The Pudolad Civilization's flagship, the Pudolad, had vanished completely. Because of their arrogance—and because the Lyra had moved far too quickly—the Pudolad aboard it had not even managed to report their situation to Civilization Headquarters before they were hit.
But their Civilization Headquarters was not stupid, either. Because of Quantum Entanglement communications, they discovered the Pudolad had lost contact not long after it disappeared. But as a civilization that roamed the sea of stars, their first reaction was disbelief.
Until they saw a fleet appear under their detectors' scans.
That fleet had an extremely uniform shape. Its numbers were only around 1.7 or 1.8 billion, and it did not look like it had much combat power.
The fleet left guarding the Pudolad Civilization Headquarters had far more warships than that. With the original ships left behind plus the New Warships produced later, their numbers had reached more than 11 billion—almost six times the newcomers.
With the flagship out of contact, command naturally fell into the hands of the fleet's highest Commander.
Facing a fleet of only 1.7 or 1.8 billion ships, the Commander was not afraid. He was very confident in his own fleet's combat strength. Of course, he also knew the arrivals had no friendly intentions.
Therefore, after discovering that the fleet was heading straight for his Civilization Main Body, the Commander wasted no words. With a direct order, he intended to teach this fleet a lesson before asking any questions.
Years of life on The Great Voyage had taught him that if he wanted this kind of suddenly appearing fleet to answer questions obediently, he had to hit them first. Only after they were hurt would they behave.
The Pudolad Civilization had always fought the many with the few. Now that they suddenly had the chance to fight