Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!-Chapter 954 - 669: Seventh Legion!

Under the witness of everyone, Xu Ruoguang instinctively felt a strange voice emerging from the depths of his soul.

The words sounded like some sort of oath, or perhaps a kind of spell.

"I am the Black Light Spirit, I am the Seventh Legion of the Human Empire! The Light of Humanity, Eternal!"

The Black Beast, who was presiding over the ritual, looked at Xu Ruoguang in surprise but said nothing more.

Only Catherine, standing by and observing, smiled, "This child is quite interesting."

Bai E squinted his eyes but remained silent.

Xu Ruoguang's voice carried some kind of spiritual energy wave, definitely not something casually made up on a whim.

But it's not important, trust those you use and don't use those you doubt.

The words he once said to players are still unchanged to this day.

He can accept the occurrence of all things, whether good or bad...

The Black Beast, having finished presiding over the ceremony, approached Bai E for instructions, "So, please grant this brand-new legion a new identity, Lord Bai."

"Ask him," Bai E nodded in the direction of Xu Ruoguang, who seemed to be in some sort of contemplative state not far away.

"Leave it to him?" The Black Beast looked at Bai E in surprise, feeling this lord seemed overly trusting... even indulging Guang.

"Leave it to him."

Upon being asked the same question, Xu Ruoguang hesitated for a moment before blurting out a word, "Seventh Legion!"

The Black Beast tilted their head slightly, "What?"

According to what Catherine said, these pirates might form the first armed force under Lord Bai's command... If not for starting from such a low point, they wouldn't have used a bunch of pirates as the foundation for a regime.

So in this situation, you call this legion the Seventh Legion?

Then what about the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth?

Do you just love being the seventh?

Stared at by the Black Beast, Xu Ruoguang came back to his senses, scratched his head, and laughed, "Isn't this sound impressive... Even if the enemy can defeat us, they'll think we have at least six more legions like us."

"6" The Black Beast had nothing to say.

But anyhow, the first space fleet force of the now New Bauhinia, and the first space fleet of Mine Star, was established here.

A legion composed purely of pirates who had forgotten their past memories and now firmly believed they were a regular army defending their homeland.

"Go home."

...

Since hastily fleeing from defeat, this was the third day Xing Zhuo had returned to the Thousand Stars Commerce Alliance.

In the battle against the Bug Race, the coalition forces of the Peak Alliance suffered a complete defeat.

Out of a total of eighteen main battleships, only twelve returned.

Nearly half were lost, and this was under the premise that the bugs seemingly had little desire to pursue.

Otherwise, with their ability to seal high-dimensional spaces and their astonishing burst speed, it remains uncertain whether half of these twelve battleships would return.

Their result was merely a "suspected" destruction of a biological mega-ship of the Bug Race... This result cannot even be confirmed.

In realizing they couldn't achieve total victory, the officers responsible for frontline tactical command ordered a near-mad concentration of fire upon one of the Bug Race's biological ships.

According to their saying, even if defeated, understanding the limit of these bugs was crucial.

There could be another hidden meaning... Even if defeated, they wanted to at least destroy one biological ship of the opponents, to maintain a bit of the military's dignity, and could be packaged as mutual destruction, opting for a tactical retreat to prevent excessive loss.

Unfortunately, up until their retreat, they could only observe the ship they concentrated fire on to have more than half of its body battered.

For human warships, such injuries would surely amount to destruction, but for Bug Race biological ships with such terrifying self-repair ability, this level of "injury" might not be considered lethal.

Regardless of how the battle report could be embellished in grammar, the naked truth was presented without any disguise before all council members of the Peak Alliance.

This battle shattered the pride of the alliance and raised the awareness of the Bug Race threat among the alliance members to a new level.

Due to tactical empowerment, Xing Zhuo, the overall commander, had not faced much trouble upon returning, and even some of his conservative proposals were faithfully recorded, only to be vetoed by those warlike and ambitious officers, now ironically becoming one of the few figures worth praising in this battle.

But as for the honor and disgrace happening to himself, Xing Zhuo did not care much anymore.

The constant stream of debates ringing in his ears was so loud it made his head dizzy.

Three days since he returned, three days the council debated.

Their debate was over how to face the Bug Race next?

Should they continue to concentrate the alliance's power for a life-or-death confrontation with the few Bug Race biological ships?

Or report to the Star Alliance, requesting their support?

Or perhaps ignore them until the Bug Race biological ships show more aggressive intentions?

Each party had its reasons, and each had its pros and cons.

Initiating a decisive battle, regardless of win or lose, would result in unimaginable depletion of the alliance's strength.

Winning would be somewhat better, but losing could result in the alliance fading from the universe altogether.

Reporting to the Star Alliance?

It's uncertain whether the Star Alliance would intervene, considering their efficiency, by the time they dispatch troops from the Galaxy Center, the situation regarding the Bug Race biological ships would have changed unknowingly...

Or seeking aid from nearby large forces?

The fate of those Bug Race biological ships is uncertain, but the alliance's demise is guaranteed.

Until the Bug Race biological ships demonstrate threats that could annihilate humanity and become a universal enemy, no human force would stand on the same front line with the alliance.

Seeking help would risk being exploited severely.

As for ignoring them?

In the universe, any action requires foresight.

Just like how these bugs approached their competition planet without notice, what if one day they silently showed up near the home planet of a member country of the alliance?

Would asking for help from other forces or reporting to the Star Alliance then be feasible?

Or would he then try to rally the entire alliance's power to build the strongest armed force, perhaps too late.

More importantly… who dares to say those five Bug Race biological ships are their entire strength?

And more discouragingly, so far, no one dared to bring up this crucial point in the council.

Witnessing all this, Xing Zhuo suddenly conceived a thought never previously harbored—

The alliance is doomed.

This organization is too old, too bloated, and too inefficient.

A big ship struggles to turn; confronting an external invader like the Bug Race suddenly, they've lost the ability to resist.

Where is Bai E?

What is he doing right now?