Because the battlefield situation had not developed according to the Pudolad Civilization's expectations, the Pudolad Civilization had no choice but to change its original plan and transfer over the fleet they had originally intended to use for a surprise attack on the Silver Heart Civilization's headquarters from their main civilization to provide support.
They still had ten billion warships there. They mobilized eight billion of them, while the remaining two billion escorted their main civilization away from the Main Battlefield region and into a Small Universe they had opened up in earlier years, where they hid.
Of course, to earn the Silver Heart Civilization's trust, they allowed Silver Heart Civilization probes to follow them. Conversely, the Silver Heart Civilization's main body did the same, with Pudolad Civilization probes following them as well.
Back to the matter at hand: the Pudolad Civilization had originally planned to work together with the Silver Heart Civilization, using a joint fleet to defeat the thirteen civilizations of the Shadow Alliance one by one, because according to the information they had detected, the thirteen civilizations of the Shadow Alliance were hiding in their respective Small Universes.
Unfortunately, their brazen actions provoked the still rather hot-blooded Shadow Alliance into resisting, and thus this large-scale fleet decisive battle came about.
For this reason, the Silver Heart Civilization had specifically transferred over the warships newly produced in recent years, and the civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization operating alongside the Silver Heart Civilization did the same.
However, because there had not been much time, and because they had suffered some losses in the previous war against the Shadow Alliance's vanguard fleet, even after replenishment, the total number of warships in the fleet led by the Silver Heart Civilization was only ten billion.
The eight civilizations on the Silver Heart