Main Gun Firing

"Nearly half an hour has passed already. Why hasn't the signal come through yet?"

On the bridge of the Williams, Stuart paced anxiously back and forth.

"Hey! What's the situation down there?"

Stuart shouted at the Wizard responsible for monitoring Dark Star's surface.

"We can't make out the specifics. We only know that the battle is still ongoing."

Sweat beaded on the monitoring Wizard's forehead as he spoke.

The Captain asked him the same question several times every minute, and naturally, he gave the same answer every time. The problem was that his answers never satisfied the Captain, so he was scolded each time. The pressure on him was nearly off the charts.

"Damn it! Why can't you see clearly? What use are you if you can't see anything?!"

Stuart's face and neck reddened with rage, but in the end, he successfully suppressed his anger once again and did not throw the other man into space.

"Keep watching!"

With that, Stuart resumed pacing in circles.

Phew...!

Seeing Stuart turn away, the Wizard in charge of monitoring let out a sigh of relief yet again.

His life was safe for the moment.

Then endless grievance surged up within him.

It really wasn't his fault that they couldn't see what was happening below. The region where Dark Star was located had no light at all. On top of that, countless tiny particles of dust drifted through both outer space and Dark Star's surface. Observing Dark Star from a great distance in space was an exceedingly difficult task.

Otherwise, development on Dark Star and ecological research into Ice Element creatures would not have progressed so slowly.

At present, the ship's observation equipment could only show flashes of light produced by Curses in an area directly ahead of the warship. Within that light, two