After Seven-Seven stated that resolute attitude in a calm tone, the scene fell so silent you could hear a pin drop.
Nearly five hundred thousand years ago, when the Mechanical Empire had just suffered a major defeat and was in dire peril, it so happened that at that time the Marquis Zhenjiang had not yet been enfeoffed as a marquis. He was merely a refugee noble fleeing from the borderlands, a nobody who possessed almost nothing apart from his Viscount title. On the forced march of flight, the Marquis Zhenjiang emerged out of the chaos, gathering up scattered routed troops along the way, then leading a makeshift retreating fleet, fighting and withdrawing under the encirclement and interception of the Ascenders' main forces.
The Marquis Zhenjiang's refugee fleet not only was not wiped out, but instead gradually grew stronger along the road of retreat.
