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After Atlas accepted Xandar's order, he immediately pointed out the major loopholes in Xandar's defense and suggested that they transfer more forces back to protect the capital planet.

Nova did so. As the supreme ruler of the Xandar civilization, she had the right to act arbitrarily during wartime. She would accept all of Dane's suggestions as long as they were reasonable.

Therefore, when Ronan arrived at the home planet of Xandar again with the All-Powerful Hammer inlaid with the Power Stone, he found that the army at his disposal could not break through the joint defense line of Atlas and the Nova Corps.

With the Power Stone, Ronan can indeed easily destroy a fleet. If there is no equal energy to offset it, even the most impregnable defense line may collapse.

However, it so happens that Atlas has such power.

When Ronan launched the Power Stone to attack the combined fleet, the first wave of offensive did achieve some success.

But when he was about to repeat his old trick, Cortana pulled the Rainbow Bridge to the battlefield in time, counteracting the destructive energy of the Power Stone's burst.

In addition, the remaining energy of the Rainbow Bridge destroyed a large number of Ronan's Necron spaceships and warships, causing him heavy losses.

This forced Ronan to retreat temporarily to avoid the sharp edge of the Rainbow Bridge.

The Allied forces thus achieved a temporary victory.

They successfully kept the enemy out of their home planet and maintained the dignity of Xandar.

If Ronan were to really break into Xandar like in the movie and cause significant damage, the damage to Xandar's image would be devastating.

But after that, Ronan changed his strategy.

He no longer hoped to destroy Xandar in one go, but chose to gradually eliminate Xandar's power.

Although the Xandar civilization claims to own millions of planets, its ruling form is more like a confederation, so it has an opportunity to take advantage of.

This time, Atlas could no longer act as a firefighter like before, because Ronan was fighting guerrilla warfare himself, and the ordinary Atlas could not compete with him head-on.

Moreover, Atlas is just a mercenary, not a territorial army, so there is no reason for him to spend a huge price to help the Xandar people defend their vast territory.

There are millions of worlds, and it is full of uncertainty where Ronan will appear. This situation is more favorable for Ronan who can advance or retreat.

He could easily rob Xandar of his supplies to strengthen himself. As long as he wasn't as anxious as before, Ronan could easily slowly wear Xandar down.

Even after the robbery, Ronan used the Power Stone to directly destroy several planets, killing billions of people.

This instantly made him the most vicious criminal in the known universe, even more evil than Thanos.

This is also due to the fact that Shandar has too few available legions, and it is difficult to gather a strong army to compete with Ronan for a while.

Now that Ronan has obtained the Power Stone, he is like a fish in water on the battlefield. I heard that even Thanos has not given him much face recently.

As Ronan became more and more rampant, Nova had no choice but to find Dane and seek deeper cooperation.

Dane temporarily put aside the matters in the Void and immediately set off for Xandar, where he met Nova Supreme in the headquarters base.

"Great, Dane, you're finally here."

Nova stood up to greet him and led Dane into the military meeting room.

"Ronan is becoming more and more rampant. After destroying several agricultural planets, he has begun to extend his hands to industrial planets."

"How many did he get?" This information was not stated in the message.

"Five, including two relatively important dock bases." A senior executive of Nova answered.

Because of Atlas's performance in recent times, the Nova Corps' senior leaders have a relatively good attitude towards Dane, and no one is stupid enough to question him.

What's more, his height and physique are extremely intimidating.

"It seems that your only option is to take the initiative." Dane immediately saw the crux of the problem.

"Ronan intends to gradually erode your manpower, and even use your strength to strengthen himself."

In the mainstream civilization circle, interstellar technology is basically interoperable, and Ronan can use anything he robbed from the industrial planets.

With his current achievement of 5.3, I am afraid that even the planet of Hara, which is in the midst of a civil war, will give him support.

If Ronan continues like this, his fleet will grow larger and larger until its total size surpasses Xandar and Atlas.

"That's what we're worried about," Nova said worriedly.

"So we asked you to come here to discuss whether Atlas can assist us in completely eliminating Ronan."

Nova reveals her and the Nova Corps' intentions.

Ronan put too much pressure on them. In just a few days, he captured several important industrial planets one after another, which shocked everyone in Xandar.

The strong sense of crisis forced her to find a way to deal with Ronan as soon as possible, but the Nova Corps could not pose an effective threat to Ronan. With the Power Stone, he could destroy an entire fleet alone.

But Nova heard that Dane had easily defeated Ronan, which made her put her hopes on Dane.

Chapter 1090: Crusade against Ronan

"Take the initiative?" Dane showed a subtle smile under his mask.

"Supreme Nova, this is different from what we originally agreed upon."

So far, the contract signed between Xandar and Atlas only stipulates joint defense when Ronan's fleet attacks Xandar, and does not include active attacks or counterattacks, especially Atlas's main attack.

Not to mention, this time Nova wanted Dane to do it himself. This was a completely different price than before.

Now is not the beginning. Atlas needs to make a name for itself and take the initiative, especially against Ronan. This is a huge business risk.

"This will be a new contract!" Nova understood what Dane meant. The job can be done, but the money has to be increased!

"Is this still a technology transaction?" Nova asked.

Except for the first time when Atlas took the initiative to rescue the planet Michel and paid star coins, the other times Xandar paid were basically technical data.

Moreover, Atlas showed a strong professional attitude, did not ask for additional compensation, and did not ask Xandar to bear more expenses that were not their responsibility.

Atlas even completed the repair of warships, rescue of personnel, and logistical supplies on its own.

Xandar has existed in the known universe for many years, and has never seen mercenaries as worry-free as Atlas. They only need to pay the wages and all other troubles will be solved by themselves.

This is also the important reason why almost no senior leaders of the Nova Corps objected to Nova's proposal for further cooperation.

If all mercenaries could be as professional as Atlas, they would not be opposed to hiring them.

Shandar has nothing now but money.

This is also a good opportunity for Dane.

"Then I hope you can open up the trade of military technology."

"This..." Nova hesitated, "We need to discuss this matter."

"Of course. I will return to the fleet immediately to plan a surprise attack on Ronan. If you have made a decision, you can inform our liaison immediately."

Dane's decisive style is exactly what Nova admires now, and her inclination has shifted somewhat.

"Don't worry, it won't be long."

Dane immediately returned to his own cross flagship and went straight to the conference room.

There, several military commanders and researchers were already planning how to intercept Ronan's fleet.

In fact, even if Xandar did not agree to the deal with Atlas in the end, the latter would still take the initiative to attack.

Because the Power Stone is now one of Dane's targets, Atlas will launch an active attack regardless of whether Xandar is willing or not.

The reason why I said that to Nova before was that I wanted to kill two birds with one stone and see if I could get some benefits from it.

"The action plan against Ronan continues to be refined, but when to act, follow my orders."

"What happened, sir?"

"The Supreme of Xandar has softened his stance somewhat. If nothing unexpected happens, he should agree to trade military technology with us in the near future."

"Kill two birds with one stone?"

Everyone was surprised, because they knew that Atlas's goal was to actively attack Ronan and take back the Power Stone.

For this purpose, the boss even sent his most powerful legion, the Astartes.

I didn't expect that I could make another fortune from this and open up the situation.

"In this case, perhaps we should also consider incorporating the Nova Corps into the combat power statistics." A military researcher pondered.

Originally, Atlas planned to come alone, but now that the Xandar incident has happened, it is very likely that the Nova Corps will get involved.

The Atlas Mercenaries destroying Ronan and the Nova Corps and Atlas working together to destroy Ronan are two different concepts.

For political reasons, everyone believes that Xandar is likely to consider the second option.

If the Nova Corps does not want to lose the support of the citizens, it must do something. It cannot let the mercenaries take all the limelight. Why would the taxpayers support you then?

Sure enough, six hours later (Earth time), news came from Xandar about the Supreme Council's discussion results, agreeing to Atlas's trade request.

There are still some technical details that need to be negotiated, and the negotiation teams of both sides need to conduct further negotiations and discussions.

However, in view of the worsening situation, Xandar did not object much, but added a requirement, that is, the Nova Corps must join the expedition.

And they had to take the main attacking position against Ronan's fleet, which just happened to be in line with Atlas's judgment.

Dane immediately understood Xandar's implication. Even if it was Atlas who made the greatest effort to eliminate Ronan in the end, the credit must go to the Nova Corps.

Atlas must be in the position of assisting player in an open manner.

He didn't mind it at all and agreed immediately.

Atlas has gained the inner benefits, so it doesn't mind giving customers face. In business, a win-win situation is the best.

So Dane assembled his troops. This time, he was ready to annihilate the enemy with overwhelming force, so he planned to let Astartes take action directly, leaving Atlas to only be responsible for checking for omissions and filling in the gaps.

Ronan's tactics were adjusted again, and with Cortana's computing power, it took very little time.

By the time Xandar came to the final conclusion, Atlas had already formulated a new battle plan, which took more time as it was waiting for the Nova Corps to assemble.

In order to achieve the goal in one go, Xandar directly dispatched dozens of large warships and tens of thousands of 417 small fighter jets. Judging from the scale alone, it looked more like a real main force than Atlas.

The two fleets reunited, and Dane took the time to have a communication conversation with the chief officer of the Nova Corps.

The other party's words were polite, but his attitude was very distant, and his words seemed to reveal a hint of dissatisfaction with the council.

Dane immediately understood that the other party was dissatisfied with the parliament's decision to entrust the main offensive tasks to outsiders.

This is an officer with great dignity. I'm afraid the other party is serious about this. He really wants to act as a vanguard officer to fight against Ronan.

"It seems the plan needs to be adjusted again," Dane said to his men. "If our allies insist on going their own way, we need to ensure their blood doesn't spill onto us."

On his left and right, a group of senior Astartes officers laughed.

Not long after, the Nova Legion entered the warp channel first before the agreed time.

This was nearly an hour faster than both sides had planned.

However, at this time, Atlas was still preparing on the spot at its own pace and was not affected by the Nova Corps.

Since the Nova Corps is so eager to take the credit, let them do it.

Dane thought that the other side's commander was not very clear-headed, and Atlas was not an army under Xandar, so he had no interest in the first place.

It's just a transaction, that's all.

Chapter 1091 The Crusade Begins

On the other hand, on the other side, the Nova Corps has taken the lead in fighting with Ronan's fleet.

The commander-in-chief of the Nova Corps participating in this crusade is named Faran, a Xandar.

For the past twenty years, he has been traveling around the world fighting to maintain the peace of civilization.

Before Captain Marvel destroyed the Supreme Intelligence, although the Kree Empire had never launched a large-scale war or publicly declared war, it had never stopped its local harassment of the Xandar civilization in private.

Millions of planets require a highly mobile team to run around.

Fran is the best among them. He is a surviving veteran of the previous generation of Rising Star Corps.

Although the Nova Corps in the movie looks weak, decades ago, it was a very powerful army, and the individual strength of the soldiers in the corps was no less than that of ordinary super soldiers.

At that time, everyone in the Nova Corps wore high-tech armor that allowed them to fly, absorb energy, release energy, heal themselves, and have super strength, super speed, extraordinary reaction speed, and so on.

The strongest few of them are enough to defeat Ronan who wields the universal hammer.

However, since an incident several decades ago, the Nova Corps of that golden age have fallen one after another, and only a very small number of first-class soldiers who have just graduated from the Space Academy have survived.

Fran is one of them. Although he does not have the combat effectiveness of the centurions of the Nova Corps during its golden age, he has witnessed the most glorious era of the Nova Corps, so his self-esteem is very high.

He had no problem with Dane and his legion, but that didn't mean he was willing to follow the instructions of his superiors and work for a group of mercenaries.