The battlefield's Left Route.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Thousands of cannons fired at once. Brilliant beams of death crisscrossed, setting off dazzling fireworks among the opposing fleets.
After three exchanges of fire, both sides' aerial combat units joined the fray. Mecha darted across the Center of the Battlefield, fighters roared past, and successive explosions lit up the entire starfield.
"The enemy's frontal firepower is too heavy! We need support!"
"Get up there! Anyone with shields left, get up there!"
"Brothers in the Mecha Forces, step it up! Charge! Break through and disrupt their formation! We outnumber them-bury them in bodies!"
"Keep that supporting fire coming from the rear! Suppress their coordinated volleys, or we're all dead!"
"Rock Planet's riches are still waiting for me! I'm going to survive and feast on meat and booze! You want me dead? I'll kill you first!"
"..."
Compared with the one-sided battle on the Right Route, the fighting on the Left Route was far more brutal.
Kloros's side wanted a swift victory before complications arose, so they launched an all-out offensive from the outset.
The pirates, meanwhile, had simply been backed into a corner. Either they held off this offensive until the forces on the Right Route finished their battle and came to reinforce them, or they died. Their resistance was therefore far more tenacious than expected.
"What the hell is wrong with these damned pirates?" Kloros looked grim.
He had already stationed Dark Shadow in a concealed ambush along the route leading to the Right Route battlefield.
If Ghost Captain tried to escape using the Vector Engine's exceptional mobility, Dark Shadow would show him that the title of Shattered Star's Top Assassin was no empty boast.
Yet, unexpectedly, the enemy refused to play by the usual rules.
Whatever method the enemy had used, these