"What did you say? Gross is dead?"
"How could he be dead?"
"There must be some mistake. Verify the intelligence again, verify it again!"
After hearing Harris's report, Amles nearly broke down.
Ninety percent of the Empire's fleet had been wiped out. Of the thirteen Protector Dark Energy Users publicly known to exist, eleven had died. Even the remaining two had lost their ability to fight and would likely be finished off soon.
With this, what did the Empire have left to fight the Alliance?
Yes, the Empire still had Peak Dark Energy Manipulators who had not been revealed to the public.
But the problem was that there were only three of them in total, and in terms of strength, they were probably only comparable to Willro, who ranked second among the Protector Dark Energy Users. They were still inferior to Trost.
Yet now, even Gross and twelve other Protector Dark Energy Users had failed.
What could the three people he still had do?
Even if they used every stalling tactic available, Amles believed they could delay things for at most two years. It would still be useless.
After all, two years was nowhere near enough for the Empire to recover its strength. Two hundred years would be more like it!
"Your Majesty, I think we can try contacting Galon again."
"Hmm? Explain."
It was not as though Amles had never considered allying with Galon. He had even tried.
But the problem was that ever since Galon received the complete Inherited Memory, he had been deeply resistant to directly intervening in the war.
After all, the Kirin Clan was a guardian clan, not a destructive one.
After understanding this, Amles had never brought up an alliance with Galon again.
However, since Harris had raised it now, he must have had