Avila's objective was simple: tell the Federation directly that twelve more waves of his fleet were yet to arrive, and that the fleets arriving after that would belong to others—enemies of the Federation!
That way, the Federation would inevitably focus all its firepower and attention on the channel entrance. Once the subsequent fleets of the Third Imperial Guard Legion arrived, they would immediately be drawn into fierce combat.
And that was when Avila's opportunity would come.
That was how it should have gone.
But not long after he had someone deliver the message, the Federation began attacking at full force!
The problem was, their target was not the Fault Channel exit, but Avila's fleet!
There was a warship every one or two hundred meters. With such a dense formation, and with their weapons and defensive systems still shut down—
That single wave of attacks cost Avila several billion warships.
Before Avila could even recover from the shock, the second wave had already arrived. Unlike the previous one, this attack was not launched by warships, but by Civilization Guardians—more than a hundred Black Hole Lifeforms acting together.
Their attacks already caused widespread devastation, and Avila's fleet was now packed together in an utterly unreasonable formation.
It was like cramming more than a hundred people into a ten-square-meter room, then firing a cannon into it.
The Black Hole Cavity Armor had not been activated, and warships filled every inch of the surrounding space. Neither evasion nor escape was possible.
By this point, how could Avila still fail to understand? It was not that the enemy did not know about tactics like false surrender, nor were they simply too stupid to make him shut down his ships' weapons and defense systems—or even gather three hundred billion warships.
This had been a trap from