Reiser's face was filled with horror as he kept muttering the same sentence.
"How is this possible?"
Finally, one of the councilors below noticed Reisers' strange behavior and looked over with a horrified expression. It was the huge tactical board that was set up in the council.
It would have been fine if he did not look at it, but after he saw it, his initial excitement suddenly froze on his face and slowly turned into horror like Reiser.
As more and more council members noticed that something was wrong and looked at the tactical board, the entire room soon became completely silent.
"How is this possible?"
Finally, all the councilors asked the same question as Reesers.
Indeed, how was this possible?
The other party was clearly trapped in the time bubble, so how could they still move?
It was obvious on the tactical board that the other party's fleet was adjusting their formation and was completely unaffected by the time contraction effect.
In this world, was there anything more terrifying than this?
But before everyone could recover from their horror, something even more terrifying happened again. The red color on the tactical board …
Disappeared!
Did they just warp away?
But that was not right. Even if the time bubble did not trap the other party, what about the warp interference?
Could it be that the other party could even ignore the warp interference?
"Quick, get someone to calculate the direction in which it's going to warp and mark out all the possible destinations!"
Reiser, who suddenly thought of something, turned on the communicator and shouted in front of everyone's surprised eyes.
Time passed second by second, and after a minute …
"President, based on the other party's suspected warp behavior and the direction of the ship's bow, there is a 99.2% chance that the target is the space base codenamed [Holy Land]!"
This result was simply like being struck by lightning, directly bombarding everyone's heads.
[Holy Land … exposed?]
"President, nothing must happen to the Holy Land. If the holy object is stolen or destroyed by them, we will lose all bargaining chips!"
"The other party is more than 50,000 light-years away from the Holy Land. Even if they rely on warp, they will not be able to arrive in a short time. We still have time!"
"That's right, immediately deploy all available joint fleets. The Holy Land must not fall into the hands of the other party!"
"Seconded!"
"Seconded!"
…
The council was noisy, but Reiser had to admit that the council members' judgment this time was correct.
With the item from the Holy Land in their hands, the Italo Alliance would have a bargaining chip.
Perhaps they could not force the other party to return all the Star Systems they had conquered and withdraw from the Mercia Star System, but they could at least force the other party to leave a way out for their civilization, even if it meant that their civilization would stagnate or even regress.
However, if that thing was taken away or destroyed by the other party …
Then, he would not even have a bargaining chip to start the negotiations, and the fate of the entire Italo alliance would be completely destroyed, and their civilization would be severed!
"No, nothing must happen to the Holy Land!"
"Order all the allied fleets in the Brecht Galaxy, except for the five fleets guarding the capital circle, to approach the Holy Land as quickly as possible and delay the enemy fleet at all costs!"
"At the same time, order all the experts in the Holy Land to immediately dismantle the holy artifact and prepare for the transfer!"
With a swoosh, Rathers stood up and ordered loudly.
"Dismantle the holy artifact?"
"That won't do, Speaker. What if it gets damaged?"
"That's right, Speaker. The experts have already confirmed that we don't have absolute confidence to dismantle it safely!"
"That's right, and even if it's really dismantled safely, apart from the Holy Land, we have no way to supply it with the huge amount of energy it needs!"
...
When Rathers gave the order, the entire council was instantly in an uproar.
The first order was fine, and no one had any objections, but the second order was a big problem.
Everyone in the room knew that the alliance had no way to safely dismantle the holy artifact, let alone move it to another place and reassemble it.
Once the holy artifact was dismantled, or if it could not be reassembled after the transfer, then everything would be back to square one, and it would be meaningless.
Most importantly, the Holy Land was directly built on the side of a huge star, and through a method that all the scientists in the alliance could not understand, it was able to extract energy from the star to power the holy artifact.
Therefore, even if the holy artifact was successfully transferred, with the current technology of the alliance, it was impossible to provide it with the huge amount of energy it needed!
"Shut up!"
"Do you think that after we mobilize all our fleets, we can stop that fleet?"
"No, we can't stop them, absolutely not!"
"The most we can do is to delay that fleet slightly, and buy some time for the experts to dismantle and transfer the holy artifact!"
"If we transfer it, we still have a glimmer of hope!"
"If we don't transfer it, then there's only despair!"
The council was filled with Rathers' roars, and the room suddenly quieted down.
Yes, if they had not seen the battle that happened in Levis, perhaps they would have thought that after gathering hundreds of billions of battleships, they would be able to defeat the one billion invader battleships.
But now, none of the councilors could say such a thing.
No matter how stupid they were, at this time, they had to admit that even if they gathered so many fleets, it was still impossible to defeat the fleet that was as powerful as a Demon God, and the most they could do was …
Delay the other party slightly!
Just as Rathers said, if they transferred it, there was still a glimmer of hope, but if they did not transfer it, there was only despair!
"No one has any objections, right?"
Rathers nodded as he looked at the silent councilors below.
"Then send the order out, and have all the fleets move immediately, we don't have much time!"
"Yes, Chairman!"
However, at this moment, Rathers did not know that although his idea was good, he had miscalculated one thing!
The Federation did not use the hyperspace engine, but the technology of a level seven civilization, the hyperspace engine.
It did not take days to cross the distance of fifty thousand light-years, it only took a few minutes!
When the council's order was passed to the fleets, except for the most elite first to fifth joint fleets of the Italo Alliance who were still stationed outside the capital circle, the remaining thirty fleets all moved and headed toward the "holy land" at the fastest speed!
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Fearless fleet, second squadron, flagship Luo Shen.
"Commander, we are about to reach the target location, and will exit hyperspace in 30 seconds!"
"Order all Armored Troops to prepare for the assault on the interstellar fortress!"
"Yes, Commander!"