The quantum base stations of the interstellar communications network flashed with piercing, high-frequency light in the dark depths of space.
When the top-secret battle report and special announcement from the Spark War Zone High Command, stamped with War Marshal Wang Qingxuan's gilded seal, became billions of invisible data streams and raced outward through the Hyperspace Jump Network,
the vast Spark War Zone was shaken to its soul more violently than at any time since the Human Federation had begun exploring this Star Domain.
The Spark War Zone was an immense and bloody expanse.
It encompassed more than a thousand habitable or strategically valuable planets and stretched across hundreds of thousands of light-years.
Throughout that vast sea of stars, the Human Federation had spent centuries locked in brutal struggle with the Abyssal Zerg, the Silicon-based Alliance, and countless Ancient Star Beasts.
A century of defense. A century in a meat grinder.
The soil on almost every frontline planet had been stained dark red by the blood of human soldiers and alien foes.
Thousands upon thousands of Federation fleets had been reduced to dust in the dark reaches of space. Countless lives that had once burned bright had become numbers etched into cold Theater memorials.
For ordinary soldiers and junior officers, "hold the line," "endure," and "pile bodies into the defenses" seemed to have become the eternal, hopeless refrain of the Spark War Zone.
But on this day, that dirge was severed by an aurora that seemed to split the heavens!
"Latest battle report! A crushing victory on Abyss Pole Star! Jiang Yue, commander of the Star-Fixing Fleet, broke through to Level 5 Grandmaster in the heat of battle!"
"Millions of elite alien troops in Abyss Pole Star's northern region have been annihilated! Our entire force has returned safely, laden with spoils!"