Chapter Fifty
The explosion rippled out from the side connected to the boarding tube, blasting ice and rock in every direction and consuming the conspiracy ship.
It was eerily beautiful—the beginning of its death at the hands of both ancient ice and modern fire.
Jia was impressed. When Captain Osei and Erik had discussed the L-48, she’d anticipated it damaging the Hunter ship but not being visible from outside.
A secondary explosion burst from the conspiracy ship. The force of the blast launched a huge chunk of the comet away, revealing the dark body of the disk-like ship. The flying debris obscured the direct view, but it didn’t hide the gaping hole in the Hunter ship. It was as if the comet was an outer body, and the ship the heart.
The humans’ effort had torn out the dark heart of
