"Retreat! Notify all fleets—retreat two thousand kilometers!" Teresi's voice rang with steely force. The instant he issued the order, his usual gentle and refined bearing was replaced by an iron-blooded aura.
No one questioned his command. The fleets of the four major powers promptly began turning around.
The Warg fleet stationed outside the planet's upper atmosphere entered Level One combat readiness the instant its radar sounded the alarm. During this unusual period, their response speed was more than thirty percent faster than usual!
A fleet consisting of two cruisers, four frigates, and ten destroyers quickly lifted off. Seeing the fleeing fleet escaping at a relatively slow speed, they immediately gave chase!
The radar showed that the enemy fleet numbered more than twice their own, but the Warg fleet had no choice but to pursue. They had to drive the enemy to a safe distance. Otherwise, if the enemy cruisers ignored interstellar law and chose to bombard the planet from afar with their main cannons, the tens of thousands of lives on the planet would be reporting to Pluto in an instant...
One side chased while the other fled, racing through space for a full ten minutes. Watching the unknown fleet begin accelerating away, the Warg fleet commander finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But at that moment.
Blooms of scarlet sparks erupted behind them!
Near the interstellar gun emplacements, fifty enormous Ferrymen drifted away, revealing no fewer than fifty thousand Blade-Arm Mutalisks and Vipers behind them!
These terrifying giants spread their wings and charged toward the gun emplacements!
"Woooooo..." The piercing alarm once again resounded through the skies. The emplacements near the perimeter immediately swung their barrels around, and the long cannon tubes suddenly lit up.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." Just as the emplacements were about to reveal their terrifying firepower