Now that Jaeger Sobeck had become a general, he had no idea that once fate's gifts got rolling, they always seemed to chase after him and feed him. At the moment, he was carrying out his first proper military assignment since finishing his recuperation. He commanded an escort fleet of twelve small and medium-sized warships, with the Blizzard as its flagship, escorting a supply fleet of eight large freighters to the front lines at the "Devil's Throat."
The eight large freighters included two Ancient-class vessels that looked like cities in space. They carried enough supplies to sustain ten million troops at the front for a month, making this one of the largest escort fleets sent to the front in recent times.
Commodore Sobeck immediately felt the weight of his responsibility, but he still accepted the order calmly. After all, he had witnessed the War God Festival, the great battle in the Extreme Frontier Star Region, and the Enlighteners' war puppets. In terms of the "high-quality dungeons" he had experienced, he was leagues ahead of most of his fellow knights. When someone had endured too much pain for a mere mortal to bear, even a natural-born coward stopped taking ordinary pressure seriously. That was perfectly reasonable, really.
The journey had been smooth enough. However, when the transport fleet left the borders of the Empire's New Continent, deviated from the New Continent Highway, entered the Devil Star Region route, and reached the Empire's forward base in the DL02 system, a minor incident occurred.
It wasn't that they had encountered the enemy. Rather, they came across more than a dozen transport ships that had barely retreated from the front. The unlucky ships had been attacked by marauders just after entering the supply route through the Devil's Labyrinth. Their ships and cargo hadn't been