Trading Cosmic Battleship From The Start

Chapter 532: Chapter 306: Indigenous Empire of the New Star System_2

So, after understanding the characteristics of the Noah Empire, Shen Shi felt incredulous.

Because the strength of this civilization had reached approximately the B6 level.

How could such a powerful civilization possibly experience self-destruction repeatedly?

However, the facts were indeed so.

Behind every incomprehensible fact, there must exist an information discrepancy.

This time, Shen Shi came to investigate the discrepancy behind this.

"Tell me the location of the strongest force among the four you have discovered," Shen Shi ordered.

"Yes." The person in charge quickly provided the coordinates.

Thus, Shen Shi set off alone.

Facing a B-level civilization, he didn’t need any corps, only him alone plus the Iwen, theoretically could destroy this civilization.

The Pasture Master had done so before.

And the teleportation within the star system took only a few hours, and Shen Shi reached the outer area of a planet.

Looking around, this was a standard life planet, just everywhere you could see traces of artificiality, such as some huge enclosed cities where the temperature, climate, and air inside were clearly adjusted to the most comfortable environment, and even in the wilderness, you could see creatures that obviously went against the planet’s natural development, like some enormous "beasts," whose artificial traces were almost impossible to hide.

But Shen Shi sharply noticed that the weapon systems on this planet were extremely primitive.

Indeed, although the ships had a potent teleportation system capable of long-distance teleportation, he couldn’t find even a slightly decent antimatter weapon.

"Restricted... no, it’s likely due to a lack of demand." Shen Shi quickly realized this.

He continued to delve deeper, then learned from the memories of some intelligent life about the rulers of this star system, or rather, the ruling force.

The Herta Clan.

Yes, a clan, not a civilization.

Combining with some information to be investigated in the future, Shen Shi already understood the institutional composition of this star system’s indigenous civilization.

"Countless clans under imperial control, like an interstellar version of the feudal system? In this case, not having enough military power could be understood; the private fights among clans here might be absolutely prohibited, and force must be controlled by the empire..."

Shen Shi’s gaze once again turned to the research base of this clan.

But the results were non-existent.

Yes, completely non-existent.

There was simply no so-called research base here, not even a repair base for ships, which to Shen Shi felt like Earth’s early human civilization, where all devices, all technological products, were brought by him, humans simply couldn’t study, only knew how to use them.

So, is this also a means of domination?

The more Shen Shi probed, the more amazed he became.

The "civilization" on this planet gave him a feeling like an Earthly civilization wielding interstellar weapons.

He even found that the intelligent life on this planet learned not scientific knowledge from childhood, but the empire’s etiquette, empire’s rules, empire’s laws, and ancient martial arts, swordsmanship, various usage methods of cold weapons, and so on.

Yes, no body modifications, no powerful armor and weapons, people’s way of resolving each other’s irremediable conflicts was to bare their chests, engaging in life and death duels with swords and various cold weapons.

"No wonder, for hundreds of thousands of years, the entire star system’s technology hasn’t developed at all," Shen Shi muttered to himself.

Not regressing would already be quite remarkable.

This so-called Noah Empire at present probably wasn’t the one that gradually developed technology to this level, but merely a weak civilization re-emerging on its remains.

Too weak to truly wield this power, hence repeatedly meeting destruction.

"Too weak, but perhaps it’s not entirely unusable." Shen Shi keenly realized, his intention to bring civilization here wasn’t a strong one either.

If those C-level civilizations were truly to wage war against this Noah Empire and the Human Interstellar Empire didn’t intervene, it’s uncertain who would win.

So, should he ruthlessly destroy this star system’s indigenous civilization? Or...

Shen Shi’s figure instantaneously appeared within the planet; he effortlessly altered his appearance, then easily replaced a noble youth with seemingly high status.

From the memories, he learned that this boy named Calvo Herta was the sixth heir of the clan.

But even with such a status, his understanding of the Noah Empire, of this interstellar domain, was still very superficial—his worldview was extremely narrow.

He only knew how to indulge in the convenience brought by his noble status and continually trained for the duties entailed by his noble status.

Yes, training in the use of those cold weapons.

Fortunately, this identity was about to undergo genuine "noble" training in the empire, which was why Shen Shi chose to replace this identity.

"It saves exploration time, directly acquiring the star map," Shen Shi murmured.

"Master Calvo." An exuberantly muscled, one-eyed man approached with several cold weapons, "This is my last training for you. Remember, if you, like your brother, perish in a noble duel, the entire sacred Herta will be dishonored by your incompetence."

"Yes, I understand." Shen Shi narrowed his eyes slightly.

He sharply noticed that the man before him was fully his own kind.

Unmodified.

No reinforcement whatsoever to his skeleton.

This also aligned with Shen Shi’s understanding of the so-called noble duels—valuing not brute force but skills, courage, and calmness exhibited in life and death.

Although Shen Shi wasn’t sure how this might benefit an interstellar civilization’s development, he knew that in some sense, this was the prototype of Primordial Energy.

Yes, if a sentient being’s physical body, whether in strength, reaction speed, or thinking speed, is inferior to the enemy, how could he exhibit powerful force? Naturally, only via consciousness.

Calm consciousness, instinctive thought, and keen reactions, these were precisely the prototype of Primordial Energy.

Honestly, it seemed quite bizarre.

A civilization already at B6 level in certain aspects, how come there was no trace of Primordial Energy?

The answer Shen Shi wanted must lie in the empire. freēwēbnovel.com

And after living a peaceful half-month as this identity, Shen Shi boarded the ship heading to the empire.

The speed was extremely quick.

In just half a year, after hundreds of teleportations, the ship reached coordinates not yet explored by humans.

In this process, Shen Shi fully copied the originally confidential star map.

He found that what it contained was indeed scant.

Only the coordinates for eight "clans" and the so-called "empire."

Considering the star map’s scope, it was unduly sparse.

"Secrecy..." Shen Shi could only think of this, "This so-called civilization, truly, not to say interstellar civilization, not even wanting the information era, the intel a noble son knows is pitifully little, even the entire clan only has connections with some neighboring clans for business cooperation... so dispersed, so primitive."

As Shen Shi gazed at the planet gradually approaching, he increasingly realized the current condition of this so-called Noah Empire was absolutely incongruent with the expected progression of a civilization.

Based on what he knew, Civilizations often deviate from the logic of normal interstellar development due to a more powerful external force exerting a unique influence.