In just a few short hours, a piece of major breaking news spread through every street and alley of Mid-Gard.
Mid-Gard's strongest trump card, the Golden Fleet, had been destroyed!
At first, people assumed it was some kind of joke, or fake news broadcast by an anchor who had taken the wrong medication. But as footage was released and media reports followed, more and more people learned the truth.
The Time-Space Administration Bureau had dispatched a fleet to an unmanaged world to apprehend a criminal. However, without authorization, it had invaded the territory of another mysterious force. After its warnings were ignored, that mysterious force's military attacked the Bureau's fleet. Unable to withstand the assault, the Time-Space Administration Bureau fleet retreated and called for reinforcements.
As more and more Dimensional Warships joined the battle, the conflict steadily escalated. In the end, the Time-Space Administration Bureau had no choice but to dispatch the Golden Fleet to rescue the Dimensional Fleet trapped on the battlefield.
However... they had been wiped out in one fell swoop.
Although the other side did not continue attacking the Time-Space Administration Bureau after crushing the Golden Fleet, allowing the remaining Dimensional Warships to escape the battlefield, the matter was far from over.
For just as those surviving warships finally returned to Mid-Gard through the dimensional tunnel, they discovered in horror that the mysterious force's fleet had appeared not far behind them!
And now, that mysterious fleet was advancing toward Mid-Gard's capital—Mid!
"What do we do now?!"
At that moment, the Time-Space Administration Bureau was in utter chaos. Ever since news of the Golden Fleet's destruction arrived, the Bureau's upper ranks had plunged into the abyss of despair and fear. When they learned that the mysterious fleet had followed their surviving warships to Mid-Gard, those higher-ups were left