With a single message, the Silver Heart Civilization reversed the allied forces' strategic disadvantage against the Shadow Alliance and fulfilled the prerequisite for "attacking what the enemy had to save."
And so, the pursuit that had originally targeted the Shadow Alliance's fleeing fleet became a battle to Strike at the Yellow Dragon.
After completing part of their resupply, the allied forces drove their warp speed to the limit and headed straight for the Shadow Alliance's hidden Small Universe.
To keep their Small Universe from being lost, the latter could only hastily initiate the "Escape Plan" and recall the fleet they had originally intended to use to lure the allied forces into pursuit, then transfer through wormhole passages to defeat them one by one. They gathered it back to intercept the incoming allied forces, planning to buy more time for the "Escape Plan."
However, they were still one step too slow—or rather, the Silver Heart Civilization's detection ability was too powerful. It caught them completely off guard and forced them entirely onto the back foot.
The fleet that came to stop the allied forces clearly could not defeat them. In a frontal engagement, the Pudolad Civilization's regular fleet alone could have won, let alone with the Star River and the Pudolad present.
The Shadow Alliance was defeated even faster than they had imagined, and the "Escape Plan" they had hastily activated was also intercepted by the allied forces' outer troops because the Silver Heart Civilization was so well informed.
In the end, by the time the allied fleet reached the starry region where the hidden Small Universe was located, only a little more than seven billion Sub-Civilization Level Transport Ships had escaped from inside. Those had probably been launched by the civilization that had entered the hidden Small Universe first.
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