Spatial distortions made the Central Sea Battlefield difficult to navigate. The Rallying Officer led the fleet for an entire day before they finally approached the Seventh Outpost.
All the outposts were built on naturally occurring islands in the Central Sea, and the Seventh Outpost stood on an island of ice.
Islands like this offered no terrain to aid in defense and were the hardest to defend.
This trip took me two and a half days. General Zhang and the others should still be holding out!
But I recruited too few people. Bringing them back to the island would be a drop in the bucket. Perhaps harassing the enemy from the perimeter would work better...
As the Rallying Officer calculated inwardly, he led the fleet onward at a frantic pace.
He failed to notice that somewhere beneath the water, a fleet of Crawler ships was secretly closing in on them.
"Watch out! Enemies underwater!" At the critical moment, Lin Yuan shouted a warning to everyone in the fleet.
With Bai Ling, he had detected this Crawler fleet long ago.
The group was led by a Five-Star Priest and included several Four-Star Priests and a dozen or so Three-Star Priests.
By comparison, most of the Free Warriors in Lin Yuan's human fleet were at the Three- or Four-Star level, but the Rallying Officer himself was Six-Star.
With this difference in strength, as long as the Rallying Officer detected them in advance and avoided an ambush, this Crawler fleet was bound to pose no threat.
That was why Lin Yuan had stayed quiet earlier, waiting for the Rallying Officer to discover them himself.
Yet for some reason, the Rallying Officer seemed distracted and actually failed to detect the approaching Crawler fleet.
Left with no choice, Lin Yuan had to speak up.
Fortunately, his