Galaxy Domination Guide

On board an inconspicuous Iridium Star Bojiang Class Battleship, an officer reported to the Iridium Star Commander and Chief Knight Zang Xingyan about the great battle, "The Chancellor has already successfully resolved the crises of four occupied planets, with casualties and losses still being tallied."

Yet, this overall Commander Knight seemed rather indifferent, with a pair of vintage headphones in his ears playing stream-of-consciousness music that was entirely off-topic, his hand lightly tapping a rhythm on his knee.

The officer didn't say much, bowed his head, and withdrew, but another knight who was also in the room, Qi Xiao, furrowed his brows and said, "How can you not care at all about our planets being recaptured? Does the life and death of the people of Iridium Star mean nothing to you?"

Leaning back in his spacious chair, Zang Xingyan rolled his eyes, replying to Qi Xiao, "Don't just flippantly make accusations, okay? My task isn't to deal with those occupied planets; that is for the Chancellor and the people from the Administrative Institute to manage. My mission is simply to fight."

Jun Jiushao reminded, "To fight and win."

Zang Xingyan gave the elegant and ethereal-looking woman a second glance, but still lacked formality as he said, "Of course, if I lose, then I'd be done for, and I don't fancy that at all."

Qi Xiao pointed out very seriously and rigorously, "The Fallen Army has already fully converged on the nodes, hundreds of fleets of varying sizes. If we really let a large number of the enemy's fleets reach the inner nodes, and considering the imminent cooperation of the enemy fleets from the outer nodes, our situation will become very bad."

Zang Xingyan chuckled and said, "Then, we just have to work hard to prevent such a situation from happening."

Jun Jiushao asked, "Do you plan to concentrate on a few key fleets for a fierce attack, reducing the combat power of the Fallen Army?"

"On the contrary, we are going for the small and ignoring the large. Those Divine General-led large-scale fleets, they can run if they want to, and I suspect that among themselves, these fleets also provide cover and want to give us a few hard hits. Without concentrating on superior forces for a battle, it will be difficult for us to win easily. Instead, those weaker fleets, we can easily pick them off."

Qi Xiao still frowned, "That way, you still cannot prevent them from assembling into a dangerous fleet at the inner nodes, nor avoid being attacked from both inside and out."

Zang Xingyan jumped up from his comfortable leather chair, and with a wave of his hand, activated the warzone star map in front of him.

"What the Fallen Army wants is nothing more than to establish their control of both the inside and outside nodes of the temporal corridor through internal and external collaboration, thereby continually bringing fleets and keeping us bleeding in the Orion Arm. To do this, the best method would be to employ a Spatial Seal, a tactic they are quite adept at using. However, the Chancellor has brought back Universe Titan from the Pegasus Arm-5, so changing battlefield terrain with a Spatial Seal is now also achievable for us. Therefore, the real task we should be tackling is to seal off the corridor, preventing enemy reinforcements from outside nodes from arriving, and barring the enemies at the inner nodes from entering."

After listening, Jun Jiushao couldn't help but nod in agreement, "That is a good plan, although we have the advantage in terms of military strength, after all, the war is happening within our own borders, and we hope to control the scale of the conflict."

Qi Xiao also had to admit that Zang Xingyan's method was indeed very feasible and was the most beneficial for the Iridium Star.

His tactical strategy was conveyed to Bai Zhongqi, who also believed that his idea was better than his own. Bai Zhongqi had initially also planned to change the battlefield terrain using a Spatial Seal, but he only considered sealing the inner nodes, then using superior forces to eliminate the enemy at the outer nodes, and later returning to deal with the Galaxy fleet now in the Orion Arm.

In fact, Zang Xingyan's strategy of employing dumbbell-shaped traps was more complex, aiming at both trapping and eliminating the enemy.

——Dividing Line——

"Perhaps you have already noticed, the Calamity is incessantly eroding our relatively small breakout fleets, our main fleets haven't suffered a single attack, but those fleets smaller than a squadron have all been hit hard by the Calamity, with heavy losses," Su Shuang said coldly to the Second Divine General, Sanlin Luzhi.

Sanlin Luzhi did not respond, but the Third Divine General, Bai Gong, spoke up, "The decisions made by the Second Divine General were approved by everyone, there's no point in questioning the correctness of those decisions now."

Burden, the substitute Divine General from the Luluo Civilization who joined the meeting, echoed, "Our main forces have not suffered a single loss, and we have been able to launch effective attacks on the inner nodes, thanks to the efforts of the Second Divine General. On the other hand, you, the Fifth Divine General, have been repeatedly defeated by the scourge. Have you lost your edge?"

Su Shuang remained silent, now feeling an extremely unpleasant premonition.

Not wanting to argue with these people, Su Shuang turned off his holographic image and disappeared from the virtual meeting of the Divine Generals.

"This Fifth Divine General is too arrogant," Burden said indignantly.

Divine General Sanlin Luzhi, the Commander of the Galaxy forces, still had not spoken a word; he always appeared so insouciant, keeping everyone unclear about what he was really thinking.

Just as Burden was about to try and get closer to Sanlin Luzhi, a loud alarm suddenly sounded throughout his fleet.

"What's happening?" Burden was extremely taken aback.

"Divine General, it is enemy ships."

"What? How could they be here, how many are there?"

"Uhh, only one?"

Burden's eyes nearly popped out as he hastily brought up the visuals, and indeed, there was a solitary Iridium Star Warship floating there—it was a very small Escort Ship. Burden had long since known that the Iridium Star United Empire had gradually phased out Escort Ships from the main combat sequence, mainly keeping them for defense and escort duties.

"Destroy it!" Burden had a very bad feeling; when something is out of the ordinary, there must be demons at work. The fleet he commanded was not small, comprising of thirty thousand Warships, one of the main forces of the Galaxy army. He firmly believed that the Iridium Star people would need at least three times the size of his fleet to overcome his, and right now, fleets were precious to both sides. He still believed that the Iridium Star people would not rashly surround his own with a large army.

But why would a small Escort Ship run up to his own front?

It did not take long for Burden to understand why.

The tiny Iridium Star Escort Ship suddenly trembled, and a pale blue shockwave was released from its hull, rapidly spreading and quickly enveloping Burden's fleet.

Burden's eyes were about to split: "How could this happen? How could this happen?! Can the Iridium Star people use a Spatial Seal too? Break it, break it for me!"

But his subordinates swallowed hard before replying, "Sir, we do not have the means to break a Spatial Seal..."

"Don't have...? How is that possible." Burden was stupefied.

An unmanned, obsolete Warship, sent by Bai Zhongqi to the front of a main battle fleet of the Galaxy army, had trapped the fleet with ease. And in other locations, the same thing was happening; Iridium Star was continuously jumping those small Escort Ships, all temporarily modified by Bai Zhongqi to perform a Spatial Seal.

The Galaxy army, without even having completed the assembly at the inner nodes, was already trapped and isolated!