The enemy quickly adjusted its tactics and began gathering by region. The Wine Flag Stars among the Star's Shadows opened triangular light platforms one after another in the void, and the Benevolent Lords entered their respective light platforms in formation, then vanished without a trace.
A tactical retreat?
The Messenger immediately realized something was wrong.
The Star's Shadow cluster showed no sign of falling back.
They were spatial tunnels. They meant to pass through the defense zone and enter the world on this side.
Sure enough, the Messenger saw the figures of Benevolent Lords in the Inner Layer void near the Resurrection Kingdom. Like fish diving in through space, they were rapidly closing in on this side.
The Star Orbit's objective was to destroy the Resurrection Kingdom and the surrounding Yao Clan Worlds.
The Messenger said in a panic, "We should retreat. If we don't leave now, it'll be too late!"
Mao Cao stared at the smoke-yellowed sky, a strange expression on his face.
"Too few... Too few have come. The enemy is very cautious."
The Messenger noticed that the Benevolent Lords had encountered a kind of large Yao Clan warship in the Inner Layer space.
It was the first time the Messenger had seen this kind of warship. They were made up of countless bubbles, their surfaces reflective, making it impossible to peer into their interior. Those small Flying Boats from earlier had flown out of these bubble-shaped warships, like tiny flying insects breaking away from a Mother Nest.
Yet these seemingly unremarkable little flying insects made the Benevolent Lords suffer and proved difficult to deal with.
The Benevolent Lords quickly launched Self-Destruct attacks against the bubble-shaped warships, but the wide-range spatial contractions they created were actually completely unable to suck in these few warships.
The flagships only swayed