All warship weapons had been preheated, and the entire defensive line was in a state of extreme tension. Those few minutes felt as long as several centuries, almost suffocating everyone.
"It's coming out!"
Inside the Command Center, Lumbard tensed up at the shout, his eyes locked tightly on the surveillance feed before him.
In the next instant, a circular object shot out of the Current Mouth. From its appearance alone, it was impossible to determine what it was.
It was roughly the size of an ordinary orbital Assault Ship, but its surface was unusually smooth and flat. It really looked like nothing more than a giant iron ball!
"What do you see? Can you scan what that thing is?"
"No, Commander. Some kind of special energy seems to be blocking every form of our scans. We simply can't determine what it is!"
The soldier responsible for scanning shook his head as he answered.
This gave Lumbard a very bad feeling.
With the ceasefire agreement guaranteed by a Super Civilization, the White Tiger Empire should not have dared to act rashly. But what if they did?
"Commander, we've detected a strange energy fluctuation coming from the unknown object, and it's spreading rapidly!"
"No more waiting. Notify the fleets on the defensive line to attack immediately and destroy it!"
"Yes, Commander!"
That thing was simply too abnormal. To ensure nothing went wrong with the defensive line, Lumbard decided to destroy it at once, lest he regret it when something truly happened.
However, he did not know that if he had ordered the fleet to destroy it the instant it appeared, there would still have been time. But now—
it was already too late!
After the frontline Fleet Commander received the order, he did not hesitate in the slightest and immediately gave the