Sometime later, Nolan's battlecarrier starship arrived upon a massive white light ahead of their group and entered it.

Wervas planet, the Lantern space pirate alliance territory.

Wervas's planet was similar to Earth, except many areas were green, and the ocean only comprised about 40 percent of the planet's total ground surface area. In the outer space region near the orbit of Wervas planet, grains of white light resembling lights of fireflies began to appear, gather, and form something massive. These white lights turned into the battlecarrier starships and fighter starplanes of the Lantern space pirate alliance fleet. These starships and starplanes flew forward, and white lights resembling giant fireflies formed every part of the ships and planes' bodies from the front to the back until they finally became whole starships and starplanes. These white lights formed all of these starships and starplanes as they moved as if they flew out of the white lights.

Werfas city, the capital of Wervas planet.

On the Wervas planet’s surface, there was one of the cities with classic and beautiful carved concrete buildings, with various stories, and the tallest building was five stories high. These buildings were connected by flat roads made of arrangements of stones. These roads were filled with pedestrians from various humanoid races, some resembling animals, water creatures, or humans, but with different skin colors and horns or scales. Some of the humanoid people in this city ride rhino-like animals, but the size of horses, or carts pulled by them, and classic-looking cars for faster transportation. The passers-by stopped their steps, as seeing the view in their planet's orbit, the faint silhouettes of hundreds of the massive battlecarrier starships and fighter starplanes of the Lantern Space Pirates Alliance's fleet began to appear one after another and fill the distant sky, making the people in this city boisterous with mixed expressions.

Among the citizens, a young man wearing a sleeveless leather jacket was looking toward the sky enthusiastically. This young man had an athletic and well-proportioned build, stylishly styled and slightly long hair, mid-knee shorts, and boots. There was something different about this young man. All parts of his hands, arms, and legs that were visible because clothes didn’t cover them were made of some sort of sturdy white leather with sturdy carving that formed patterns of narrow gaps that contained something resembling black-colored metal covered by white skin. These artificial hands and legs could move flexibly like normal hands and legs. This 20-year-old young man was enthusiastic about the arrival of the Lantern Alliance's ships and planes. He was Arlen Norton, captain of the Endless space pirate group.

An old man with long white hair, a long white mustache, and a long white beard walked up to Arlen. He wore clothes resembling a white kimono with wide, black, long pants and boots. He crossed his arms, revealing grayish-black horns that merged like armor to his forearms, flesh, and skin. He was a 1500-year-old humanoid race called Grimor Verco, the Endless space pirate group navigator.

Grimor walked with another humanoid man with blue skin, wore an ankle-length overcoat that opened in the middle, a waistcoat, long pants, a belt, boots covered with armor on the front up to the knees, gloves covered with armor on the top parts up to the elbows, stylishly styled and slightly long hair, and his overcoat’s hood he wore over his head. He was Rothur Navy, the vice-leader of the Endless space pirate. Grimor stood before Arlen and looked at the sky with a slightly astonished expression.

"They came overly vigilant."

Rothur looked at the sky with a serious expression.

"I guess it's understandable given the current dangerous situation due to Dzyranth's and Titan's war."

Arlen put his hands on his waist and turned to face them with a big smile.

"Isn't the leader of the Lantern Space Pirate Alliance your brother Rothur?"

Rothur was slightly surprised; his expression then turned awkward.

"Right, we are brothers, not bound by blood, but because we were in the same orphanage as children."

For some reason, Rothur's expression showed if something was bothering him; Arlen and Grimor looked at him curiously.

In the distance, a cloaked man was watching them, standing with his hand crossed and leaning against the wall beside him. He was the leader of the Black Cloak organization, which had recently allied with the Endless space pirate. His entire face was covered with a black metal mask resembling the face part of a mecha covered in several armor pieces connected by metal joints and two glowing patterns on the eye parts of the mask. The patterns on the eye parts of this mask were glowing gaps in the armor pieces that covered and formed this mask. These glowed gaps showed sturdy machine structures beneath the armor covering the mask.

This man also wore a black ankle-length cloak covering his whole body, with a high collar up to his mouth level and a hood that covered the back of his head to the top of his head. On all parts of this cloak, up to the collar and hood parts, were covered with thin but very sturdy black armor pieces connected together by metal joints that could be widened and narrowed to follow the cloak’s movements. On the right front of the cloak’s collar was a black belt to close the front of the cloak, to make it easier to open the cloak on the body part of this man. On the shoulders and both upper arm parts of the cloak were covered with additional thin armor with solid carvings, which at all the joints of these additional armor pieces could extend in such a way as to follow the cloak’s movements.

Under his cloak, he wore a shirt, black trousers, and boots. Around his waist was a baldric belt for carrying weapons on his lower back, in which both his hands were covered with gauntlets up to the elbows. These gauntlets had sturdy, blunt carvings, and the fingers had sturdy, sharp carvings that were also on each finger's tips as claws. Throughout the gauntlets, some carvings formed patterns. On the back of the hand parts was another solid gold carving, and along the top of each gauntlet was a golden carving that resembled a double-edged dagger. Along the left side of the left gauntlet and along the right side of the right gauntlet up to the elbows was a sharp blade with a width similar to a katana, covered in solidly carved armor pieces. These blades were wide enough for slash attack movements. The right-hand gauntlet was faint blue, while the left was yellowish red. The arrival of the Lantern space pirate alliance drew the cloaked man’s attention.

In outer space, hundreds of Lantern Alliance fleets of battlecarrier starships and fighter starplanes were finally in the outer space region near Wervas planet. Dozens of Monitors inside the command room, where Nolan was, displayed the beautiful view of the stars-studded outer space and Wervas planet. Nolan moved his hand with a gesture as if he had grabbed the empty air before him. A wide translucent monitor rose from the metal floor, supported by a tall metal pillar. The emblem of the Lantern space pirate alliance appeared on the monitor, a symbol of a golden lantern with yellowish-red flames.

"All alliance members, please stand by here; I have things to do."

Nolan ended the call.

Unbeknownst to Nolan, a black panel half a meter high and one meter wide appeared and hovered next to him, displaying white text:

[ [System Warning]

[The system has detected a malfunction due to system misuse. To address this, you will be selected as a temporary backup system user for an indefinite period. Please prepare for further instructions (The situation is urgent, you will be forced to accept it.)]

[Close] [Discard] [Remind me later] ]

Nolan appeared to realize something and turned to the panel, only to find it had already disappeared. Nolan's expression turned astonished as he thought.

"I thought I saw some kind of black panel?"

Nolan's expression turned doubtful, and his focus returned to the monitor before him.

Nolan used hand gestures, and the monitor display changed to a humanoid man of humanoid race with maroon skin, reddish-black hair, and three horns on his head that line up from the front to the back of the head and on the top of the head, the same race as the squad five leader who was one of Swordman's space pirate crews. Nolan spoke.

"Prepare a personnel carrier starplane; we’ll approach our guest of honor now."

The humanoid man on the video communications line nodded.

"Understood, captain."

Nolan walked out of the commander's room through the automatic sliding metal double doors behind him.

Nolan walked alone in the metal hallway and arrived at a tall, automatic sliding metal double door that opened and closed automatically as Nolan walked through it. Nolan arrived at a vast hangar made of metal with a high ceiling. Countless fighter starplanes and personnel carrier fighter starplanes were parked here, and Nolan walked past them. He arrived at a row of personnel carrier fighter starplanes shaped like flying wing planes covered with additional armor pieces all over the plane's body, which hide laser rotary cannons, laser cannons, and energy missiles. These personnel carrier fighter starplanes were four times larger than the fighter starplanes.

Near one of the personnel carrier fighter starplanes parked here, stood two members of Nolan's crew, a humanoid race with maroon skin, reddish-black hair, and three horns on their heads that lined up from the front to the back of the head and on the top of the head, the same race as the squad five's leader. They wore overcoat uniforms with metal armor on the elbows, knees, front body, and back, while carrying laser rifles. The starplane's rear door opened, becoming a wide ascent staircase bridge behind them. Seeing Nolan's arrival, they immediately greeted him.

"Welcome, Captain; please enter the starplane."

He spoke while inviting Nolan in. Nolan nodded and boarded the starplane via the staircase bridge, followed by them. The rear door of the starplane then raised and closed.