"Prepare to fire!" Hal shouted from the rear of a Green Lantern ship. "All units, pay attention—don't hold back! We must suppress them with full shipboard firepower before closing in. Focus on their shields. I repeat, don't hold back, don't hold back!"
He did not need to say it. The Green Lanterns would not go easy on them anyway. Come on, those were Sorcerer Supremes! The Doctor Stranges had been highly active in Battleworld. Many of the Green Lanterns had encountered them before and gotten beaten up plenty of times. No one would show mercy now. If the barrage failed to cover them properly, they would be the ones dying.
Very soon, the Green Lantern fleet spread out and slowly encircled the mages defending themselves around the outpost. Every ship's cannon warmed up. Once charging was complete, countless green beams blanketed the battlefield like a spiderweb.
That strike completely stunned the Doctor Stranges.
They had expected to be attacked, but the kind of attack they had imagined was more like a medieval duel: a group of people rushed in, then everyone fought one opponent. No one had told them this had evolved into interstellar warfare!
It was not entirely their fault. The one with genuine experience in cosmic warfare was his teacher, the Ancient One. In most universes, after Stephen Strange became the Sorcerer Supreme, humanity's defensive perimeter was basically limited to Earth. Doctor Strange generally did not stir up trouble in space. Even if he occasionally crossed paths with the Three Great Empires, they would not be foolish enough to attack him first. Even if they did, the cannons of conventionally powered ships posed little threat to him.
But Green Lantern ships were different. This was genuine Emotional Spectrum energy, equivalent to bombarding them at full force with the