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Launching an attack while both Father God and Huron God King, those two super-big shots, were visiting the Empire Zone—I could say with certainty that this was not the Fallen Apostles' intention. All I could say was that fate had played them its cruelest joke: their timing could not have been worse.
The two big shots had practically boarded the Empire Admiral in the mood for a holiday...
Lin Xue's prophecy was soon confirmed. Almost at the same time the Royal Fleet and the massive Empire First Legion set out, intelligence from the frontier worlds reported a large number of high-concentration Abyss Reactions appearing in the void.
It was the Fallen Apostles' army. They would arrive in twenty-four hours.
There was plenty of time. We had at least a dozen hours to establish a new defensive line. That frontier world of the Empire was already heavily guarded, and with the two Imperial ace forces about to arrive, our defenses were enough to handle this crisis. Yet on the way to the front lines, I had a very bad feeling about it.
Of course, I was not surprised by the Fallen Apostles' attack. In fact, ever since we had successfully raided three of their Research Worlds not long ago, we had been prepared to receive the enemy's retaliatory strike at any time. Neither the Fallen Apostles nor the Shilin Apostles could possibly turn a blind eye to an attack like that. As long as Harlan regrouped his forces and received support from other Fallen Apostles, the enemy's retaliation would inevitably come. And now that both sides had already reached each other's homelands, the most likely target of that retaliation would be the borders of the Empire Zone.
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