Published: February 13, 2025
"Energy limit warning, we can't continue, or we won't have enough energy to return." In the command room of the temporary flagship of the Lena People’s fleet, a subordinate turned to Ana and her group who had just returned to the ship.
After eliminating Rodir Yan, the Lena People's fleet began to chase the two retreating corps. However, the process was not smooth.
They didn't expect that after Rodir Yan's death, the remaining dwarf warriors in the raucous castle would go crazy and start attacking and intercepting the fleet along with the ground troops that descended from the fleet.
The combat power displayed by this castle shocked everyone.
It was truly a war fortress, brimming with firepower outputs. When it unleashed its firepower, the Lena People’s fleet had to retreat significantly.
What was even more frustrating was that it managed to entangle the fleet with its firepower from the very beginning. For so many massive warships capable of flying in space, trying to turn and escape under such firepower and the internal environment of the planet was tantamount to being a live target. If they attempted to do so, walking away with even one-third of their ships would be considered fortunate, a massive loss that Ana could not accept.
Thus, Ana could only order the fleet still present to activate their shields and retaliate.
Even so, the fleet, already suffering some losses from Rodir Yan, appeared somewhat passive in front of such a fortress, and losses further escalated.
If it weren't for Ana taking action again, directly using her immense strength to crash into the fortress and unleash a massacre, it would have taken much longer to defeat this roadblock.
Fortunately, the fleet that had been sent to encircle held up the retreating dwarf legions. By the time Ana led this portion of the fleet there, the two dwarf legions had to allocate tens of thousands of soldiers and a peak expert to intercept.
Ana and the peak experts of the fleet acted, killing the dwarves' equivalent experts and working together with the fleet and airdropped ground troops to annihilate the stubborn dwarf blocking forces.
After that, the fleet, having gone through a long expedition and fierce battles, reached the energy warning line.
Ana ordered the fleet to stop the pursuit. At that moment, with her strength, she could faintly see the flickering light in the distant horizon and feel the violent energy spilling out.
Clearly, the battle in Divine Artisan City was still ongoing.
"Let’s stop here; we’ll leave," Ana gave a firm command requiring them to take risks when she had not achieved her objective.
However, once she realized that things could not proceed, she would also cut her losses without hesitation.
Under normal circumstances, she had already killed so many dwarves, completely standing in opposition to them. In everyday matters, the deaths of two peak experts and tens of thousands of elite dwarf warriors would be enough to spark a large-scale war between two races.
But Ana was well aware that as of now, the war had yet to determine a victor. She and the Lena People she represented were not the true allies of the Su Clan and that Ye Zhongming.
She could carry out the plans initially agreed upon by everyone but would not go any further, as she was uncertain of how matters would develop afterward.
As long as she stopped and did not openly stand with the Su Clan, everything would have room for maneuvering. In the words of the young lady, this was politics.
For a moment, Ana wondered if she could call the shots; would she take this fleet to help the Su Clan bring down Divine Artisan City, not for any other reason, but simply because she found the dwarves unpleasant?
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On the side of Divine Artisan City, Ye Zhongming had already learned that the two dwarf legions were on their way here, led by two peak experts. According to the timing, the vanguard would arrive in at least twenty minutes to a maximum of half an hour.
This was the strongest wave of reinforcements that Divine Artisan City had received since the war began.