To be honest, the old Royal Fleet under Barrian's control possessed considerable combat power. It could even be said that all the regular Merrowa forces we had destroyed so far combined were no match for this antique fleet. The Judgment Throne, with its bizarre defenses and ability to reflect damage at any time; the Radiant Halo, capable of instantly killing anything in the material world once activated; and the vast number of support vessels—once these antiques from the Old Empire unleashed their full power, they were enough to contend with our Royal Fleet and the Third Legion. Barrian's confidence and arrogance had not come from nowhere. If nothing unexpected happened, he really did have the capital to be arrogant.
Yet the only unexpected thing was this: in order to control these starships, Barrian had installed a control system with a fatal weakness. The "mainframe" formed from a matrix of human brains had its thoughts imprisoned, but it was still an ideal target for the Yulaxis Imperial Authority's mind control. Barrian clearly knew very little about things like mind control. One only had to see how he still relied on nerve agents and brainwashing education to maintain his rule. He understood almost nothing about mind control, so he could never have imagined that there was such a powerful unit capable of controlling an entire Royal Fleet on the battlefield.
I even felt that he still had not figured out what had caused the rebellions on those slave planets. In his eyes, the uprisings of those slaves must have been utterly inexplicable.
The Yulaxis Imperial Authority did not react at all to the enemy ships' attacks. Their attacks were actually very powerful, but the Glory Starship's defenses were strong enough to withstand them for a long time. That was already more than