Zyth nodded, completely siding with the Rear Admiral, as what he said was indeed the truth of warfare. But the next words from the Rear Admiral stumped him completely.
"But not only was the Mecha fine—it was completely unharmed by our attacks, standing there perfectly functional in the void of space.
And then, unlike what we expected, the enemy Mecha began preparing a move of its own. Through my spiritual senses and our mana detection devices, we saw it drawing an immense amount of ambient mana toward itself..."
As he spoke, the Rear Admiral brought up a projection, showing them the scale of what the Mecha had done. The image showed something like a ripple in water; but where a ripple usually originates from one point and expands outward, the reverse was happening here. The ambient mana was being sucked toward the Mecha like inverted ripples, covering an area of over 50 km in space. Though that distance was small compared to the vastness of the cosmos, it was still staggering.
