The New Empire's Withdrawal

The struggle between the Collectors and the Coordination Council had entered a stalemate. With the infiltration strategy underway, the Coordination Council was hard-pressed to deal with the swarms of mothership organisms ravaging the territories they had captured. As a result, the Coordination Council's strategic advance had slowed to an extreme, even grinding to a halt.

Clearly, the Coordination Council had noticed this problem and had adopted countermeasures against the Collectors' strategy.

Some of the Coordination Council's combat units withdrew from the battle order and guarded the star systems serving as transportation hubs within the Inari Huang Empire. This allowed them to divide the Inari Huang Empire into numerous war zones, then clear the seemingly endless swarms of mothership organisms one war zone at a time.

Once the cleanup was complete, the Coordination Council's strategic advance would resume its former unstoppable momentum. The gap in combat strength between the Collectors and the Coordination Council was simply too great.

However, compared with the mounting pressure from the Coordination Council, another matter made the Collectors even more displeased.

"You said the New Empire had decided to withdraw from this war?" a Collector asked.

"Yes."

The New Empire general on the other end of the communication nodded expressionlessly. The Serine's calm stood in stark contrast to the Collector, which scratched at the ground with its fanged limbs in irritation.

"At a time like this?"

The Collector asked again, with a faintly hostile edge in its voice.

Only upon hearing this warning-laced question did the Serine on the other end show any reaction. In truth, the New Empire had not expected the Collectors to react so fiercely to their decision.

"We are deeply sorry, but the New Empire cannot send its soldiers to their deaths for nothing. At our Empire's current technological level, we are