There was no helping it. For Shatla, accustomed to interstellar warfare, a situation like this was unheard of, though the Vax Corporation had used similar methods on the battlefield before.
But Euphemia had never experienced such a comprehensive, devastating assault on communications and command systems, even if she had simulated such scenarios back at the academy.
Those had only been simulations, though! This was large-scale interstellar warfare. How could they possibly do without communications and command? Fighting independently would only hasten their defeat.
Most importantly, Euphemia was still completely in the dark about the enemy. Forget finding a way to counter them-she had yet to see so much as a single enemy figure.
And just as Euphemia was using her Gold Rank soul to forcefully direct the vast fleet into formation, the distant stars grew brighter!
With the strength of a Gold Soul and the razor-sharp combat instincts she had honed over years on the battlefield, Euphemia immediately used her soul field to issue an order to every ship within her soul's reach.
"Incoming attack!!!"
The shields of part of the fleet lit up at once.
Even with Euphemia's eyesight, all she could see was a spring-shaped coil of light striking a starship's shield.
Then the demonic energy runes on the starship's shield vanished. The formerly translucent shield brightened, then abruptly contracted inward.
Once it had contracted to a single point, the shield vanished, along with the starship, colossi, and demonic energy mecha it had protected.
Horror spread across Euphemia's face.
"What?! What kind of technology is this?!"
On a nearby fortress, Gordon, who wore a Mechanical Eye, exclaimed excitedly as though he had witnessed a miracle.
"Oh!!!!! Is that energy instant-writing equation technology, something still confined to the realm of fantasy?!! My heavens!!!"
Only then did Euphemia raise her