Star Ship Girl Era: My Shipgirls Are Too Overpowered-Chapter 68: Another Path To Larkspur Haven

Yelena had one knee on the bed by them now, her icy gray eyes taking in every detail of the post orgasmic bliss that Katsura had experienced, with how she looked completely satisfied and a little wrecked as her heavy breasts moved with each small breath that still came a bit shaky even now.

Aurelian slowly, very slowly, pulled out from their most intimate connection with a gentle wetness slipping from her now that he had released her, causing another soft shudder to ripple through her body, so he bent down and pressed a small kiss on the bite he had left, a tender warmth replacing what was before a hot and aggressive feeling.

Seeing this made Yelena bite her lower lip as she looked up at him with an unspoken request in her eyes, then ran a cool palm along his shoulder blade, the touch meant to ground him as much as to prepare them both for what would come next.

He shifted fully on the bed then, turning his body towards both Mirei and Yelena as they all rearranged themselves more naturally into the large, comfortable space, as each triplet took their own spots in a loose triangle around him, as if they had practiced it, a perfect formation of devotion as none of them felt any need for modesty after what had been shared.

The quiet after the storm didn’t last long, though, since Mirei was the one who broke the peaceful silence with a playful bounce, as she tilted her head and asked directly with that ever-teasing glint in her violet-brown eyes that always promised some kind of mischief.

"So, are you still good for another round?"

Her question, so brazen and yet also affectionate, made the remaining two sisters look directly at him, and the tension that had fallen into soft contentment after fulfilling all three began building again like warm honey spreading in the air around them as a faint smile played upon Aurelian’s features, because he knew exactly the intention behind her question.

It seemed like he did not speak at first but simply met each sister’s gaze in turn before he finally replied in a confident, level tone without a hint of fatigue after everything so far that night.

"You know I am."

The certainty in those four simple words was enough to from the three women as they knew that they will not sleep tonight that easily, since it seemed clear that Aurelian still had more of energy left despite all that they put through him as they all waited, curious to see whose initiative would take center stage for the next performance in their ongoing private event where they are the actresses and he is their leading male co-star.

...

A few days later.

After spending time with the triplets, Aurelian went back to what he wanted to do next: level up and gain more ship girls.

But the clue about the new planet and the ways to get there was kept in his mind, so in the end he decided to find out a better way other than the ones he had been given before.

And to his utter surprise, there is another way, but with a catch: extra payment.

"Of course," he muttered. "You really do know how to charge at the right moment."

It almost felt like the thing had learned how to bundle answers together just to make him spend more, and if it had not been so useful, he would have been a lot more annoyed by it.

Still, if there really was a stable and repeatable way to reach a far-rim world that sat outside the Alliance’s normal sphere of control, then paying for the exact route was not a loss. It was an investment.

The fee was one hundred thousand Destiny Points.

Aurelian looked at the number, thought about it for a few seconds, then paid without dragging it out.

If Larkspur Haven could truly become a foothold in the future, then the returns from getting involved there would be far more than what the System was asking right now.

The answer came quickly after that.

It explained that reaching a distant frontier world by normal travel would take too long for most fleets to consider, which was why places like that often remained ignored until someone stronger decided they mattered.

But the universe was never cleanly organized, and sometimes shortcuts existed in places that no one cared enough to watch.

In his case, the shortcut was exactly what the clue had hinted at.

Near a dead star in the outer frontier routes, there was a natural wormhole-like fold corridor that had remained stable for a long time.

It did not lead outside the universe or into some unreachable place. It stayed within the same universe, but it connected the civilized side of known space to a far-rim region so distant from Alliance territory that most people treated it like it may as well have been another world.

And according to the Destiny System, that corridor would remain stable for at least the next thousand years.

Aurelian’s eyes sharpened a little as he reread that line. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

A thousand years was not "barely stable."

That was practically a hidden gate.

"So it really exists," he said quietly.

Astra, who had been watching him more than the interface itself, tilted her head slightly.

"The corridor," she said.

He nodded.

"A real one," he replied. "Something that I can use now."

That changed the weight of everything.

A natural corridor like that was useful for more than one mission or rescue. It was strategic. If it truly linked the Alliance side of space to a far-rim region that most people ignored, then it could become a supply path, a retreat line, a hidden expansion road, or the foundation of an entirely separate territory if someone strong enough got there first and held it.

Aurelian quickly pulled up a broader frontier map and began comparing what he knew with what the Destiny System had just shown him.

There were not many dead stars in that part of the route network, and once he filtered down the likely locations, the answer became much easier to narrow.

One candidate sat too close to sectors that would already have attracted significant traffic if a stable corridor had been discovered there.

The other sat farther out, in a less valuable stretch of charted dark where almost no one would waste resources searching for miracles.

"It’s probably the remote one," he said after a while.

Astra glanced at the map. "Because if it were near a major route, someone would already be sitting on it."

"Exactly."

He leaned back slightly and thought it through.