Heading (Part 1)
Levik planet, capital of the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium, Kriyak Palace Command Center.
Gunfire and explosions were clearly audible even inside the command center, and tension permeated every corner. Just moments ago, those damned invaders had organized five transport ships for a forced landing assault, but the Xilu Imperial Guard had driven them back.
Yet the fighting so close at hand still left every senior official in the command center trembling with fear.
"Damn it! Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it!!" Great Xirithut cursed loudly in Xilu slang, hurling everything within reach. His forces were suffering an unprecedented blow. "Where are my troops!? Where are my troops!?!? Where is Uroka's Seventh Battle Group?! Tell them to reinforce us immediately!!"
"Your Majesty, General Uroka's Seventh Battle Group was bombed while assembling... their current status... is unknown..." a staff officer beside him said quietly with his head lowered, raising a hand to point at the sky.
Through the smoke-filled sky, the colossal warship in near-Earth orbit remained clearly visible. That giant vessel, with its terrifying firepower and terrifying jump technology, now hovered in near-Earth orbit. Countless ultra-high-powered searchlights aboard it shone down upon the ground, like a gigantic demon suspended in the sky.
"Then drag all those green-skin troops in here!" Great Xirithut was referring to the forces built primarily from green-skinned Xilu people. The Ssi-ruuvi Imperium maintained more than eighteen million of them.
These green-skin forces naturally could not compare to the Red Caste troops in combat power, but at this critical moment, Great Xirithut had no choice but to place his hopes on them. Even though the Chief of Staff repeatedly reminded him that withdrawing from Kriyak Palace was the wise choice, before General Lepix's main fleet returned, they had to do everything possible to prevent the