The Martial Unity

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The space war for the future of Gaia raged on as both sides began pushing themselves more and more to achieve their mutually exclusive operations. The Gaian space force fought like demons as their eyes blazed with a ferocious determination. Even the pacifist elves who despised war didn’t have a hint of reluctance on their face this time.

They put everything they had into unleashing as much of a destructive siege upon their enemies as they possibly could. There was no point in holding back when an alien army sought to destroy their civilization and world. They still had absolutely no idea what was going on with this strange jellyfish-like aliens that had come to their solar system, but considering that they wiped a part of their solar system out clean, along with the many people who worked in mining stations, space observatories, ships, and other space infrastructure, there was no doubt that this alien species was extremely hostile to them.

The dark elves and light elves of Genora set aside all of their activities, pouring their hearts and minds into offering what power they could offer to the hundreds of Mothers of Nature across the vast continent of Genora that led the war effort.

Mother Maeria closed her eyes, resonating with her fellow sisters as she experienced the Fear once more. It was a truly terrifying sensation, like she was staring into the eyes of an inhuman alien monster that merely saw her as prey to consume. It truly was everywhere.

It felt omnipresent.

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Her metaphorical heart beat hard as she couldn’t help but wonder if they truly understood this strange phenomenon as well as they did. They had ostensibly got rid of the alien virus that plagued their world, so why couldn’t she feel even the slightest hint of relief from the absence of fear?

She didn’t understand.

But it didn’t matter.

For now, she needed to protect the entirety of Gaia from this imminent threat that converged upon their world.

She pushed herself, straining her systems as she mobilized as much power as Genora facilitated, creating a tremendous flux of power that was teleported through wormholes from the continent to the array of sunflower-like long-range siege weapons and the blue-shift polarizers that made these attacks effective at all against the aliens.

It unleashed a tremendous rainbow-like beam of pure destruction at the alien laminar army.

“Fire!”

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

RUMBLE!!!

The very fabric of space and time boiled as the onslaught of attacks washed over the laminar warships and spacecraft. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

The devastating attacks proved to be impossible to completely negate. However, much to the chagrin of Mother Maeria and her sisters, the laminar army fared much, much better than they had hoped. The warships emerged damaged, but functionally intact. Their outer layers were slightly damaged, which meant that their sensory systems were slightly damaged.

Despite the polarization and the blue-shifting of light, the laminar ships had managed to absorb, refract, and dissipate much of the light energy that the elves hit them with. Electromagnetism was an extremely well-understood phenomenon at this point for both advanced civilizations. Even if the tricks that the elves deployed made it more difficult for the laminar army to defend against their attacks, it was ultimately still only light. Their systems were more than able to deal with the underlying phenomenon well enough that the laminar army could weather everything that the light elves could throw at them.

Scale was the biggest advantage that the elves had. Their technology was spread across the entirety of the surface of their continent, and they had the largest systems in place. But scale was not able to deliver them the effectiveness against a civilization that was clearly larger than they were.

The quality gap also further depressed any impact that the scale of their civilization would have on their ability to inflict any damage. It was truly frustrating for the Mothers of Nature, especially since the laminar army resembled a wave of frothy foam, filled with tightly-packed bubbles.

Bubbles that felt like they should have been easy to pop, but these bubbles were stubborn and extremely tough. The laminar army had superior siege weapons that unleashed devastating tachyon condensate beams that moved faster than the speed of light itself.

It was impossible to defend against, for they could barely sense the strange non-hadronic matter beams, but they were even more impossible to evade due to their FTL speeds.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

The powerful attacks ruptured Gaian warships and spacecraft at a faster rate than the laminar ships were damaged. In fact, the only reason that the war had not completely swept against them was the presence of the pathwalkers.

Especially the Martial pathwalkers.

“ATTACK!” Amare roared, leading an army of thousands of Martial Sages and tens of thousands of Martial Masters against a sea of laminar warships. “Don’t let even a single one of them get away!”

Her amber irises flared with a ferocious determination as she teleported from ship to ship, inflicting grave damage across their body.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

Her fist slammed into its elastic exteriors, permeating impacts deep across its body. Ordinarily, these ships were extremely resistant to blunt force, but in the face of the overwhelming concentration and permeation that she was able to mobilize with her every attack, she managed to inflict deep fissures across the entire body of the warships.

With a single attack, she managed to destroy an entire warship.

The Martial Sages following her weren’t nearly as efficient and powerful, but groups of Martial Sages each targeted one warship after another, causing it to rupture with their concentrated attacks.

The ships were not built with the intention of facing hyper-powerful infantry that weren’t that much larger than normal laminar integument infantry. They were built to withstand massive energy weapon systems that could be expected to be wielded by the warships of a sufficiently powerful civilization.

But this was the first time they had come across a civilization whose infantry seemed to match their siege capacity, something that was otherwise unfathomable to the laminar army.

The miscalculation was the one and only hope that Gaian civilization had against a much, much more advanced alien civilization.