Although Gu Hang didn't spell it out, his aning was clear enough: If you want it, go get it yourself; I've already given you the greatest help I can.
Erso decided to set aside so of his complaints about Gu Hang and focus on the battlefield.
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The relentless pursuit by the Fury Fla Battle Group indeed had a significant effect.
After suffering several defeats, Titus dared not continue the fight and fled.
Moreover, he couldn't dare to escape directly from the Snow Eagle Sector to the Jiaoshou Star District.
The Alliance Fleet, guarding the Capital Star, would have blocked him.
Though his main force was much larger than the Alliance's defending army in scale, he was not confident he could swiftly crush the Capital Star, which the Alliance had been fortifying for months.
If he beca mired in a protracted battle with the Alliance there and the Fury Fla Battle Group caught up to him, it would spell his doom.
At the Eagle Cry Star, where the Snow Eagle, Jiaoshou, and Thunder Dragon Sectors intersected, Titus only hesitated briefly before making a decision.
He fled towards the Thunder Dragon Sector.
Here, the human armies hadn't yet made a large-scale incursion. The main force of the Sect of chanics, countering from the Steel Fire Dragon Star Sector, had just conquered the Dragon Biter Sector and had not had the chance to block his northern escape route.
Using the Thunder Dragon Sector as a stepping stone, with just two jumps, he could reach the Thunder Elent Sector.
There, he once again faced a choice: he could head southeast through the Five Fingers Star to slip into the Jiaoshou Star District and then further flee north into the Kuoluo Sector, which would bring him back to his lair.
But that was risky.
Although Five Fingers Star wasn't fortified by the Alliance like Capital Star, it was still closer to the main Alliance forces. The Alliance had ample ti to deploy forces and assemble troops to cut him off before he could return to the Kuoluo Sector.
His pursuers at his heels were no longer just the Fury Fla Battle Group. The Mingyang Sect's Protection Army had also caught up. The chanical Ark of the Oil Heads had been destroyed by the Green Skins, and Foundry World's Jindi Star had faced invasion by the Green Skins. They harbored a deep-seated hatred for the Iron Tooth Beastn.
Another option was to continue fleeing north from the Thunder Elent Sector to the Barbarian Dance Sector. From there, he could directly enter the Jiang iyu Sector. The Barbarian Dance Sector had not yet seen human conflict, and of the four main sectors of the Iron-Tooth Clan, the Jiang iyu Sector was the only one the Alliance had not yet swept through. Both the training of troops and the Green Skins industry were well maintained there.
There, he had the best chance of making a coback.
Two plans: one high-risk but a fast return, the other a safe but long diversion.
What to choose?
Before he could decide, sothing that should have been anticipated, but that he absolutely did not want to see, happened.
Rebellion.
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Additionally, I need to explain that I hadn't originally planned to write the setting in the previous chapter, but so comrades ntioned earlier that they wanted to know the specifics of the Green Skins' ecology and growth and expressed confusion about the scale and potential of the Iron Tooth.
So I thought of adding so detail.
And yet I continue to be criticized…
I'll try to write less about settings in the future, and when the plot necessarily relates to such details, I'll keep it as concise as possible.
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Another note: This chapter introduces a lot of previously seldom-ntioned place nas, so I'll add a color-coded Star Map as an easter egg in a later chapter.
The yellow areas denote Imperial control, red areas denote conflict zones, green areas denote Green Skins territory, and blue areas denote Alliance control.
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