When Ronan's consciousness rolled out of the test scenario, his face was still burning.
He could not help feeling embarrassed. This offline test had ended in swift failure in a manner that could only be called humiliating.
This time, Ronan had been dropped directly into a highly typical interstellar battlefield.
According to the background information, this was still the Han Guang Star System after the Calamity Era, in a large-scale campaign targeting the "Red Wheel Rift."
The main battlefield was astonishingly vast and had already entered a decisive phase.
But Ronan's initial assignment was not particularly intense.
Within the test scenario, Ronan served as the major commanding a supply ship.
He was in a support position, still some distance from both the main battlefield and the various Outer Battlefields. He should not have made a fool of himself.
But a test was a test, and tests had difficulty levels—especially an offline test, whose difficulty had been raised by an additional tier.
After entering the test scenario, Ronan faced an almost perfect enemy ambush.
Driven mad by Evil Poison infection, Magneto-Optical Mica used near-suicidal means to forcibly breach the Local Universe Barrier, opening a temporary "Star Gate" to the outside. Countless Extraterritorial Species troops poured out, cutting into the junction between the Outer Battlefield and the main battlefield and throwing the battle into chaos.
Ronan's supply ship, along with several other support vessels, had been constructing a wartime factory within an Asteroid Belt. They were hit first. The Extraterritorial Species army had come specifically for this place, intending to "activate" the entire Asteroid Belt and turn it into the crucial move that would sever the inner and outer battlefields.
The situation was extremely unfavorable, but it was not hopeless.
The wartime factory had a guarding fleet, damaged warships under repair that