Super Spender

Chapter 844: Chapter 838: The Princess Part 1

“I’m very interested in this, tell me about the wormhole,” Finn Lewis immediately spoke with interest.

This clearly enabled Jasmine Davis and her companions to traverse 2.8 million light-years, which indicates that this thing must facilitate farther travel than jumping, even possibly being one of the methods for long-distance interstellar travel.

“Actually, I don’t understand the technology very well either, but I can try to explain what I know. Wormholes are similar to a variant of black holes, but they are milder and unlike black holes, they are weak spots in space. Although wormholes can stretch over longer distances, they cannot be used anytime and anywhere like jumping; they require the discovery of weak spots in space. I’ve heard that this involves knowledge of four-dimensional space, I’m sorry, Your Highness, I’m not a scientist, so I’m not very clear on this subject,” Jasmine Davis reluctantly began.

Finn Lewis nodded. The so-called four-dimensional space refers to our commonly known three-dimensional space of length, width, and height. Our universe can be understood the same way, just on a much larger scale. Four-dimensional space adds the concept of space to the three-dimensional aspects of length, width, and height. Honestly, although not a professional, Finn Lewis more or less knew that there was research on this within the Galactic Federation.

Then there is five-dimensional space, which involves time. To the average person it is quite unfathomable to think of time as a part of our entire universe. In five-dimensional space, it seems, you can treat time just like length, width, and height, able to cross it freely and fold it. Anyway, to Finn Lewis, if this could truly be achieved, it would probably be something only gods in legend could do.

No, even gods might not be this powerful; there’s no talk of gods manipulating time. They say that time has no meaning in five-dimensional space, but what this truly means isn’t something Finn Lewis could grasp.

“Traveling through wormholes requires a detection device that searches for weak spots in space to open wormholes, then you enter a subspace outside of the main space, where everything seems to have a shortcut. You see, if jumping is like viewing our space as a piece of paper, and you want to travel to another place, you fold space from one point to another and arrive directly at another point, that’s jumping,” Jasmine Davis thought for a moment, attempting to explain to Finn Lewis.

“As for interstellar travel through a wormhole, it’s as if you view our space as a sphere. Normally to get from one spot on the sphere to another, you’d travel across the surface. But a wormhole is like boring a hole directly through the sphere to travel in a straight line between the two points, which naturally is much closer. But it still takes time. Once inside subspace, space compresses automatically to propel your spaceship forward, and there are different sceneries there,” Jasmine Davis slightly shook her head before speaking with a sense of awe.

“Do you know how long it took us to travel from our galaxy to here, Your Highness? A full two years in subspace. The spaceship’s power systems even encountered problems. If it wasn’t for the fact that the ship was a super mother vessel specially built by our nation, equipped with its own ecosystem, we couldn’t have made it to the Galactic Federation,” Jasmine Davis said with a laugh.

Finn Lewis was somewhat speechless—nearly 3 million light-years in two years, what more could one want? “Heh, the distance combined with the time isn’t long, but Your Highness must understand that through jumping, one could arrive instantaneously within a few thousand light-years. Also, I know of another method of interstellar travel: superluminal speeds. As far as I know, their technology can accelerate ships to a speed one hundred times that of light,” Jasmine Davis chuckled, seemingly aware of what Finn Lewis was thinking.

A hundred times the speed of light; Finn Lewis was also shocked. My god, a hundred times the speed of light—that would mean the ship could cover thirty million kilometers a second! However, such superluminal speeds, even remarkable as they are, clearly are not suitable for long-distance interstellar travel. For instance, even with a hundred times the speed of light, traveling just 500 light-years would still take five years.

And with jump travel, you can arrive in an instant.

“Alright, let’s not discuss that, I’m curious to know what’s going on with your country,” Finn Lewis expressed his curiosity.

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“Actually, I’ve also been hesitant about whether or not to inform Your Highness,” Jasmine Davis hesitated slightly.

“This is important, you must tell me,” Finn Lewis immediately became tense, sensing a bad premonition from Jasmine Davis’s attitude.

“Well, let me put it this way, our Bingda Freedom Federation was the strongest nation in the entire West Flame Galaxy, and our country was the last to be obliterated. In other words, our entire galaxy has been completely swept clean in the span of one hundred and twenty years. When I left, according to the information we gathered, nearly half of the galaxies in the Red Wheel Galaxy Cluster faced a similar fate,” Jasmine Davis quickly blurted out.

“Wait, by what kind of thing—natural disasters, or other species, Wisdom Creatures, or something else?” Finn Lewis immediately became alert; to sweep through an entire galaxy sounded ominously like the methods of the Insect Species known as Icarus.

“Humans and Cloud Spirits,” Jasmine Davis answered without hesitation.

“Wait, I don’t understand—humans, Cloud Spirits?” Finn Lewis asked with knitted brows.

“Yes, humans and Cloud Spirits, but they can no longer simply be considered humans and Cloud Spirits; they have been corrupted by darkness. Behind them stands a species we have never seen before, and these people, along with those Cloud Spirits, zealously worship them. They refer to them as the Dark Overlord,” Jasmine Davis said with a bitter smile.

The Dark Overlord—such an impressive title, yet it uncomfortably resembled his own title. “They say they worship darkness, and the true meaning of darkness is to bring the entire universe back to darkness,” Jasmine Davis added with a rueful chuckle.

Finn Lewis fell silent for a moment. There’s a saying that good always triumphs over evil, and that darkness cannot defeat light, but once you’re in space, you understand that in the vastness of the universe, it’s actually light that is at a disadvantage. Almost ninety percent of the universe is shrouded in boundless darkness.

That includes the black holes where even light cannot escape, of course. This has a rather mythological implication, given that everyone knows light is composed of photons.

“Are you sure they are truly evil?” Finn Lewis asked, still finding it hard to believe.

“If they conquer a planet, you must join them and become a fanatic devotee. Otherwise, the whole planet is destroyed, be it intelligent life or the plants and animals of the planet. The entire place turns into a wasteland,” Jasmine Davis said with a somber tone.