Plante's expression was so grim because the war had not developed as he had expected.
According to his original plan, the garrison inside the base only needed to do one thing—hold out for three hours.
Reinforcements would arrive in three hours. Once a fresh Skrull god-level force joined the battle, the tide of war would immediately turn!
But judging by the current situation, the base would likely be breached before it could last three hours. That was why his face looked so terrible.
To enable the garrison to hold out for three hours, the Skrull Expeditionary Force had made extensive preparations beforehand.
At present, the base had three Tier 7 cultivators and as many as fifty Tier 6 cultivators.
The base's various defensive facilities—such as antimatter railguns, laser beam generators, psionic beam emitters, and so on—had been charging for a long time and could unleash their maximum destructive power.
Lanqi had calculated that if they spared no cost and pushed every defensive facility to maximum output, the base could absolutely hold out for three hours.
But who could have known that the Blue Star Humans would be this overwhelmingly fierce?
The overall strength of the Blue Star Cultivators this time had multiplied severalfold compared to last time.
The last time the Blue Star Cultivators attacked the spring was about two months ago. Aside from Chancellor Cao, they had only five Tier 7s and a mere thirty or forty Tier 6s.
But this time, Blue Star had as many as nine Tier 7s. Cat Morning Star, Su Yu, and Alijeh were all peak Tier 7, while there were more than two hundred Tier 6 cultivators!
Moreover, the morale of the Blue Star Tier 6 cultivators was exceptionally high. On one hand, they had been enraged by Plante's attempt to sow discord