The Ancient One said with a tired sigh.
"It's not gonna be an easy war after all"
Erskine was confused by this and asked.
"What do you mean?"
But Eldrin was the one who answered.
"They have called reinforcements" and continued.
"A war of attrition is no longer possible."
Beyond Eldrin's detection range was a fleet of 40 million stationed there in case of an emergency. It was rapidly closing the distance; it will probably take half a day for them to join the battle.
Erskine then said with a grim expression.
"Our fleet is here, including the allied civilizations. I'm afraid casualties cannot be prevented."
Sebastian glanced at the silent Eldrin, knowing full well what was going through his head.
Eldrin sighed and said.
"You need to save your strength for the incoming fleet. I will lead the custodians to eliminate as many spaceships from the current fleet as possible."
Erskine nodded and gave the order, and after 20 minutes, the custodians arrived. Over the years, they have reached a staggering number of 10 thousand, with 20 mutated ones leading them. Naturally, they could all fly due to their telekinesis and have a total oxygen supply of 12 hours, excluding the fact that they can hold their breath for a long time.
Eldrin spoke loud enough for anyone to hear, his voice defying physics.
"We will launch a risky assault on the enemy fleet, taking out as many of them as we can, but worry not you will not die because I will be there" he was already wearing his master crafted dark armour and held his scythe.
He then covered all ten thousand custodians with cocoons made of darkness and teleported along with them right in the middle of the alien fleet, also creating a hundred thousand shadow clones, and then started throwing huge dark slashes made of darkness indiscriminately, but there was a trick at play; the slashes of darkness weren't made solid until they phased through the force field and after.
BOOOOOOM!
The custodians also started destroying spaceships indiscriminately with their telekinesis, along with the hundred thousand shadow clones that used darkness manipulation to destroy them from the inside.
The enemy didn't even have time to react to the sneak attack, and they couldn't exactly fire at them without hitting their own.
Inside the motherboard, the alien leader stood there, his face filled with defeat,his legs had turned to jelly.
His subordinate shouted.
"Sir! Our troops are getting massacred! What is your order!?
The leader answered loudly his voice filled with helplessness.
"What exactly can be done!? They fucking teleported in the middle of our damn fleet!? We can't shoot them without destroying our troops, our force fields are not strong enough to endure a constant barrage of our weapons, and they need time to cool down!"
But then he sighed and gave an order.
"Just fucking fire, use our strongest weapons for all I care just eliminate them!"
The fleet started blasting the Custodians and Eldrin's shadow clones, but most attacks missed hitting the force fields of many spaceships of the fleet, though the force fields held for now.
Eldrin while fighting, was simultaneously teleporting all ten thousand custodians away from the blasts or creating thick shields made of darkness protecting them.
After a few hours of the fleet hitting absolutely nothing except the shadow clones, their numbers were reduced to 2 million; it was just too much for them. The one hundred thousand clones were teleported too close, leaving little to no time to destroy them; the shadow clones were the ones who caused the most casualties, the second place was taken by the enemy fleet itself,the constant barrage of their own blasts on the force fields eventually destroyed them, the third place belonged to the custodians, they mainly used telekinesis to destroy the spaceships from the inside, and then threw the remnants at other spaceships, damaging them too.
After 2 more hours, the fleet was gone and thanks to Eldrin's Herculean efforts, there were no casualties among the custodians, but their injuries varied; some even lost limbs, others were one punch away from death, but all that could easily be treated with regeneration serums, Eldrin covered all the custodians with cocoons made of darkness and teleported them away to the human empire fleet stationed near earth.
After the custodians were teleported, immediately after spaceships started heading towards them to take them away from the battlefield.
Eldrin started teleporting the millions of spaceship debris or remnants to the human empire fleet, and hundreds of arcs started collecting them.
In the human empire fleet, there were 4 giant ships, their size comparable to the sanctuary now in possession of the human empire. One was pith black with a panther's symbol, the other was ocean blue, shaped like a whale with a giant trident symbol, the third was a mix of black and white with a lightning bolt symbol, and the last one was a magnificent golden, with a white human skull symbol.
A war unlike anything before is drawing near, there will be casualties, there will be death, but humanity will prevail, now more powerful than ever, united and in its full glory.
Eldrin, with his hand behind his back, looked at the incoming fleet, his black magic reserves almost full. His eyes glowed purple; the incoming enemy fleet could see a gigantic shadow holding a scythe, its eyes glowed purple, ready to unleash death and destruction upon its foes.
Another 3 figures were about to unleash their might upon the enemy fleet, the ancient one, Sebastian and Erskine himself.