The Empire's rebel army's attack on Jedas came without warning. That was normal. Before we understood the logic of the 'Shepherds', any of their actions would be completely unexpected.
Fortunately, the enemy did not send out many troops. One Eternal-class Mothership that had been modified into a capital ship, five regular Eternal-class Motherships, and a hundred or so Expeditionary Battleships. That was equivalent to a slightly larger supervision team. In fact, I also thought that it was just an enhanced supervision team sent by the rebel army after the original supervision team was wiped out. It was just that the hot-blooded Pandora had launched an attack without a second thought. The battle broke out far away from Jedas' airspace, almost in the orbit of the Fourth Planet. As it was in the distant orbit, Gotark's colony was not seriously damaged. Only a few fragments of the explosion fell into the atmosphere and penetrated the Free Kingdom's anti-air cannons, destroying two ice ore harvesting points on the Fourth Planet. The fierce battle lasted for less than thirty minutes before the rebel army was completely wiped out.
It was a beautiful counterattack. The Federation's main fleet had zero casualties in the battle against the Imperial Army. It could only be described as a miracle.
That was the preliminary information we received, and it made everyone in the conference room a little happy. But immediately after that, Shallow Shallow personally transmitted a superluminal communication signal that left everyone at a loss.
"Half of the enemy was killed by Sylvia!"
That was the first thing Shallow Shallow said in the communication image. Instantly, Liliana, who was standing on a stool and looking around, fell to the ground with a thud.
"Girl, did you eat anything?" I looked at Shallow Shallow, who was lying in front of the communication device and fiddling with the gadgets on it. "Sylvia, that slow-witted girl?"
"Yes, yes!" Shallow Shallow seemed to have no idea what she was talking about. She grinned and nodded happily. "Sylvia spent most of her time on Aiur's Light. She was there when the battle started. I thought it was a movie, but when the battle started, she suddenly complained of a headache. All the enemy's motherships, including the flagship, had self-destructed. Little Pandora was outside at the time and was shocked!"
"How is Sylvia now?" I asked with a frown.
"Sit right next to me …" Shallow Shallow reached out and pulled the person next to her over. A silver-haired girl instantly squeezed into the communicator image. She stared at us blankly for a long time before she finally let out an "Oh" and waved at me. "Hello — Chen-jun, this video phone is so amazing … The screen is so big … When are you guys coming back?"
In other words, after erupting for three minutes, his IQ went back to normal?
Looking at Sylvia who was leisurely fiddling with her hair on the other side of the communicator, I fell into deep thought.
This was already the second time, this sudden outburst that was half a beat too slow.
The first time was in the school city. When I first met her, she unconsciously awakened her soul once, causing part of our fleet that was in the atmosphere to lose its mobility. Furthermore, it almost annihilated the weak Imperial Army. This was the second time. She felt a headache and caused five of the enemy's motherships, including a modified flagship, to self-destruct. Combining the previous battle report and what Shallow Shallow had said, that should be the result of the psionic vortex going out of control during the charging process of the Galaxy Cannon.
The first time Sylvia lost control, she almost dissipated as an energy creature. After that, Alaya suppressed her and we dealt with the root cause of her loss of control, she returned to normal. Since then, she has been obediently playing the role of the City of Shadows' mascot. Originally, we thought that the factor that could cause her to awaken her powers no longer existed. Now, it seems that she will face the danger of dissipating again.
"I have to return to Jedas. If Sylvia's energy form mutates again, only Alaya and I can suppress her again."
After some consideration, I made the decision above. Originally, I could have brought Sylvia over, but now, I was a little worried that the slow-moving silly girl had already become a porcelain doll. Dimensional travel might cause her to mutate in some way, and that would be terrible.
"I'll go with you!" Liliana immediately jumped over. "Don't misunderstand! It's definitely not because I want to stay by your side or anything. It's just that I haven't seen Shallow Shallow for a long time. I definitely, definitely don't like being with you … Ouch! "
Retracting my knifehand, I looked down at the 1.09-meter tall Liliana from above, ignoring the way she was hugging her head and looking up at me with her large teary eyes, trying to act cute. "Be a good black-bellied girl. Arrogant your sister!"
"Tsk, black-bellied boss."
Being familiar with Liliana's natural black-bellied methods, I was already immune to her malicious acts of acting cute. Almost casually, I tossed her into the large basket that had the words "Liliana's Recycling Basket" written on it. I clapped my hands and said to the female aide-de-camp who was on standby in front of the star map, "Sives, tell me your plan. How should we carry out the military operation?"
Although I needed to personally return to Jedas due to Sylvia's sudden situation, I still needed to make arrangements for the military operation in the Eastern Sky and the red giant star. After all, even if everyone knew that I was a rookie when it came to strategy, my identity as the head of the Empire was still there. Shouldn't I be more proactive from time to time?
"Yes, Your Majesty." Sives nodded meticulously. Then, he activated the holographic simulation mode of the star map. Immediately, the room we were in disappeared and was replaced by a holographic projection of the vast starry sky. Everyone felt as though they were already in the universe, and the slightly dark red nebula was like a red eyeball floating in the middle of the room. "This is the main battlefield."
"Firstly, due to the unique structure of the universe, most of the lives that are trapped here are concentrated in the large Milky Way that we are in. The density of celestial bodies and life forms outside of this Milky Way plummeted. The number of rebels of the Empire there is also extremely small, almost negligible. Our main battlefield is the Milky Way with a radius of 3000 light years as shown on the star map. This is our current location."
In front of us, a small dot on the star map lit up as Sives finished speaking.
"Then, according to the information provided by Queen Funa, this is the location of the major civilizations that will be involved in the war."
The moment he finished speaking, the star map reacted once more. It was no longer just a small shining dot. In front of us, behind us, all around us, the virtual star map that took up the entire room started to shine with countless light dots. In an instant, the radiance was so bright that it almost blinded anyone who looked at it.
"The Empire's rebel army has ordered the various races to start a new era of war. In other words, countless supervision teams will appear in the skies above these countless colonial planets. This way, the enemy will leave their nests in deep space, and the enemy will come out from the shadows. This is advantageous to us, and the greatest threat the rebel army poses to the Imperial Army is their numbers. The countless supervision teams in the skies above the colonial planets will definitely cause their strength to be scattered. We can send a number of superior troops to coordinate with the Star Sniper Cannons and other extra-dimensional firepower to specifically target these supervision teams. The Milky Way is vast, and the rebel army will definitely not be able to take care of everything. This way, a large portion of the enemy's forces will be drawn away by our mobile forces, causing internal friction that far exceeds ours.
I understood: Grandpa Mao did this in the past.
"However, guerrilla warfare cannot be the key to determining the victory of a war in the universe," Xi Weiss said as he switched the display mode of the star map. According to the distribution of forces, the entire star map was divided into several color blocks. "The main forces in the West Sky are the Free Kingdom of Gotark and the Church of Gusta, as well as the newly risen large-scale pirate group, the Captland Light Cavalry, who intend to establish their own government. First, we can be considered allies, while the Church of Gusta has already received orders to declare war on Gotark due to the era of war. Since the Captland Light Cavalry has yet to establish a country, nor do they have any colonial planets, they have not been explicitly ordered by the Shepherd to attack anyone. However, if they want to survive after the era of war ends, they will definitely need to plunder a piece of territory. Considering their main area of activity, I believe that the chances of them taking advantage of the situation to attack Gotark is the highest. Our red giant base is in the West Sky. In order to ensure the stability of our rear, our goal here is to assist Funa in quickly pacifying the war and ensure the integrity of the Free Kingdom's forces. This way, even if the rebel army directly attacks the Imperial Army's main camp, we will not be unable to attend to them due to the chaos in our rear. At the same time, the Free Kingdom will also be able to provide some support."
"As for the Eastern Sky, this subordinate believes that this place should be a breakthrough point for our operation. This is the information Liliana brought. (At this moment, a certain priest shouted from the basket," It's Archbishop Liliana! ") This explains why the Angel Corps and the rebel army are connected. Every time the rebel army suffers a serious attack, the latter will appear. This explains why a small pirate force was able to rise so quickly to the extent of being able to compete with an iron and blood nation with a huge army. No matter what their connection is, we should start with this. We will attack the Angel Corps' colonial planet and try to attract the rebel army here so that the main battlefield will be in the Eastern Sky, far away from the main camp. Since a large number of the rebel army's troops will be restrained due to our killing of the various surveillance teams, there shouldn't be many enemies in the Eastern Sky, at least within an acceptable range. As for the Southern Sky and Northern Sky, there aren't many big forces worth paying attention to. Furthermore, Fina's diplomatic offensive should be able to keep the small forces calm during the battle between the two Imperial Armies. We don't need to maintain this for too long, we just need to wait for our superweapon to be in place … "
Is everyone fainting? In any case, I'm fainting …
What Sandora said sounded like a heavenly book to me. She wasn't just spouting nonsense when she said that she could let Sives make the decisions for ordinary strategic issues. I always believed that anyone who could make me feel dizzy with just a few sentences was amazing. From this aspect, Sives was truly amazing.
"In short, the Western Sky will maintain stability while the Eastern Sky will go to war. Then, we'll send a group of people who are good at burning and looting, such as the Holy Temple army, to cause trouble all over the world so that the rebel army won't be able to gather their superior forces. Then, we'll temporarily leave the Southern Sky and Northern Sky and let Fina send a group of diplomats to fool them, right?"
Sives stared at me blankly for a long while before nodding with cold sweat on his forehead. "You've summarized it very accurately."
Eh? Am I right?
"Hey! Why is the Holy Temple army so good at burning and looting!? " Just as I was enjoying myself, Liliana suddenly crawled out of her basket and jumped in front of me with a murderous look. "You're blaspheming God! We're all clerics! We preach love and peace! "
"Why don't you explain to me about Holy Father first!"
I rolled my eyes and looked up at the sky. Just now, I was busy comforting this brat and didn't have the nerve to say it. Now that she was so enthusiastic, I really wanted her to explain what Holy Father meant in the Church of the Goddess of Life's religious manual.
"It's you." Liliana unconsciously put her hands on her hips and tilted her head to the side. "Originally, you were called Holy Father, but I was afraid that it would affect the copyright of Jehovah — God knows if my Lord Jingle has a colleague named Jehovah. It would affect the working atmosphere in the God Realm, so I changed it to Holy Father. It's more local. I even wrote a bunch of Holy Mothers and Holy Daughters for you in the religious manual …"
I instantly felt like crying. Holy Father, Holy Mother, Holy Daughter, this brat's brain cells were all used in this area! Is this how the Trinity is supposed to be?
Once again, I very seriously stuffed Liliana into her basket and let this brat, who was already beyond black, protest by the side. I tried my best to divert my attention. In the end, I really found a problem. "Sives, you mentioned a superweapon just now? What is it? "
"You will be satisfied, my great Emperor." Sives revealed an expression that said 'you finally thought of asking this', but he still maintained his usual formulaic words. "It's this."
The starry sky in the room disappeared in an instant, and the pure white walls, chairs and instruments reappeared. In the holographic image in front of us, a shining white sphere appeared. The sphere was covered in black veins, and the outer layer of the sphere seemed to have a translucent shell-like object, but I couldn't see its exact structure.
"This … seems to be the white dwarf at the core of the red giant?"
My sister said uncertainly. "Yes."
Sives zoomed in on the gigantic energy source that was being modified. "Researcher Tawil has recovered the giant energy body modification technology from some scattered pieces of technology, and has also made some progress in the research on the 'Crimson Moon Cube'. We have a preliminary understanding of the technology to create and control a pure energy body. Emperor Sandora gave the order to build a death star fortress yesterday. We plan to modify this white dwarf into a control center, and then use pure psionic energy to reshape the entire red giant. Finally, the psionic giant will collapse again, and it will become an unprecedentedly powerful death star fortress. If we can still control it by then, this gigantic weapon will be used to destroy the core of the large nebula. Although the latter's structure and function are unclear, it is definitely something extremely important to the rebel army. It might even be their final headquarters. Otherwise, they wouldn't have needed to build a nebula with a radius of three light years to protect the core. We must have a weapon that is powerful enough to deal with the situation where conventional armies are unable to break through the large nebula. The power of the Star Sniper Cannon is too weak, and it is only effective against physical objects. Avalon is powerful, but it is mainly reflected in macroscopic control and support functions. We need to build a more powerful weapon to reverse the situation when we face off against the rebel army in terms of numbers."
After listening to this crazy weapon construction plan, I was silent for a long time. Finally, I slapped my thigh. "So that's what Sandora meant when she told me yesterday!!"
Xi Wei's expression immediately turned tragic. "You personally approved this proposal, didn't you?"
I shrugged. "In any case, Sandora's proposal is definitely not wrong. I directly agreed to it."
Everyone: "…"
Jedas High Orbit, Light of Aiur, Holy Mother Ship.
After the sudden exchange of fire with the rebel army, the main fleet of the Federation had been in a state of combat readiness, maintaining a defensive formation in the high orbit. Sylvia had never left the warship after her sudden outburst, and for safety reasons, Pandora had temporarily locked her in a quarantine cabin. It was not difficult to come up with an excuse to keep her in a completely sealed room. The amount of brain cells required to do this was not even more than that of a third-grade math question. Shallow Shallow had given her a Rubik's cube, and a certain silver-haired little animal had been playing with it until we rushed back.
That was why we had to keep an eye on her. If there was someone with an IQ of more than 10, it would be a piece of cake to abduct the former Emperor of the Empire.
"Sylvia!"
After deactivating the energy barrier of the quarantine cabin, the first thing I saw was the silver-haired little animal lying on the table playing with a Rubik's cube. She seemed to be fine, and was fully focused on playing with the toy in her hands. She did not even hear my call until someone patted her shoulder. She then slowly expressed her surprise. "Ah? Huh? Welcome back, Chen Jun … How was your business trip? "
… I bet that Shallow Shallow and Pandora did not even use their brains to trick her.
"It was alright." I nodded slightly as I wiped my non-existent cold sweat. "How about you? I heard that you're sick?"
As I asked, I also secretly sensed her condition. I only heaved a sigh of relief when I realized that her energy was in a completely balanced state.
"Ah, it was just a sudden headache …" Sylvia said slowly. She flashed a bright smile at me. "I'm fine now. Chen Jun is very concerned about me. I'm very happy …"
As though it had some kind of magic, my anxious mood when I rushed back miraculously calmed down after a few words with Sylvia. Looking at the smiling silver-haired little animal in front of me, who was always in a state parallel to the real world, I heaved a long sigh of relief.
It was good that she was fine.
Even though Belavilla used to be everyone's enemy, the current Sylvia was just an innocent and slow-witted kind-hearted girl. Every day, after eating her fill, she would quietly look after the shop and live happily forever as the greatest happiness in her life. This girl who was as innocent as a baby had always been unconsciously protected by everyone like a fragile porcelain doll. Even Sandora had accepted her as a family member. That was why I was so nervous when I heard that Sylvia had lost control again. But now, it seemed that it was a false alarm?
"Phew. It's good that you're fine. Rest well. Don't run around."
"Then, can I leave this room now? Shallow Shallow said that I can't go out … "Sylvia said pitifully. The Rubik's Cube in her hand was still making creaking noises.
"… Sure."
Why did I feel like I was coaxing a child?
The moment I left the isolation cabin, Shallow Shallow's voice suddenly sounded in my head. "Ah Jun, Ah Jun! Gotark's ball-shaped Prime Minister wants to see you! "
Ball-shaped Prime Minister? I was stunned for a moment. Then, cold sweat covered my face as I recalled that Shallow Shallow was probably referring to Bibolu … That strange, round creature. It seemed that I should teach Shallow Shallow basic etiquette when I had the time.
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