"Super-energy fluctuations detected, energy level EX! Raise defensive systems to maximum! Activate all weapons systems! Contact the Eredar fleet and tell them to prepare for battle!"
Piercing alarms erupted in the command rooms of every starship in the Pruk Star Sector fleet. Pale violet defensive light shields flared across each ship's surface, and the Eredar gem starships lit up almost simultaneously, their light shields enveloping the entire fleet.
The calm shattered in an instant. Energy fluctuations at EX level meant that a transcendent power had entered the battlefield, an opponent these fleets could no longer handle on their own.
In fact, there was no need for the alarms. Standing beside the viewports, the commanders could practically see with their naked eyes a crimson point appearing at the center of the ocher planet, then spreading rapidly outward like some peculiar substance. In less than three minutes, it had covered almost a tenth of the planet's surface.
"Surface temperature is rising rapidly!"
The officer monitoring Origin Star shouted, "Very rapidly! Surface temperature has already risen to forty degrees... fifty!"
"Prepare for forced teleportation! What about the viceroy and the commander?"
The deputy rushed to the command console and asked loudly, "How are their vital signs?"
"That's what's abnormal!"
The officer looked troubled. "This temperature is already extremely dangerous for humans, but the viceroy's and commander's vital signs are stable. There hasn't even been the slightest fluctuation!"
"You mean they're surrounded by lethal heat, but they're not in danger?"
The fleet deputy turned toward Origin Star. The rapidly spreading crimson flames were clearly visible even from the starships. Though all manner of strange things could occur in the endless universe-he had even seen a planet composed entirely of a single block of ice, with life active within it-the bizarre situation before him gave