Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan

Chapter 404 - 54: The Allied Forces Assemble, The Gods Hold Council

The vast Star Sea!

At this very moment, in a barren expanse of the Star Sea—the designated rendezvous point for the Giant Demon Empire and the Star Empire—a multitude of Space Gates hung open.

From these portals, large and small, a massive number of Starships were pouring through.

Over a thousand of these Starships belonged to the Star Empire.

These Starships were divided into ten squadrons, and the lead vessel in each squadron was nearly fifty kilometers long.

Within these Starships, vast armies of Low, Middle, and High Tier Transcendents from the Star Empire rested in their designated quarters.

Take the smallest class of Starship, for example.

A single twenty-kilometer Starship could easily house one hundred thousand troops from the Empire Army Department.

This was not even counting the Starship’s escort of over one hundred thousand Aerospace Fighters and its drone swarms, which numbered in excess of five billion.

For this joint operation, the Star Empire had mobilized nearly three-tenths of the Empire Army Department’s total military power.

A total of 300 million soldiers from various races were deployed!

That’s right. This was no joke.

For the Star Empire of today, mobilizing three hundred million people, while costly, was no longer a significant undertaking.

After all, the Star Empire’s total population had already surpassed fifty billion.

However, while this might mean little to the Star Empire, the terrifying military might on display truly stunned the Giant Demon Empire.

The Giant Demon Empire’s own mortal military forces were by no means weak.

After all, the Giant Demon Empire had previously succeeded in conquering an entire Mechanical Armor Civilization.

In that Mechanical Armor Civilization, mecha armor was divided into five Levels.

They were: Ordinary Level Armored Suits, Fine Level Armored Suits, Excellent Level Armored Suits, Saint Level Armored Suits, and Mythical Level Armored Suits.

An Ordinary Armored Suit could grant a mortal the power of a Peak Low Tier Transcendent.

A Fine Level Armored Suit allowed a Low Tier Transcendent to wield the baseline power of a Peak Middle Tier, and could even unleash a burst of High Tier power.

An Excellent Level Armored Suit enabled a Middle Tier Transcendent to maintain the power of a Peak High Tier, and could even unleash a single strike with power comparable to the Saint Tier.

As for Saint Level Armored Suits, they allowed a High Tier Transcendent to wield the baseline power of a Saint Tier Peak. Furthermore, by accumulating energy, they could unleash a burst of power on par with a Demigod.

Mythical Level Armored Suits were even more terrifying. They could grant a Peak High Tier Transcendent the baseline power of a Demigod. Moreover, at the cost of the Mechanician’s own Life Force, they could unleash a Law Level Ability comparable to that of a True God.

Although the Mechanical Armor Civilization’s home world was low-magic, their mecha armor technology was nothing short of terrifying.

That was precisely why the Giant Demon Empire was locked in such a desperate struggle during their Mortal War, to the point where they even considered retreating.

Fortunately, the Giant Demon Empire ultimately persevered!

After a grueling war of attrition that lasted nearly one hundred and fifty years, they finally depleted the Mechanical Armor Civilization’s reserves of Middle-High Tier Transcendents.

They even shattered that world’s ecosystem. Only then were they finally able to claim victory.

The victory was hard-won and inflicted grievous casualties on the Giant Demon Empire.

This was why the Giant Demon Empire had instituted a national policy of two hundred years of rest and recuperation.

However, only a hundred years had passed.

Now, with the Giant Demon Empire’s Emperor successfully breaking through to the Star God Tier, the stage was set for this joint operation between the two great empires.

A hundred years had been more than enough time for the Giant Demon Empire to fully reverse-engineer the Mechanical Armor Civilization’s technology.

Furthermore, the Giant Demons had been studying the technology even during the war with the Mechanical Armor Civilization.

As a result, the Giant Demon Empire was also able to field a mecha armor legion for this joint operation.

Unfortunately, the technology was limited by a certain core material found only on the Mechanical Armor Civilization’s home planet.

Therefore, the mecha armor legion was not particularly large.

A Giant Demon mecha armor legion, one hundred thousand strong.

It included thirty Mythical Level Mecha Armor Pilots.

Five hundred Saint Level Mecha Armor Pilots.

Ten thousand Excellent Level Mecha Armor Pilots.

Thirty thousand Fine Level Mecha Armor Pilots.

And sixty thousand Ordinary Level Mecha Armor Pilots.

This mecha armor legion was transported aboard the Giant Demon Empire’s Interstellar Spaceships.

The Giant Demon Empire had also mobilized a thousand Interstellar Spaceships for the occasion, but in terms of tonnage and scale, they were a far cry from the Starships produced by the Star Empire’s Intelligent Brain Anita.

Furthermore, the Giant Demon Empire had only mustered about ten million conventional troops.

Thus, the gap between the modern Giant Demon Empire and the Star Empire was now immense.

Whether in terms of population or technological development, the Giant Demon Empire had fallen far too behind the Star Empire.

Therefore, when the armies of the two Empires finished assembling, even the Giant Demon Empire’s ’Military Governors’ for the war between civilizations seemed somewhat taken aback.

Without a doubt, these Military Governors were the Deities from the Giant Demon Empire’s Divine Council Hall.

"Three hundred years..."

"In just three hundred years... the growth of this Empire is truly terrifying!"

"But fortunately, we chose to ally with this nascent Empire from the very beginning."

"And this time, if all goes well, our alliance with the Star Empire will become even stronger!"

"So, even if the Star Empire eventually grows to a level where we must look up to them in awe, we will still be able to enjoy the benefits of our alliance."

"We can see this in how the Star Empire treats its other ’ally’—the so-called Oakland Civilization."

At that moment, a Giant Demon Deity gazed out at the Star Sea, speaking his thoughts aloud with a mixture of emotion and relief.

"Alas, I know saying this might damage the Empire’s morale."