After this battle, I'm going home.
This was the flag Wang Chen had set for himself.
There was nothing auspicious or inauspicious about it. Having fused with the Star Sea world's source power, Wang Chen possessed this plane's Fortune Blessed protection and was unaffected by such abstruse and mysterious things.
But truth be told, his plan to return to the Haotian Realm had been delayed again and again.
He had originally planned to leave this world once his custom mecha was completed, so as not to betray Akemi's sincere devotion.
Who would have thought that an unprecedentedly fierce war would once again hold back Wang Chen's departing steps?
The Nether Race's invasion this time had clearly been premeditated for a long time, and their choice of timing was quite ingenious: the eve of the Empire's new year, equivalent to New Year's Eve in Wang Chen's Previous Life.
At that time, the countless citizens across dozens of star clusters within the Empire's territory were celebrating the new year. Although defenses in the border regions remained tight, they were not maintained at the highest state of alert.
After all, over the past year, the Empire had won several major victories against the Nether Race, dealing a heavy blow to the Alien Races' arrogant flames.
Who could have expected the Nether Race's counterattack to arrive so violently and viciously?
In barely half a month, the North Sea Star Cluster had fallen. The Imperial fleet stationed at North Sea Star had been annihilated. Not only had they lost two Star Gates, but they had also lost three Space Fortresses.
Had two Imperial fleets not rushed in to provide emergency reinforcements at the critical moment and desperately held back the Nether Race's assault, the tens of billions of Imperial citizens in the North Sea Star