Chapter 1149: Fight or Retreat?

As the empire is now short of main fleets, and most of them are deployed around the imperial capital for defense, only local fleets are stationed on the border.

It was almost on the verge of collapse. Even three days couldn't stop it. The four universes close to Sbet had all fallen.

Also destroyed were twelve local fleets.

You know, now the entire Terry Empire has only five main legions and thirty-two local legions.

The twelve legions, even if they were just local legions, definitely caused great harm to the Tedi Empire.

If this was just a punitive battle, we would have ended here.

But unfortunately, what Lin Fan is going to fight is not a war of punishment, but a real war of civilization destruction.

After capturing these four universes close to Sbet, the alliance fleet did not stop for a moment, but directly split into eight routes and spread out in all directions.

For this expedition, the Federation supplied all of the newly manufactured black cavity transport devices in the past three years to the Alliance's expeditionary fleet.

It is precisely because of this that Lin Fan so boldly used the tactic of dividing his troops, and one division equals eight routes.

Even if the Terry Empire and the White Church do something to a certain alliance fleet, the other seven fleets can be quickly deployed or supported by black cavity transmission.

For a time, most of the empire was in panic.

Why say most of it instead of the whole?

This has to do with the White Church's hundreds of millions of years of missionary experience, which is truly amazing.

In less than a hundred years, more than one-third of the empire's population had been converted into loyal believers, and in fact many of the empire's high-ranking officials remained faithful throughout their lives.

In this regard, even Ye Hua, who had other plans in mind, underestimated the White Church.

As a result, it is easy for the alliance to conquer a universe, but it takes a lot of time to completely conquer a universe.

There are even many planets where the Holy See is thriving, and they have to be completely slaughtered. Even if there is only one person left, even if they have no weapons, they must fight to the death.

During the battle, the Alliance discovered that these White See believers were all commanded through the White See's base camp in Kunsa Realm, which was Ye Hua's former fiefdom, the Hualuoth Universe.

Therefore, in order to completely shatter the pillars of faith of these White Church believers, Lin Fan directly ordered four of the armies to assemble, bypass other universes on the way, and go straight to the Hualuot Universe, the White Church's base camp in the Kunsa Realm.

Lin Fan and the other three legions continued to divide their troops into four groups and continued to advance along four routes, eventually gathering outside the Trovas Universe where the capital of the Terry Empire was located.

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In fact, differences began to arise within the White Church.

Should they send a large number of troops from the Sera Realm, and then fight a decisive battle with the alliance led by the Federation in the Terry Empire, or should they directly withdraw the army back to the Sera Realm and then make plans?

At the cross-border communication conference, Pope Ziegler, Cardinal Paulina, and two other archcardinals had been discussing for a whole day, but still had not made a decision.

Unlike the Black Church, after obtaining the former outpost of the Great Xia Federation, the White Church not only obtained some intact equipment and made great progress through reverse research, but also learned some truths about the Black Cavity consciousness from some of the data it recovered.

Of course, these things are only known to Ziegler himself.

As for the person who analyzed this information back then, he had long been cleared out by the Pope of that generation, and after that, this secret was only passed down orally among each generation of Popes.

Therefore, Ziegler would not be so crazy as to force his opponent even if he knew that the opponent was stronger than him.

However, although Ziegler would not do that, the other people in the White Church were not like that. They were still extremely loyal to the Black Cavity consciousness and believed from the bottom of their hearts that this was the only true God in the Black Cavity.

No, there is one exception.

That is Ziegler's wife, Paulina, one of the three cardinals of this term.

Paulina is also the only person who has known this secret in tens of millions of years, and she is not the Pope.

"Paulina, if I give you another twenty Holy Legions, how confident are you that you can win this holy war?"

"There is no certainty, Your Holiness!"

"Paulina, what you just said is very dangerous. The Crusaders are the apostles of God. How could they be defeated by the pagans?"

A male cardinal, after hearing Paulina's answer, started to scold her.

"Do you think that a pagan that possesses the eighth or even ninth generation black cavity engine and masters black cavity transmission technology is an ordinary pagan civilization?"

"Or do you think that to deal with such a civilization, we only need to praise the Lord of Darkness a few times and they will all self-destruct?"

After being confronted by Paulina, the archbishop was stuck. He wanted to say something but couldn't.

"Before you speak, think about it. Have you ever thought that even the Black and White Church has not mastered the black cavity transmission technology? Or do you think that our White Church has developed to a level that is stronger than the Black and White Church?"

"Also, think about the fate of the Black Church. They were also apostles of the Lord of Darkness in the Black Chamber, but what was the result?"

"No one was completely wiped out. Even their Cardinal Elicher is still in the hands of humans. The information in his brain has been completely dug out!"

"If you think we can win, then I am willing to give up my position and let you command the Crusaders to fight this battle. How do you think?"

Paulina was so unreasonable that she left the male archbishop speechless with almost every word she said, and even his face turned blue.

"Eldo, although we are God's apostles in the Black Chamber, this does not mean that we are invincible. The fate of the Black Church has proved this, hasn't it?"

"In my opinion, letting the Crusaders go to die knowing that they will lose is the greatest disrespect to the Lord of Darkness!"

"God's power is not meant for us to waste meaninglessly like this!"

Ziegler's sudden words made the Archbishop named Eldo's face suddenly look ugly.

But even if I were not poor anymore, I couldn't say anything.

Didn’t you say that the Crusaders are God’s apostles and there is no way they could give civilization to the pagans for nothing?

What about the Black Church?

This can't be explained!

"Your Holiness, have you made a decision? Should we fight or evacuate the Kunsa Realm?"

"If I fight, even if I know I will lose, I will fight with all my strength until the last moment!"

"If we are going to retreat, we have to do it as soon as possible. According to the intelligence I have obtained, the Canglong Alliance has already assembled a large army, bypassing other universes on the way and heading directly to the Hualuot Universe."

Seeing that Eldo didn't speak, Paulina continued to ask Ziegler.

"Evacuate, do not fight recklessly, and do not destroy the Crusaders in vain!"

"In addition, you have to leave some people behind to ensure that after you evacuate, the cross-border device in the Kunsa Realm is completely destroyed. Never let this thing fall into the hands of the pagans!"

After a moment of hesitation, Ziegler finally made the final decision.

"Yes, Your Holiness!"