There were many flaws in the new Imperial Army's military system, such as the fact that the Warlord was intercepted by the enemy when he was rushing to the borders of the Empire to provide reinforcements. This meant that we had underestimated the Fallen Apostle's remnant technology in the area of Void travel, and the teleportation paths between the various worlds were worth overhauling. Some of the border worlds' defense forces had weak infrastructure and limited military strength. Half of these defense forces were made up of servants, which was why the military headquarters had an urgent task at hand. They needed to increase the number of soldiers and improve the servants' equipment. At the same time, we needed more military stations in the border worlds, and more military stations meant more mass produced mainframes. The workload for the Bubble would likely increase for a period of time. We lacked the ability to intercept enemies in the Void, so all battles needed to be carried out in the real world. This was a huge problem for the defending side. No matter how the battle ended, the defending side's territory would undoubtedly be severely damaged. This last problem was also the most difficult to solve. I believed that even on the side of the Fallen Apostle, there wasn't much technology capable of intercepting enemies in the Void. It would require a tremendous advancement in technology in order to accomplish this. Fortunately, we had the Garden of the Departed in our hands. It was currently the only Law weapon that could operate normally in the Void. It lacked offensive power, and most of the time, it could only be used as a support. Fortunately, Godfather and King Huron were both here. The two of them could help the Imperial Army improve this super weapon.
Of course, their help might be limited. At most, they would be able to provide Tawil with some knowledge regarding the Void. After all, the two of them weren't that familiar with the Empire's technological creations. I reckoned that Hilla didn't even know how to use a microwave yet …
Of course, this battle also allowed us to see the main advantages that the Imperial Army possessed when it came to large-scale battles against the Fallen Apostles. First, it was the servant army. These soldiers were once treated with disdain in the old Empire and were even treated as cannon fodder. Now, in the new Empire, they had the same honor as regular soldiers. They had also proven their worth on the battlefield. Even though they weren't as strong as regular soldiers, they were equipped with standard military weapons and were able to fend off the most ferocious attacks of the enemy head-on. Not only that, their numbers were tremendous, and their tactics were almost limitless. When fighting against the Imperial Army, the Fallen Apostles could still feel that they had some tricks up their sleeves. However, when fighting against the servant army, which was also equipped with psionic weapons, the commanders of the Fallen Apostles were obviously confused and panicked. They were facing a bunch of random soldiers who were in complete disorder. As long as they could defeat the enemy, the servant army had at least four figures of tactics that they could use. And so, the Fallen Apostles' advantage of knowing themselves and their enemies was completely destroyed by the so-called "militia." Secondly, several of Tawil's newly developed equipment had been tested to the greatest extent in actual combat, including a new generation of large-scale energy plundering devices and a shield enhancer that could suppress the infection of the abyss. This type of shield enhancer was directly extracted from the blueprint of the abyss submersible ship, and its effects were not bad. I believed that after this test in actual combat, Tawil would be able to make them even more perfect.
There were too many things to deal with, and I only had the ability to personally ask less than one-fifth of them. Most of the remaining matters were handled by the hardworking adjutant, Sives, and the specialist, Sandora. The former seemed to never tire, and even though she did not have hundreds of mass projections, I could see the shadow of Tawil in her. The latter was mainly because she had too much to do. The current Sandora was still a blinding ball of light with a radius of 5,300 kilometers and a gravitational strength of 1.15 G (the density of the core of the Ulysses Imperial Power is extremely high). Apart from not being able to rotate, it was no different from a normal planet. Sandora's original body was destroyed, and before her new body was completed, this Glory starship was the only "vessel" she could use. So, what else could a planet that was smaller than Earth do other than work?
She did not have a mouth …
The landing troops had been exploring the Green Star for almost two hours, mainly scanning the structure of its crust. As they did not dare to rashly cause physical damage to the planet, the scientists could only install scanners on the surface. Of course, this was not efficient. Moreover, Tawil's new discovery made the landing troops even more careful. There was an extremely sensitive alarm system hidden in the complex energy environment beneath the Green Star. As long as something damaged the Green Star's crust and invaded the vicinity of its mantle, the alarm system would be activated. What would happen after it was activated? No one knew, but no one dared to take the risk.
This planet was exchanged for the lives of countless soldiers.
"And I even sprained my back because of it."
Missy, who had transformed into Lin Daiyu, muttered as she lay on the hospital bed. She wriggled her body restlessly. "It hurts."
"If you were really in pain, you wouldn't be wriggling around." I pressed down hard on Missy's head and stretched out my finger. "How many is this?"
"Thirty-five." Missy looked at my hand with misty eyes.
I was speechless.
"Alright, alright. You know that I am seeing double temporarily, but it will be fine in a while. And to be honest, I feel that this is a blessing in disguise. It has been a long time since I had such peace."
After the battle, we had a few injured people, including Sandora, who I wasn't sure if she counted as an injured person (she had revived on the spot with full HP), Lin, who hadn't recovered her intelligence, and Missy, who was lying on the bed. I couldn't take care of the first one, the second one was playing tangram with Monina, and I was taking care of the third one.
There were two main reasons why the Fallen Apostle's conspiracy failed. One of them was that Sandora suddenly became a god, turning the tables and killing an entire army of the enemy. The other reason was that Missy went berserk, forcing the enemy's interference transmitter to go crazy. For that, Lin Xue paid a certain price. She claimed that she sprained her back due to overexertion, but after seeing it with my own eyes, I was certain that her situation was more serious than that.
Just like what had happened before, the result of increasing her strength crazily was that she lost control of her abilities. The last time, she saw dozens of double images stacked together, but this time, other than the dozens of double images, she also temporarily lost her prophecy ability.
It was as if a machine had overheated and needed to be cooled down.
Medical experts believed that this should be a very short-lived phenomenon, lasting only about a week or so. Perhaps, there wasn't much to worry about. If it was in the past, this might be a big deal. But now, we had a Xiaoxue at home. That child wasn't as strong as Lin Xue, but in terms of foresight, she wasn't too far off. Missy could finally get a true vacation.
"The feeling of peace in my mind isn't bad." Lin Xue changed to a more comfortable position. Even though her eyes were still a little bloodshot (a side effect), her mental state was pretty good. "I am always disturbed by those messy images. Occasionally, I won't be able to see anything, but it is still pretty relaxing."
I passed her a peeled apple. "It would be more convincing if you didn't grit your teeth when you said that."
"I'm serious." Missy nibbled on the apple. Suddenly, her gaze shifted to the projector beside the medical cabin. There was a golden sun on it. "Glory … Ha, direct battle resurrection. I didn't know Sandora was so powerful."
"Compared to this, I am more interested in where to put her. Sandora said that she might have to maintain this state for a few days. She definitely won't be able to return home. If she stayed in the shadow space, she would definitely be bored to death. If she was like a Bubble, it would save a lot of trouble. She could just go online and watch thousands of anime and games. She would be able to pass the time in a few days."
"There's no other way." Missy stuffed the apple into my mouth. "I suggest that you ask Anveena to immediately start preparing food. Think about it, Sandora has been starving for seven to eight days. How scary would her first meal be?"
Then, I immediately shivered all over.
At this moment, Vega suddenly sent a communication request, interrupting our conversation.
"Sir, the exploration team can't proceed any further."
"What's the matter?"
"The entire planet is protected by a layer of encryption system," a frontline scientist answered the communication. "Previously, we found a complex energy structure under the planet's crust. Chief Tawil determined that it was an alarm system that could identify any intruders that penetrated the crust. Now, the deep scanner has found something else under this alarm system. It's a set of energy encryption network that uses the same frequency feed to interfere with the scanning signal from the outside world. This encryption system uses a certain coding method used by the Old Empire. Chief Tawil suggested that we suspend any contact with the Green Star. She will look through all the databases and try to crack this code."
I had already guessed that the exploration of this planet would be troublesome. If it really carried such a major secret, and it came from the Old Empire, then the creator must have made its defense system watertight. Even after tens of thousands of years, even if we had the most advanced team of scientists, we would definitely feel troubled when faced with these technological secrets from the Old Empire. So, there was not much regret now. Anyway, Green Star had fallen into our hands, and the research on it would continue.
But this planet could no longer be left in this frontier world: it was too dangerous.
"It should be okay to transfer the entire Green Star to the shadow space, right?"
"Yes, Your Majesty. The entire transfer will not trigger its' firewall '." The frontline scientist used a very appropriate term to describe the layers of defense facilities under the Green Star's crust: he called it the firewall.
"Then transport it back … Hmm, how long will it take to complete the transfer?"
"Any time, Your Majesty." The frontline scientist sent me some images. It was the two special battleships with rings and wings on the Green Star. "Chief Tawil sent two spaceships. They carry a world transfer force field that can throw a planet-sized entity to any world."
Well, it seemed that Tawil had made up his mind to drag this treasure home and study it slowly from the beginning. It seemed that a qualified scientist should be a close relative of a squirrel. Their favorite thing to do was to drag anything of value that they encountered on the road back to their nest …
"I don't know what Father and King Huron are doing," Missy said as she looked at the ceiling.
"They are so secretive, saying that they are packing the gifts and sending them back, and they don't let anyone go over to receive them. What do you think they got from the frontline?"
I thought for a moment, and suddenly said in horror, "D * mn, did they capture Halland alive?!"
Missy was stunned and showed an expression of disbelief. "I don't think so. That Halland has suffered enough …"
No one could guess what Father and King Huron had gotten their hands on. It seemed that we would have to wait for them to come back before we knew. The fleet had started to return to the shadow space in batches. The Empire General had also entered jump countdown mode. Hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, the mysterious green planet was wrapped in a translucent "Bubble." It was a strange phenomenon. Two spaceships called "spaceships" were positioned at the north and south poles of the Green Star like two nails. The spaceships floated around the spaceships at a ninety-degree angle, releasing a bright blue and white halo. When the halo expanded, it formed a translucent Bubble that enveloped the entire planet. While the Empire General was busy counting down, the Green Star and spaceships suddenly disappeared from our sight. They had left the current universe.
Is this also the ancient, high-tech spaceship that Tawil has recently created?
With such doubts in mind, we finally returned to the shadow city.
All the armies, including the Vengeance Fleet, returned to their stations. The soldiers also returned home after completing their reports. Only Sandora could only hang in the sky of the shadow city, feeling wronged. Next to her floated the Green Star, Ulysses Imperial Power, Green Star, and the mother planet, Gaia. The three planets, each with their own characteristics, hung in space, forming a spectacular three-star formation …
"You're a Nokia," Missy was supported by her daughter as she walked out of the teleportation platform. She turned to look at Xiaoxue helplessly. "Ahem, I'm not that bad yet. Why do I feel like I'm terminally ill when you're supporting me?"
"Mom, you're too careless. When I was young, I heard from my dad that you always messed around and got yourself covered in scars …" Xiaoxue nagged like a child complaining that her parents were not smart enough. She did not notice that Missy's expression was getting more and more awkward. "And Sandora's mom, this time, it was a little too big! But she finally got her wish: she became a Pac-Man. "
Sandora's angry voice boomed in everyone's mind. "Hurry up and bring this brat back! Can't she not mention this? Pac-Man still has beans to eat. How am I supposed to eat now? "
I put on my sunglasses and looked up. Originally, when the mother planet, Gaia, hung in the sky above the shadow city, it covered the entire sky. When I looked up, it was another sci-fi world filled with tall buildings. Now that the three-star system was established, the mother planet temporarily adjusted its position and gave the sky to the other two new members. The three planets each occupied less than a third of the sky. It looked spectacular. Among them, Sandora's Ulysses Imperial Power should be the one that no one could ignore. It shone with a golden light, just like a falling sun …
Wearing sunglasses, it really looked like a Pac-Man.
In theory, the residents of the shadow city were already used to any kind of spectacle appearing in the sky. However, the scale of the spectacle this time was obviously a little too big. There were two additional planets, one of which was a sun. I have to say, even the timid ones would be frightened. Of course, the Forgotten Ones' streaky pork belly and bone-strengthening powder were really frightened. For the time being, the citizens still didn't know that the new sun that would be hanging in the shadow city for over a week was their Queen. Thus, there were many people on the streets discussing the blazing sun. It was radiant, but it didn't have any temperature. Furthermore, it didn't seem to rise or set, so it should be a man-made celestial body. This kind of speculation was quite reliable. The most lively discussion was on the Imperial Army Academy's campus website. The Osaka sisters were all guessing that this was a new theme package that the shadow city's central computer had created. The core idea was the story of a descendant …
I didn't dare to let Sandora know what the Osaka sisters were discussing …
"Sandora, I suddenly want to sing a song for you," I raised my head to look at Ulysses Imperial Power and said through the mental connection.
"What?" Sandora's voice was lazy, but there was a hint of interest in her tone.
"The legendary song, 'My Sun' …"
Sandora was silent for a moment before she finally shouted awkwardly, "You can't bully me like that! I'm going to slap your face with gravity! "
Looks like after being annoyed by that crazy AI for the entire journey, Sandora was finally affected. What does it mean to slap someone's face with gravity!
"That's right, Gaia, don't you feel bored?" Sandora gave up on communicating with me and turned to ask about her temporary neighbor. Mother planet Gaia was hanging two hundred thousand kilometers away from her. The two planet fortresses started chatting. "I can't go anywhere every day, I just hang in one place and look at the unchanging scenery below. I can't even eat anything."
"Do you want to find something to do?"
Gaia asked the Queen gently. She, who had a tranquil nature, maintained her usual calmness when faced with Sandora who had transformed into Ulysses Imperial Power. Actually, from the start to the end, other than adjusting her orbit when Sandora came over, this former Super Mainframe Computer didn't even say a word of nonsense.
"What do you suggest?" Sandora asked curiously.
Gaia was silent for a moment, as though he was thinking, "Mm … Then, how about revolution?"
Sandora was shocked, "Huh?"
"Revolution, it should be more suitable for your current state. We can orbit around the shadow city. Every day, time will pass very quickly. You will cross the sky in the day and I will cross the sky in the night, just like the sun and moon … "
Sandora was speechless.
"You're not interested?" Gaia was troubled. "Indeed, revolution is a big movement and it is very tiring. Let's spin then. You can spin on your own and I can teach you how to spin at a twenty-eight degree angle. It is quite interesting — Also, this green fellow doesn't seem to be able to speak but we can form a three-body system. As long as we don't touch each other, it would be a good sport …"
After listening to this magical conversation, all of us were laughing so hard that we were about to pass away.
Planet fortresses are so much fun. Gaia, isn't your method of relieving your boredom too powerful?!
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