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After Lina disarmed the Protoss, all the regular troops of the new regime knew they had lost the upper hand and surrendered one after another.

The rebels also placed their flag atop the fortress, signifying the return of the first island to the Haitian government.

......

As the fortress gates slowly opened.

Lina led Haising and Chen Feng to the fortress conference room.

When the door to the meeting room was opened from the outside by Lina's servant, Lina stepped in first, followed by Hessing with a calm expression, while Chen Feng, who entered last, quickly scanned the room.

This was also Chen Feng's first time entering the command room of the Augustusian god general.

The overall tone of the conference room was that of the Haitian military's pragmatic style, rough and simple, revealing the frugality forged in the crucible of war—the walls were gray concrete, with several repair marks of varying colors, like unsightly scars.

Rows of iron chairs lined the wall, while the room contained a huge war table made of several iron plates joined together, with rivets clearly protruding at the seams.

However, in the very center of the ceiling, where the fish oil lamp should have been hung...

Chen Feng saw a dark golden divine crystal. As a resource used by the gods to illuminate the environment, its interior emanated a very faint, soft light. It was not dazzling, but it steadily warmed the light within a range of several meters, making even the dust floating in the air clearly visible.

In one corner of the conference table, there was a divine crystal lamp.

A small, constant warm light was sealed inside the clear crystal, steadily pressing down on a dozen scattered topographical maps.

Lina walked straight to the head of the table, glancing at Haising and Chen Feng.

"Solon Island is a crucial hub on the eastern front of the Haitian archipelago. We can rely on our existing strength to gradually subdue the forces surrounding Solon Island, and then consider moving westward to subdue the three outer islands and completely conquer the eastern island chain."

As Lina finished speaking, her fingertips tapped lightly on the cool iron tabletop, producing a few crisp, low sounds.

The soft, dark gold light from the ceiling illuminated half of her profile, giving her an air of divine nobility after she removed her divine armor.

Hessing walked to Lina's side, his knuckles brushing across the topographical map on the table, which was being pressed down by the Divine Crystal Lamp.

"The two thousand men I brought, plus the tens of thousands of Haitian regular troops you have surrendered, should make it easy for us to take over the eastern island chain. However, if Augustus leads his troops to attack from the other three directions, we will lose all our territory. At present, we cannot challenge Valence and his men," Hesing explained.

"Who is Valence?" Chen Feng asked.

"He is the supreme commander of Augustus on the sea surface, a powerful expert of the Hong rank," Lina explained.

"The strongest being on the sea level is just a Hong-rank expert?" Chen Feng asked with some doubt.

Chen Feng had always lived on Blue Star and the main plane of Great Xia, so he subconsciously equated the planes invaded by the gods with the level of the main plane, but he forgot that the starry universe has a strict hierarchy, and the gap between planes and sub-planes is sometimes greater than the chasm between gods and mortals.

Within the dimensional system of the Starry Universe.

The density of resources and powerful individuals in the main plane is second only to the Starry Sky Universe, making it the plane most likely to give birth to Universe-level and Cosmic-level powerful individuals.

In sub-planes like the Sea World, hunting planes, and other dimensional ruins, cultivating a single Hong-rank powerhouse is practically the ceiling that a plane can reach.

Faced with Chen Feng's obvious question, Lina shook her head.

"The sea level does indeed meet all the conditions for a prime plane, but it has a fatal flaw that prevents it from becoming a prime plane."

"What is it?" Chen Feng asked.

"Its plane's original energy has been almost completely drained by the Augustus gods. Under such circumstances, even if it has the plane's rules and barriers belonging to the main plane, it is almost impossible to cultivate a universe-level powerhouse who can transcend planes," Lina explained.

Chen Feng was somewhat taken aback.

The primary plane contains a large amount of energy that permeates the plane, with an energy concentration at least tens or hundreds of times that of the secondary plane. Under the constraints of the plane's laws and the plane's spatial barriers, this energy forms an extremely stable plane's original energy.

Moreover, the plane itself originates from the will of the original world, possessing extremely strong exclusivity and aggression.

If a being is not born in a plane and nurtured by the plane's rules, it will immediately be devoured by the plane's origin once it encounters the plane's primordial barrier. Even a powerful expert at the peak of the Hong level would not dare to touch it even slightly.

Not to mention that it completely drained the very essence of the plane.

"Drain the primordial energy of the plane? The Augustus gods could actually do something like that?" Chen Feng asked in disbelief.

Just then, Hessing, who had been silent until now, immediately explained to Chen Feng: "Master, you may not know that the origin of Augustus is not any prime plane under the control of the Starry Sky Universe. Their kingdom is in a plane world called the [Unknown Sea]. The raiding of the sea plane is not accidental, but because there is an extremely scarce resource here."

"What kind of resources could make you insist on invading this plane despite the opposition of the Starry Sky Universe?" Chen Feng asked calmly.

At this point, Hesing and Lina exchanged a glance, a hint of confusion in their eyes.

"We are just officers in the front-line army, not qualified to manage the extraction of such resources, and with the departure of the three Augustus aircraft carriers, this problem has become even more unsolvable," Lina explained.

Chen Feng sighed.

Resources that would interest the Augustan gods, who transcend dimensional worlds, are certainly not something that ordinary powerful beings can easily obtain.

Even someone as powerful as Chen Feng, a former warrior commander on the Blue Star plane, might seem outmatched in the face of this secret.

Chen Feng vaguely understood why Tegue was so wary of the Augustus gods, and he also understood why a discarded demigod named Hessin possessed power close to the peak of the Heavenly Rank.

The three Protoss aircraft carriers are even more mysterious and legendary in this enigma.

"Okay, I understand... Let's continue with your plans for the troops remaining at the garrison."

Chen Feng said calmly.