In the past two months, the number of Alliance Warships entering Comoros has reached fifteen hundred.

This directly doubled the presence of the Human Navy in Comoros, thwarting the Dark Spirit Race’s attempt to swiftly annihilate the human ’invaders.’

The Human Fleet managed to tenaciously maintain its presence, not to mention launching attacks on other regions, at least safeguarding Queen Rose Port from being attacked by the Dark Spirit Race’s navy from the void outside.

And this is by no means the limit for the Alliance Fleet.

At the moment, in the real universe, the number of human warships queuing to enter through the gate is more than fifteen hundred!

It’s just that the seven gates are too small!

On average, a battleship takes over an hour to pass through the Veil Spirit Gate.

The warship enters from the real universe, as if into a void space, slowly rising. During this process, on the other side of the Veil Spirit Gate, in the void of Comoros, the silhouette of the warship gradually emerges until it fully solidifies.

This process is also the most dangerous phase. The warship squeezing through the Veil Spirit Gate to Comoros is quite vulnerable. It can be hit by firepower from both sides of the Spirit Gate, yet it cannot retaliate, and the Void Shield cannot be activated, relying solely on the armor and hull strength to withstand.

The Spirit Race warships do not have such difficulties when crossing the Veil Spirit Gate.

On one hand, their warships inherently have some technology and equipment suited for traversing the Veil Spirit Gate, speeding up the process. Moreover, a more critical aspect is that they build the Veil Spirit Gate as large as they need for their ships.

The seven small and medium-sized Spirit Gates previously used by human warships were not initially designed for massive battleships. Forcing them through means the medium-sized gates can barely accommodate them, but with a much longer traversal time.

Fortunately, at first, with the Terra Expeditionary Army fleet guarding, and the Spirit Race being caught off guard by their Spirit Gates being opened and utilized, their counterattack came a bit late, allowing the first batch of Alliance ships to pass through smoothly.

When several battleships managed to enter, the defense intensity for the Veil Spirit Gate by humans increased significantly.

Subsequent Alliance Warships that crossed became smaller warships.

These don’t take as long, often taking just a few minutes, or a little over ten minutes for one to come through.

With more warships entering, the defense for the Veil Spirit Gate and the entire Queen Rose Port was greatly strengthened.

Following this, some transport ships could come through.

Batch after batch of Alliance troops arrived in Comoros aboard ships — Ji Hao and his Dawn Messenger Battle Group were among the first.

Shiploads of supplies were also delivered, and the Terra Expeditionary Army, which was cut off from supplies, received an immense boost, returning to full vigor like parched land rejuvenated by a rainstorm.

In naval battles, due to the still insufficient number of ships and the adamant need to guard Queen Rose Port and prevent any disruption to the Veil Spirit Gate, they dared not launch reckless outward assaults.

On the other hand, the army had relatively ample numbers.

They began to be dissatisfied with merely defending Queen Rose Port and started advancing on Comoros through land.

They encountered many problems still.

The mechanical and artillery units of the humans struggled to operate effectively.

Urban warfare is like this, especially in Comoros, which can be likened to extreme urban warfare.

Narrow paths and alleys concealed numerous enemies. Moreover, the Dark Spirit Race is quite adept at stealthy special operations.

Often, when heavy Armored Divisions and Titans paved the way to conquer a large area, and the artillery managed to find a spot for fire support, the Dark Spirit Race’s defense lines appeared as fragile as paper during this stage, easily breached.

However, the Dark Spirit Race’s living troops didn’t suffer significant losses. They would scatter to various places, seemingly retreating but actually regrouping in different districts and alleys.

With organizations like cabals, families, and associations as grassroots structures, even as few as dozens or hundreds of them could maintain organization, engaging in guerrilla warfare, occasionally launching attacks on specific locations.

Unlike typical guerrilla warfare, this was a racial conflict, with no ’civilians’ among the Dark Spirit Race in human eyes; all living creatures were considered legitimate targets.

This eliminated concerns over collateral damage among the populace, no longer hindered by international perceptions, with none of that stuff to worry about.

See them, kill them.

The Dark Spirit Race’s ambushes and guerilla tactics solely relied on their familiarity with complex terrains to launch surprise attacks and retreats.

This truly suited them well.

Ordinary human soldiers compared to ordinary Dark Spirit Race soldiers had a disadvantage on numbers, but individual combat abilities were indeed superior.

Even the most common Dark Spirit Race soldiers could reach T3 level among human soldiers.

This level of proficiency wasn’t common among human troops.

As human forces pushed further, occupying more and more territories, the hidden units of the Dark Spirit Race within their territories naturally increased.

They were trapped in a stalemate, engaged in a relentless battle of clearing and counter-clearing house by house, floor by floor, even room by room in the complex urban combat zones.

In such battles, tanks and artillery were not very effective, with both sides pitting their light infantry against each other.

In terms of casualties, human forces suffered more.

This forced the human side to lessen their offensive, even retracting their occupied areas.

Until they found some good solutions, they could not expand their controlled areas.

Currently, with the scale of Comoros as it was, the human-controlled areas didn’t even account for one percent.

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"The Alliance’s military involvement isn’t even one percent."

Faced with the query from the Son of God, Alliance Commander General Xiong Lei responded with this sentence.

The Son of God smirked slightly.

What he meant earlier was that he intended to call it off.

The confrontation with the Dark Spirit Race was not part of Robert’s plan. The fight ensued purely due to the Dark Spirit Race’s aggressive attacks, dragging them into Comoros.

For the Terra Expeditionary Army, this was evidently an unexpected disaster. Brutal battles resulted in numerous sacrifices and many ship losses. Yet, there were gains as well—contact was established with the Alliance, supplies were replenished substantially, and Robert was lobbying for the possibility of the Alliance dispatching some battle groups, Star Realm Army Groups, or naval warships to join his expeditionary force.

However, these discussions had yet to be brought up.

The first step was to cease the war against the Dark Spirit Race.

During the two months of conflict, the Dark Spirit Race, after realizing they couldn’t capture Robert and Gu Jing, sent emissaries several times expressing the intention of a truce.

Robert obviously despised these abhorrent aliens, but in his rational assessment, ending hostilities seemed reasonable.

Do they truly have enough forces to conquer all of Comoros?

It’s challenging.

The priority was, after all, saving Holy Terra, which hadn’t been rescued yet—and however much one wanted to obliterate the aliens, prioritizing correctly was vital.

Destroying the Dark Spirit Race surely ranked below rescuing Holy Terra.

However, the Alliance had differing opinions on this matter.

As the highest commander for the Alliance on the Comoros battlefield, General Xiong Lei disagreed with Robert.

For the Son of God, this was quite a novel experience.

Neither ten thousand years ago nor upon his revival years later had he ever witnessed a mortal commander directly confronting and rejecting his suggestions.

"Is this your opinion, or Gu Hang’s?" He posed the question.