After the battle ended, all that remained were countless steel wrecks and a ravaged landscape.
After its series of precision strikes, the red ring around the laser disc had grown very dim. It began descending, returning to the Winged Race's base to replenish its energy...
Earth Defense Force virtual command room.
Everyone stared blankly as the green dots representing their forces vanished from the battlefield display like leaves swept away by an autumn wind. In the end, not a single one remained, filling them with shock and dejection.
They had thought there would at least be some back-and-forth fighting. Instead, the enemy had wiped them out in a single encounter.
"So this is an interstellar civilization's defensive weapon? What terrifying target acquisition and precision strikes..." Yuri murmured, staring dazedly at the final images from the battlefield.
Thinking of all the organizing and preparation countless people had put in over the past month or more, he felt a helplessness that told him he could never defeat this opponent, no matter how hard he tried.
"We were prepared to fail, but a gap in strength this vast really does make you despair!" Schneider shook his head and sighed.
"There's no need to be so pessimistic, everyone. At least we've partly achieved our goal of probing their bases. From the very beginning, the key to winning this battle never lay with us..." General Hu said.
"True. I don't understand why the Gemini Civilization, with all its technological might, wants to take its time fighting a planetary war against us, but now... all we can do is put our hopes in him..."
The Sea Wolf's bridge.
"Now that's some good stuff!" Nie Yun showed no heartache whatsoever over the tens of thousands of troops he had just lost. Instead, his eyes shone