In the bridge command hall of the Empire Admiral, the warnings of system overload grew more urgent by the second. Red alert flashes flickered across eighty percent of the Information Terminals. The Shipboard Mainframe was already operating at full power, while commanders' rapid reports and the even more overwhelming shared information flooding through the mental link filled the vast command center. Everything pointed to one fact: the battle situation was worsening.
The outer barrier of this space had actually been reset—and by the Fallen Apostles at that. This utterly incomprehensible development immediately cut off our reinforcements. From the very beginning, the main force of the Empire Fleet and the large number of Minion Army fleets accompanying it had been ordered to remain outside this Ruins World. We had established a base in the Void Domain near this world, and the vast majority of the fleet was stationed there. When the battle suddenly broke out, PL-15, who was inside the Ruins World, immediately teleported in the First and Second Fleets of his Vengeance Fleet, along with half the Royal Fleet and part of the Empire's regular forces. Yet no one had expected that just as more Empire Fleets were preparing to rush in and join the fight, this space would suddenly seal itself off.
We had mentioned from the start that the Ruins World was a very strange space. Outside it was a grid-like membrane similar to a World Barrier, separating the orderly region within from the Void outside. We had entered this space by passing through that membrane. At the time, it had been as good as nonexistent to Empire ships. Though its structure was mysterious, there had been no evidence that it could interfere with navigation equipment produced by Shilin Technology. Yet a few minutes ago, the membrane's properties