirate warlord’s left eye spun a miniature, hundred-thousand-degree stellar singularity: his [Half-Step Rank 8 Blood-Sun Solar Furnace]. Rolling waves of genuine Half-Step Star-Lord pressure swept outward from the thirty-mile bone-skull flagship. That made The surrounding space groan and causing the distant stars along the Sector 6 border to dim and flicker like candles in a draft.
“GU CHANGSHENG!”
Admiral Black-Skull’s booming, gravel-rasping voice shook the asteroid dust across ten thousand miles of vacuum and thundered through every live broadcast relay screen across the eleven connected worlds:
“By supreme military contract of Grand Warden Tianfa of the Frozen Astral Prison, this border gateway is permanently sealed! Grand Warden Tianfa paid my Black-Skull Armada five hundred billion High-Grade Spirit Stones cash-in-hand. Plus the mining rights to three outer-rim star systems—to turn your flying brick country shack and your five little Final-Boss brats into cosmic stardust!”
CLANK—BOOM!
On the command bridge of the thirty-mile skull flagship, Admiral Black-Skull stamped his heavy, solid-gold peg-leg down onto the iron deck-plates!
At his signal, all one thousand five-to-ten-mile-long black pirate dreadnoughts arranged in the crescent blockade ignited their secondary blood-furnace reactors in unison!
