After the final battle in this world ended, the Empire Fleet naturally had to return home. To be honest, the losses we suffered in this battle were enormous. Although, in this individual battle, the Fallen Apostles seemed to have suffered even heavier losses, looking at the bigger picture, the Empire, whose military strength was currently limited, had probably been more badly weakened. The Leader Bee had saved the lives of most soldiers, but our warships—especially the special warships that could not be mass-produced—had suffered devastating losses. For a civilization like the Empire, whose fundamental hard power lay in its space warships, losing entire warship formations was the most Injured to the Bone thing imaginable.
Therefore, after clearing the battlefield, the Empire Fleet and Vengeance Fleet, which had suffered the heaviest damage in this battle, immediately set off and returned to the Capital World ahead of the others. All starports had received orders to begin full-scale repair work on these battered behemoths. Meanwhile, the Empire Admiral and First Fleet remained behind temporarily, as we still had to arrange for the native inhabitants of this world.
The Ruins World could no longer support life. With the collapse of the Holy Treasury, the last planet among the other Ruins Worlds that could still produce survival resources had vanished into nothingness. This place had completely lost the foundation needed to sustain life. Moreover, due to the fierce battle, this space had become severely unstable. Over the past three hours, the sea of Psionic Storms at the World's Edge had expanded inward by ten percent. Tawell speculated that this might have been caused by damage to the World Barrier, allowing psionic energy to be pressed inward by the void.
Tawell now had a vague mathematical model of this world's underlying structure. It was not very