​Wreckage?

​Tom’s heart gradually sank.

​Had he... arrived too late after all?

​While scattering a large number of probes into the surrounding space, Tom’s fleet began to decelerate, slowly entering the solar system.

​Tom then found more tragic traces of war.

​On a rocky planet, Tom found a large amount of heavy metal residue in addition to the traces of large-yield hydrogen bomb bombardment. In some of the most severely bombarded areas, the heavy metal residue content was also the highest.

​In addition, there were numerous traces related to life support systems, such as certain specialized hydrogen-nitrogen-phosphorus compounds widely used in air circulation systems, and carbon-oxygen compounds commonly used by Moraise people as clothing materials.

​In some deeper underground areas, Tom also found suspected traces of Moraise flesh organic matter.

​This should have been a warm planet with an average temperature between 0 and 20 degrees Celsius, and there should have been a large amount of liquid water, even forming oceans, on its surface. But now, all oceans and lakes have dried up, all water has been vaporized and evaporated, and the surface is covered by hot magma.

​This was just one planet. On the other gaseous planets and moons, Tom found more traces of war.

​The surface atmospheric element content of that gaseous planet had even been altered. Even in the star, there were many elemental spectra that should not have been there.

​"Judging from these elemental spectra, it shouldn’t have just been affected by the war; if it were just that, the heavy metal content wouldn’t be this high.

​A fleet must have rushed into the star and committed mass suicide..."

​Tom felt a little uneasy.

​Looking at the numerous gas and dust in space, the energy cannon projectiles flying everywhere—they were stray bullets, still maintaining their original orbital flight because they hadn’t hit their targets—and the large and small metal fragments torn from battleships, bases, and other creations, Tom sighed softly.

​Even though Tom hadn’t witnessed the brutality of that war firsthand, he could fully comprehend it.

​Tom empathized with how desperate the Moraise civilization people must have been in that moment.

​This Moraise civilization is truly a civilization plagued by disasters...

​Reflecting on the Moraise civilization’s journey from birth to demise, even Tom couldn’t help but sigh.

​"I’m sorry, I couldn’t save you. But please rest assured, I... will definitely avenge you. The Grey Worm Civilization will be annihilated by me, and you no longer have to worry about disgusting Demonic Eyes wearing your appearance, speaking your language, and living in this universe bathed in your culture."

​He knew that the reason the Grey Worm Civilization had always pursued the Moraise civilization was that the two civilizations originally shared a common origin. As long as the Moraise civilization was absorbed, those Moraise people would seamlessly integrate into the Grey Worm Civilization’s social structure, like swallowing a panacea, immediately causing the Grey Worm Civilization’s various strengths to skyrocket.

​Because of this, the Grey Worm Civilization’s will to capture the Moraise civilization was so firm, so firm that even though they knew this starfield had just suffered a high-level force disturbance—even an entire solar system had directly disappeared and been incorporated into the Star Beast Nation—they still came to take a look.

​Unexpectedly, they really caught the Moraise civilization, and it was only the core fleet, having lost most of its battleships, with almost no self-preservation capability.

​Even if some Moraise people had died or even committed suicide at this moment, Tom could be sure that the vast majority of Moraise people must still have been captured and then infected by the Grey Worm Civilization.

​And before annexing the Moraise civilization, through the examination of these war traces, Tom had already roughly determined the Grey Worm Civilization’s technological level.

​The conclusion was that their technological level was slightly more advanced than his own.

​And now, the Grey Worm Civilization’s strength has once again surged, which is a reality.

​But even so, Tom had no worries in his heart.

​It’s not as if I haven’t destroyed a Demonic Eye Civilization of the same level.

​Back in the Strong Nuclear stage, I could destroy the Purple Moon Civilization. Now, in the gravity stage, I can also destroy your Grey Worm Civilization!

​With such strong confidence, Tom maneuvered his fleet, which could no longer be considered massive, slowly withdrawing from this solar system. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

​He was captured by the Star Beast Disaster from this vicinity. Even if the Star Beast Disaster is very likely to have perished, this is not a safe place.

​After spending some time leaving the influence of the star’s gravity field and entering warp travel, Tom randomly stopped in another solar system approximately 40 light-years away after about ten years, and then began large-scale industrial construction there.

​Factories rose from the ground, and ships, various basic resources, and the like converged on Tom’s fleet like a flood.

​In just over ten years, Tom’s fleet size returned to its peak.

​Over 3 million various battleships, including 200 Jupiter-class battleships, and over 100 million large, medium, and small unmanned battleships, as well as countless unmanned combat facilities, and a large number of supercomputing ships, scientific research ships, transport ships, etc.

​In addition to these conventional facilities, Tom also built something he hadn’t built for a long time.

​Flying Star!

​In the Strong Nuclear stage, Flying Star was an essential magic weapon for interstellar travel for Tom. But after advancing to the gravity stage, due to the greatly increased speed and the ability to find a solar system to dock in a short time at any time, Flying Star as a facility had been abandoned by Tom.

​But now, Flying Star reappeared, and its scale was even larger.

​Its diameter reached a full 1,000 kilometers, and calculated at an average density of 0.5 grams per cubic centimeter, its total mass even reached 2.6 quintillion tons!

​The total mass of Earth’s atmosphere is about 5 quadrillion tons; at this moment, the mass of this planet is equivalent to about 52 Earth atmospheres!

​Its surface gravity reached 0.07 meters per second squared, about 1/140th of Earth’s, and its escape velocity reached 230 meters per second, meaning an object must reach this speed to escape its gravitational field.

​For such a massive celestial body with a considerable degree of macroscopic gravity, incorporating it into warp space for superluminal travel is extremely difficult. Fortunately, Tom is no longer in the early gravity stage; compared to that time, technology has developed significantly, and his understanding and control of gravity are also deeper, allowing him to achieve this.

​The reason for building a Flying Star at this gravity stage is also very simple.