The sudden change instantly swept away the previous heaviness among the ten Star-Destroyer captains present. Their minds tensed as they once again entered a state of high alert.
However, the final outcome was rather unexpected. Those seventh-rank Serpent Demon overlords had come quickly, but they fled just as fast.
The cold corpses not far behind the Star-Destroyer ships lay plainly before them. These seventh-rank Eight-Armed Serpent Demons were no fools; at a glance, they could tell that the battle had gone badly.
Seeing that even their own eighth-rank Serpent Demon had perished here, while no wreckage of Kindling Civilization Galaxy Warships could be seen nearby, they hesitated only briefly before all the arriving seventh-rank Eight-Armed Serpent Demons fled in unison. Even the Sky Serpent Fleets still pursuing the various fleets in the depths of space received retreat orders one after another.
Billions of kilometers away, the Song-Luo Joint Fleet.
Song Shiyuan's voice rang out over the fleet's highest command channel.
"All Dreadnought captains and battleship captains, heed the order. By command relayed by the inspectors, lead your respective fleets out freely and pursue the fleeing Sky Serpent warship groups in the surrounding area with all your strength!"
"Song Clan First Fleet, acknowledged!"
"Luo Clan First Fleet, acknowledged!"
"Stark Family First Fleet, acknowledged!"
"Philip Family Golden Lion Guard Fleet, acknowledged!"
As the Dreadnoughts and battleships received their orders one after another, the Joint Fleet's tens of millions of warships swiftly split into medium-sized fleets of one hundred thousand or several hundred thousand vessels. Under the command of high-rank warships, they sped off in different directions, beginning their pursuit of the scattered Sky Serpent Fleets fleeing through the surrounding space.
And the Song-Luo Joint Fleet was far from the only one doing this. Every fleet was acting the same way.