Enrogete Alliance border.

Kissling stared silently at the somewhat eerie tachyon radar images on the screen.

He, from the Enroget civilization, had received information from the command center—human civilization's warships possessed more advanced warp drive technology.

Although it doesn't know how this was done, it can still draw a simple conclusion by observing the complex data from the tachyon radar.

The enemy fleet was sailing towards it in a neat, long line.

In the image, the fine, faint wave crests have almost overlapped with the border defense line—the distance between the two sides is 0.1 light-years.

They're here!

"Damn... that's fast, the defensive line hasn't even fully contracted yet..."

Kissling muttered a curse under his breath.

To date, the defense line, which spans ten light-years, has only shrunk by 30%.

Simply put, a large number of warships are still on their way.

This is clearly not the time to confront human civilization head-on!

That is why the Enrogett Alliance did not launch the first attack.

It took a deep breath, suppressed its complex emotions, and issued the order: "Send a warning message to the target fleet."

[WARNING! This is the border of the Enrogett Alliance! Please cease your intrusion immediately!]

[Unknown fleet, please state your purpose immediately!]

[...]

At this point, the Enrogett Alliance could only hope that human civilization would halt its progress and sit down for negotiations.

If the other side manages to reason things out, and the two civilizations wrangle amongst themselves, the alliance's defenses can be successfully contracted.

But things did not develop as it had anticipated.

The moment the message was sent, a piercing alarm sounded.

The once calm tachyon radar suddenly revealed countless extremely high intensity wave peaks!

Kissling's breath hitched.

The next moment, it let out a terrified scream: "Warp missile!"

"Enemy attack!!"

"Defense! Defend immediately!!!"

...

This attack came from 0.1 light-years away.

Missiles equipped with warp drives have demonstrated a completely different level of power on the interstellar battlefield compared to the training range!

A truly long-range strike!

Its effective strike range even reaches 10 light-years!

However, considering that the other side also possesses spacetime fluctuation detection technology, launching an attack too early would only alert them.

Therefore, the human fleet chose to fire at close range, at a distance of 0.1 light-years.

Do you even understand the value of face-to-face output?

Limited by warp drive technology, the speed of warp missiles is the same as that of starships, only 100c.

A distance of 0.1 light-years would take about eight hours to reach.

In the context of interstellar warfare, this timeframe is short, but it still gives the enemy time to implement interception.

As a Level 5 civilization that has absorbed more than 300 subordinate civilizations and established a territory spanning 100 light-years, it possesses a decent level of warfare skills.

Almost at the same time the alarm sounded, the warships on the defensive line had already entered a state of war.

They all turned their guns around and, guided by tachyon radar, aimed them at the direction of the warp missile.

Subsequently, a large number of inexpensive electromagnetic railgun projectiles spewed out from the muzzle and rushed toward the target.

Moreover, accompanied by a subtle spatial fluctuation coming from the side, the warships located on the Alliance's defense line also launched their own warp missiles.

...

At this moment, 0.1 light-years away, lies the Titan Mothership.

"Commander Bai..."

A crew member turned to Bai Yixuan, who was sitting in the command position, with a strange expression: "There's something you might need to pay attention to..."

"Um?"

Bai Yixuan raised an eyebrow slightly and turned his questioning gaze to the crew member who had spoken.

The crew remained silent for a while, their expressions growing increasingly strange.

"...We detected tachyon communication from the other party."

"What is the content? Has the translation program loaded?" Bai Yixuan asked subconsciously.

The crew nodded and projected the tachyon information directly onto the giant holographic projection in the command center.

【warn!】

[...]

The warning message above didn't have much meaning; it was clearly a template-based script.

Bai Yixuan quickly glanced at it and then turned his gaze to the very bottom of the information.

There was a lot of information, but the general idea was that they wanted to sit down and negotiate, that the previous attack on the probe was a mistake, and that the Enroget Alliance could even offer human civilization some compensation.

Upon seeing this information, Bai Yixuan's eye twitched slightly.

When was this message received?

The crew member scratched his head somewhat awkwardly: "Ahem... probably around the time you gave the attack order and the missile was successfully launched."

Bai Yixuan: "..."

Facing the stares of the crew, Bai Yixuan calmly waved his hand and said, "Just pretend you didn't receive this message."

"That's a detector that human civilization has spent countless efforts to create!"

"What good is a little bit of compensation?!"

"What's more... as long as we win this war, the entire Enrogett Alliance will be ours!"

All crew members: ...

...

Time passed.

In the area between the human expeditionary fleet and the border of Enroget, two incredibly strong spatial fluctuations suddenly emanated.

The warp missiles launched by the Enroget Alliance successfully encountered warp missiles from human civilization.

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