Chapter 404 (1/2)

Y’zaks old place was in a universe at the outer rims of the Empire’s borders. In fact, with the great expansion ten thousand yearas ago, the Empire had claimed plenty of uncultivated space. And this ‘reserve land’ had only the most basic of sovereignity hubs and monitoring outposts, and Y’zaks place did not even have a World Gate.

Hao Ren was planning a one-way teleportation for departure, and manual navigation to return. His plan was to use the World Gate to be ‘catapulted’ over to Y’zaks homeworld, while using the Petrachelys’ void drives to slowly make their way back. That was his conclusion after studying the World Gate’s activation rules and that could save them loads of time as well.

The ship soon arrived at the magnificent gate in deep space. It was a sight to behold as ever, and the traffic of various civilsations going in and out of the gate was as busy as ever. Only here, in the deep void of space that you could see so many extraordinary races and civilisations in the universe. This was the first time Lanina saw the World Gate, and was immediately stunned beyond words by the magnificence of the planet-sized structure. As the ship slowly approached the lightscreen, the succubus’ tail tied into a knot subconciously. This was a display of anxiousness.

“Ten thousand years ago there was no one-way launching capability,” The MDT explained as it slotted itself on the console. “Then, World Gates need to be present on both ends, one being the launching point, and the other the receiving point. Breakthroughs were made later for one-way launches and the World Gate could now serve as a guiding launch pad. I have already sent the coordinates to the World Gate and it will send us close to our destination. Of course, we will have to do it manually for the return leg.”

Hao Ren thought for a moment, “There won’t be any problem? If lets say a civilian vessel without a void drive accidentally entered the one-way launch bay, would it be stranded?”

“What do you think the Sovereignity Hubs are for? Looking pretty?” The MDT considered the question juvenile. “The Sovereignity Hubs have the ability to monitor the data transmission of every world, and similar to the control terminals used by the Celestials, it is to prevent unauthorised entry. Every person passing through the gate would be scanned, and any unauthorised persons or vessels would immediately be transferred back. Of course, there are extremely rare occurences of leakages, but those are very small data packets, similar to a human’s data. The ‘traveller from a different universe’ is basically this.”

Lanina did not understand the weird technological mumbo jumbo that was spouted by the MDT. She stared intently at the fast approaching lightscreen. As she realised that the real size of the structure could not be measured by eyes alone, she finally believed that Raven12345 and Hao Ren can be relied upon. She then popped the question, “This gate… was it created by your Goddess?”

There were reverence in her high pitch voice.

Hao Ren was checking on the ship status when she asked the question. Without turning back, “No, she did not. But that is under her supervision.”

Lanina took a deep breath, “So… if she’s that almighty, why she didn’t fix that house of hers?”

Hao Ren was truly confused and turned towards Y’zaks. “Old man, was there something wrong with your education? Why is this lady here so insistent about fixing house?”

Y’zaks covered his face with his hand, “Lets just leave it at that. You do your stuff. Any normal person who saw your house and then the World Gate would have the same reaction.”

Shrugging his shoulders, and after eyeing the information holograph, Hao Ren announced. “Hold on tight, we are almost ready to launch. This is a one-way launch, so expect a little rattling.”

As he finished, the Petrachelys hyper-accelerated into the almost borderless lightscreen, and only stardust lay in their wake.

After some violent shaking for a good while, things started to settle down. Lily climbed up from under her chair as she tugged Hao Ren’s pants. “Mr Landlord, you said there would be rattling? You call that rattling?”

Hao Ren stood up, still dazed from the experience. After confirming that the ship had reacted the coordinates, he pulled Lily up from the ground. He noticed that almost everyone was getting up with the exception of Y’zaks. That big dude seems to be stuck to the chair. Even the violent shaking did not make him budge.

Hao Ren slapped on the MDT, “Why was there such a violent shaking? One-way launches are like this?”