The Advance

The Swarm and the Star Sea Alliance are amassing more and more forces on the front lines, but the Swarm has not shown any intention to attack, which has left the Alliance somewhat puzzled.

The representative of the Locke Mutual Aid Society, who knew the Zerg very well, had recently fallen ill and, after resting for a few days, had become somewhat taciturn. According to him, the Zerg were not making any moves, and he couldn't analyze anything.

It's perfectly reasonable and leaves no room for criticism, because no one else can analyze it either. It would be rather strange if he could analyze it himself.

However, the Alliance wasn't concerned about this prolonged stalemate; the longer it dragged on, the more troops they could replenish. Furthermore, the number of advanced civilizations arriving later would increase significantly.

If this drags on for a few more years, the Zerg might be wiped out in one fell swoop and sent back to their starting point.

The Zerg, on the other hand, weren't too concerned about attacking. The Star Sea Alliance's territory was both difficult to conquer and would divert their forces. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Swarm territory, in the outermost ring, countless unclaimed star systems awaited the Swarm's conquest.

Although the Swarm has only occupied a little over twenty star systems in the Star Sea Alliance, the number of Swarm systems within its territory in this star field is already close to two hundred. This is all thanks to the Seed Project in previous years.

Moreover, this is only one branch base. Since Rowan mastered the long-distance warp technology, he has teleported Anchor Unit more than 20 times, and more than 10 Anchor Unit have successfully settled in.

Given time, each of them could grow to the size of Swarm in the Origin Star Domain.

Therefore, Rowan's current thoughts are very simple: he doesn't want anything from the Star Sea Alliance, he just wants to fight. But such a pure purpose is hard to believe if spoken aloud. Therefore, it's normal that the Coalition Army forces can't figure out what the Swarm are thinking.

Fifty-five years into the New Era, the two sides have been locked in a stalemate for more than five years. For many years, apart from small-scale skirmishes between reconnaissance units, the two sides have been largely at peace, but the number of troops amassed on the front lines has been increasing.

On the Alliance side, the number of races in the Coalition Army has reached 91, nearly half of all the Alliance members. On the Zerg side, the brightness of the stars in the star systems adjacent to the battle lines has also decreased by several percentage points.

"It seems the Zerg are not planning to launch an offensive."

What are your thoughts?

"I think the time is ripe. Why don't we take the initiative and attack? If we drag this out any longer, more and more people will come to take a slice of the pie."

"Go ahead and go if you want. I'd rather have more people sharing the cake than do the work for someone else." This foreign representative's concerns were not without merit. Reminded by Wheeler, and after setting aside their prejudices, many foreign races began to take the Zerg's fighting power seriously.

According to the latest intelligence, conservative estimates suggest that the Zerg have amassed over three billion troops along the border.

Due to the intervention of the Epoch Clan, the Star Sea Alliance civilizations have achieved a high degree of technological assimilation. Therefore, compared to the Outer-Ring Civilizations Mid-Ring Civilizations are mostly only slightly faster in terms of warships, more powerful weapons, and higher rate of fire and range.

Without a technological leap that allows them to overwhelmingly defeat the Zerg's 3 billion troops, their own losses would be substantial.

Many of their races live very far from the Zerg, requiring decades of travel to reach them, making it difficult to send troops over. If they suffer heavy losses due to a mistake, there would be no problem distributing the spoils according to military merit. However, if the spoils are too large, internal strife could break out, and without troops at their disposal, their lives might be in danger.

Therefore, to be on the safe side, it would be better to wait until all participants have arrived before launching a joint attack.

"Hmph, I understand what you're thinking. But those who are far away might need another hundred years to arrive. Are you going to wait here for a hundred years?"

"A hundred years is fine. In a hundred years, our clan's military strength here will be at least several times greater than it is now. No matter how you look at it, we won't be at a disadvantage."

"Even a hundred years from now, their reinforcements will keep arriving. According to your thinking, there will always be someone else waiting to take advantage of the situation, and this war will never even start."

"Say whatever you want, I'm not in a hurry. If this drags on, someone will eventually step up to take charge. I don't believe the Epoch Clan won't step in eventually."

"If we wait for the Epoch Clan to intervene, you'll only get scraps."

"Drinking soup is nice, but I'm afraid I won't even get to drink the soup."

"Hmph, you're so cowardly, afraid of everything, you're like a dog. I'm ashamed to be associated with you."

"..."

Although many representatives from other tribes remained cautious, as time went on, more and more representatives began to support initiating war. This was because a new viewpoint was quietly emerging: even if they didn't get the spoils by starting the war early, they might at least find out what the spoils were. But if they waited for the inner circle and the Epoch Clan to join the fray, they might not even know what the spoils were.

Every race and civilization with a modicum of ambition would not allow itself to be so muddled and manipulated. Even if they cannot obtain it, they need to know what it is, so that if they have the opportunity to do something in the future, these are all important factors to consider.

Another factor that has them eager to take action is that the latest intelligence from the reconnaissance forces indicates that while the Zerg's expansion has stalled on this side of the border, there are few constraints on the other side.

While everyone appeared to be AFK, the Zerg were actually maintaining an extremely rapid pace of expansion and development. This discovery made the other races feel rather foolish.

In the 58th year of the New Era, the combined Coalition Army on the front lines had reached a scale of nearly 3 billion, including a large number of fleets from the Mid-Ring Civilizations, whose technological level was even stronger than that of the Swarm last time.

Therefore, the Coalition Army began to assemble.

Because this Coalition Army lacked a single entity capable of subduing all other civilizations, its command structure was far more chaotic compared to the Koya Alliance and the Locke Mutual Aid Society. However, the Coalition Army representatives were well aware of this, and instead of forcibly merging all races together, they divided the land into zones, assigning tasks to each race or small group, and signing agreements for mutual support.

After a period of replanning, in the sixtieth year of the New Era, the Coalition Army fleet set off from more than a dozen star systems and pressed forward across the entire Zerg territory!

Three billion warships of all kinds set sail together, creating a truly magnificent sight. They were scattered along a battle line nearly fifty light-years long. The battlefield was so long that it would take a warship of a force like the Meto Race more than twenty years to travel from one end to the other.

This scale of warfare is perhaps the largest war in the entire history of the Star Sea Alliance.

Therefore, all the participants were extremely excited, eagerly anticipating the moment the battle would begin, a moment when they would be making new history.