Battle of Vilsert (22)

At the Current Mouth in Heres, the bombardment had not stopped for the past three days, not even for a second.

Almost every moment, large numbers of Silas Empire warships were being destroyed, yet even more warships continued flying out from the current.

But at this moment, something entirely different emerged from the current—not a warship, but a war star.

A powerful war star armed to the teeth!

"What exactly is going on? Where has our fleet gone? And who is attacking us?"

As a first-rank general of the Silas Empire, Selter was on the verge of breaking down.

After all, communication between the inside and outside of the current was impossible, so he had no idea what had happened at the current's exit these past days.

Originally, he had expected that by the time he arrived, the fleets serving as the vanguard would have long since cleared out the Current Mouth and the surrounding star domains.

There had been more than a hundred standard Imperial fleets in the vanguard—hundreds of billions, nearly a trillion warships in total.

More importantly, those hundred-plus standard Imperial fleets had all belonged to a Ninth Order Civilization, while according to intelligence, their opponents were merely a seventh-order Biological Civilization and an Eighth Order Technological Civilization.

But what was this situation now?

The only things he could see upon emerging were nearly ten million warships desperately maintaining their formation and counterattacking from time to time, while all around them...

Were wreckage and fragments of warships everywhere.

Yet Selter could still recognize from those wrecks that they were all Imperial warships!

That left him dumbfounded, but it also ignited boundless fury within him.

This had been a full one hundred and twenty-five standard Imperial fleets! After enduring prolonged internal strife, the Silas Empire only had a