The Guardian Fleet had long since taken precautions. Three Tongs Space Fortresses were lined up side by side, with all other warships positioned behind them. Even the Sky Wing Army's mobile suits and Mobile Armors that had still been fighting immediately withdrew from the battlefield and took cover with the fleet after the Guardian Fleet fired its signal flares.
The Dion Pirate Group, still in battle, watched as the Sky Wing Army, which had clearly secured the advantage, suddenly withdrew from the battlefield, leaving everyone bewildered.
From an area where the Minov Particles were less dense, Dikla used long-range cameras to spot the Yata Mirror II Battleship. Its upper section, covered in mirror panels like rays of sunlight, appeared to be preparing to fire upon the first wave of the Guardian Fleet and the Meteorite Cluster.
Dikla immediately sent out an emergency transmission, ordering all units to take shelter within the Meteorite Cluster.
However, the Meteorite Cluster was saturated with Minov Particles. Communications were essentially impossible to send or receive, and they did not have the Sky Wing Army's Superconducting Communication.
Dikla could only watch helplessly as the Yata Mirror II Battleship fired the Amaterasu Mirror, consumed by regret and self-reproach.
He hated his own incompetence for getting the warriors who had followed him killed.
The mirror surface of the Yata Mirror II Battleship, wrapped in sunlight-like radiance, began turning toward the Guardian Fleet.
A scorching beam, as hot as the sun, shone upon the Guardian Fleet.
The three Tongs Space Fortresses activated their protective barrier system: Giant's Shield.
The Amaterasu Mirror operated on the same principle as a magnifying glass using sunlight to burn a target.
The Amaterasu Mirror swept across the target from right to left. The blazing light it projected sent ripples spreading across the Giant's Shield.