(Please vote... Hmm, the fourth isn't too late, right?)
"Perhaps Barrian has a trump card up his sleeve." Tula Zo seemed to hesitate before speaking just as we were about to leave. Sandora looked into his eyes. "Oh? Why are you only mentioning this now?"
"Because I'm not at all certain it's real. This is basically all speculation." Tula Zo stood and paced anxiously in front of the desk. "Barrian had entertained ideas about those things more than once, but because of an insurmountable technical barrier, our scientists never succeeded. But so many years have passed now. I'm not sure whether Barrian has found a way to activate them..."
"Activate 'them'?" Sandora narrowed her eyes slightly, as if something had occurred to her. "You mean..."
"An Empire Fleet—a Magic Energy Starship Squadron under the jurisdiction of an entire Imperial Royal Guard." Tula Zo abruptly stopped pacing and revealed something truly astonishing. "Barrian has a fully organized starship squadron composed entirely of powerful specially outfitted warships!"
"What..." I was instantly dumbfounded. "Holy crap! How could he have that?! Where did you get... Wait, could that force have been from the Fifteenth Celestial Region back then..."
"That's right." Tula Zo exhaled and slumped into his broad chair. "It was the fleet the Emperor brought out of the Fifteenth Celestial Region during her final expedition. Every Royal Guard ship was preserved, and they are now in Barrian's hands. But aside from the navigation systems, we have never successfully activated any of their other functions."
"How large is this force?" Sandora immediately asked. This was what concerned us most right now: the Merova People actually possessed such a fleet? If this force truly existed and Barrian had successfully unlocked it, then all our battle plans would have to be revised. The Empire Army had