As the demon legion fleets began to withdraw by degrees.
Behind their fleets a point of light appeared of a sudden, and this point of light bloomed on the instant.
And thereafter a vast interstellar warship appeared out of thin air.
"Reporting to the Commander and General Charlotte — the Hades has entered her battle position!" Xue Xiaoxiao's somewhat excited voice reached the ears of Zhao Chen and Charlotte.
The hunter, who had waited long since, showed her fangs at last.
"Begin," Zhao Chen said calmly.
There was no need of a word of instruction.
Xue Xiaoxiao had known before this what she was to do.
For which she had waited above a day.
Before this, the Hades in her charge had merely roved about the front line making a show of herself, and then withdrawn to the rear to refit.
"Sword of Hades — start up!"
As Xue Xiaoxiao's order went down, the great bow cannon of the T5 Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought began to charge.
"Reporting — that T5 interstellar warship of the Owl Dragon Legion's called the Hades has appeared of a sudden in the direction of our fleets' withdrawal, and is starting up a weapon of high danger!" the adjutant reported at once to Marshal Red Demon.
Marshal Red Demon's face darkened. "This cursed crew! Pass the order down; make ready to answer the enemy's attack. When the enemy's attack is done, go on with the withdrawal!"
At this moment this Marshal Red Demon could only pray that his own fleets' losses might be lessened somewhat, and that his demon legion fleets might get away so far as they could.
Upon the other spectators' benches.
The three high-order angels were shaken to the depths at this moment.
Because of the astonishing combat capacity of those two T5 classes the Owl Dragon Legion had used.
And now they saw that T5 interstellar warship of rumor jump straight to the rear of the demon legion fleets.
And from an onlooker's vantage they found besides that a great quantity of interstellar battlecruisers and interstellar cruisers upon the Owl Dragon Legion's side were attempting a penetrating attack upon the demon legion fleets' formation.
And leading these assault fleets were the Owl Dragon Legion's T5 Lightning-Wraith-class Heavy Assault Interstellar Cruisers!
They would join at the last with that T5 Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought across the way.
And before that, this T5 Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought's powerful weapon of rumor came forth.
A vast beam of light was fired out, destroying outright every demon interstellar warship along the path of attack — and moving besides, slowly, in the fashion of a sword, drawing a handsome arc.
Within a very short time it cleared away 99 percent of the demon interstellar warships within a stretch of that compass.
"Past all belief… this weapon… how did the Owl Dragon Legion research it out? How should they possess such technology?" The high-order angel Berkeley cried it out, unable to believe the sight before him.
The high-order angel Jessie cast an eye over it, and by her own intuition arrived straight at a figure. "In one shot only. Above 10,000 demon interstellar warships destroyed! And a T5 Terror-Blade-class Medium Interstellar Battlecruiser gravely wounded among them."
So great a killing tool!
Let the Angel Race ask themselves — had they such a thing?
Though this gravely wounded T5 Terror-Blade-class Medium Interstellar Battlecruiser had not fallen upon the spot, her star-shield energy was spent, and there was upon the hull an exceedingly deep wound, as though a sharp sword had pared it, with some tens of compartments to be seen laid open.
In such a case this T5 Terror-Blade could hardly escape falling.
"I never thought that in a bare day and more. The Owl Dragon Legion would make the demon legion fleets give up the attack and choose withdrawal." The angel Tilia looked at a data panel beside her recording the two sides' battle losses in real time.
Upon it were written the two sides' losses in the rough at present.
The Owl Dragon Legion had lost some 11,000 interstellar warships, among them above 100 T4s.
Set against that, the demon legions' loss data.
Their losses at present had reached 150,000 demon interstellar warships, among them five T5 Terror-Blades destroyed and two gravely wounded; and near 40,000 T4 demon interstellar warships destroyed besides!
Though by the numbers the demon legion fleet group had a vast quantity of interstellar warships still.
Yet after the fighting before, the demon legion fleet group's elite fleets and main-battle interstellar warships might be said to have lost above half outright!
Which, with the angel legion fleets beside them eyeing them as a tiger eyes his meat.
Made it no wonder the demon legion fleet group should choose to withdraw.
And now, the state of the field.
Because of the T5 Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought's astonishing showing, and with the round of counter-attack the Owl Dragon Legion had launched — an attacking line led by the T5 Chaos-Knight-class Heavy Assault Interstellar Destroyers, which had not until now come upon the stage — the defense was turning to the attack.
Which left the demon legion fleet group's working somewhat in disorder; they were all carrying out the order to withdraw, but as to how to withdraw, it was a wretched confusion.
"It is our turn to put out a hand," the angel Tilia said at this point.
The high-order angels Berkeley and Jessie both looked, as at one thought, toward the angel Tilia across the video window.
"Since we were asked here to help. With so vast an advantage as this, were we still not to put out a hand, it would show our Angel Race in far too small a compass. The Owl Dragon is, after all, our Angel Race's ally." So saying, the angel Tilia gave her orders on the instant. "The Rose Angel Legion to support the field's left wing; the Tempest Angel Legion to support the field's right wing. My Principality Angel Legion will penetrate the enemy's formation and make more confusion yet. Eat up as many demon interstellar warships as may be!"
"Yes!" The two high-order angel commanders at once began setting their own legion fleets into the fighting.
Having watched so long, they had long been past holding in.
The angel Tilia, watching the angel interstellar warships go out, looked without thinking toward that Owl Dragon Military Base.
Perhaps that man had foreseen all this long ago.
And known that she would choose to go out, once she had judged the whole board.
Or even… that he was likewise sifting whether this ally of his was truly worth having for an ally.
There was truly no seeing through that man.
With the angel legion fleets' joining, the demon legion fleet group's collapse grew swifter yet.
At the outset the demon legion fleet group put up some resistance still.
But as more and more T4 demon interstellar warships were destroyed one by one, the situation was in the main past control.
And the Ghoul Legion and the Balam Legion, who had taken part in this, withdrew each for himself with no thought whatever for the Red Demon Legion.
Which fairly overturned the scale of this war.
What followed was a hunting game all one way.
An angel and a great dragon were hunting the fleeing demons.