“This... I’ll consider it. If needed, I’ll discuss it with Your Majesty in detail,” Queen Medusa said.

“Alright, I’ll await Your Majesty’s news.” Zhao Chen looked at Queen Medusa with a smile.

Soon, Queen Medusa’s subordinates had compiled the approximate figures for the profits from this combat operation.

The direct verifiable income alone amounted to one billion star coins!

This included the wreckage of destroyed enemy Starships, Starports, and some strategic materials in reserve.

The indirect income ranged from one billion to two billion star coins!

This portion comprised the territory taxes controlled by those interstellar forces, as well as the output from their mining planets.

This only calculated the indirect benefits for the last ten years; the next twenty, fifty years... were not included.

“In that case, I’ll prepare one billion star coins for you, how does that sound?” Queen Medusa proposed.

Zhao Chen glanced at Secretary Allie next to him.

Actually, Secretary Allie had also calculated rough figures, and originally, a profit of between five hundred million and eight hundred million star coins would have been considered quite good.

Queen Medusa directly offering one billion star coins was actually a gesture of goodwill towards Zhao Chen.

A small portion of this was raw materials, and some were funds Queen Medusa was preparing to allocate to Zhao Chen.

“Then let’s do that. I wonder if it’s possible to convert these into raw materials as quickly as possible?” Zhao Chen asked.

“I know an interstellar trader in the Reef Starfield who can convert them into raw materials, though there might be some loss,” Queen Medusa said.

“Loss is fine, as long as I can get about eight hundred million worth of raw materials within a month.” Zhao Chen conceded two-tenths of the profit margin.

Queen Medusa nodded: “Okay, I can help Commander contact him.”

“Then I’ll trouble you.”

“Our cooperation this time has been very pleasant. I look forward to our next cooperation.”

“Alright, if Your Majesty is interested in that T2 Interstellar Missile Ship, don’t forget to contact me.”

“Uh...” Queen Medusa perfunctorily ended the communication.

After a battle, a harvest of eight hundred million worth of raw materials.

Indeed, war is always the quickest path to wealth.

“Commander, our battle report for this campaign has been compiled.” Secretary Allie stepped forward to report after seeing that the Commander’s communication had ended.

“Speak,” Zhao Chen said.

Secretary Allie raised her hand and displayed several electronic documents, which contained various aspects of the battle report.

This included enemy elimination, own Starship losses, and Starship ammunition and energy consumption.

There was no need to look at the enemy elimination: two thousand five hundred Interstellar Warship, including eight T3 Interstellar Warships.

“Some of our Interstellar Warship have suffered hull damage, and Interstellar Drone construction and replenishment, according to statistics, are estimated to cost 500,000 star coins for repairs.

Regarding Starship ammunition and energy consumption, excluding the Interstellar Missiles of the T2 Lion King-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Ship, the total consumption for the other Interstellar Warship was 1.5 million star coins.

The T2 Lion King-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Ship consumed a total of two thousand Interstellar Missiles in this battle, valued at 1.2 million star coins.

In this battle, the total battlefield loss was 3.2 million star coins.

Forty-five people were injured, with no casualties.” Secretary Allie reported.

A consumption of over three million star coins, compared to a direct income of one billion star coins, represents a profit margin exceeding three hundred times.

This was also on the premise that Zhao Chen gave up a large portion of long-term benefits.

As expected of ‘War’.

However, it must be said that the three T2 Lion King-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Ship are truly money-burning; the ammunition consumption of just these three Interstellar Missile Ship alone almost matches the combat consumption of the entire Starfleet.

This was also based on Zhao Chen’s cost for Interstellar Missiles; if it were based on the selling price previously quoted to Queen Medusa, it would be equivalent to tens of millions of star coins!

“I understand.” Zhao Chen nodded in satisfaction.

Secretary Allie’s work ability in this area was quite good.

Afterward, Zhao Chen ordered the Starfleet to return to their temporary station in the Owl Dragon Star System to undergo repairs and resupply by the T2 Iron Hammer-class Heavy Interstellar Industrial Ship.

Logically, resupply should be handled ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) by specialized interstellar supply ship, which is the most efficient method.

However, Zhao Chen currently had no interstellar supply ship, so he could only rely on the Interstellar Industrial Ship to part time, even if it was a bit slower.

The only regret of this battle was letting Han Tianwang escape.

After Han Tianwang escaped, he would surely inform the forces behind him about Zhao Chen’s existence.

But Zhao Chen was quite confident that the other party would not leak his information.

The forces behind Han Tianwang must have a backer from a certain power within the Starlight Empire.

Since they were operating secretly in the Reef Starfield, they would certainly not want information about their forces to be exposed in the Starlight Empire.

Therefore, in this situation, Zhao Chen and the forces behind Han Tianwang were in a tacit understanding.

They both knew of each other’s existence, and they were still in an adversarial relationship, but at the same time, neither would disclose certain intelligence information about the other to the Starlight Empire, at least not publicly.

This created a state of balance.

Anyway, the Lion King Galaxy couldn’t be hidden forever; in three to five years, or at most ten, it would eventually be exposed.

Zhao Chen didn’t expect to keep it a secret indefinitely; the most important thing was to get through this initial difficult period and allow Zhao Chen to possess a sufficiently powerful Starfleet for self-preservation.

“It’s because the number of Starships isn’t enough that I can’t completely annihilate the enemy Starfleet every time,” Zhao Chen muttered to himself.

He urgently needed to expand the number of combat-type Interstellar Warship.

Although the system only required thirty Starships.

But thirty Starships were far from meeting Zhao Chen’s requirements.

First, set a small goal: establish a corps-level Starfleet of three hundred Interstellar Warship!

With T3 Interstellar Warship as the main Starships, and t2 star battleship as auxiliary!

“Charlotte, Allie. You two continue to stay in the Lion King Galaxy; I need to return to the Owl Dragon Star System first.

Except for the T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser, I’m leaving all other Interstellar Warship with you.

The construction of the Lion King Galaxy will proceed as planned. The captured Salamander Tribe Interstellar Warship can be given to the Dwarves; aren’t they short on Interstellar Warship?

Those t1 interstellar battleship will just meet their needs.

Afterward, the raw materials delivered by the Snake People can be prioritized for building our Star Gate here.” 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Zhao Chen explained his travel plans to Charlotte and Allie in front of him.

The main reason he was so eager to return to the Owl Dragon Star System was to check the reward given by the system task.

High-quality interstellar resources... what exactly would that be?