Battle of Vilsert (28)

Somewhere in the Neumann System, First Main Arm.

This was the place Lin Fan had designated as the sixteenth backup location, and where the seven Nether Legions were hiding.

The unique nebular environment made this an excellent hiding place, nearly impossible to detect.

"How much of the fleet assembly has been completed?"

"97% complete, Commander!"

"Mm. The closer we get to the end, the more careful we need to be. Notify all attack groups: I'd rather they move slower than draw even the slightest attention from the Zerg!"

"Yes, understood!"

After speaking, Lin Yu walked to the bridge viewport and watched as one azure-glowing hyperspace passage after another appeared in the void. Almost every second, warships were being quietly transferred here from the ten attack groups.

To avoid alerting the Zerg, every attack group fighting in Neumann had been secretly redeploying ships bit by bit. Each time, only a few hundred, at most a thousand, warships quietly departed. Within a fleet of five billion vessels, such numbers were negligible and would hardly attract anyone's notice.

Between the First Main Arm and the Second Main Arm lay the Lombard Arm.

It was an utterly inconspicuous branch arm, only a little over eight thousand light-years long.

Yet at this moment, all of the Zerg's high-end forces had gathered here. Besides Aliya, there were fourteen Emperor Bugs and a large number of high-level Zerg war bugs.

This force might not have amounted to much against the Federation as it now stood, but compared to a single Federal attack group, it was unquestionably much stronger.

At one location within the branch arm, Aliya, who had been asleep for four full days, finally opened her eyes.

Although she had suffered considerable injuries this time, it was not entirely a bad thing for Aliya. Upon