"A spaceship?"
Sure enough, more than a dozen small spacecraft appeared on the screen. They were all modified armed ships, but they posed no threat whatsoever to Merlin's Empire-Class Warship. A few secondary laser cannons would be enough to destroy those armed ships with ease.
"Don't, Merlin. Those are armed ships of our Resistance Army. It's just that... they belong to the Second Fleet."
Bereo's expression was far from pleasant when he saw the approaching ships on the screen. Merlin looked at the others and found their expressions equally unnatural, as though they had little fondness for those armed ships.
"They're also armed ships of the Resistance Army?"
Merlin ultimately did not open fire, merely maintaining the warship's defensive shield.
"Beep. Unknown communication request detected. Connect?"
"Connect!"
Merlin directly accepted the communication request. Soon, the face of a burly man appeared on the screen.
"Stop. This is Resistance Army headquarters. Who are you?"
In truth, they were still quite a distance from Resistance Army headquarters. These ships had likely been sent out on patrol and had happened to discover this Empire-Class Warship.
Of course, they were not afraid. If this truly had been a warship dispatched by the Federation, there certainly would not have been only one Empire-Class Warship. Besides, the Empire-Class Warship had yet to activate its gun ports.
"Hmph. We're from the First Fleet. I'm Bereo!"
Bereo said in a deep voice.
"The First Fleet? I didn't know the First Fleet had sent an Empire-Class Warship out."
A flicker of surprise flashed through the burly man's eyes. The First Fleet and their Second Fleet were hardly on good terms. If not for their leader keeping them in check, conflict would have erupted long ago.
"You may ask Commander Keno of the First Fleet. We went out on a