At that moment, the Empire's Second Prince was watching footage of a battle.
"What is that?"
"It's so fast. Is it a stray meteorite?"
"Whatever it is, shoot it down!"
"It dodged! This is bad-it's an enemy! Battle stations!"
"That maneuvering pattern... how is that possible?!"
"It's closing in! No-boom! Boom, boom, boom!"
"The outer fleet is under attack! Lock onto the enemy, now!"
"We can't! Its flight path completely defies the laws of physics! Damn it! It's broken into our formation!"
"Don't panic. There's only one enemy. Deploy everything and block every possible route!"
"Watch out, it's launched a group of carrier craft! Uh... what are those?"
"What the hell?! How can there be so many Legendary Mecha?!"
"Boom, boom, boom!"
"The flagship's finished... retreat! Retreat, now!"
"..."
On-screen, an enormous fleet of over fifteen hundred ships in a disciplined formation descended into chaos, then fell apart and scattered in less than half an hour.
And the culprit behind it all was nothing more than a gigantic warship with a rather unconventional design...
The Second Prince watched calmly until the video ended, then rewound it and watched again.
High-speed approaches, erratic evasions, zigzagging runs, weaving attacks...
That ghostlike silhouette moved as though nothing stood in its way, its uncanny flight path allowing it to come and go freely amid the entire armada.
Then came the mass of Legendary Mecha, striking from within and breaking through key points, swiftly dismantling the entire fleet's will to resist with the precision of a master butcher carving up an ox.
The fleet's combat recordings were exceptionally clear. Combined with the AI Core's subsequent compositing and editing, they provided an almost complete, vivid reconstruction of the battle.
"The All Things Unity Society..."
As he carefully mulled over those two names, the Second Prince's expression