"..."
Robin continued staring calmly into the distant horizon, his gaze fixed ahead without shifting despite everything unfolding around him.
Over the past several hours, the attacks of the space beasts had intensified at times and subsided at others, rising and falling in waves, but the Imperial Guards had handled everything without the slightest lapse or hesitation, maintaining their positions and dealing with every new assault with the same strict discipline.
At one point, a young space beast had even thrust its enormous head through the gate and begun attacking wildly in every direction, but the massive arrays surrounding the area immediately stopped the assault from spreading, while the planet's solid ground endured the resulting impact, and most importantly, the envoys of the Cosmic Academies on the other side managed to lure the beast away after only two attacks. Apparently, they had then finished it off quietly without allowing the situation to escalate any further.
