Because the Empire was now short on main fleets, and nearly all of them had been deployed around the imperial capital for its defense, only local fleets remained stationed along the borders.
They collapsed almost at the first touch. In less than three days, the four universes near Speight had all fallen.
Along with them, a full twelve local fleets had been destroyed.
One had to know that the Teli Empire currently had only five Main Legions and thirty-two local legions in total.
Twelve legions, even if they were only local legions, were still enough to seriously wound the Teli Empire.
If this had merely been a punitive battle, then it could have ended there.
But unfortunately, what Lin Fan intended to fight was not a punitive war, but a true Civilization Destruction War.
After taking those four universes near Speight, the Alliance Fleet did not pause for even a moment. It split directly into eight forces and spread outward in all directions.
For this expedition, the Federation had supplied the Alliance punitive fleet with every Black Hole Cavity Teleportation Device manufactured over the past three years.
It was precisely because of this that Lin Fan had boldly adopted a divided-force strategy, splitting the fleet into eight groups at once.
Even if the Teli Empire and White Church tried anything against one Alliance fleet, the other seven could rapidly redeploy or provide support through black hole cavity teleportation.
For a time, panic spread through most of the Empire.
Why most of it, rather than the entire Empire?
That had to do with the White Church's missionary experience accumulated over hundreds of millions of years. It was truly formidable.
In less than a century, it had already converted more than one-third of the Empire's population into devout believers, including quite a