After waiting in line for a few minutes, it was finally Clover's turn to enter the toll fortress.
Lightly cruising the [Going Broke] towards the entrance of the fortress, Clover finally stopped at the mouth of the fortress. As soon as Clover came to a stop, his ship suddenly jerked.
Alarmed, Clover quickly checked the situation.
<Warning: The ship has been affected by a strong force of gravity! Currently unable to move!>
<Warning: The ship has been affected by a strong force of gravity! Currently unable to move!>
<Warning: The ship...>
As soon as Clover quickly checked what had happened to the ship, he saw rows and rows of warning messages about his ship being affected by a strong force of gravity all emblazoned in a deep red color.
Shocked, Clover quickly called on his ships A.I assistant, Trudy, to question her.
"Trudy, what is the situation like?"
"Tell me why the hell can't I move the ship?"
General Esler continued watching Clover's spaceship on the screen with a pondering expression on his face. At the same time, the rest of his officers in charge of various areas in the fortress stood behind him calmly.At this moment, a soldier rushed towards the group of officers with a small tablet in his hands. Walking quickly with brisk steps, the soldier reach the group of officers and handed the tablet in his hand to an officer at the back before quickly withdrawing.With the tablet in hand, that officer stepped forward until he was standing directly behind general Esler. Then the officer addressed the general."Commander, I have with me the report you requested.""Hmm," was General Esler's only reply.General Elser's vertical irises were still staring at Clover's spaceship on the screen.Finally, after a few moments, General Esler turned around and stretched his hand towards the officer that had spoken to him before.The officer
Clover accepted the communication request and connected to the border army's channel. Once a connection had been formed, an image of a reptilian creature covered in black scales and donning the uniform of high-level military personnel appeared in front of clover.The creature on the other side of the screen kept after appearing, and he silently observed clover from head to toe.The eyes of the reptilian creature looked Clover up and down, as if he was trying to see through Clover's origin and judge where he was from. Those cold vertical slit irises that were looking at clover as if he were prey made him feel uncomfortable. But Clover did not back down in front of those eyes.He too looked the reptilian creature straight in the eye without cowering.General Esler quietly observed clover for a while. He was trying to see if he could figure out where Clover was from, but this proved to be difficult.Most of the time, it was very easy to figure out an
As Clover was thinking about how to handle the situation he was currently in, the impatient voice of General Esler suddenly interrupted his thoughts.Feeling very disgruntled and impatient, General Esler demanded, "I will as one more time. Do you agree to an inspection willingly, or do we have to forcefully detain you until you are willing to cooperate?""You have 30 seconds to come to a decision or we will immediately detain you and forcefully inspect your ship."General Esler's words were harsh and domineering as he insisted that Clover make a choice, which was not really much of a choice for him.Clover frowned as he considered his options. To be honest, Clover didn't have many options. The only choice left to Clover was to comply or be forcefully detained.Neither of those choices was good for Clover because either way, he would not have any advantages in this situation.Of course, there was also the option of clover refusing to comply a
After Clover decided to play along with them, he waited to see what General's Eslers next move would be. He really wanted to see what this inspection was really about.Suddenly, Clover felt an abrupt tug and his spaceship jerked forward, causing him to lose his balance and lean toward the control panel of his ship. Clover quickly tried to regain his balance before immediately trying to find out what had happened.Looking up, Clover could see multiple red alert messages flashing across the holodeck. These messages kept on flashing constantly in Clover's vision, causing him to go dizzy just from seeing them popping up one after the other.Quickly closing his eyes to relieve the headache that was starting to assault him, Clover swiped his hand across the alert messages, causing them to disappear from sight. Then, while massaging his temples, Clover called out."Trudy, what just happened? Why is the ship moving?"Clover called Trudy to answer his quest
Clover's words were meant to sow doubts and suspicion in the minds towards the people of the blackthorn border fortress in the minds of the others waiting to enter into the realms. The thing is that people with the ability to travel between realms were not simple. They were usually from certain forces that had considerable influence in the universe. Although those who travel between realms by going through the void between realms would not be from powerful forces since more powerful forces had direct means to cross realms, it was still not wise to underestimate these forces. All forces, no matter how small, as long as they had the ability to cross between realms, would definitely possess certain secrets that they wouldn't want to share with others. Especially for smaller forces in the universe. Although their secrets might not be worth much in the universe, they were still the foundations on which that force relied to grow. If these secrets were leaked or stolen by o
"Damn those bastards... they are really ruthless!"Clover cursed out loud in his ship after leaving the blackthorn border fortress. Currently, his ship was cruising through the void towards the green river in the distance. After the inspection that Clover still had doubts about till now, he was let to go back and join the line to pay the toll to enter into the green river middle realm.The thing is that despite all that had happened, Clover had to start from the back of the line all over again and line up in order to pay the toll to enter the realm. This discovery had made clover very annoyed. The fact that he would have to start all over again left a bad taste in Clover's mouth.He did not know if the blackthorn border fortress did it on purpose, but Clover decided not to say anything and obediently queued up once again. Unfortunately, this was not the reason clover was cursing.The actual reason that made Clover so mad that he cursed was the exorbitant
The method to enter the green river middle realm was by using a special coat of fluorescent paint to coat the outside of a space vessel. The materials used to create this coat of paint were unknown, as it was the greatest secret that belonged solely to the four overlords of the green river middle realm.After paying his very expensive toll, Clover went ahead to a spot further inside the fortress where those who had already been granted access to the middle realm would go to get their pass.This pass was naturally the paint that was needed to enter the green river. Without if one would be quickly dissolved into a mess of goo should they enter the corrosive green river carelessly.The paint was green colored and Clover watched as his original silver spaceship was completely covered in green paint that showed in the darkness of space, making his spaceship look like a huge glowing piece of space rock.Clover found the green color to be tasteless and tacky. Al
Clover made up his mind... he was going to gamble for his own survival.With his mind made up, Clover immediately started giving instructions to Trudy."Trudy, are you there?""Yes Clover, I'm always here.""Good," Clover responded."Listen up Trudy, we are going to make a big move. I'm sure by now you already understand our current situation. You should also know what we need to do if we want to get out of this alive.""I'm aware, Clover," Trudy answered."I've already run the calculations and have come to the conclusion that our chances of surviving this ordeal are less than 3%. Our current speed is already too fast for the ships to handle. If we were to be forcefully flung out right now and crash into another fast-flowing current without the shields to protect the ships, we will suffer from hull integrity. This could lead to the river water flowing into the ship and causing further damage. In the end, the worst-case scenario is tha