The office was silent.

Everyone stared blankly at Margaret. This girl with light golden hair had a pair of eyes like light green agate and a breathtakingly beautiful face. Her skin, under the light, was as white as milk, delicate and smooth. Her neck was so graceful. The tiny earrings on her earlobes added a touch of allure.

She just stood there quietly, her well-fitting uniform wrapping around her slender figure. Every inch of her body lines was intoxicatingly pleasing to the eye.

This was a fairy crafted by the universe itself. However, the words from this fairy’s mouth brought a devil’s curse!

Sobel launched a full-scale attack!

This news left everyone present stunned. They looked at each other, their eyes filled with uncontrollable fear.

Everyone knew what this meant.

The Fei Alliance and Western Alliance camps were far from reaching the point of a decisive battle. This war was just entering its middle stage. The war fire was spreading across the entire human map, with both sides doing their best to chip away at the opponent, gradually accumulating victory. At this time, everyone should have been tacitly competing back and forth in the corners, but unexpectedly, Sobel directly brought this war into a brutal showdown.

Once the Binart Empire launched a full-scale attack in the Karsdon Galaxy, the Feiyang Republic would undoubtedly respond in kind. The war fire would soar skyward as if doused with kerosene.

By then, the Resk Star System and Karsdon Galaxy would be the two great dragons on the chessboard. Both sides would fiercely slaughter each other around these two dragons until one side completely fell; no one could stop it, and no one could control the course of the war. It would be an all-out battle of life and death, a relentless struggle to the end. You can imagine how much strength both sides had concentrated on these two places. The clash of these two forces would be extremely brutal.

What happened, why did Sobel do this?

Russell’s fingers moved back and forth on the interstellar map again and again. After a moment, he turned his gaze to the dumbfounded Fatty.

"Me?" Fatty shivered, pointing his finger at his nose.

Russell sighed and nodded. In fact, Margaret had already given the answer. The fuse was the battle in the Longbow Star System!

It’s important to know that long before Douglas’s surprise attack on Blue Stone Star, Sobel had already dispatched the Hanfrey Fleet and Desic 5th Fleet to strengthen the military power in the Southeast Star Domain. Such a secretive maneuver of such a massive fleet was clearly not intended to attack the Newton Star System. At that time, the Southeast Main Channel was under their control; Sobel’s target was the Resk Star System.

He wanted to exhaust the living forces of the Fei Alliance in Resk, turning this star system into a meat grinder.

When Hastings became critically ill, when the Fei Alliance’s strength was depleted, when allies like Suss and Jiepeng exhausted their last bit of strength, he would personally lead Binart’s invincible fleet eastward into the Karsdon Galaxy, aiming straight for Feiyang Capital, Hydefield. Sweeping through thousands of troops across the universe, accomplishing a magnificent achievement. By that time, the Binart Empire would become the sole overlord of the universe.

But no one expected that even before the curtain lifted on the Southeast Star Domain battle, the cunning Hastings had already planted the Feiyang 19th Group Fleet in the Longbow Star System.

Douglas’s successful surprise attack on Blue Stone Star completely disrupted Sobel’s strategic plans.

The attack on the Longbow Star System by Hanfrey was based on the importance of maintaining the open Southeast Main Channel. It was the necessary route to the Resk Star System.

Originally, with the strength of the Hanfrey Fleet, taking the Longbow Star System should have been easy. Neither Sobel nor Mikami Yuto nor Hanfrey himself doubted this. At the time of Blue Stone Star’s fall, Hanfrey happened to arrive at the Southeast Star Domain; in any case, it seemed like the favor of the Goddess of Fate.

But who knew the Hanfrey fleet would be defeated? The appearance of a mixed army completely changed the outcome of the entire campaign. Not only did Hanfrey lose, but he also lost all his warships. With the rise and fall of power, the Longbow Star System ended up firmly in the hands of the Fei Alliance!

Perhaps the complete defeat of the Hanfrey Fleet was just a simple loss. Though painful, the Western Alliance could endure. They could slowly stabilize the situation and plan for the future. The impact on the grand strategy was not significant. However, Mikami Yuto took advantage of Hanfrey’s attack on the Longbow Star System, mobilizing the main forces of Jiepeng to converge with the maximum forces available from Suss for a surprise attack on Resk.

The surprise attack was highly successful, and Mikami Yuto’s strategic thoughts were not wrong. But the mistake was that his actions were based on the assumption of Hanfrey’s victory!

This one win and one loss made the entire war situation complicated.

With the addition of the bandit army and ten A-class fleets of Douglas in the Longbow Star System, at least in the short term, the Western Alliance’s desire to open the Southeast Main Channel was impossible. And without the Southeast Main Channel, Sobel’s strategic plan, targeting the Resk Star System with two prongs of attack, became a single path.

The main forces mobilized by the Suss and Jiepeng Empires still maintain the upper hand for now, but as time goes by, they will inevitably face the full counterattack from Chuckna. If the Feiyang Republic joins in, then relying solely on the Suss Empire’s jump point to Resk will not be enough to support the entire Fei Alliance Joint Army’s battle in Resk. Regarding both logistics and reinforcements, relying solely on a single jump point, the Western Alliance will be treading on thin ice.