"Your Majesty! We have received a request for reinforcements! It's from a third party! "
I was stunned by the sudden report, and Pandora and Visca had already disappeared in the light of the teleportation device. Before they teleported away, I saw Visca trying to jump back like a crazed animal, but it was too late. That girl had a lot of curiosity, and she must have been attracted by the sudden news, so she wanted to stay and watch the show. I saw her head slam into the teleportation device's safety barrier, and then disappear in a flash of white light while clutching her head. In the next second, she appeared in outer space with her body tilted at a 45 degree angle. Next to her, Pandora silently glanced at her very undignified younger sister. Without batting an eyelid, she opened up a distance of several dozen kilometers and began to summon the omnipresent floating cannons to carry out her favorite cannon plowing activity.
The enemy's counterattack was temporarily suppressed, and Odemsius and Rena still did not move under my orders. They wanted to wait for the last moment before the enemy's follow-up troops entered the battlefield, and when the enemy was most relaxed, they would strike suddenly. The enemy's follow-up troops would only arrive in about ten minutes. They should have received the report that the vanguard troops were in a tough battle, and were rushing here at full speed. However, their movements were all seen by Xiaoxue, and their rapid march had already been calculated a few hours ago.
"A request for reinforcements? What's the situation? " I turned to the command hall below the platform, and an officer in charge of the intelligence system stood up. "Your Majesty, we are currently analyzing the source of the signal, but it is estimated that the source has been destroyed. We can no longer receive any information from that frequency …"
"That's a third party?" Sives frowned. "If it doesn't belong to us, lower the priority. We don't have …"
Sives acted according to the standard Imperial Army policy, and it was also the habit of a normal officer in such a situation. A request for reinforcements from a third party could very well be sent by a native civilization in this universe. Perhaps it was because of something that Sives thought was trivial, such as their star suddenly dying. Now that the battle was at its most intense, such a request for reinforcements would naturally be ignored as background noise. However, Xiaoxue suddenly stood up before he could finish his sentence. "No, this is a little interesting."
"Your Highness?" Sives looked at Xiaoxue in confusion.
"When did the request for reinforcements come?" Xiaoxue nodded at the intelligence officer, gesturing for him to continue with his work.
"Yes, the message was sent six hours ago, but due to insufficient priority and channel blockage, this message was treated as redundant information and automatically sunk to the bottom of the cache pool. It was just read again ten minutes ago. The request for reinforcements was as follows: We are being pursued by the enemy, and the situation is critical. Our fleet has lost the ability to return. We hope that any friendly and capable local civilizations can provide support. The enemy we are facing is extremely destructive, and they may also pose a threat to your world. The code of the distress message is not registered, so it can be concluded that it came from an unregistered civilization. "
"Although this is far away, it is still within the borders of the Empire." Xiaoxue turned to look at me. "Dad, in theory, there shouldn't be any unregistered civilizations in this place. Any civilization that has developed to a suitable stage in the Macro World would be registered, unless they are primitive."
"In other words …" I looked at the translated request for reinforcements on the MDT. "This could be a foreign civilization that has mastered cross-world navigation technology, and is coincidentally passing through the Empire?"
My sister nodded lightly. "And they might have just mastered cross-world navigation technology. Civilizations that have the ability to travel across worlds are usually noticed as soon as they appear, but we have never seen the one that appeared before. Furthermore, the Empire is very well-known among the high-end civilizations, and even the races outside the Macro World know where the borders of the Empire are. Those who don't know have basically been beaten up. The people who sent the distress signal don't seem to know that they are within the borders of the Empire. They didn't ask for help from the Imperial Army, which means that they have just mastered cross-world navigation and have become a high-level civilization. "
This piece of information that was almost treated as garbage seemed to be quite interesting, just as Xiaoxue had said. It came from a group that had the ability to travel across worlds, and it might be a small unit similar to the vanguard. And this group was being pursued by a group of highly threatening enemies. There was a sentence in the distress message: The enemy we are facing is extremely destructive, and they may also pose a threat to your world.
I couldn't help but shift my gaze to the radar.
That sentence might have been meant to increase the success rate of the request for reinforcements, but overall, it didn't seem like a lie.
A large, densely packed red dot flickered on the radar. The Fallen Apostle's ferocious fleet was doing their best to destroy everything within their firing range, including this part of the universe. If there was anything that was extremely dangerous, to the point that a hotheaded foreign civilization could immediately realize that it posed a threat to any world, then it could only be … the Fallen Apostle.
More importantly, this was within the Macro World. Although it wasn't a world directly under the jurisdiction of the Empire, it could still be considered the territory of the Empire. Here, the low-end civilizations might not know anything about the Empire, but the high-end civilizations still understood the authority of the Empire. They had already advanced to the point where they could sense the existence of the Empire, and even the upper echelons had directly conversed with the Empire. As such, these civilizations rarely erupted into intense conflicts, because if their war broke the balance of the local universe, it would very likely lead to the intervention of the local inspectors. These were definitely the worst temporary workers in history. Under this premise, a high-end civilization that had grasped the technology of cross-world navigation announced that they were being pursued — there could only be one truth.
The ones pursuing them were precisely the Fallen Apostles.
Right now, we still didn't dare to confirm whether they encountered the Fallen Apostles after they arrived here, or whether they had been pursued by the Fallen Apostles long before that. Moreover, they only sent out the distress signal that we received six hours ago. Xiaoxue ordered us to trace the source of the signal. Six hours ago, the system records showed that the distress signal came from a distorted spatial point in the depths of the universe. There might be a supermassive black hole or something else there. Perhaps the one who sent the distress signal wanted to use the space environment there to disguise themselves. However, a further scan showed that the distorted spatial point no longer sent out any signals.
After all, six hours had already passed. We weren't sure if the person who sent the distress signal had already been discovered and eliminated by a small squad of the Fallen Apostles, or if they had already escaped and were temporarily hiding in a safe place.
"Xiaoxue, do you know what happened to them?" I couldn't help but turn my gaze towards my daughter, who was as mysterious as her mother. However, the latter was indeed worthy of being born by Lin Xue. The naughty child smiled and said, "Dad, this is a heavenly mystery."
Fortunately, she added a few words at the end, "However, don't worry. They escaped and are currently hiding in another spatial distortion. That's how it is for now. Before the battle ends, it's best not to take the initiative to search for them. The Fallen Apostles are also keeping an eye on them. Once we really scan those people … I'm afraid that they will be killed by us. "
I nodded, silently deciding that this child's allowance for the next month wouldn't be cut in half for now. Then, I turned my attention back to the battlefield.
Right at this moment, the ship's main computer once again sounded an ear-piercing alarm. "Level 1 alert! A large-scale field of order has been discovered outside the world barrier! A large-scale field of order has been discovered outside the world barrier! The enemy's main force is predicted to descend into the material world in one minute! "
This space was already on the verge of collapse. The Void Corrosion had caused the universe constants within a radius of a dozen light years to become chaotic. The various laws and parameters that the world of order relied on had deviated to a dangerous critical point. The speed of light had already lost control. The distant dark nebula appeared in the form of a colorful mosaic on the image of the detector. The discontinuous effect of gravity had caused both the enemy and our spaceships to have gravitational shielding devices on to maintain stability. The main force of the Fallen Apostles had already begun attacking the world barrier that was on the verge of collapse a few seconds later. Finally, all the order here had been completely destroyed.
"Everyone, prepare to withstand the impact! The Hidden Bombardment Team has failed in their mission. They were unable to cause sufficient damage to the enemy's rear. Return immediately. Mothership Team, save the next wave of firepower and prepare to receive the attack. "
I quickly turned to the communicator. "Odemsius, Rena, begin the operation!"
"Glory to the Empire!" 2
From start to finish, there was a very subtle scene in this battle. It could even be said to be a little comical. It was the mirage fleet that had been tirelessly 'attacking' the Fallen Apostles from a distance of 0.5 light years away. However, they had been completely ignored by the Fallen Apostles. Those comical geometrical objects that looked like children's building blocks did not have any power, nor did they have the slightest bit of defense. The Fallen Apostles had long since determined that they were projections created by the Empire to disrupt their line of sight. After they eliminated a portion of the illusions and discovered that the latter could quickly regenerate, they had completely ignored these things. They might have thought that they had broken through the Empire's mirage tactic, and they probably still thought so.
That was until the moment the main force of the Fallen Apostles leaped into the battlefield.
The mirage fleet immediately launched the same attack on the enemy's reinforcements, using those strange light rays and light spheres. The commanders of the two opposing forces had obviously contacted each other beforehand. Thus, the Fallen Apostles' reinforcements did not take any defensive stance against the incoming firepower. All of their attention was focused on the Imperial Army's main galactic cannons that were overflowing with energy.
Our outstanding intelligence officers and the Information Tactical Center intercepted an enemy communication in a secondary encrypted channel.
"Second echelon, ignore those phantom fleets. They are diverting our firepower. They have no power!"
"First echelon, I bought a watch last year!"
The above communication had undergone a certain amount of artistic processing, but the basic meaning was the same. In any case, the second echelon of the Fallen Apostles was completely hit by the ultimate skills that tens of thousands of spellcasters had accumulated for half an hour. Dozens of Eternal-grade motherships in the frontline were instantly emptied of HP.
After the first round of attacks, those geometrical figures that were only phantoms began to shed their disguises, revealing their true forms. The commanders of the Fallen Apostles were shocked to see the military forces of the old Empire that had, in theory, completely perished: the Magical Vanguards and Arcane Enforcers.
A scene that left everyone dumbfounded appeared. The spellcaster soldiers that emerged from the darkness turned into human-shaped torches one after another. Raging energy flames rose from the bodies of these soldiers and rapidly engulfed them. In a short span of two seconds, all the spellcasters turned into blazing fireballs. These huge blue and white fireballs began to fuse with each other, rapidly expanding. After this series of changes that left even me dumbfounded, the spellcaster army disappeared, and what replaced them was …
It was actually a cluster of clouds that filled the galaxy, the edges undulating unsteadily!
The space combat forms that the tens of thousands of Magical Vanguards and Arcane Enforcers transformed into were completely beyond my expectations. I thought that they would at least look like a group of fully armed soldiers, but now, they even gave up on their humanoid forms and turned into a cluster of galactic clouds?
I immediately quickly examined the combat methods of these two types of soldiers and felt that this world was too f * cking amazing.
The Mystery Branch's army had a unique combat method. Of course, they also used powerful starships to do battle. However, in a situation where starships were insufficient, they had another ability that they were proud of, and that was to temporarily change their life form and then fuse with their allies to become even more powerful individuals, using a sharp decrease in numbers in exchange for a sharp increase in power. This was their space combat style. Every type of Shiring Apostles had a form that was specialized for space combat, and it was said that the space combat style of the Mystery Branch Apostles was one of the strangest.
Now, I had the honor of personally witnessing this scene.
This cluster of galactic clouds was abnormally bright in comparison to the dark nebula. They … or rather, it, looked like a diluted sun (please forgive me for only being able to think of such a bizarre description). The energy reaction within it was unprecedentedly intense. Tens of thousands of elite Apostles fused their power together without reservation, forming an amalgamated "monster" with combat power comparable to a carrier strike group. After that, this mass of energy began to launch a fierce attack on the Fallen Apostles who had yet to react.
It created an arcane lightning bolt that was even more magnificent than the Galaxy's main cannon. This superluminal attack completely tore apart the space that was already on the verge of collapse, causing more than a dozen fragmented images of lightning to appear in the camp of the Fallen Apostles. After that, the shields of many small and medium-sized warships began to overload and explode.
Odemsius and Rena both knew that even if the soldiers they led formed this amalgamation, they could not directly fight against the motherships. After all, it was not the soldiers' duty to fight against heavy motherships. Thus, from the start, their targets were the small and medium-sized ships that lacked powerful defenses.
The surprise attack of these spellcasters could only produce greater results in the early stages of the battle. After all, they were still a single unit (although I felt conflicted when I said that looking at that energy cloud that was already the size of a small planet), and they could not compete with warships in terms of endurance and survivability. Thus, just as the Fallen Apostles were about to recover from their shock, Sives ordered the Imperial Army to launch the most ferocious attack since the start of the war.
Two serious tactical mistakes caused the Fallen Apostles, who originally had the upper hand in terms of military strength, to gradually fall into a disadvantageous position. However, it seemed that it would not be easy for the Imperial Army to achieve victory. The most regrettable part was that our Invisible Bombardment Formation did not achieve the expected results. This time, we were facing an enemy commander who could achieve victory through surprise attacks, and whose defense was as watertight as a tortoise's shell. After the Invisible Bombardment Formation approached the enemy's rear formation under cover, they only had time to drop the first batch of heavy Spatial Implosion Bombs before they were detected by the enemy and repelled with concentrated firepower. Now, we had to maintain the advantage we gained from the two surprise attacks (the one on the World Barrier, and the one that Odemsius and the others had just successfully carried out), and slowly expand it to achieve victory.
The battlefield had now been divided into three areas. Of course, two of them were the Imperial Army and the Fallen Apostles, and the third was a large galactic cloud that had reached the edge of the battlefield. This bright ball of energy was still rapidly expanding. It was now the size of a giant planet, and its energy reaction was becoming more and more astonishing. I felt conflicted as I introduced them to everyone. This was our mage squad … They had now transformed into a ball of gas.
After the battle began, this cloud continuously jumped towards the battlefield while facing the enemy's artillery fire. It was as if it was a small sun that could warp. In just a short dozen or so minutes, it crossed a distance of 0.5 light years, arriving at the Fallen Apostle's flank.
This was the first time that the New Empire's spellcasters had appeared on the battlefield, and they had appeared on such a large scale. The Fallen Apostles must be very shocked now. I reckon that they were greeting the families of their intelligence department — well, if it was popular among the Fallen Apostles to greet other people's families. It was obvious that the tens of thousands of elite warriors led by Odemsius and Rena posed a great threat. After entering the state of fusion, their firepower was as strong as a group of independent motherships. This cloud was churning rapidly, forming a hurricane that resembled a space storm. Violent arcane lightning tore through space and bombarded the enemy's weaker flank. The Fallen Apostles had to divert a lot of their energy to deal with this storm that was rapidly approaching them. The sudden appearance of these mages had completely disrupted the enemy's deployment.
By now, I had more or less figured out what was going on. The mage army was vastly different from the science and technology apostles. The former didn't have any astonishingly powerful equipment, and the Mystery Faction's weaponsmithing lagged behind the Science and Technology Faction's weaponsmithing. However, the combat prowess they displayed through this bizarre fusion method made up for the lack of individual equipment. Now, this cloud was sharing all the damage. All the attacks from the enemy could only cause very little damage to the cloud, and the damage would be distributed evenly to every member of the cloud. There seemed to be a structure inside the cloud as well. Through the close-up images sent back by the scouts, they could see that the cloud contained a high-speed energy spell formation and a randomly arranged light sphere. These structures could attack and disperse damage. At the same time, they probably had the function of repairing the body. They … were like the organs of a giant beast.
All the spellcasters had fused into a giant magical beast that could devour the stars, and this giant beast could fire light waves three times per second …
At this moment, Xiao Xue's voice suddenly interrupted my thoughts:
"Dad, the enemy's flagship has been exposed!"
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