It was still the same war conference room, with the same three people: Lin Fan, Altra, and Tarovis.
Unlike the situation on the front lines, none of them looked particularly tense.
After all, the Alliance had yet to deploy its trump card.
"The situation on the main front is not looking good. The Sun River Empire's new fleets are indeed powerful; ordinary fleets are no match for them!"
"Yes. If this were the decisive battlefield, our defeat would basically be sealed!"
After hearing Altra's words, Tarovis nodded in agreement.
Of course, just as Tarovis had said, that was only if this were the decisive battlefield.
"Mm, the Blazing Sun-class Warships are indeed a problem. Fortunately, they are only prototypes, and there aren't many of them."
"But I'm more curious about how the Sun River Empire managed to build tens of billions of Blazing Sun-class Warships."
Tapping the table, Lin Fan spoke.
But clearly, neither Altra nor Tarovis understood what he meant.
"Marshal Lin Fan, what do you mean?"
"In fact, the armor technology used by Blazing Sun-class Warships is called Black Hole Cavity Armor—the technology used by the Federal Black Armor Fleet. However, the Sun River Empire's Black Hole Cavity Armor is incomplete, merely a prototype. But even as prototypes, building tens of billions of Blazing Sun-class Warships would have required at least ten thousand Dark Energy Crystals!"
"Ten thousand? But after the last war of attrition, the Sun River Empire shouldn't have had such a large reserve of Dark Energy Crystals!"
"Exactly. That's why I'm curious where their Dark Energy Crystals came from."
Upon hearing that, Altra began to lose his composure.
He had originally believed that the previous incident had depleted eighty to ninety percent of the Sun River Empire's Dark Energy Crystal reserves. Yet Lin Fan was