In the 58th year of the Star Dome Calendar, the portholes of the Forgefire Embryo Starship were stained a glazed hue by a dual-colored light. Chen Feng gripped the Ancestral Forge Hammer as the star-forge chain on the hammerhead's surface suddenly split into red and blue, pointing toward the Andromeda alpha sector. Suspended here was a pair of binary stars orbiting each other, Tanyin and Ronghuo, which were colliding at out-of-control frequencies, spewing energy streams capable of vaporizing planets.
"Chen Feng! The resonance frequency gap between the binary stars is breaking through the critical point," Su Yuhan's voice was torn intermittently by the stellar wind. "The surface of the blue star Tanyin is covered with the spectrum runes of the Sound-Forgers, while the red star Ronghuo is dotted with the forge patterns of the Star-Forgers... They are originally homologous forge-fire twins!"
In Liu Ruyan's communication projection, the leaders of the two civilizations were arguing fiercely: on the left were the semi-transparent String-Weavers, whose vocal cords could resonate directly with stellar frequencies; on the right were the Meteor Star-Forgers, whose bodies were covered in lava armor, holding forge hammers forged from stellar core matter. The focus of their dispute was the Forge-Fire Concord Core located at the center of the binary stars—which was currently being sliced by black rifts.
Chapter 42