Asida and Asidora quickly broke through the space blockade of the Empire's fleet that had suddenly appeared. One of them stayed within the blockade while the other rushed into the vast space, activating a hyperspace warp portal two light years away from the Mobrado system.
With the help of the Twin Senses, they bypassed the interference barrier that had enveloped the entire star system from the gravitational boundary to provide the Imperial Army's main force at the outpost base with clear teleportation coordinates. At the same time that the teleportation began, the enemy also noticed the spatial anomaly that was gathering behind them. The long-range radar scanned that one-third of their fleet had split off and were charging towards one of the sisters outside the star system (I'm still sorry, I still don't know if it's the older or younger sister …). It was obvious that they wanted to intercept the incoming reinforcements.
"Their reaction is too fast!"
I couldn't help but exclaim as I looked at the enemy's quick reaction on the radar. The enemy had sent out an intercepting force almost as soon as the Asida sisters began to teleport. They had never expected the Twin Sisters to be discovered so quickly.
"The First Fleet is an elite force, second only to the Royal Navy," Sandora said as she bit her lip. Her voice sounded pained, but she quickly pulled herself together. "Even if they reacted immediately, their intercepting force would be too late. The Space Gemini's mission is only to broadcast the correct current coordinates. Our reinforcements have already started teleporting and will arrive very soon. The enemy has forty-five minutes to enter the Divine Fog Star's defense line. Get the fleet ready … Welcome them with the warriors' style. "
"Sandora, you don't have to command this battle personally."
I extended my hand and placed it on Sandora's shoulder. Through the mental connection, I could hear the girl's sorrow. Even when facing the overwhelming Sanctuary Guards in the nebula, Sandora hadn't even frowned. But now, she was facing an even more unbearable pressure. I couldn't help but feel sorry for her.
No matter how prepared she had been, even Sandora wouldn't be able to face the softest part of her heart when she had to fight against her closest warriors and subordinates.
I didn't dare to put myself in the same situation as her, because I knew that in that case, I probably wouldn't even have the courage to stand on the bridge. My most loyal warriors, my closest comrades-in-arms, my family who had been through thick and thin with me for thousands of years. They were the most important group of people in my memories. But now, they were filled with weapons of destruction, and they were willing to pay any price to destroy me. I couldn't help but want to persuade Sandora to stay away from this battle.
Even though I knew it was pointless.
Sure enough, Sandora just shook her head gently. Her expression was as calm as ever, but her voice was deeper than ever. "Ah Jun, this is my responsibility. Some prices have to be paid. "
"The target fleet is accelerating! They will be in position 25 minutes before the start of the attack! " The alarm of the ship's mainframe interrupted her conversation with Sandora. The elder sister looked up in surprise. "What's going on? They're still accelerating?! "
"This … This is pointless!" Sandora was even more shocked than the elder sister. She looked at the information and charts that flashed before her, her face filled with disbelief. "They're overloading all their engines! Just to reach the attack position faster, they overloaded the entire fleet. This will cause irreversible damage. There's no need for them to do so now! "
"I don't know what's going on, but it seems like the Avengers hate us to the core." Icetis clapped her hands and said in an unfriendly tone.
The only fortunate thing was that after Bryndis's voice fell, there was finally some good news. The intelligence officer reported with relief in the command hall, "Your Majesty! We regained control of the teleportation interference probes. One-third of them were destroyed, but the rest managed to hide in the folds of space. The enemy's reinforcements have been cut off. "
"Good job!"
I said loudly. Then, I connected to the God Fog Planet's defense line. A dark-skinned commander appeared on the holographic image. "Your Majesty! The God Fog Planet's defense line has been completed. All Borderland-class ships are to be prepared to face the enemy! "
"Very good. The enemy will arrive early, but our reinforcements have already started teleporting. Defend the defense line. Preserving strength is the priority," I ordered. From the corner of my eye, I saw Pandora and Visca wriggling around as if mushrooms were growing on their bodies. These two little girls were thirsty for guns and cannons. As long as they could fight the enemy, they would be happy. They wouldn't even think about tactics.
Although for troops like them, unleashing all their firepower was indeed the best tactic.
"The Admiral of the Empire, set sail to reinforce the God Fog Planet's defense line."
I pressed down on the two little heads beside my legs that kept moving up and down as I ordered the ship's mainframe. Then, I suddenly remembered something. "Mainframe, where are Elena and the others?"
"Horizontal Arm, E-63 Comprehensive Residential Area. They're having a picnic."
"Picnic?! Those idiots. Didn't they hear the battleship alarm so loud? Why isn't anyone taking them to a safe zone? "
I couldn't help but pale in fright. I hurriedly sent people to escort those troublemakers to a safe zone.
I almost forgot that there was a group of troublemakers on the battleship. They were the dozens of monster girls from Fantasy Village who came to join in the fun. They lacked the most basic military training and had no knowledge of the Empire's fleet. In fact, they didn't even understand what a real war was. Apart from participating in the recapture of Atlantis, the largest battle that half of them had experienced was no more than a group fight. Therefore, when the battleship alarm rang through the sky, this group of stupid girls who had no idea what was going on were still covering their ears and having a picnic!
Even Sal and the others knew that they had to enter the military quarantine zone …
A large group of Empire soldiers rushed to the E-63 Comprehensive Residential Area and threw the monster girls who were discussing why there was such a large amount of noise into the transport ships. They were then transferred to the nearest military quarantine zone. A few idiots protested forcefully, but of course, it was futile. Fortunately, there were a few monsters who understood the big picture or knew what was going on and were more obedient. For example, Rhododendron Spp. was smart enough to realize that something serious had happened. These monsters would only cause more trouble in such a situation, so they obediently followed the organization's instructions. Ling Meng suddenly remembered that she was a Town Security. The moment the Empire soldiers appeared, she put on her armband and joined the ranks to help maintain order. She followed two friendly Empire soldiers and stuffed the noisy Elena into the transport ship while giggling and showing her work pass to the staff. "We're on the same side, we're on the same side."
The attitude of the Empire soldiers was rather polite. "His Majesty has ordered that everyone can be accommodated except for Ling Meng. No matter what, she must be locked up first!"
This was a victory of foresight.
The dizziness of the rapid teleportation passed in a flash. The Empire Admiral had already left the sky above Mobrador. The massive God of Fog with broad yellow-green bands had replaced the original blue planet on the holographic projection. The huge planet looked like a steep curved mountain on the exterior view of the Empire Admiral. Far away from the 'mountain' were flashing blue spots of light. That was the fully-charged Borderland-class fortress ships. They were adjusting their formation to form a stronger joint shield.
It was less than five minutes before the enemy entered the attack range, but in fact, they were still very far away. Even if it was light, it would take half a month to teleport from there. It was hard for ordinary people to imagine what a war at such a distance would look like. The distance between the two sides would take more than half a month to cover, but the two sides could actually slap each other in the face after five minutes. The theory that the speed of light could not be surpassed was easily broken by the propulsion of the quasi-coordinate engine, which was an extra-dimensional thruster. The flames of war could be unfolded on an unimaginably wide picture scroll.
"The Galaxy Cannon is fully charged. The Energy Plundering Device will be activated at any time. A massive spatial entity has been detected approaching at superluminal speed … Gravity correction complete. Fire control system locked in. Information Disruption Probe released."
The ship's mainframe systematically played the status of the various units in the fleet. Sandora clenched her fists and stared at the holographic projection in front of her.
A high-speed probe swept past the enemy's phalanx fifteen seconds ago. It took less than three seconds before it was destroyed to send back precious high-definition, uncensored photos of the enemy, including the number, distribution, types of ships, and the front of an Eternal-class mothership. The huge coffin-like spaceship had a blood-red emblem on its forehead. I had seen this emblem on Sandora's royal guards before.
The fleet of the Avengers.
"The enemy has entered our attack range. All weapons, fire at full power!"
Blinding blue and white light rained down from the high orbit of the Divine Fog Planet like a storm, making the side of the planet that was facing outer space look like a bucket that had countless holes pierced through it. The psionic cannons and energy beams emitted bright light that tore through the darkness. Some battleships that were originally hidden in the shadows appeared like ghostly silhouettes under these flashes of light.
With the acceleration of the space-folding firepower, the battleships' attacks could ignore the long range delay at the cost of energy. Dense high-energy light beams bombarded the enemy at an infinite speed, so far that it was impossible to see with the naked eye. Almost at the same time, a counterattack that was even denser than our attacks descended.
Large swaths of dazzling white light attacked from the distant space. Due to their infinite attack speed, it was as if they had directly appeared in space and connected the two sides. The Borderland-class battleships' combined shields flashed violently under this storm-like attack. From the corner of my eye, I seemed to see two battleships explode into bright fireballs due to the excessive pressure.
"The third column's shield has been pierced. Retreat! The fourth column's reinforcements! "
"Our attack has hit the target. Battle result confirmed — failed to pierce the enemy's combined shields. Refocusing the attack."
"Fire lock-on system is being interfered with at close range. There are probes in our formation! High-speed fighters, clear them out immediately! "
"Energy Plundering Devices activated! Enemy attacks are being absorbed. Galactic Cannons ready for continuous fire — the enemy has entered the second-tier attack range. Conventional cannons begin full fire! "
Battle reports and orders echoed in the busy command center. Meanwhile, the spiritual network's command link was surging with even more information than this. As a command center, the Empire Admiral had begun to take direct control of every battleship in the fleet of medium-sized battleships and above in order to fully display the fleet's combat strength. This method of commanding battleships, which was nicknamed by the Bubble as "God's Perspective", required an extremely high amount of computing power. That was why the Empire Admiral's mainframe had been changed to the Bubble, and the one who planned the next step of the attack for the Bubble was Pandora's external thinking circuit, Sives.
Pandora and Visca had already finished arming themselves. Now that they had obtained my permission, the two lunatics charged into the vast space like Tibetan mastiffs. Each of them led a bunch of floating cannons that were as majestic as a curtain wall as they patrolled the vicinity of the Empire Admiral, waiting for the enemy to enter their attack range.
Of course, they wouldn't just sit around when the enemy wasn't in range. The small Commander-class Apostles, which possessed the most advanced fire control system and scanning equipment, displayed the unparalleled advantage of a small mech. Pandora and Visca quickly cleared away the invisible probes that were interfering with our fire control system. Those little things that could warp without interference under any circumstances were the most annoying things when fighting against the Empire's fleet. They looked inconspicuous, but they could drill into critical locations of the mothership under one's nose, weakening the battleship's combat strength like poisonous needles. However, they were also very fragile. Apart from their powerful warp ability, their shields and firepower were all mere decorations, and they would usually be wiped out the moment they were discovered. When I turned my gaze to the two lunatics' surveillance, I happened to see Visca patiently using his multi-barreled autocannons to blast the last barrel-sized probe into honeycomb briquettes.
The enemy's fleet was still out of our line of sight. In reality, there were very few opportunities in space to observe the enemy with the naked eye. The vast darkness of outer space and the astonishing range of cannons meant that both sides could only observe the other side through auxiliary equipment. The only way to directly observe the enemy's existence and the fact that they were constantly approaching was the increasingly concentrated high-energy light beams coming from outer space. The round Borderland-class battleships formed a combined shield against the cannon fire. This shield was connected to the improved energy plundering devices that had a larger capacity. Through the cooperation of the shield and the energy plundering devices, they successfully blocked the enemy's firepower that was two to three times their own, and provided the Eternal-class battleships behind them with an unimaginably large amount of energy.
This was currently our greatest advantage: the energy plundering devices, a strange equipment that not even the old Empire had researched. Although the lighting effects weren't that great, they were able to increase the combat strength of a mixed fleet by several times.
While the intense exchange of fire was going on, the battleship's communication center was also trying something else. They opened all possible public channels and repeatedly sent a message to the approaching Avenger fleet:
"Fleet at the front, please respond! Fleet at the front, please respond! This is the Xiling Empire's newly formed Pandora Heavy Armor Corps Royal Guards! We are not enemies! I repeat, we are not enemies! "
This broadcast was sent to the enemy's flight path at various frequencies, covering all possible wavelengths that could carry information. I firmly believed that they would be able to receive this signal even if they were half a light year away with a semiconductor. But in reality, the enemy completely ignored the identification that the Imperial Army had sent out. They only continued to accelerate and unleashed their firepower, launching an even more frenzied assault on the Divine Fog planet's defense line.
"This won't do. It's completely illogical," Xi Wei's voice sounded in the communication link.
"Your Majesty, the Avenger fleet is refusing to respond to all communication requests. There is no communication between them either. We are unable to intercept the enemy's signal."
"They aren't communicating with each other either, huh?"
I muttered to myself softly. The Avenger fleet's abnormal actions made me feel increasingly uneasy. Right now, they looked like a pack of wolves charging in silence. They were illogical and irrational, only knowing to attack the Divine Fog planet that was reacting with psionic energy. I glanced at Sandora beside me. Her expression was extremely dark. I felt that she really shouldn't be standing here.
But I was certain that even if I talked about dehydration, I wouldn't be able to persuade this stubborn Queen to leave.
No one knew what the Avenger fleet was thinking, or how they made the decision to attack like this. Dense cannon fire pierced through the pitch-black space. Huge explosions illuminated the sky above the Divine Fog planet, which was dark due to the distance from the sun. Even though we had used the energy plunder device and the Joint Shield to negate the enemy's advantage in firepower, the Imperial Army was still unable to stop the Avenger fleet's attack. When another column of Borderland-class fortress ships had to retreat due to their shields being pierced through, the first batch of enemy ships finally entered our field of vision. A row of bright dots appeared in the distant space, and in the blink of an eye, they arrived in front of the Joint Shield. Right after that, there was an earth-shattering explosion.
The dense explosions formed a wall of flames, turning the live images transmitted to us into a blurry white blur.
It was a suicide attack, the Avenger fleet's best tactic. The first batch of enemy ships that charged at us were unmanned or puppet-piloted battleships. These battleships had no intention of returning alive from the moment they set off. When they started to slow down halfway, they started to pour cannon fire at a single point of the Joint Shield. When they were about to be destroyed, they suddenly accelerated and used a suicide attack to deplete our Joint Shield. This tactic meant that it would be a huge drain on the fleet in a short period of time. However, due to their unparalleled instantaneous destructive power, Sandora's former army had become the most fearsome and crazy marauders in the multiverse. But now, they were standing opposite us.
"The intercepting troops have set off." Bubble's voice echoed in the bridge. "The enemy's large battleships have been blanketed by our firepower, and their advancement has been slowed down. The enemy's ambush troops are massive and have broken through our defensive perimeter. We don't have enough anti-air firepower!"
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