Chapter 989: The Reversed Battlefield
The farewell banquet ended quickly. The Three Pearl King-ranked Tie Ruo led his elite army and set off. The Fifth Extermination Campaign was launched with overwhelming momentum.
In addition to the Ruò Iron Tribe, the Ancestor Court had also dispatched armies from a total of sixteen other King-ranked clans, amassing several billion troops in an effort to completely annihilate the human resistance forces in one decisive strike.
Though the Ruò Iron Tribe had only dispatched a limited number of troops, every soldier was among the elite. They were designated as the assault vanguard. As the commander, the Three Pearl Kings-ranked Tie Ruo held a prominent position within the command structure of the Fifth Extermination Campaign. The fleet departed and headed toward the Southern Third Ring Sector in the Ancestor Court galaxy.
There were six naturally inhabited planets in that sector. Four of them had already been occupied by the human resistance forces. This area had become one of the primary strongholds of humanity.
After leaping through the stargate, the fleet successfully arrived at the Southern Third Ring Sector ten days later. The Ruò Iron Tribe's forces then merged with the main extermination army.
By then, the war had already begun. The command center of the extermination campaign adopted a steady, advancing formation, concentrating over sixty percent of its forces on Crabclaw Planet in the Southern Third Ring Sector.
Crabclaw Planet was the largest of the four natural life planets held by the human resistance, and it also served as the frontmost line of defense. It was rumored that three of the Five Marshals of the resistance were stationed there.
The battle was extraordinarily brutal. The human resistance had set up countless formations and self-destructing asteroid belts around the outer orbit of Crabclaw Planet, preventing the Reaper fleet from approaching directly. The enemy was forced to rely on high-stage beast hordes to break through the defenses at the cost of tremendous casualties.
The overall commander of the extermination army was Huokduo, the youngest elder of the Flywheel Clan and a graduate of the Ancestor Court's Evolution Academy.
He held another significant identity. He was one of the 3,600 disciples of the Ancestor of Wisdom. The Flywheel Clan was a super clan no less powerful than the Ruò Iron Tribe. It had been one of the first King-ranked clans to follow the Ancestor of Wisdom.
As such, even someone as powerful as the Three Pearl King-ranked Tie Ruo maintained a proper level of respect when dealing with Huokduo.
The starmap within the command center shimmered brilliantly. A three-dimensional virtual star chart vividly displayed the positions of both allied and enemy forces. The red zones represented territory occupied by the human resistance.