Chapter 1619: Chapter 608: Strategic Shift

People always have to pay the price for everything they have done.

Liu An is dead.

Died due to a sudden mechanical failure that triggered the warship to self-destruct.

It was just so "coincidental," as if it was a fabricated story.

At the time of Liu An’s death, Ren Zhong was hastily moving with the Red Blade Army’s main force through a Fold Jump Subspace Channel.

Earlier, the Red Blade Army was suddenly ambushed by a Mother Empress lurking near their route.

If not for an old Fold Jump Subspace Channel set up by the ancient Empire, active in the past but abandoned due to the birth of the Star Gate, the thriving Red Blade Army might have faced total annihilation.

Before fleeing, Ren Zhong barely had time to send a report to the Mechanical Empire’s core, then abandoned his plan to the dispersed star group, leading the entire fleet to change route and head straight for the Jade Plate Star Domain through the old channel.

The report submitted by Ren Zhong mentioned only two situations.

The Cosmic Information Monitoring Department of the Red Blade Science Academy had discovered that years ago, the Alliance Command Center in the Southern Third War Zone, which was supposed to covertly rendezvous, had released an encrypted information stream of unknown content into the cosmos.

Back then, the command centers of both the Far Border Star Domain and Red Blade Army had sent inquiries to the Alliance in the Southern Third War Zone.

The Alliance reinforcements explained that Liu An was testing a new information stream communication mechanism.

The command centers of the Far Border Star Domain and the Red Blade Army accepted the Alliance’s explanation and filed the incident.

However, a few years later, the covert advancing route was exposed, and the Red Blade Army was ambushed by a Mother Empress.

Without a doubt, Ren Zhong was betrayed.

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Liu An ultimately managed to "evade" the Empire’s interrogation.

His method of "evasion" was ingenious; he chose to die.

The flagship Liu An was on unexpectedly self-destructed, causing nearly complete destruction of the Liu Family foundations laid by Nanxiang’s Earldom.

Incidentally, Sena Romanov, who was out with Nanxiang’s fleet, nominally as an envoy from Duke Wenle Mansion responsible for overseeing the assets sponsored by Duke Wenle Mansion for Nanxiang’s Earldom, was also burnt to ashes.

Undoubtedly, this was a major catastrophe.

The only good news is that the Red Blade Army handled it well, taking prompt actions to pivot into an abandoned channel almost forgotten by the Strategic Information Support Officer of the Empire’s Intelligence Bureau, perfectly avoiding the fatal strike of the Mother Empress.

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The Mother Empress at this moment was bewildered.

It was puzzled too.

Even though its move was extremely covert, ultimately cautious, evading all detection devices of the Mechanical Empire, occupying positions beforehand to avoid Red Blade Army’s investigation, it employed many exotic creatures with quantum poison stinger properties to completely shield its energy fluctuations.

Unless physically collided with head-on, this Mother Empress almost impossible to expose its whereabouts.

The universe is so vast, even with its enormous size, it becomes a mere speck in this vast expanse without collision.

Hence, the Mother Empress’s actions remained absolutely hidden.

But unexpectedly, incidents still occurred.

When the Red Blade Army was passing by its flank, it tore away the camouflages abruptly, exposing itself, preparing to fire concentrated antimatter warping bombs at the center of Red Blade’s formation, intending to ignite them simultaneously to create a short-lived star, consuming the Red Blade Army.

However, the Red Blade Army, initially appearing in standard cruising formation, seemed prepared.

Despite appearing to be in low power cruising status, nearly a hundred million large, medium, and small ships had their power systems active, charging under high load.

Moreover, a large batch of super heavy kinetic bombs had already been loaded, with their gun barrels locked onto the position of the Mother Empress from the start.

At the moment the Mother Empress revealed itself, nearly a hundred million ships of the Red Blade Army simultaneously fired, launching countless super heavy kinetic bombs.

These kinetic bombs might not hit the Mother Empress, but they provided enormous launch kinetic energy to the Red Blade Army’s ships, greatly enhancing the fleet’s ability to accelerate and move towards a unified direction.

Subsequently, these kinetic bombs exploded consecutively, releasing a large number of massive fragments, forming a wall of shockwaves between the Red Blade Army and the Mother Empress.

The Mother Empress’s antimatter strike missed, and it watched helplessly as the massive formation of the Red Blade Army orderly plunged into the nearby subspace channel, escaping.

Yet the Mother Empress did not readily give up on its target, swiftly deploying its Elevators’ army around the Jade Plate Star Domain, advancing crazily, poised to swallow the Jade Plate Star Domain whole, with the real target being the various entrance points of Fold Jump Subspace Channels surrounding it, determined to capture the Red Blade Army.

In the core of the Mechanical Empire, the Royal Family along with ministers and generals expressed furious outrage at the sudden attack on the Red Blade Clan, indicating that under no circumstances should the Red Blade Marquis Ren Zhong be abandoned, nor should the Red Blade Clan be allowed to be annihilated.

Especially Ivan Romanov, Duke Wenle, in charge of intelligence work, declared angrily, vowing to get to the bottom of the matter, uncover any spies within the Empire, and ensure Nanxiang Marquis and the Liu Family continue to face consequences as a warning.

Meanwhile, multiple key departments including the Regent Prince Mansion, Empire’s Chosen One Guard, Administrative Department, Supreme Military Department, and the Royal Academy of Sciences jointly issued a document.

This document briefly introduced the current situation of the Red Blade Army and preliminarily described the dynamics on the Elevators’ side.

Just after the Red Blade Army had barely escaped, the entire war front across Three Domains witnessed simultaneous mobilization of the Elevators’ army.

A massive number of Elevators’ army was converging towards the Jade Plate Star Domain via the Fold Jump Subspace Channels already established behind the war front across the Three Major Star Regions.

Even though it’s only a beginning, it is evident that the main strategic goal of the Elevators has already shifted.

Clearly, the Elevators have obtained detailed intelligence on Red Blade Marquis Ren Zhong, recognizing the enormous potential of this Sequence Chosen One and his tribe, shifting the primary aim of this campaign from weakening the Mechanical Empire to targeting Red Blade Marquis.

The significance of the new strategic goal outweighs the old one.

The Red Blade Army abruptly transitioned from a core participant in the Three Domains War to becoming the undeniable focal point.

"Red Blade Marquis’s loyalty and talent are beyond doubt. I propose formally establishing Red Blade Marquis Ren Zhong as the new Chosen One! The Royal Academy of Sciences will fully open its technological reserve to Red Blade Marquis, all Star Domains must unite to provide resources and troops to assist Red Blade Marquis! The Empire needs Red Blade Marquis, and Red Blade Marquis needs our help! The voting begins now."

This was Regent King’s original words, representing the Mechanical Empire’s timely strategic shift.

Duke Wenle was the first to cast a favorable vote for the Regent King’s proposed new policy.

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