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Chapter 52: The Star-Ship Foreclosure
Author: Author Melody
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The Moon-Gate was behind us, a shimmering jade ring that looked smaller with every step we took into the Lunar Hub. The air here was thicker with Qi, but it tasted like cold metal and old money. We stood at the edge of the Aether-Docks, where massive Celestial Arks—ships carved from the bones of dead stars—moored against silver piers.

"Chairman, we need to reach the Central Sector of the First Heaven," Su Qinghe said, her fingers dancing across her tablet. "The only way across the Void-Gap is t
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