On the other side, Lily followed Dahlia to Z-829. She froze for a long time after she saw how strong and unbeatable Lucien looked on the battlefield. Her mood would not settle at all. "It has been years. He turned out even stronger and more handsome than I imagined." Lily grabbed Dahlia's arm, too excited to wait. "Dahlia, when can I go to Lucien?" She left Central Planet with so much effort and came all the way to this rough planet just so she could reach Lucien. "If you want to go, you will be able to go very soon." Dahlia looked at her with a gentle expression. "You just cannot walk up to Lucien on your own like this. You are only a Rank 5 female. If you show up on Z-829 out of nowhere and get lucky enough to find Lucien's warship, people will think you came here on purpose. They will think you are trying to get close to him." "Then what should I do?" Lily asked right away.Dahlia sounded a little troubled. "It is not hard. You just have to suffer a little." Suffer? Lily never suffered once in her entire life. She looked at Dahlia and hesitated at the word suffer. "Is there a way that does not involve suffering?" Dahlia stayed silent. She stared at Lily in disbelief. She did not expect her to be this helpless and this unwilling to push through even a small difficulty. She held back the urge to kill her and asked softly. "Do you still want Lucien to be your mate?" "I do. Of course I do." Lily answered fast. She dreamed of it. "For Lucien, you cannot take a little suffering?"No wonder Lucien does not like this fool. Dahlia disliked her too. "I..." Lily thought about how Lucien looked on the battlefield earlier. She hesitated for a moment and spoke. "I am willing." She finished and tried to bargain a little. "Can you not make me suffer too much? I am scared." Dahlia nodded with a smile. "Don't worry. I will not let anything actually happen to you." Three hours later, Dahlia brought Lily into the outer battlefield, near a Chitinid warship. "Dahlia, that is a Chitinid warship, right? Why did you bring me here?" Lily looked at the warship not far away. The Chitinid therian on it looked ugly beyond belief. Her face turned pale from fear. Dahlia smiled at her. "Kael checked already. The ones locked up on that warship are all females that the Chitinid stole from the Empire. I will help you slip in later. You will pretend that you are another female they stole. "Lucien's mission this time is to rescue these females. But the information they got said there were only two warships. He already found those two and saved the females inside. "This one has not been discovered yet. After you get on it, I will have people leak the news to him. He will find this warship and rescue you. "Then you can follow them back to Central Planet. On the way back, you will use your connection with Malrik to get close to him. You will take the chance to let him drink the medicine I gave you and drop his blood on the bone stone." The plan sounded simple. But Lily looked at the Chitinid nearby, and her legs shook nonstop. "I am scared. What if those Chitinid hurt me? What if they kill me before Lucien comes to save me?" Lily heard from her clan that the Chitinid brought Empire females back to their territory to force them to give birth to Chitinid babies nonstop until they died. "Do not worry. I will stay with you." Dahlia saw how frightened she looked. She did not want to waste another word. She knocked Lily out with one strike. Dahlia dragged the unconscious Lily and soon boarded the Chitinid warship. On the warship, Aaron saw her return. He became excited and led all the Chitinid out to greet her. "Welcome back, Your Majesty." Dahlia swept a cold look across the Chitinid therian. She raised her hand and threw the unconscious Lily toward Aaron. "Lucien already showed up on Z-829. Do everything according to the plan." "Yes." Aaron ordered people to drag Lily away. … Back on Z-829, the battlefield cleanup was almost done.Lucien stood inside the command cabin of his warship. He looked through the large window at the therian soldiers working below. In one more hour, the cleanup would finish, and they could head back. A bowl of noodles landed in front of him with a loud thud. Marcus settled into the chair beside him like he had no strength left. "I heard from your people that you did not eat for a full day. Ms. Tibarn packed this for you when I left. I just cooked it. Eat it now." He would not have cooked for him if he had not promised Emma that he would bring him back properly. He even pulled himself out of deep sleep to make it.