The siren that sounded from the other side of the portal was not an alarm for a local skirmish.
It was the deep, world-size Klaxon of a royal emergency response fleet mobilizing for total sector quarantine.
Through the roaring emerald light of the open gateway, the tracking data logs streamed into Lin Ke’s eyes in wild, blood-red bursts:
Four minutes.
Magistrate Kui’s destruction and the forced rewrite of the gateway had sent a blast wave straight to the Jade Capital.
The Upper Realm High Command wasn’t sending another collection envoy or a handful of gate guards.
They were deploying a sky-high battle fleet to drop world-size severance charges and saw the entire Canglan sector off the sky map.
“We have to move,” Lin Ke said, his voice cutting through the ringing aftermath of the blast wave.
