Jiang Hao's heart skipped a beat, and he asked, "What's wrong? Is it a reply from the human race's higher-ups?"
Yun Xinghe's face was deathly pale, and his voice trembled as he said, "There...there's been a reply. The human race's four...four star-level warship groups...are completely annihilated, and Prince He...is dead in battle. The Spirit Ruins War has fully...fully begun!"
Four star-level warship groups?
completely annihilated?
Jiang Hao was shocked. Didn't the human race only have two star-scale warship groups? How did it become four?
This must be part of the human race's strategy of concealing its strength.
But... all four warship groups were wiped out?
Prince He died in battle?
What's going on here?
Yun Xinghe took a few deep breaths and slowly exhaled. His complexion finally improved, and he spoke less stammeringly. He said, "Ever since I sent the message, the human race's high command has been shaken. They immediately decided to investigate Orong's true strength."
Jiang Hao thought to himself, "How could the human race's higher-ups be so reckless? They actually sent out all their combat forces!"
Yun Xinghe continued, "The human race first dispatched a fleet of warships to the 83rd realm, the jackal-affiliated star realm closest to the 5th realm. Then, a hundred ships set sail simultaneously. The 83rd realm was garrisoned by a jackal empire's guard legion, an expeditionary force's Five Tigers Legion, and two ordinary legions, all of which were wiped out."
Jiang Hao was completely dumbfounded.
I thought to myself, "Is the Human Empire really that brave?"
Jiang Hao asked, "And then?"
Yun Xinghe gave a bitter smile and said, "And then? Then Aorong didn't say anything. He didn't do anything either. So the human race's higher-ups continued to probe."
"They sent out another star-level warship, which shattered the 2153rd domain where the Gnoll Empire's expeditionary force headquarters was located, and annihilated five more expeditionary force legions."
Jiang Hao was shocked. Had they wiped out the headquarters of the Gnoll Empire's expeditionary force?
Yun Xinghe continued, "Aorong didn't say anything either, but the counterattack started immediately. They activated hundreds of star-level teleportation arrays, sending the gnoll army and the orc army to 123 star-level domains of the human empire."
Yun Xinghe sighed deeply.
He said with a wry smile, "It's unbelievable. A full 123 human star-level domains, not a single one left, all of them have star-level teleportation arrays secretly built by the gnolls. If it weren't for this test, the human race's high command would probably have been kept in the dark forever."
For a teleportation array to function, two arrays are required: one for sending and one for receiving. There is also a multi-star teleportation array in the [Number] Realm. It was precisely because the City Lord of Jinling City destroyed the multi-star teleportation array in Youyue City that the jackals of the Jackal Empire were prevented from teleporting over.
Otherwise, those 70 million jackals wouldn't have appeared directly from the Youyue Empire instead of riding flying demon wolves.
Jiang Hao couldn't believe it either. Were all the high-ranking members of the human race stupid? They didn't even have this much precaution?
Yun Xinghe continued, "The human race's high command was stunned! It was only after Meng Guang, a general under Prince Yi, led a legion of the royal guard to recapture the 6736th realm 12 hours later that they realized that those star-level teleportation arrays were actually secretly created by the beast race and the deep-sea race."
Jiang Hao was amazed. To be able to reclaim a star-level realm in 12 hours, General Meng Guangda must be a ruthless person!
Furthermore, Jiang Hao finally understood that it wasn't that the human high command was unprepared; rather, it was that this move by each gnoll was simply impossible to defend against.
Take the Realm of Numbers for example. How large is the area occupied by the human race? It's just a few continental plates floating in the Spirit Ruins Sea. All of its area combined is no more than ten times the size of the northern ice plains.
Compared to the vast Spirit Ruins Sea, it's less than one-tenth of the size!
As for the other realms, their structures are not much different. The only slight variations are in the proportion of continental plates occupying different areas. With the help of the beastmen and deep-sea races, the Gnoll Empire's multi-star teleportation arrays could probably cover tens of thousands of realms throughout the entire Spirit Ruins!
Yun Xinghe looked desolate and said, "Now the war is raging, and war is still breaking out in 122 human star realms. All of Prince Yi's generals have been dispatched, and both the human and jackal armies have suffered heavy casualties."
He was clearly grieving for the innocent humans who had died tragically.
Of the five races, the deep-sea race is the most numerous. Next is the beast race, then the gnoll race, and finally the human race. In terms of individual strength, humans rely most heavily on talent, as differences in talent result in vastly different individual strengths. However, aside from a very few geniuses, the general strength of humans is far lower than that of the beast race, let alone the gnoll race.
At this time, the orcs and gnolls colluded to launch an attack on the humans, which shows the enormous pressure the humans were facing.
Yun Xinghe was silent for a while, then said, "If this situation is allowed to continue, the human race will probably be wiped out. Therefore, under the order of the Human King, Prince He led a group of four star-level warships of the human race to destroy the jackal people's fifth domain."
Jiang Hao already knew the result, but he still wanted to know exactly how the four star-level warship groups were defeated.
Yun Xinghe sighed deeply. He said, "You already know the result. As for the process, the human race's higher-ups didn't say. Prince Yi only said that 400 star-level heavy warships fired epic-level energy crystal shells at the Fifth Realm, a total of 160,000 shells, but only one landed on the ground of the Fifth Empire."
Jiang Hao was astonished. He could imagine 160,000 epic-level energy crystal shells being fired simultaneously, falling from the sky above Realm 5 to the ground. Then, one by one, they would be destroyed by Oron's spatial collapse, without even a chance to explode. This continued wave after wave until the last one finally broke through Oron's defenses and exploded on the ground.
Jiang Hao could even imagine how the Prince would react if he saw this scene as the commander-in-chief.
He must be completely dumbfounded.
He would definitely give the order immediately to have all the warships evacuate.
But it was too late.
The four hundred star-level heavy warships may have been swallowed up by Oron's spatial collapse before they could even turn around.
As for those four starships, they were likely destroyed by Oron's spatial abilities before they even fired a single shot.
Jiang Hao could even see the four star-level warships crashing onto the ground of the Fifth Realm because their power units had been destroyed.
Jiang Hao asked his questions: "Humanity only has 122 star-level realms. Have large armies of jackals and beastmen appeared? Have the other subordinate realms been attacked by the jackal army? And has realm 6528, where the Human King City is located, been affected by the war?"
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