Chapter 314 (2/2)

Their cries had no power over what they saw They could only look on in terror as innocent lives were suuished They were Easterners, like theet somewhere

In the end, the shi+p was a floating hulk ofbut the dead The prettier victims had been hauled away, and the shi+p itself towed in to the black

The pirates knehen to go and when to stop They’d only breached the outer hull, leaving the interior structure undaed Even in this condition, a shi+p of this size would catch a pretty penny, not to o it may have contained

The i in the shi+p’s bridge

“What you just watched happened about six o It as a massacre It happened on the outskirts of the Shattered Starfields That part of the lane was supposed be patrolled by the North, but they were inexplicably absent that day The victims were our own, froers, two-hundred sixty crew Fifty-four women were abducted, and all the rest were put to death They were pirates, the Crience reports, they were a the best equipped pirate clans in the Fields Their base wasn’t in the three main planets of that system, but that didn’t matter – their benefactor was the Northern Alliance It you were to claim they had no connection to the North, no one would believe you More than two-thousand five-hundred lives, taken in this way The Cri hid in deeper recesses of the Starfields after that, knowing that the East would send a fleet to answer for this criions around the Starfields – blocked their passage To this day those pirates have never answered for this atrocity It’s been known ever since as the Crimson Massacre”

The students collectively glared at the space where the screen was Their hearts were full of anger, and sadness Many of the young ripped their arm rests

Most of them had heard of the Crimson Massacre, some even knew the details The Shattered Starfields were a chaotic and unruly place, where ‘coer shi+ps sih due to this On top of that, the East couldn’t send shi+ps through their own borders to the Starfields without having to traverse the whole of it to get to their last known location The closest ingress was in the North’s territory

But the North decreed their space unapproachable Each request by the East to pass was otiated, but the North couldn’t forgive the grievances that had built up between them over the years This is one reason why many suspect the North were complicit in the massacre

Lan Jue had asked Chu Cheng about this when it’d occurred, but he didn’t know anything about it The Northern est of all human federations

The video they atching had been given to hi The vice admiral sometimes had his hands tied in the bureaucracy of the military machine Lan Jue was not so constrained

The Mercenary King had once stalked the Shattered Starfields, deci every pirate clan he caaze of death on their backs in every dark corner when he was finished They dared to assault Eastern civilians They slunk deeper in to their holes after that

Lan Jue rose from the captain’s chair “If you recall, before we left for An Lun I noted that our training period , is not yet finished Specifically, this is our third phase Originally I’d planned so the Crie Your task is si”

“Professor, put me at the front!” Jin Tao fiercely shot his arrandfather had been one of the victims

Others folloho originally had been loathe to interrupt their Drillmaster

Lan Jue looked out the porthole “Accountant Take us to the Starfields”

The Shattered Starfields! Their Drilleance in their chests They were headed for the legendary pirates’ haven

If An Lun had been a common site on the map, how much truer it was for the Starfields None of the to visit

The pirate playground, a den of degenerates and scuer lurked around every corner That here they were going

The heat in their blood cooled a few degrees Only the confidence earned froht fleeing After all, they were students Out there were pirates What they were about to experience could mean life or death!

But Lan Jue looked in the faces of each of his students, and he was satisfied They remained calm, and in the face of this revelation that was no easy task

“We will head directly for the heart of the Cri territory Your task will be to suit up, in the Bloodlust Warsuits that you have earned, and eliminate the clan They should all die a thousand tiive them one at least In the process, your second objective is to rescue a compatriot under their control This is the third phase of your training”

Zeus-1 deftly maneuvered toward the heart of the Shattered Starfields under the Accountant’s masterful control The sapphire shi+p darted like a fish between the spiraling asteroids, failed planets and shi+p wreckage