A Way
Naza, Yuzes, Ingram, Basak, Luo, Graham, and Nalo, who had been temporarily reassigned to the Jeffrey Squad, were notified to head to the bridge as soon as they boarded the warship. Together with Ozma's Combat Squad, their arrival immediately made the bridge truly lively.
As the captain of this ship and the commander of this operation, Jeffrey waited until everyone had entered the bridge before speaking. Everyone else remained silent, waiting for his instructions.
Once everyone had arrived, Jeffrey, who had been biting on his pipe the whole time, finally spoke. "Half an hour. The Harow Robots and Super AI maintenance robots will need roughly half an hour to inspect and maintain your units. We will depart in half an hour and head directly to Mars via FOLD Jump, so we need to work out the combat arrangements within that time."
"Previous investigations have already confirmed the location of the Mars nest. However, the nest's core lies deep underground, and we cannot determine the nest mind's exact location. Therefore, launching conventional combat and attacks from the Outside World will not have much effect if we want to destroy this nest. Reaction Missiles are useless as well."
"Either we charge in, find the mind, and destroy it; erase the area layer by layer from outside with an MDE Bomb; or use the Dimension Devourer to swallow that entire region outright. Those are roughly the three options available to us."
Everyone fell silent for a moment after hearing Jeffrey's words. Naza, Yuzes, and Ingram were not especially familiar with Jeffrey, so none of them spoke. Ozma, however, did not care about such things and said directly, "The first option won't work. There are definitely even more BETA on Mars than the ones we encountered just now."
"Even if there aren't