After a long discussion with Eve, they finally agreed to build Fifty mother drones or drone clusters each one capable of building an army by itself and will be sent to a different part of the galaxy their destination is mostly unexplored regions or uninhabited regions.
Arc ordered that 50% of the materials they gathered will be stored and keep safe the rest will be used for their expansion and other things. Of course, that will only take effect after they manage to build into a certain size, and build enough force to defend themselves.
Eve was not in control of the drone cluster as it has its own powerful AI even more powerful than Eve of course not in the beginning but the bigger the cluster the more intelligent the AI will be. But even so, the mother Drones are equipped with 2-star AI from the start. Arc name them to cluster 0ne to fifty for easy reference, Tiffa can only facepalm when she heard it and Dianna let out a rare giggle only Jarvis remains unaffected.
But Arc ignored Tiffa teasing since the mother drones didn't really mind the name. They even sounded happy having received a name for themselves, of course, this is all Arc imaginations after Arc gives them the order and rules he let them go. He won't be able to hear from them for quite some time until they reach a certain size and was able to build a communication tower themselves.
Arc was still feeling sore by the number of materials needed to build the mother drones. It's by far the most expensive thing he was able to produce by far.
He looks at his ring which contains mostly materials to build those 50 mother drones 30% of the materials he has was already been used which means millions of tons of materials gone.
He sighs, the higher the grade the more materials are needed. "What would happen if I want to build a 5-star or higher item would it cost planet-size materials?" Arc began to contemplate. The only solution he has is to build as many high-grade energy conversion factories as he can to compensate for the number of materials needed.
"Well that's far into the future ill think about it when I cross that bridge," Arc said in his mind.
For 2 days they travel from HFA space station into the Solar space station near the boundary of the solar system this is the last stop for everyone wanting to leave the solar system.
Arc was surprised by the size of the Solar space station it's almost the size of the earth, and it continues to expand to accommodate more people and ships.
Arc visited his warehouse and saw the many droids working nonstop to store the almost endless number of crates holding military-grade solutions.
His visit today is not just to inspect and upgrade the Production ship but to also replace the droids issued by HFA and GFA. With his own Droids.
Inside the warehouse after all the droids were cleared and Eve gives him the go signal. He summons 50k droids, on the outside, they look no different from the most expensive droids available in the market but inside the difference is like day and night. It's a top quality rank-5 droids capable of both manual work and fighting, and they are equipped with a rank-8 AI that has the same intelligence as normal human or better.
The old droid were all delegated outside the warehouse. From now on only the droid created by the system is allowed inside the warehouse to prevent any sabotaged and accidents.
And after living a few hundred builder droids and drones in the production ship to secretly upgrade it they left for Liberty... With their full speed, it will take a week to travel from Solar Space Station to Liberty but unfortunately, only 3 of their engines are working at the moment as the rest are being upgraded by the Builder droids some will take longer for them to reach Liberty but Arc didn't mind.
"Boss we're about to leave the solar system influence..." Eve's voice rang into the bridge she even made a hologram of herself using the ship system it was Tiffa who suggested it and Arc approved so in the past few days Tiffa and even Dianna is busy configuring Eve holographic appearance.
And just yesterday they finally agree on the final form Arc was left alone as they didn't want him to see until it's completed. So Arc just left them alone. And besides, he was so fascinated by the builder's Droids that he spends most of his time watching them work. Especially how they convert materials into parts they need. To Arc it's like Magic even as the owner of the system he still can't get used to that kind of technology it's like he was a kid again seeing how the motors work he was hooked he can't get tired of watching it.
Leaving the solar system in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, we have left…
Eve continues to broadcast but Arc no longer paying Attention because the moment they left the solar system something tried to pull his consciousness away luckily Nine who has been quiet all this time breaks the connection before it was completed.
...…
Somewhere in the Universe a massive planet size Golden Ship is traveling at many times the speed of light. Inside a young man can be seen seating in the captain's chair.
"Your majesty are you alright?" A few seconds ago he suddenly released a huge amount of energy almost killing everyone on the bridge luckily his right-hand man acted quickly and created a barrier saving everyone.
"I'm fine! A contender has arrived..." His right-hand man was puzzled but didn't ask more.
The young man has golden long hair that reaches to his waist two blood-red horns can be seen on his forehead he looks devilishly handsome he also has golden pupils.
"Interesting, he even manages to break our connection. Looks like you have a rival Ashura!" Said the young man in his mind.
Ashura: "I didn't recognize the signature, but I'm sure it's from Sovereign Empire like me."
Ashura's voice rang inside the mind of the young man! "Is that so, I wonder how others would react to this, it has been a long time since a new contender join the game, I'm looking forward to meeting him it is a shame the connection broke before we could have met and get acquainted." Said the young man in his mind.
"You'll meet him soon enough it's only a matter of time and that's something we have plenty of." Said Ashura.