Everyone in the audience looked at the abandoned asteroid placed in the dueling area, and they could see the starship with its hull severely deformed, almost no intact armor. Several places had direct 'large holes,' and the culprit behind these large holes was naturally the large black horn of the T2 Black Rhino-class Interstellar Heavy Assault Frigate.
Several Interstellar Barges and small Interstellar Medical Ships had already begun to sail over to rescue the crew members on that starship. This scene was much more serious than Wendy Chase's previous T2 Fire Crow-class Heavy Interstellar Battlecruiser situation.
The arbitrator then announced the winner of this starship duel: Wendy Chase of North Star Academy.
"Oh dear, I'm really sorry. Our academy's students are just so thoughtless, turning your student's starship into this state. How about this—our academy can perform basic repairs to ensure it can safely return to your Tianyao Academy's starport?" Vice Dean Hong was practically beaming with pride, looking at Deputy Dean Jia beside him with a smile.
Deputy Dean Jia snorted, "No need."
After speaking, she turned and left the audience. The other students from Tianyao Academy also left dejectedly.
"Hey, don't leave! Weren't you very arrogant just now? Why aren't you saying anything now?"
"Your Tianyao Academy's starships aren't that great either; they can't even defeat one of our Interstellar Frigates."
"An Interstellar Battlecruiser got hammered by an Interstellar Frigate. If it were me, I'd find a hole and bury myself in it."
The students of North Star Academy were all excited, as if they had won the battle themselves.
"These people from Tianyao Academy are just too arrogant, relying on the fact that they are an imperial direct military starship academy and looking down on other military academies," Vice Dean Hong snorted.
At this moment, he felt extremely pleased. He had endured a lot of arrogant disdain from these conceited Tianyao Academy people recently. However, that T2 Black Rhino just now was indeed very strong. The starship's armor strength was incredibly terrifying, and it also had a short-range acceleration assault capability after approaching an enemy ship. It was hard to believe that such a small starship could have such strong acceleration and defense capabilities. Why had he never heard of such a T2 Interstellar Frigate on the market?
Vice Dean Hong was about to talk to Zachary Chase about this starship when he found that Zachary and his group had long since disappeared.
What a mysterious student.
"Look! Look! The latest report is out! The T2 Purple Rose-class Medium Interstellar Battlecruiser's hull armor sustained 60% overall damage, with the most severe areas having the hull armor directly penetrated! This caused 37 compartments to be damaged and sealed off. Even the starship's main skeletal structure strength was damaged by 20%—exceeding 30% means it's close to falling apart! Captain Min Zhou was injured, with severe facial deformation… Hahahahaha… Turns out this woman was a plastic surgery addict. The entire starship had seven crew members killed, twenty-six severely injured, and fifty-seven with varying degrees of injury. According to estimates, the repair cost for this T2 Purple Rose will reach an astonishing three million star coins! Hahahaha… That's almost enough to buy a brand new T2 Interstellar Frigate or an Interstellar Destroyer!"
On their way to find Wendy, Lily Xue kept talking about the reports related to this starship duel.
"Old Zach, this Interstellar Frigate is too awesome! Just a few 'thumps' and it completely broke apart that T2 Purple Rose. Where did you get this Interstellar Frigate of yours?!" Levi Warren looked at Zachary curiously.
"Want one?" Zachary didn't answer directly, but instead asked Levi.
Levi was stunned, then nodded repeatedly, "Who wouldn't want such a good Interstellar Frigate! It's not afraid of a one-on-one with an Interstellar Battlecruiser!"
"When I have time, I'll get you one," Zachary said. Currently, he didn't have that much production capacity, but in the future, building such a T2 Black Rhino would be an easy task.
"Really?! Brother Zach! You're like my real brother!" Levi didn't bother to ask about the starship's origin and was already fantasizing about owning such an Interstellar Frigate.
"Brother Zach, you're still single, right? Do you want to consider my older sister? Although my older sister has a bad temper, is a bit older, and isn't as gentle as other girls, she's still a great beauty!"
Zachary didn't know whether to laugh or cry. For just one Interstellar Frigate, you're selling your sister?
"Brother Zach, get me a T2 Black Rhino, and I can also consider…" Lily said temptingly, "telling you Senior Suzanne Lane's contact information, her measurements, and her preferences! You know, Henry Tian promised me a lot of benefits for this information, but I haven't told him anything!"
Alright, here comes another one selling their senior.
"Don't you like giant ships and big guns? How can such a starship catch your eye, miss?" Zachary teased Lily.
Lily giggled and said, "I now realize what you just said makes sense. Actually, being hard is pretty good too. Of course, I still like giant ships and big guns the most! When the time comes, my big guns paired with little steel cannons—won't that be incredibly satisfying!"
For these two who only cared about starships, not hesitating to sell their sisters and seniors, Zachary could only mourn for their sisters and seniors.
"I don't have that capability in the short term, but when I have a source of goods in the future, I'll consider you two first," Zachary promised.
"This one isn't expensive, right?" Levi asked tentatively. His family had just gotten him a T2 Hyena-class Medium Interstellar Destroyer, and if it was too expensive, he couldn't afford it.
"It's not expensive. The market price won't exceed three million star coins, and I can give you a discount then," Zachary said. This was true; the profit margin for a typical T2 starship was around twenty times. For example, a T2 Hyena-class Medium Interstellar Destroyer, which sells for around four million star coins, only costs two hundred thousand star coins to build. But Zachary's T2 Black Rhino was very special. If he were to sell it, a thirty-fold profit wouldn't be excessive, would it? Perhaps the only drawback was its lack of firepower.
Soon, the three arrived at the berth where the T2 Black Rhino was docked. Levi and Lily immediately circled the starship.
"Holy cow, there really isn't any major damage. There are many small scratches, but the only large-area damage is this wound with a diameter of fifty centimeters and a depth of ten centimeters!" Levi exclaimed.
"Wow, wow, wow… This big black horn…" Lily stood in front of the bow, looking up at the shiny black horn with sparkling eyes.