Chapter 267: Reinforcements Annihilated Three Times?

As Helusu draws ever closer to the Solar System.

Terra, the Rebel Forces, and Xisi—the distance among the three parties also grows ever nearer.

Ships ferrying messages through the void, and the star language, begin to appear in the void more frequently and crowdedly.

With the great battle imminent, the two sides redouble their efforts to intercept each other's information in the void.

Only Terra and Helusu, as another force capable of swaying the outcome, remain extremely calm on Xisi's side.

Or rather…

I'm too lazy to care about you!

This nonchalance wasn't a problem at first, but as the rear defensive lines set to delay the Empire's reinforcements were breached one after another, it gradually began to sour.

For example, when faced with the terrifying casualties constantly reported by the defensive line commanders, doubts inevitably arise.

Yet Xisi's calm, even deathly silence, seems to confirm that notion.

Thus, when the latest news arrived, the Helusu army report intercepted by Mars using powerful equipment and advanced technology was delivered into the hands of Luogeduoen in Terra's palace.

Staring at the latest information, Luogeduoen widened his eyes in incomprehension, dumbfoundedly watching the battle deemed a 'historically unprecedented ultimate catastrophe,' his eyes bulging with fury!

Bang!

The report was slapped onto the table, and Luogeduoen gritted his teeth, looking toward Xisi's direction, and spoke haltingly:

"Xisi~"

"Incompetent!!!"

Luogeduoen's eyes turned blood‑red; the people of Terra below, looking at the report pressed under his hand, were equally stunned.

"Only a few delaying defensive lines, and they incur such exaggerated casualties!"

"With his tactics, this isn't killing the traitors; it's burying them under corpses!"

"Had we known he could fight like this, we should have let him take his time instead of rushing him toward Terra."

The crowd chattered, ignoring etiquette or rank, merely recalling that the intercepted reports from the Rebel Forces during this period only grew more infuriating toward Xisi!

Luogeduoen's emotions shifted from hopeful at the start, to doubt, then despair, and now to impotent rage!

Although the details were unknown, Luogeduoen repeatedly considered sending some Terra commander to help Xisi command properly.

"Xisi, you're a complete amateur!"

Finally, with another person shaking their head in uncontainable anger, feeling sorry for the Empire's last field army outside Terra.

An aged voice, trembling and reverberant, sounded from beyond the crowd:

"Give me the report, let me see~"

Though the voice was aged, everyone present froze instantly, standing upright, respectfully turning and carefully clearing a path.

Even Luogeduoen above rose immediately, daring not to remain seated before this person.

Behind the crowd stood a stooped old man leaning on a withered wooden staff, clad in a gray cloth robe.

Just by appearance, none present—not even the Astat or Original Body, nor a regular Star Realm Army commander—could match the old man's physique.

When the old man passed through the crowd, everyone present, including Luogeduoen, instinctively bent their waists toward him.

Because this old man is Makado, the Empire's absolute leader since the Emperor took the golden throne!

"Sir, all the reports from this period are here."

Luogeduoen carefully stood beside Makado and arranged the intercepted Helusu army reports neatly on the table.

Makado did not sit; he stood before the table—vast for mortals—and diligently flipped through the reports page by page.

The people below exchanged glances, puzzled why Makado was not staying by the Emperor's side, not overseeing the network war, yet had come to the palace entrance.

But seeing Makado's figure, the crowd's emotions, previously stirred by Xisi's incompetence, gradually calmed.

Makado, without employing any spiritual power, carefully read every page of the reports concerning Xisi before the crowd, then finally looked up, earnestly questioning the onlookers:

"Why... no details?"

Details?

The people below were taken aback, and Luogeduoen too; recalling the reports, it seemed they indeed lacked any details, merely stating how many of Xisi's forces were annihilated on the defensive lines.

"Um, since we're dealing with intercepted reports, it's normal they lack details."

Luogeduoen stepped cautiously, but Makado raised his hand, halting Luogeduoen's explanation.

"No."

"It's not that we failed to intercept; the Rebel Forces' transmitted intel originally contained no details."

Makado's statement was iron‑clad; Luogeduoen and the others exchanged bewildered looks.

As top talents of the Empire, they weren't foolish and understood what Makado meant.

He was implying the Rebel Forces were fabricating!

Because of the fabrication, there truly were no details to tell, or rather, no details they dared to tell!

Luogeduoen hesitated, for besides Xisi's calm, there was another reason they could choose to believe: the reports' issuers were not a single individual but many commanders from numerous Rebel Forces corps.

Luogeduoen cautiously reminded:

"If we follow the elder's meaning, doesn't that mean every commander the Rebel Forces sent to deal with Xisi..."

"... are all lying???"

"But the question is, why?"

Luogeduoen did not rebut directly, but posed a question back to Makado.

Makado, without any hesitation, answered immediately:

"Simple."

"Because Xisi's army is too strong!"

Upon hearing that, Luogeduoen was stunned, stared blankly at Makado for a moment, and then, together with the Terra crowd below, his eyes suddenly lit up!

By that measure, this truly is the most unprecedented ultimate decisive victory since our army's uprising!

Revenge Soul Bridge.

Standing below were Akeximande, Fulikes, and several other commanders from the Emperor's son, the World Devourer, and the Alpha Legion.

In front of them sat Fuguerimu, Angelon, Peitulabo and other Original Bodies.

At the same time, the figure who had just spoken those words was at the very top above everyone, holding a military report not much different from Terra's, and, with a cold expression, spoke.

Facing Helusu's attitude, Fulikes and the others below bowed their heads slightly, and a fine cold sweat inevitably beaded on their foreheads.

At the same time, with a sidelong glance at the few "comrades" beside them, their eyes held only the irritation that each of you could brag more than the last.

Because as these people's military reports arrived one after another, Helusu's side went from initial approval and satisfaction, to delighted praise, then to a sudden awakening; there was one most obvious fact that stood directly before their reports.

It was that Helusu held a military report in his left hand and pointed at the projection with his right.

That line representing Xisi and Helusu's front, how......

is getting closer???