The first to withdraw from the fighting on the frontlines was the Invasion Legion from Evil Swamp Time-Space.
The two sides had initially erupted into extraordinarily fierce head-on battles across five star sectors. The flames of war stretched on, starship wreckage carpeted the entire starfield, and energy shockwaves even warped the surrounding space-time barriers.
Yet after the fierce fighting had continued for a long time, the Invasion Legion from Evil Swamp Time-Space had still found it difficult to make any substantive advance. Every inch of star sector had to be fought over at a painful cost, and the casualty figures kept climbing.
Moreover, Heavenly Wing Demon Lord, Agulos, and the other Evil Swamp Time-Space powerhouses had shown no intention whatsoever of stepping in to help from beginning to end. They had merely stood by and watched as the battlefield situation changed.
Seeing this, Blue-eyed Octopus deeply knew that continuing the stalemate would only add to the casualties, with no hope of breaking through Mechanical Civilization's defensive line. He therefore gave the order first, commanding the Time-Space Legion under his command to withdraw from one of the fiercest frontline star sectors among the five battlefields.
As soon as Blue-eyed Octopus withdrew his forces, Gnome Lizard, who had led troops here alongside him, immediately understood. He swiftly recalled one of his Elite Legions as well, no longer continuing to drain his strength on that battlefield.
With these Evil Swamp Time-Space Invaders deliberately avoiding battle and proactively contracting their defensive lines, the first direct clash between Mechanical Civilization and Evil Swamp Time-Space's two Level-12 Beings—Blue-eyed Octopus and Gnome Lizard—temporarily came to an end, at the cost of Evil Swamp Time-Space voluntarily abandoning two vast frontline star sectors.
After the fiercest fighting had temporarily come to an end, however, the situation did not