Outcast Omega Pampered by the Alpha General novel Chapter 144

Chapter 144 The Energy Blocks Are Gone

The message came from the Imperial Strategic Command Channel

The channel had been created by the Imperial Joint Military Staff, and only officers at general rank or above from each legion could use it to report frontline developments in real time.

“Notice. A sudden high-intensity cosmic particle storm has damaged the high-density energy-cell shield pods aboard five transport ships. All energy blocks inside those pods have failed. The next supply shipment is expected to reach the front in one day. All frontline commander’s, prepare accordingly.”

Orion said nothing.

Neither did General Marston on Gaia.

Nor did Lt. General Merek Straker aboard Ursus.

For a moment, the same suffocating question pressed down on every commander.

Without energy blocks, how were they supposed to last an entire day?

General Harper Sloane: “High-density energy-cell shield pods are built to protect against particle storms. How did they suddenly fail in the middle of one?”

General Harper Sloane: “What exactly were the transport crews doing?”

In the command channel, General Harper Sloane of the Sixth Legion opened fire immediately.

She was not only the Sixth Legion’s commander. She was also the only female Alpha among the Empire’s three currently active generals.

Imperial Strategic Command: “The specific cause is still under investigation.”

General Harper Sloane: “…”

General Harper Sloane: “Then what are any of you good for?”

Strategic Command went silent.

Harper had no one left to tear into, and the others in the channel had no words either.

Because the importance of energy blocks could not be overstated.

Mecha soldiers were the backbone of frontline combat. Without energy blocks, their mechas were close to useless.

If the only ones affected were Beta pilots, perhaps the front could still force its way through. After all, humanity relied heavily on spirit forms.

But could Alphas survive long in open space without mechas?

No.

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Chapter 144 The Energy Blocks Are Gone

They also needed mechas to enter space, reach the combat perimeter, and summon spirit forms near the front to fight insectoids.

Someone might argue that starships still existed.

But small starships could not match mechas in either mobility or direct combat ability. Once insectoids surrounded them, they could crash before rescue ever arrived, taking the Alpha inside straight into an insectoid’s stomach.

Gathering Alphas onto large starships would not solve the problem either.

Lower-rank Alphas had limited summon range. Put them too far back, and they lost all flexibility.

At that point, the defense line would not merely have holes.

It would leak everywhere.

And none of this changed the core fact.

The ruined energy blocks could not be recovered.

The next batch arriving in one day already meant the Empire was willing to burn a terrifying amount of energy to reopen ultra-long-distance jump gates.

For the front, the next twenty-four hours would be brutal.

“Move now.”

Orion drew a breath and gave Caleb Hayes his order without delay.

“While the energy blocks we still have can hold, kill as many S-class insectoids as possible. Cut down the enemy’s combat strength as much as you can.”

In his previous life, Orion had not taken part in this defense battle of the Fourth Legion.

But after waking from his coma, he had gone through the files of this campaign more carefully than any other battle.

Because Caleb Hayes, Laurie Rick, Zoya-

and more than a dozen senior officers from the Second and Third Legions had all died here.

Yes.

In his previous life, the reinforcements sent to the front had not been the Fifth Legion.

They had been the already devastated Second and Third Legions.

And it had not been because the military deliberately threw them away.

The Second and Third Legions had volunteered.

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Chapter 144 The Energy Blacks Are Gone

Back then, Orion had read report after report, watching comes he knew become death records, watching his officers torn apart or swallowed by insectoids in cold official language.

It had hurt so badly he could barely breathe.

But he had not understood why they had kept charging at the Demonflower Blood Mantis, wave after wave, as if they would not stop until it died.

Not until this life.

Not until he personally saw Helen’s simple but viciously accurate calculation.

It was not that Helen’s plan had been particularly brilliant.

Nor was it that commanders who had lived through blood and fire were too stupid to see his selfishness.

They had seen it.

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