Neither the Cleaners Civilization nor the Neutral Faction Civilization, nor even Human Civilization itself, had expected the Gardener Faction to make such a move.
It sacrificed the lives of higher-dimensional beings to break free of the three powers' encirclement, then sacrificed lower-dimensional beings to launch dimensional reduction attacks against the Human Fleet!
A suicide attack in the truest sense!
The war, which had been going so well, took a turn for the worse in an incredibly short time!
One thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand...
Brand-new warships fresh off the production lines were reduced to vast quantities of lower-dimensional fragments under the Gardener Faction's frenzied assault, then assimilated by three-dimensional space into fundamental particles.
After a brief moment of stunned inaction, the Cleaners' fleet quickly withdrew to the rear.
It would sit back and watch the other sides fight.
Meanwhile, with the Tenth Empire's help, the Neutral Faction Civilization regrouped its fleet and attempted to move in to support the Human Fleet.
A powerful spacetime fluctuation came from the edge of the Boötes Void, shattering the Neutral Faction Civilization's plans to provide support.
The Gardener Faction's second wave of reinforcements had arrived!
Wave after wave of wormholes appeared within the Boötes Void. Seemingly endless numbers of dimensional beings emerged from them and rushed toward the main battlefield!
The Cleaners' fleet, already slowly withdrawing, picked up its pace even further!
Distance ourselves from this!
We have to distance ourselves from this!
Inside the Earth's Command Center, shrill alarms rang out as blood-red warnings filled the enormous holographic projection directly ahead.
[Human Federation First Fleet: Titan Mothership offline!] [Human Federation Third Fleet: Chiyou offline!] [...]
The Human Fleet's numbers were dropping at a visibly alarming rate.
Eight hundred thousand, seven hundred thousand, six hundred thousand...
Of course, the Gardener