Scarbrow was pale as a sheet. Gritting his teeth, he said, “Boss, I'll lead these spaceships to bring up the rear and hold off Torii for a while. Quickly return to the temporary base, take our family, and escape immediately.”
Upon hearing that, the rest of the pirate leaders unanimously said to Toothless, “Indeed!”
“Boss, hurry back to the temporary base and gather everyone to escape.”
“We are risking our lives to intercept the fleet of the Gods, buying you time to escape.”
Toothless said with difficulty, “The Gods arrived too quickly and unexpectedly this time! We've let our guard down again. It's Torii in his Steel Wings this time around. We have over a hundred thousand people at our temporary base. We simply don't have enough time to evacuate. I think I might as well gather all my strength and have a showdown with Torii.”
The leader of the space pirates, Scarbrow, and his crew wore extremely grave expressions. The arrival of the Gods' fleet is sudden. If there's no time to escape, then the only option is for everyone to fight and give it our best shot.
Their band of space pirates, despite having hundreds of old spaceships, boasted a staggering number of a hundred thousand members.
However, it was not necessarily a match for the Steel Wings.
Even if they were to give it their best shot, they could only employ the wolf pack strategy and take down one or two of the enemy's spaceships.
If Torii felt that the cost of eliminating the pirate group was too high, unwilling to endure such a pyrrhic victory, Torii would retreat.
The space pirates thought they had to take a gamble.
After the order from Toothless was issued, in the distance, the temporary base launched a large number of spaceships. All the spaceships assumed a defensive formation.
The space pirates were surprised when the formidable Steel Wings did not rush to launch an attack on them. Is it because Torii doesn't take this motley crew seriously, or is there another reason?
At that moment, on the flagship of Steel Wings, the general-in-chief of Gods Air Force, Torii was standing shoulder to shoulder with his beloved wife by the window of the spaceship, overlooking Kytlas from a high vantage point.
The vast blue sea below, along with the various rainbows formed by the water vapor under the scorching sun, was as beautiful as a fairyland.
Nikolette nestled against her husband, whispering, “It's so beautiful!”
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