"Hahahaha! Nicely done! Our mercenaries have successfully infiltrated the enemy's cities and are carrying out large-scale slaughter and destruction!"
"Look! Their fleet formation is starting to fall into chaos. Some of their warships are trying to turn around and rescue the attacked planets."
"Don't hesitate! Stop every warship! Let's crush them in one push and win this war!"
"Charge the main battery arrays immediately! I need a volley to tear open their defenses!"
"Iliad's main batteries are fully charged!"
"Flame's main batteries are fully charged!"
"Endeavour's main batteries are loaded!"
As one warship after another responded to the flagship's orders over the communications channels, the Human Federation fleet's most powerful energy weapons suddenly fell silent for a brief moment.
Only the secondary guns, torpedo tubes, and missile launchers continued firing physical munitions through the enemy fleet's dense interception net.
Most of them exploded under energy-weapon fire, turning into enormous thermonuclear fireballs that illuminated the dark universe.
Yes, you read that right.
Every physical munition used by this expeditionary force was a powerful thermonuclear weapon—hydrogen bombs.
That alone made it obvious that the Human Federation had come to wipe them out completely.
Even top-tier battleships like Victory carried more than one Cyclonic Torpedo.
Should they encounter stubborn resistance or suffer heavy casualties during the offensive, Grant Ward would not hesitate to order the use of those destructive weapons.
After all, the Human Federation had now mastered planetary terraforming technology.
Even if an entire planet's surface was blasted barren, it could be restored through the World Terraforming Engine.
But considering the time and cost involved, it was best not to use it unless necessary.
After all, Mostan civilization had reached a highly advanced stage, even creating superconducting power grids and high-power, low-loss wireless electricity transmission technology.
If a large amount of