Inside the mobile Imperial Palace.
The minister in charge of intelligence continuously reported their analysis to Toreya.
Especially when Toreya heard that the Heretics' individual Combat Vehicles might be capable of boosting the combat power of Black Hole Lifeforms, his eyes immediately widened.
Indeed, during a previous exchange among the Seventeen Divine Envoys, he had heard the divine envoy of the Xilbeila Empire mention that during the last holy war, the Heretics had used these strange individual Combat Vehicles, which had likewise enhanced combat power.
Wasn't that exactly the same as the current situation?
Still, surprised as he was, Toreya was not worried.
After all, the Heretics had only a little over a million Black Hole Lifeforms, while the Empire still had over three million.
Most importantly, Toreya himself was a Sixth Tier powerhouse. As long as no one among the Heretics had reached the Sixth Tier, Toreya had nothing to fear.
One had to know that the gap between the Fifth Tier and Sixth Tier was truly like an insurmountable chasm.
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Very soon, the battle entered its sixtieth hour.
The Imperial fleet at the front once again matched the Alliance Fleet at the second defensive line in numbers, while the five Chaos Ray Carriers the Federation had deployed there had also completed charging.
The critical situation that occurred once every twelve hours was about to unfold once more.
After a day and a half of fighting, the second defensive line, which had originally contained seven hundred legions, had lost nearly three hundred. Only 428 legions remained.
Meanwhile, the Noreya Empire had also recovered to a force of 410 legions.
If the battle continued, it would become a war of attrition, which held no meaning for the Alliance.
Therefore, they either had to retreat to the third defensive line