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Chapter 828: Chapter 453: Drag the Battleship Back Home Chapter 828: Chapter 453: Drag the Battleship Back Home Zhong Jihua’s death marked the end of the battle.

After his death, the fighting aboard the ship had not yet concluded. Not to mention the heretics deeply corrupted by chaos, even the mutinous interstellar warriors of the Ashen Dead still had many survivors, stubbornly resisting throughout the starship.

But since it was merely stubborn resistance, it meant it did not affect the overall situation.

The Heroic Spirit Legion ravaging the starship had turned everything upside down.

Once these Heroic Spirits had taken over a large number of the weapon systems’ launch platforms, the battleship quickly ceased fire reducing the threat to the human military forces outside the starship significantly.

Meanwhile, the human fleet also stopped continuing their attacks on the Wraith Spire.

They simply besieged it quietly.

Next, Gu Hang, along with Rizzo and the Phoenix, who had wiped out two hundred Ashen Dead on the Opera Cruiser, also teleported onto the battleship.

With this, more than four hundred interstellar warriors, along with the Heroic Spirit Legion, slaughtered on the Wraith Spire, significantly increasing their efficiency.

Three hours after Zhong Jihua’s death, there were no longer any chaotic evildoers alive on the Wraith Spire.

The losses of the Heroic Spirit Legion were negligible; they would regrow from the Storm God Kingdom. The current deaths only added some spiritual stress to Gu Hang, which he could recover from with some rest.

The Phoenix lost about sixty warriors.

The main losses occurred on the Opera Cruiser. Four hundred of the Phoenix’s new recruits who fought the two hundred veteran Ashen Dead suffered considerable casualties.

However, after this battle, the battle group’s pharmacists had collected more than three hundred gene seeds.

The gene seeds left by the dead Phoenix would obviously be useful later.

Those two hundred plus, nearly three hundred gene seeds of the Ashen Dead, were slightly awkward.

The Ashen Dead were not merely deserters or traitors; they genuinely fell into chaos. They had accepted the power infusions of a Chaos God and truly became slaves of chaos.

And after their deaths, the gene seeds they left behind might also likely be problematic due to their prior corruption.

Using such gene seeds to cultivate new Phoenix recruits?

Gu Hang wouldn’t dare.

Who knows what kind of monster might emerge?

Even if there seemed to be no issue for the time being, it could still be a ticking time bomb in the future.

It simply wasn’t worth it.

Nor was it feasible to use them to pay the gene seed tax.

Gu Hang did indeed hear that some Starfighter Battle Groups would hand over others’ seeds as their tax. This usually came from some battle groups needing to expand their numbers or requiring rapid recovery. Generally, most battle groups would care greatly about the purity of their own battle group’s gene seeds, but since they must pay taxes to the Empire, they exchanged other seeds instead.

But these battle groups generally used ‘allies’, or at worst, traitor’s seeds. Using Chaos Starfield Warriors’ seeds was absurd.

The Empire’s collection of gene seed taxes partly intended to inspect the purity of each battle group’s gene seeds from the genetic level, ensuring that there were no issues with any battle group.

Handing over seeds tainted with chaos would definitely provoke the Empire.

Generally, captured chaotic gene seeds were certainly meant to be destroyed.

But to destroy them all would still feel like a waste to Gu Hang.

Three hundred gene seeds, that would be thirty thousand grace points if exchanged.

Wasting is not a good habit.

Nevertheless, Gu Hang had come up with an idea to deal with these gene seeds. Although it was still immature and required many more trials, if successful, it might turn waste into treasure.

He collected all the seeds and divided them into two parts. The Phoenix’s took theirs; Gu Hang gathered the Chaotic seeds and tossed them into the Storm God Kingdom, planning to deal with them later when he had some spare time.

Subsequently, some members of the Navy boarded the ship.

When they arrived, the battle had already completely ended, and the Valor Spirit Legion had returned. Those left on the ship were only the four hundred-plus Red Armor giants, including Gu Hang.

As these naval sailors and officers moved about the ship, passing by the Red Armor giants, they couldn’t help but cast admiring and awestruck glances at them.

From their perspective, they had no idea about the Valor Spirit Legion. They naturally assumed that the cleanup of an entire Battleship of ten to hundreds of thousands of mutineers was all the work of these Phoenixes.

A few hours, a few hundred people, to kill nearly two hundred thousand… indeed, it was beyond the imagination of these mortal officers.

However, no one was there to explain anything to them.

The commander who boarded the Battleship, also selected by Gu Hang as the captain of this Retribution-class Battleship, was an Alliance Navy brigadier named Song Jianyun.

He arrived at the bridge, saw Gu Hang, and solemnly saluted the Alliance Leader:

“Alliance Navy Brigadier, Song Jianyun, reporting to you!”

It was the Alliance Navy, not the Imperial Navy, and the ranks were different.

In the past, the best destination for outstanding graduates from the Naval Academy on Flying Wing Star was the Tianma Fleet, to become a distinguished Imperial Navy officer; the next best option was to go to the ships of the Empire Commerce Guild led by the Gu Commercial Firm.

Now, there was another option—the Alliance Navy.

This option, for now, wasn’t as attractive as the Tianma Fleet. However, given that the Tianma Fleet had been consistently losing ships without replenishment,

The two major shipyards of the Alliance had recently added new ships to the United Fleet under the command of either Yelisia or Zhao Shiliang, and now it appeared there was no difference between the Alliance Navy and the Tianma Fleet, but Gu Hang would definitely need to consider matters after the war.

Certainly, new ships would all be funneled into the Alliance Navy.

Including the just-acquired Battleship.

Yelisia, the Supreme Commander of the United Fleet and acting supreme commander of the Tianma Fleet, had no objection to this either.

It was precisely because of this that the crew, including the officers who boarded this wave, all came from the Alliance Navy’s ranks, which was quite normal.

Gu Hang returned the salute to Song Jianyun and then said, “Quickly assess the condition of the ship. I hope it can still be operated. We need to tow it back to the Flying Wing Star Shipyard. After repairs and modifications, this Retribution-class Battleship will become the flagship of our Alliance Navy.”

“Yes! Our technicians, under the lead of Chief Advisor Wang Zhaoran, have already been working on this. According to the Chief Advisor’s estimation, we need one day’s time to complete the preliminary assessment and temporary repairs.”

“Alright, make it quick.”

This length of time actually dissatisfied Gu Hang. But it was a bit unavoidable, as Gu Hang had consulted with the relevant technicians to assess the situation before departure. At that time, Wang Zhaoran had already informed Gu Hang about this timeframe.

Now, it was just following the expected schedule.

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There was a little less yesterday, making up for yesterday’s.

There will be more tonight, but it will be very late. I have to take a friend to the airport, and I guess I’ll be home around one or two o’clock.

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