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Chapter 52: The Gains
The database of the Mind Flayer scouting ship was essential to the mission. Only from the scouting ship of the Illiothids could they obtain information about the upcoming attack on the Imperial territories that the MInd layers planned to conduct.
'Yes, the defenses were cracked the moment I made a physical connection with the hardware of the Nautiloid. The cybersecurity of the data is relatively poor, and right now, the whole database is being transferred back to the Obscurus. I also found some really interesting information about this starship.'
Arcturus immediately perked when he heard that Red Queen discovered something precious because the Mind Ruler's spaceship would only have good things. The Mind Flayers were rather picky about the resources and other precious things.
'The first thing that I need to say, probably is that the Empire's Intelligence was right about the possible attack of the Illithids because right now, as we are speaking, one of their Mind Fleets is heading towards the Alaric Star Domain, from their outer territories.
The only good news is that it is a relatively small Mind Fleet, but event at would give the Imperial leet a hard time, considering the fact that the Greenskins are going to attack the Alaric Star Domain at any time right now.'
Still, the mission was a success because they managed to get confirmation that the Mind Flayers were going to play the fisherman in the conflict between the Eternal Empire of Asurya and some random Orkish WAAAGH! that was heading towards their borders.
With the piece of information, the Imperial Navy could better prepare for the battle that is to come and what was even more important that Arcturus could get tremendous rewards for this.
"And what is the good news that you found in their servers?"
Soon enough, he saw a holo projection from the Red Queen as she was pinpointing him several places in the Chronus Expanse Star Region and Wildstar Star Region, mostly planets, but occasionally, there were whole Star Systems and even Star Domains being marked.
'These are the planets and places across the Chronus Expanse Star Region and Wildstar Star Region that have been marked by this exploration vessel as strategically important for the Mind Fleet Leviathan to which the Mind Fleet that is going to attack the Imperial Space belongs. Fortunately for us, the Illithids didn't have time to relay this information back, so we could take their hard work.
Most of the planets on this list are rich in exotic resources, though they are not without their own dangers, and for some, we would need an army of relatively big size to get a hold of.'
As the Red Queen was explaining the situation to Arcturus, she put forward two planets. Both of them were Super Planets of enormous size and had some really precious resources.
One of them was an unnamed planet, apparently, and it was full of dangerous flora and fauna. Many of the creatures that lived there were reminiscent of the dinosaurs from the Earth, albeit a bit mutated...
A bit lot.
What was suprising though were the notes done by the Illithid captain about whole bunch of herbs that were native to the Planet Aquamarine and were marked with Top-Priority.
In fact, the spacecraft's captain planned to secretly infiltrate the Planet Aquamarine to get a few of them for himself because they would be able to increase his Psyker Grade and boost the potency of his Psionic Energy by a whole degree.
This was rather surprising information because herbs that could be used in Alchemy to create Serums or Potions that could boost the Psionic Power or advance someone's Psionic Grade were rare.
Still, what caught the Arcturus's attention was the fact that the Planet Aquamarine was also deemed to be extremely dangerous. Accordining to the preliminary scans conducted by the squids, there were several Psionic signatures at the Alpha-Grade.
Which meant therre would be ton more of Warriors of the Alpha-Grade, which in turn meant that the world was dangerous for current him like hell.
On top of that, some Zombies evolved into sentient creatures and even managed to create their own factions together with the other sentient zombies, or Flesh-Eaters. Some of the Flesh-Eaters were too powerful for even the Mind Flayers to handle alone, thus they have decided to wait and see.
With the infiltration capabilities of the Illithids, it wouldn't be a problem for the Mind Flayer captain to infiltrate the Planet Aquamarine and obtain a few resources for himself before he would report it back to the Mind Fleet.
'Master, don't need to worry; on Planet Aquamarine, there are certain locations that are relatively safe, and we could try them once you advance into higher Grades in both Psyker and Warrior Path. In the near future, I would rather recommend going to the second super-sized planet.'
He could see the logic in her words, because from a certain point of view, the unnamed prehistoric planet was a bit safer than the Planet Aquamarine. Even though both of them had their own dangers, at least the prehistoric planet didn't have any intelligent civilization as it seemed.
The prehistoric planet was in uncharted parts of space, which was usually a no-go zone for anyone who wasn't extremely powerful in Psionics or Psyker or had some special spaceship for such purpose.
Arcturus could use the planet's safer areas for training and hunting for resources. The meat of some powerful dinosaurs or whatever was down there would be of great benefit to him because it would be a good resource for his cultivation as a Warrior.
Not to mention, if he was lucky, he could find something precious on there.
"Then we would go with that... prepare the Nautiloid for the travel. We are leaving the place as soon as possible."
When everything was resolved, there was no need to remain at the place for any more time.
Red Queen quickly used anti-gravity chains to link the Nautiloid to the Obscurus as Arcturus's spaceship entered the hyperspace and went directly for the Rylon Star System, where the Starfort Lycurgos was located.