154: Chapter 154 The Enemy's Attack

"What terrible news!"

Xia Xingchen leaned back in his seat; it was clear that the current situation felt like it was spiraling out of control.

Xia Xingchen's dream star quickly returned to Lanshan Planet.

Upon returning to Lanshan Planet, he did not rest for a moment and immediately summoned Ma Pingliang.

Ma Pingliang promptly brought an urgent intelligence report from the Department of Military Affairs.

"The Lux Civilization has begun to expand rapidly."

Xia Xingchen stared at the glaring red characters on the report.

"Maximum Alert."

The base camp of the Lux Civilization is known as the Lux System.

This planet is located in an unexplored star system, and according to some probe reports, the entire system is territory belonging to the Lux Civilization.

Xia Xingchen read the annotations; every planet, regardless of whether it was habitable by human standards, was teeming with Lux Civilization soldiers.

After finishing the report, Xia Xingchen immediately asked:

"Is there any other information besides this?"

This intelligence only indicated that this civilization had a large population, but it could not be used to judge the extent of their threat.

Xia Xingchen leaned back and said:

"So, is there any other intelligence?"

Ma Pingliang shook his head upon hearing this; the content was simply too sparse, and the intelligence they possessed was limited to this.

Just as Xia Xingchen and Ma Pingliang were preparing to discuss how to face the Lux Civilization, an official hurriedly knocked on the door.

Upon seeing Xia Xingchen and Ma Pingliang for the first time, the official was visibly frightened.

Xia Xingchen merely stared at him.

Seeing this, Ma Pingliang quickly asked:

"What happened? Why are you so flustered?"

Ma Pingliang's tone carried dissatisfaction; it was clear that he was discussing major matters with the Archon, and barging in without a valid, urgent reason would be difficult to justify.

However, the official had a valid reason, and he stated the most critical situation currently at hand.

"Archon, Lord Ma Pingliang, the Vanad System is under attack."

Xia Xingchen and Ma Pingliang were stunned upon hearing this. What did it mean that the Vanad System was under attack? Shouldn't it have been the Daxia Star System?

All along, Xia Xingchen had placed the focus of defense on the Daxia Star System, and everyone believed that the Lux Civilization would target the Daxia Star System.

He hadn't expected them to turn and attack the Vanad System instead.

One had to know that the defense of the Vanad System was far inferior to that of the Daxia Star System, and Vanad Planet only had old defense platforms that were still under repair.

It could be said that the entire defense of the Vanad System consisted only of the space station and the space fortress not far away.

Upon hearing this news, Xia Xingchen stood up without hesitation.

If the Vanad System were lost, Xia Xingchen would suffer massive population losses.

Without any hesitation, Xia Xingchen immediately handed all remaining matters to Ma Pingliang to handle, while he led the Star Imperial Guard to support Vanad Planet immediately.

Vanad Fortress

This fortress was built by the Empire and served as a barrier to protect Vanad Planet.

Unfortunately, ever since the Empire pacified the entire galaxy, the successive governors of Vanad had never repaired it, causing it to gradually fall into disrepair.

It wasn't until the Transmigrator faction renovated the fortress.

However, they only restored about fifty percent of the fortress's functionality, and the remaining parts still required significant manpower and resources, which was when Xia Xingchen took over.

Under the funding and manpower deployment of the Administratum, after nearly twenty years of continuous repairs and modifications, the entire space fortress was brand new, equipped with Nova Cannons and Fire Snake defense platforms.

Vanad Fortress

Stationed here was the 1st Regiment of the 1023rd Division.

Commander Ke Li of the 1st Regiment of the 1023rd Division watched the battle screen, observing a massive warship where steel and flesh were fused together, existing as something that looked both like a living creature and yet not.

All along, this warship had been attempting to approach the fortress, using its main cannons to bombard it, but it had been forced back by the Nova Cannons and laser cannons on the fortress.

Seeing that they could not destroy the massive space fortress with their warships, the Lux Civilization dispatched a large number of flesh-like landing pods, deploying troops without limit in an attempt to force their way onto the fortress.

Furthermore, their fighter aircraft were also special biological fighters.

Creatures resembling pterosaurs could be seen continuously charging toward Vanad Fortress.

At the same time, they spat sulfuric acid from their mouths, which could easily corrode a soldier's armor, melting the person along with their entire bulletproof vest into blood.

Therefore, the soldiers on the fortress gave this creature a name: Sulfuric Wyvern.

The defending company commander had just repelled a wave of Lux Civilization landing forces; at this moment, the flamethrower units were continuously using fire on the fortress to scorch those flesh-like landing pods.

These flesh-like landing pods were similar to capsules, and usually, each landing pod contained only one Lux Civilization soldier.

After the landing pod reached the surface, it would automatically rupture, allowing the soldier inside to storm out.

The reason for completely destroying these landing pods was that Xia Xingchen's soldiers discovered that these pods also served logistics and resupply functions.

Soldiers had witnessed a heavily wounded Lux Civilization soldier run to a landing pod and insert his severed arm into the pod.

Then, in just a few short minutes, the severed arm was restored to its original state.

Therefore, these capsules immediately became the primary targets for the soldiers.

When the last capsule was roasted into rotten flesh by the flames, the soldiers had not yet had time to breathe a sigh of relief when one soldier pointed to the sky.

"Look!"

When the company commander looked up, a large number of landing spores, accompanied by Sulfuric Wyverns, began a new round of frenzied attacks.

Reacting faster than the soldiers were the Fire Snake defense platforms; those artillery platforms fixed on the extended areas of the fortress for outer perimeter aerial defense opened fire immediately.

A massive amount of laser fire began to form a dense net of firepower, holding back the Lux Civilization's Sulfuric Wyverns and landing capsules.

The Lux Civilization's Sulfuric Wyverns and landing capsules were pierced directly by lasers in space before they could get close to the fortress, turning into blobs of free-falling flesh.

Some of the wyverns relied on their speed and aggression to reach the vicinity of the gun turrets without hesitation.

The spitting of corrosive fluid instantly corroded the entire turret into scrap metal.

"Return to your respective posts and prepare immediately."

As the words fell, everyone immediately returned behind the iron-forged defensive line, aiming through the firing slits.

The company commander carefully observed the distance between the enemy forces and himself through visual range.

When they arrived within firing range, he immediately roared with all his might:

"Fire!"