A Costly Offensive

After selecting a breakthrough point, vast numbers of leaping organisms gathered on the other side of the gate, preparing to launch a fierce assault. Batch after batch of leaping organisms crossed the stargate and arrived in the star system beyond.

To counter the Collectors' invasion, the Coordination Council also took corresponding military action, deploying far more combat units into the star system than ever before.

The two sides engaged in fierce combat in space. Lightsabers streaked across the battlefield, while gamma-ray bursts heralding singularity eruptions appeared again and again.

Both sides continuously poured forces into the battle, competing to see whose numbers were greater.

Naturally, the Collectors held the advantage in this regard. As long as they had sufficient resources, they could produce as many individuals as they wanted. Once gravity rings were completed in several star systems within the gate world and stellar resources could be harvested, the rate at which leaping organisms increased could rise by several hundred times.

Yet the nations and factions within the gate world knew none of this. If they had, they would never have remained idle spectators as they were now.

Within the star system where the large-scale fleet battle was taking place, wreckage nearly covered the entire system. On average, a wreck could be seen every few kilometers. Though several kilometers was a great distance on the ground, it was already exceedingly dense on a cosmic scale.

The wreckage was like a dark cloud shrouding the entire star, noticeably dimming its brightness. Perhaps when the light of this star was observed by an intelligent civilization on some planet in the galaxy, they might panic and assume that some cosmic civilization was building a Dyson sphere.

The Collectors were determined to win the battle. After learning that the Coordination Council's combat units still