Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 768 - 14 Free City-State

Chapter 768: Chapter 14 Free City-State

"If this continues, the Solar System is going to descend into chaos," almost at the same time, at the same location, Jeanne Osta Janis came to the same conclusion.

Right now, Jeanne was standing on a metallic platform. This place was practically a ruin... no, it was a ruin.

Several metal plates that should have been the floor were compressed and folded against each other, forming a semi-enclosed space.

But in the depths of space, "semi-enclosed" was no different from "unenclosed." Right beside Jeanne was the vacuum of space. The side without walls faced the sun. However, at this distance, the sun was no more than a rhinestone set in the starry sky, both its light and heat were faint.

This was the Asteroid Belt, three astronomical units away from the sun. The revolution period of the metal floor underneath her was one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two and a half days.

The closest large celestial body to this location was called 95 Arethusa, the ninety-fifth asteroid discovered by humanity in 1867, also known as Prime Deity Star.

More than a century ago, the Sixth Martial God led the Red Fleet Prosthetics Followers here in a fierce confrontation against the Sky Star Fleet, personally led by King Aqini. The newly-formed Red Fleet Prosthetics Followers had already been through several large battles by then, every warship was damaged, the stockpile of live ammunition had hit rock bottom, while the Sky Star Fleet was in prime condition, even led by a Martial Arts Grandmaster like King Aqini.

However, at that moment, the Sixth Martial God couldn’t retreat even half a step. He had to buy time for the Heroes behind him to establish a solid defense.

The Asteroid Belt was the only "geographical" advantage on the Zodiac Plane that could be used for an ambush. The weaker Heroic side could use the endless minor celestial bodies to hide themselves and withstand the firepower. If the government forces wanted to bypass the Zodiac Plane, not to mention the increased fuel consumption, they would also be easier to detect, to lock onto, and lose the initiative when engaging in battle.

The Sixth Martial God had to fight until the Heroes established a solid planetary defense force behind him.

Otherwise, once they lost the Asteroid Belt, Yawgmoth’s fleet could crush all fantasies of the insubordinate people on the border.

In the end, the Sixth Martial God failed just short of success. The Seventh Martial God took over everything.

But the battle for Arethusa became a miracle.

The Red Fleet Prosthetics Followers turned the tide against all odds and annihilated the Sky Star Fleet, even using the resources seized from the Sky Star Fleet to last a while longer.

Historians call this battle the "Arethusa Miracle."

To this day, no one knows why King Aqini, despite his overwhelming advantage, was defeated as if he had been struck by a sudden illness. Many people can’t understand this.

Even the myth of the "Martial God" was thus tinged with a hint of "fate."

It is said that the Seventh Martial God also refuted this rumor during internal meetings. The Seventh Martial God believed that King Aqini must have left the Sky Star Fleet at that time to deal with some matters that required his attention.

This was all more than a century ago.

After that battle, this place became home to a group of refugees.

A group of refugees from the Jupiter Universe came here, relying on crudely made spacecraft, and after a journey full of hardships, taking forty years and the loss of many companions, they finally arrived.

They began to establish their own city based on the remnants of the Sky Star Fleet.

The primary materials of warships were too costly to remold. In most cases, recycling the main alloy of a warship was far less cost-effective than building anew. As early as the Earth era, humans would sink warships and directly abandon outdated tanks.

The Heroes from the Far Sun Planet may have lacked minerals, but the cost to drag the warship wreckage from the Asteroid Belt to Saturn was still too horrifying.

So the wreckage remained here.

Meanwhile, this group also began to recruit new comrades.

The targets were naturally the soldiers who had survived the Arethusa Miracle.

At that time, the Protectors were in a state of collapse and naturally had no time to rescue soldiers. The Red Fleet Prosthetics Followers were also on the brink of collapse, and after collecting supplies, they were forced to relocate and couldn’t ensure they accounted for all the missing soldiers. Later, as the Red Fleet Prosthetics Followers were destroyed along with the Sixth Martial God, and the Seventh Martial God turned the Asteroid Belt into a battlefield, the government could no longer organize a dedicated rescue team.

Although in space, those surviving soldiers had been hibernating for nearly sixty years, the Life Force of Benchmark Man is so strong. Just give them water and electricity, and they had a certain chance of revival.

In fact, there were countless such humans throughout the Asteroid Belt.

After establishing a basic settlement, those refugees began to revive the hibernating soldiers.

A small number of the valiant ones originally from the Red Fleet Prosthetics Followers wished to return, but lacking the means to leave, they joined the group that had drifted here from Jupiter, and for the time being, began to build a home in this place.

A larger number of Protector soldiers were eager to return. But at that moment, the Ninth Martial God’s chaos had already erupted.

Due to the collective defection of the Original Mars Planetary Defense Force, now the Red Star Prosthetics Followers, the Protector side began to implement the "Supervising Battle Officer" system.

The Sky Star Fleet before the "Arethusa Miracle" contained many elites from the navies of nations of the old era. They knew the secrets of "Authority." Being coerced and blackmailed to join the Protectors was their limit. The "Supervising Battle Officer" system was something they utterly couldn’t accept.

So, those Protector soldiers stayed behind, becoming residents of this new settlement.

This place was named Ur.

The name held the vision of a return to a time before the Tower of Babel chaos, when humanity had no more divisions.

This was an orderly Free City.

And then, sixty years passed, and Jeanne heard rumors here about The Twelfth Martial God.

She was extremely worried, "If chaos erupts here..."

Since the Seventh Martial God, every time there was turmoil, the Asteroid Belt would suffer the scourge of war.

A long time ago, the War God King once attacked this city on the grounds that it "violated the Dyson principles, establishing rules and regulations." The Black Ship Righteous Followers then forced him back. The Hero side also hoped to convert Ur into their own ally, but failed to do so.

With the standoff between the two sides, City-States like the City of Ur naturally maintained peace. But in times of chaos, things would be different.

And Jeanne had tasks she must complete in the City of Ur.

She, alone, said softly to a place where not even air existed, "Old man, what do you think The Twelfth Martial God will kindle the flames of war..."

"Girl, that’s a harsh way to speak," said a man with salt-and-pepper stubble, sitting on a small stool, flipping through information on a tablet.

Of course, only Jeanne could see this.

Xiang Shan said, "I think it’s definitely not ’my’ fault if a war breaks out in the end."