Chapter 1617: Chapter 607: The Expanding Red Blade Army

When the future is full of uncertainty, even a day’s time can lead to many events.

When the future is certain, two hundred years are merely tedious repetition.

Two hundred years later, the enormous Red Blade Vanguard Corps returned to the Far Border Star Gate, laden with glory and harvest.

Ren Zhong was piloting an ordinary Shuttle Ship, quickly heading towards the nearby Wangjiang Star.

There, he was about to hold his marquis conferment ceremony.

But at this moment, his thoughts were not focused on the marquis title; he was simply gazing quietly at the holographic projection before him.

The projection was a comprehensive briefing of the current Red Blade Clan.

Ninety trillion total population, fifteen trillion active-duty soldiers, fifteen trillion frozen talent pool, twenty thousand Planet Ships, ten million large Warships, fifty million medium-sized Warships.

This is the current Red Blade Clan.

In these two hundred years, the clan’s population expanded tenfold. It seems like a lot, but it actually hasn’t reached its limit.

The reason is simple, too many people have died.

This death wasn’t due to casualties, but rather normal death from old age.

In the Mechanical Empire’s system, for civilians, to peacefully finish one’s life is considered a true "blessing."

Due to the Quantum Poison Stinger’s devastating attack on the core productivity of most areas within the Three Major Star Regions, the Red Blade Clan, whose productivity was preserved well, "won by default." The weight of the Clan’s productivity within the Three Major Star Regions was instantly elevated, becoming the absolute backbone force of the Three Major Star Regions. The headquarters of the Red Blade Army near the Far Border Star Gate took on many high-profit foreign projects.

Therefore, although the Red Blade Clan was continuously producing, their financial situation was exceptionally good, and the basic welfare for the civilians within the clan was very high.

However, Ren Zhong didn’t leave any gap for this welfare to corrupt the clan.

He signed a new decree, formally establishing the special nature of cold sleep. Within the Red Blade Clan, only those whose personal strength had risen to High Rank Combat Professionals, special contributors, senior managers, researchers needing to wait for technical results to mature, and such few talents were eligible to use cold sleep. As for others, even if you can afford it independently, you are not allowed.

Thanks to Ren Zhong’s absolute authority, this seemingly inhumane decree in this era faced no opposition and was implemented without deviation.

Therefore, over the years, although the Red Blade Clan proliferated, most people completed the normal cycle of birth, aging, illness, and death, thus the total population only expanded tenfold.

Furthermore, in order to gain the right to cold sleep, the civilians of the Red Blade Clan plunged themselves into an intense competition mode.

After two hundred years, most mediocrities died of old age, but most of the High Rank talent resources enjoyed cold sleep, and the comprehensive per capita quality of active seventy-five trillion people was far higher than the average standard of the Mechanical Empire.

Of course, the clan’s significant development wasn’t solely due to their own efforts.

To help the Red Blade Clan rapidly unleash their civilizational potential, the Empire Core provided substantial resource support. Over the years, there has been a continuous influx of energy cells transported through the Subspace Channel to compensate for the energy shortage of the returning Vanguard Fleet.

It is precisely under this seemingly infinite energy supply and the dual support of a large amount of battlefield debris that Ren Zhong’s current "great achievements" could be forged.

Not long after Ren Zhong arrived at Wangjiang Star, he met Jin Shi, who had just awakened from cold sleep.

The Three Domains war is still ongoing, but the most chaotic and dangerous early phase has passed, and the army of Ascenders in the battle zones of the constructed channels has been purged; the Far Border Star Gate has long been stabilized and is no longer threatened.

The sudden rise of the Red Blade Clan substantially filled the productivity gap in the Far Border Star Domain. At least within the Far Border Star Domain, the situation has stabilized. The state in the Long River Star Domain and Jade Plate Star Domain is slightly more complicated, but there are self-contained command systems over there, so Jin Shi can afford to have cold sleep occasionally, making it easier to steal a moment of life.

Things progressed naturally; seven days later, Prince Yan King Wendi of the Empire arrived at Wangjiang Star and personally carried the mandate written by the Regent King himself to confer Ren Zhong as Red Blade Marquis.

This conferment ceremony was also live broadcasted in its entirety and was on the Empire’s first channel for global broadcast.

There were those who were joyful and those who were worried; others watched the broadcast for amusement or were secretly glad, believing that with the military power of the Red Blade Marquis, the Three Domains war could end more quickly, restoring everything to normalcy. Yet, there were also those who were restless day and night.

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