"How many waves has it been?"
In the virtual war room, Artrea looked at the message he just received and asked.
"It's the 98th wave!"
"Good heavens. A wave of 17 black cavities. Hundreds of dark energy crystals have been consumed just like that. And it was done in less than five hours?"
Artrea felt his scalp go numb as he calculated in his mind.
After all, even when the Divine Light Civilization controlled the source of dark energy, they only had 3,000 crystals in storage after more than 100,000 years.
Look at the Sun River Empire's consumption …
It seemed that Amras was also gambling, but he picked the wrong opponent. Lin Fan had told them that even if the Sun River Empire opened 10,000 black tunnels, the Federation would have enough dark energy crystals to destroy them all!
Artrea could not help but sympathize with Amras. Of all the opponents, he had to choose the Federation, which had an extremely unreasonable amount of dark energy crystals …
"I think … the frontline can slow down the attack depending on the situation!"
"Slow down the attack? Shouldn't we eat the remaining fleet of the Sun River Empire as soon as possible?"
Hearing Lin Fan's sudden suggestion, Artrea and Rotavius were a little confused. They did not know what Lin Fan was trying to do.
"Don't you think that we should let this war of attrition last a little longer?"
"After all, there aren't many opportunities like this!"
"Hiss …"
The moment Lin Fan said this, both of them came to their senses.
He was going to continue tricking Amrys until he had used up most of his dark energy crystal reserves …
In five hours, the Sun River Empire had used up 1,666 dark energy crystals. However, the Sun River Empire had stolen almost all the reserves of the three super civilizations. Although it was not as exaggerated as the Federation's, it should still have tens of thousands of dark energy crystals.
In this way, if they wanted to trick the Sun River Empire into using more dark energy crystals in this war of attrition, the Sun River Empire's frontline fleet could not suffer too many losses. Amras would probably not continue to compete. They had to show him that there was still hope at the frontline.
In order to do this, as Lin Fan said, the fleet had to slow down the attack and give the Sun River Empire's fleet more time to survive.
"Alright, I'll go and inform the frontline fleets!"
Since he understood Lin Fan's intentions, Artrea no longer hesitated and nodded.
Then … He went to make the arrangements.
On the battlefield, the Sun River Empire's fleet had been reduced from the initial 20 plus divisions to around 12 divisions.
In just over a day's time, they had lost half of their fleet. The remaining fleets were also scattered in various star systems, each fighting their own battles.
Originally, according to this situation, they would only be able to hold on for another day and a half at most.
But suddenly, the Alliance fleet slowed down their attacks. Unlike their previous frenzied attacks, they began to advance steadily.
This caused everyone to be somewhat astonished …
However, the two possibilities had already been analyzed by the think tank and presented to Amras.
First, the Alliance already had victory in their hands. Thus, they no longer needed to use a crazy method of attack that had high casualties and was a race against time. Thus, they changed to a more stable attack plan with controllable casualties.
Second, the Alliance was confident that they would obtain the final victory in this war of attrition. They wanted to prolong the war so that the Sun River Empire would invest more dark energy crystals.
Third, they deliberately created an illusion to make the Sun River Empire think that the Alliance had enough reserves to win this war of attrition, thus forcing the Sun River Empire to withdraw.
It had to be said that a super civilization was not made up of fools. The two results submitted by the head think tank, Korlak, were quite accurate.
In the first place, Lin Fan had two considerations when he came up with this plan.
Of course, dragging the Sun River Empire to continue competing with the dark energy crystals was definitely the biggest consideration. But at the same time, this would indeed reduce the casualties on the Alliance's side.
After all, the previous strategy was to completely annihilate all of the Sun River Empire's fleets in the shortest time possible, and this strategy would definitely result in more casualties.
Now that they no longer needed to compete with time, they could naturally choose a less costly strategy.
Looking at Korlak's report, Amras was a little uncertain.
Although there were three possibilities, the first two could be seen as the same possibility.
The first possibility mentioned in the report was based on the premise that the Alliance would be able to defeat the Sun River Empire in a war of attrition with the dark energy crystals.
Otherwise, the first possibility would not even be mentioned.
Then, with the 11,000 dark energy crystals that the Sun River Empire currently had, would they be able to exhaust the Alliance first?
Or was it just like the third possibility, where everything was just a setup? The Alliance could not hold on any longer, so they purposely put on a show to make the Sun River Empire withdraw from this war of attrition?
At this moment, Amras was a little hesitant.
"Korlak, what do you think?"
"Your Majesty, I think the third possibility is more likely, and I think that the Federation's dark energy crystal reserves are most likely from the Alfate civilization!"
"The Alfate civilization?"
Amras was a little surprised. After all, all the previous guesses were that the Federation had obtained the ruins of a civilization that was hundreds of thousands or even millions of years old.
"Yes, Your Majesty. When we first took over the Alfate civilization's territory, we did not find their dark energy crystal reserves. Plus, humans are a branch of the Alfate civilization …"
"Therefore, if our previous guesses are correct, the Alfate civilization has indeed left the Cang Dragon universe. Then, if they want to leave the dark energy crystals for someone before they leave, it is most likely to be the humans, who are a branch of their civilization!"
"Although the Alfate civilization's need for dark energy crystals is very small after they evolved into energy lifeforms, no matter how we calculate, this reserve should not exceed 500,000!"
"Although this is a terrifying number, the Federation's consumption is also very high. Just the Nerkenia Supercluster alone, they used up tens of thousands of dark energy crystals. After that, they used up a lot of dark energy crystals to transport the Milta devices to the universe every day."
"Lastly, the humans were able to increase the level of data analysis of the black cavity to the same level as our empire in a short period of time. The amount of dark energy crystals consumed in this process is also extremely terrifying. At the very least, it will not be less than 300,000."
"In addition to the consumption in other aspects, our think tank has made a bold calculation. Currently, the human reserves of dark energy crystals should be less than 50,000!"
"So, I think the third possibility is more likely, which means …"
"The Alliance is deliberately doing this so that we will voluntarily give up on this war of attrition …"