Traveler of the River of Time and Space

Chapter 581 55: Orbital Descent

"They're here."

On an observatory in the Golden Palace, Su Ziyu slowly opened his eyes. He glanced at the golden-haired angel nearby and nodded slightly to signal, then turned to Empress Isabella behind him and said, "I'll leave the frontal battlefield to you."

"Alright. Leave it to us." Empress Isabella nodded with a resolute expression, then her figure, clad in a blood-red interstellar armor, floated down from the second floor.

Su Ziyu couldn't take over the command of the Empire Army; he was unfamiliar with the Empire's military system. His presence was akin to a trump card, only to be activated at the necessary moment to deal a fatal blow to Ook Orcs. Empress Isabella was the best choice for a commander, and only she could fully mobilize the entire Empire's army. Su Ziyu could not stray too far from the Golden Palace during this battle because when the situation became critical, he would have to enter the Mind Synchronization Center.

Empress Isabella looked back at Su Ziyu once, then lowered her icy visor and turned towards the distant plaza.

A massive army had already gathered there, almost pulling in all of the Empire's main forces. All of the Empire's cities had been sealed off because most Empire cities were established underground, serving as natural refuges. As long as the outer defensive system wasn't breached, then the civilians inside were temporarily safe.

Pathways were opened one by one.

As Empress Isabella boarded the Titan Level Queen main battleship, tens of thousands of fighters took to the skies.

The ground forces had already completed their assembly on the surface. Over a million soldiers were divided into twelve legions, deployed near all of the Empire's important cities, creating a defensive line stretching tens of thousands of kilometers. They couldn't determine where the Ook Orcs' first attack target would be, but the Empire forces with orbital deployment technology could dispatch supporting Space Marines to any corner of the planet within thirty minutes.

"Your Majesty the Empress."

"The outer space units have lost contact," an icy electronic voice sounded.

Upon hearing this, Empress Isabella nodded silently, her expression slightly bitter. The Empire's civilization path had been a leap forward; having accepted the ancient lost empire's inheritance, they had moved directly from a medieval civilization to an interstellar era, which resulted in their technology tree being incomplete, not having developed step by step upwards.

Under normal circumstances, the Empire could take thousands of years to complete these technology trees, but they hadn't had the chance to do so before encountering a terrible failure.

The failed Spiritual Ascension directly caused a huge gap in the Empire's technology tree.

The most significant gap was in the relevant interstellar navigation technology. They had no capability to build new interstellar battleships, which led to their total inability to fight a hard battle with Ook Orcs in outer space.

Fortunately, within this Crystal Wall Element, there were also two races that completely disliked space warfare and instead liked landing operations actively.

These two races were the Insect Race and Beastmen.

The Insect Race had strong ground combat abilities, and their flying units had to operate in planetary environments to exert their strongest power. The swarm's reproduction and energy sources relied on planetary resources. Once a prolonged battle erupted in outer space environments, the swarm would be significantly affected without sufficient energy supply.

Therefore, the first wave of the swarm's offensive always started by forcefully landing on the planet.

The Ook Orcs were also in a similar situation; they were quite confident in their ground combat abilities, a planetary environment being the most conducive to showcasing their racial advantages.

The race that liked space warfare the most was the legendary Spirit Race, but they hadn't appeared in thousands of years.

In the golden era, they were smashed by the Beastman Empire once. The massive Beastman forces forced their way forward almost brutally, thrusting into the Spirit Race's planetary interior, and endless Beastman troops directly flattened the Spirit Race's base camp.

In the heavens.

Burning flaming meteors descended from the sky, their numbers almost incalculable. Even during daylight, the meteor shower obscured the sky.

The Beastman main fleet was conducting orbital deployment, their battleships didn't directly enter the planet's interior.

Perhaps wary of certain existences, the Beastman launched a probing offensive first.

Yet even this probing offensive alone revealed the strain on the sky from the countless orbital pods — the Ook Orcs committed forces exceeding a million!

"Prepare to counterattack!"

Empress Isabella's figure stood within the captain's room; full-spectrum projections simultaneously appeared in hundreds of command rooms.

As her orders were issued, missile units stretching over hundreds of kilometers of battlefront began to operate frantically. Missile silos buried underground were opened, a massive quantity of missile units locked the targets with radar. Following an icy command issued, the flames raised by missiles in an instant lifted dust that obscured the entire battlefield.

Over two hundred thousand surface-to-air missiles launched almost simultaneously!

During the first probing attack, Empress Isabella did not directly use nuclear weapons but assessed the enemy's strength with conventional missiles first.

Rumble!