296 The Arians Part 1 (1/2)

Wallace had never seen a member of their race before because of their connection with the Empire.

At most, he had seen their photos and read some books about their creations.

The most popular on their creations was the Raze Drive that helps not only their allies during interstellar space travel but also the space pirates on their operations.

That's right, the Raze Drive was one of the most affordable technologies that don't have many restrictions to acquire. As long as one possesses the money, anyone can purchase it themselves. They don't discriminate people aside from that...

This was the reason why even though they are the weakest race under the empire's rule, there was a lot of organization willing to protect their people even if they are outside their territory.

As the two mid-size spaceship approaches the asteroid, Ace tried to get more information from Avalon about the background of this race. He didn't want to base all his understanding with them using his stock knowledge.

”How about the language they speak?”

[ Education is part of their system. Their race speaks all the languages of the Major Races. ]

”Very good... Have you found any pattern on their space mines?”

[ Negative. There was no time pattern or placement pattern. The space mines were just being scattered everywhere. However, it was observed that the release of these space mines was all in a hurry as if they were out of time. ]

”Mhmm...”

Ace tried to think of the possible reasons.

'Are those space mines expired or something? Instead of placing traps, it feels like they were just throwing it away...'

It wasn't like their ship was about to sink and needed to unload things... They were not in the water.

Releasing those explosive things might also be due to some problems they've found on those space mines. It may even be about to explode within their spacecraft and they have to remove it quickly to avoid an internal explosion.

Anyway, he can only imagine all of this in the meantime while they were still traveling in their direction.

The two battleships were already cloaked with 3 layers of Stealth System so Ace was sure that the Arians would not be capable of detecting them unless he did something that would reveal their location like firing weapons or launching out the Mech Frames or automatons inside.

At this time, Ace was now wearing one of his bio-armors and was entirely ready for a fight. However, he doesn't intend to fight in the front lines and was only wearing it for safety and to hide his identity.

Beep!

[ The Transcendence is now in line with the Asteroid's path. ]

”Very well... Continue in this direction... Let the Excellence stay on its path.”

”Avalon, have you simulated enough?”

[ 46 Simulations Completed. ]

”How much energy do you think we need to destroy them completely?”

[ 35% of our Mana Reserves and 10% from our Ion-Sting Reactor. ]

”That much, huh...”

Ace somewhat expected that obliterating the Asteroid would consume a large part of their energy but to spend so much for a single enemy spacecraft only proves that they were still lacking...

”I guess we can try to completely immobilize this Asteroid first... Make the Excellence prepare for the isolation barrier...”

[ Affirmative. ]

Of course, it wasn't the Excellence itself that would cast the mana spell for the Isolation Barrier but it will be the task of the Mech Frames that were mounted inside.

Later on, they will have to sortie and lead the attack.