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Mars - Imperial Academy - Sentinel Exclusive Villa Area

Inside the villa belonging to Xing

"Mmm~ What a comfortable bed." On the luxurious bed, Xing sat up, stretched, and sighed at how comfortable the bed was.

"If you want it, just have your subordinates make an even bigger one when you get back to the base universe," the system said.

"That seems to be true?" Xing thought about it and felt that the system's statement was correct.

"Knock knock knock~ Your Highness." The door was knocked on, and the female knight's voice rang out.

"Come in." Xing snapped her fingers, and her pajamas instantly transformed into a Sentinel uniform.

"Your Highness." The door was pushed open, and the female knight walked in with a serious expression, then respectfully placed a document in front of Xing.

"His Majesty the Emperor issues an urgent notice for assistance at the front lines, requesting sentinels to proceed to the front lines as soon as possible to assist the Imperial forces in repelling the insect swarm."

"An insect swarm?" Xing raised an eyebrow.

“Yes, the largest insect swarm occurs once every ten years,” the female knight replied.

"What do you mean once every ten years? So this insect swarm comes on time?" Xing looked at the female knight.

"Ever since humanity entered the universe 50,000 years ago and expanded its territory to the entire Virgo Supercluster, the Zerg have appeared and fought against humanity to this day. The fighting patterns of the Zerg swarms have also been discovered by human researchers, who have coordinated various strategies with the Imperial army," the female knight replied.

“Fifty thousand years ago…wait? The Empire is only a few tens of thousands of years old…oh~I think I know something. Let’s continue to try this problem. It shouldn’t be just a problem of the insect swarm, right?” Xing said, as if he had thought of something, and then asked the female knight.

“Yes, this swarm is far larger than any before. According to reports from the reconnaissance fleet, the swarm has reached the size of a galaxy,” the female knight said.

"And this is only the size of a large armed transport bug; the fleet has not yet detected any small swarms."

“Looks like those giant insects are all transport ships,” Star Knight said.

"Get ready. After all, it's a pre-war assistance order issued by the Emperor. We should at least go to the front lines and fight the Zerg swarm alongside the soldiers," Xing said.

"The spacecraft is ready and can depart at any time."

"Let's go then. I'd like to see what this swarm of insects, the size of the Milky Way, is really like." Xing smiled and followed the female knight out of the villa.

…………

Mars-Interstellar Space Station

Eden Fleet Orbital Space Ring

"Whoosh—..." A richly decorated spaceship emerged from the space station, and together with an equally ornate fleet, it warped away from the solar system...

Fleet flagship: Inside the luxurious armed cruiser, Ariel

"The ship is alright." In Xing's independent officer's quarters, looking at the spaceship entering the warp space and the surrounding fleet, Xing said in a low voice.

"By the way, System, what kind of insects are the enemies this time? How do they compare to the ones I remember?" Xing suddenly asked the system.

"Something that's neither good nor bad," the system responded.

"What do you mean?" Xing asked, intrigued.

"The intelligence indicated that the insects were on a scale comparable to that of the Milky Way, but the intelligence on the human side was somewhat inaccurate. This time, the insects consist of a large number of planet-sized transport insects and super transport insects the size of hundreds of millions of stars," the system said.

"With insects of this size, how many swarms do you think would appear before humans? Not to mention, I've looked at the historical records of the human empire, and there have been at least five swarms of this size in the past tens of thousands of years."

"It seems that insect swarms of this size have been recorded so few times that humans have almost forgotten about them," Xingdian said, nodding.

"You could say that, but it's not a big problem. The humans are very well prepared, although they don't know why they've prepared so much firepower," the system said.

"So, the human side's weapons, ammunition, and shells are enough to wipe out the incoming insect swarm and there are even some left over?" Xing asked in surprise.

"Normally there would be plenty left over, but we don't know how much will be left this time," the system responded.

"Speaking of which, why don't I see any power armor or anything like that on the human side?" Xing suddenly thought of something.

"Powered armor? How did humanity in this world of Sky Battle develop to this point? We do have armored power suits similar to individual exoskeletons, and large mechs like Titans, but we don't have any truly impressive powered armor," the system said.

"What do you think about me selling the CMC-type power armor to the humans here?" Xing asked the system thoughtfully.

"I don't know. You can send your own fleet over to take a look. But it's best to send your fleet over only after the humans and the insects have finished fighting or are almost done fighting. Otherwise, it's questionable whether the envoy fleet you sent for the alliance will survive a swarm of insects of this size," the system said.

"That's true, let's wait until the war is over," Xing nodded.

"However, I still need to send some wave cannon warships over to assist, otherwise I feel very insecure."

"Whatever you want~" the system replied with a shrug.

…………

The base of the star in the universe

Since deploying almost all of its resources a month ago due to the Abyss Aggregator issue, the security of the base's universe has been extremely tense before the new fleet sets sail.

However, this tension ended when Okita Juzo ordered the construction of interstellar war factories throughout the entire galaxy, continuing until the first warship from each factory rolled off the production line.

One decision increased the size of the main fleet several times over, and the next problem was the issue of personnel.

However, this problem was quickly resolved. Schneizel followed Okita Juzo's example and filmed one-fifth of the galaxy's artificial factory within a galaxy, while the rest was filmed at the Krieg War Factory.

The former's artificial human factory was responsible for ship maintenance, crew numbers, and the defense of Imperial Planet. As for the latter... Krieg's morale was too unpredictable; all the soldiers were reluctant to speak, and one Krieg officer of the rank of general openly declared that he wanted to fight all enemies of Her Majesty the Empress.

As a last resort, all the first batch of Krieg troops who came out of the factory were assigned the status of Marines and were ordered to follow the fleet's movements at any time.

As for the factory? One-fifth of it was demolished and converted into a cloning factory.

Today, all the special units have gathered together after a long time.

"Her Majesty the Empress has sent a message. She desires a fleet and a convoy of envoys to negotiate and communicate with interstellar civilizations." Schneizel looked at everyone.

“The base fleet in space has expanded dozens of times compared to before, so sending several base fleets to Her Majesty the Empress is no problem at all,” said Okita Juzo.

“But in Her Majesty the Empress’s current universe, the number of insects, humanity’s classic enemy, is countless,” Maru said.

“Then send a core fleet of one hundred wave cannons and VF-171 fighters!” Yang Weili said.

“That universe has a big problem…” Demel was about to say something.

"It's decided, send over the three hundred wave cannons as the main fleet! Then the meeting is adjourned!" Okita Juzo announced loudly.