We consolidated the Imperial Fleet that was building forward bases in other war zones, leaving only a portion of the main force to intercept the reinforcent sent by the New Army towards the "Peace Core." After the reassembled Imperial Fleet surged through the World Gate before us, we faced an insanely stubborn enemy.
Ship cannons roared, space trembled, and the power to tear worlds apart was compressed into a battlefield of only a few astronomical units in radius, vast groups of warships exploded and shattered like consumables, the space was filled with burning tal fragnts and high-energy clouds drifting everywhere. The Imperial Army forcibly established a position amidst the New Army’s swift counterattack, managing to open up the situation in this universe, but the outlook wasn’t optimistic: the World Gate of this world was completely under New Army control, although the Imperial Army used the World Gate for transmission, it was intercepted midway and fell into the Void, finally infiltrating this universe after a period of conventional travel, we had quite a hard ti on the World Barrier, and now it’s even harder to establish a foothold in the material world. Reinforcents in the rear are trying their best to catch up, but without a World Gate, it’s not easy for reinforcents to enter the enemy-occupied area.
Watching the Joint Shield ripple under the bombardnt of super-space firepower, my sister looked a bit worried: "It seems the enemy has reached the final stage, are they desperately trying to keep us here?"
A large mass of crystal fragnts floated beside my sister, these fragnts looked like the dust of ordinary crystals crushed, but they arranged themselves into a clearly patterned array in the air, one of my sister’s curse diums. However, they are not effective against the enemy now but are mimicking the formation of the Imperial Fleet. After all, my sister’s curse is a kind of probability power, useful for damaging enemies and can also protect oneself. She established a mysterious connection between her "crystal dust" and the Imperial Fleet, by constantly changing the structure of the dust, the enemy attacks fall into nothingness, forming a layer of probability shield, on a large enough battlefield, its effect is even better than an additional layer of Joint Shield.
The power of the "Curse Goddess" can weaken enemy threats by percentage, even nullifying the attack at the mont the enemy launches it, no matter how large their scale, they cannot evade probability issues, this is like a divine artifact on the battlefield.
While my sister focused on maintaining the mapping relationship between "crystal dust" and the Imperial Fleet, she frowned at the holographic projection in the command hall center: spy probes traversed through outer space, continuously transmitting the situation from every corner of this universe back. We saw countless battle fortresses and a sovereignty hub with unprecedented defensive power, these fortresses and hubs not only thoroughly control the entire universe but also extend information radiation like tentacles to wrap the nearby universe: Peace Core, the world before us is a source of interference, as long as it exists, no one can penetrate here to enter the Peace Core.
Given the size of the Imperial Fleet successfully penetrated so far, it’s unrealistic to aim for occupation of this world, although over ti more Imperial Fleets and Divine Race Army will co in, Abyss Xyrin will also turn the situation, by then we can naturally destroy this world, but the problem is...that will take a long ti, and the New Army won’t give us much ti.
"What phase have they reached?" I turned to the graceful figure beside , Abyss Xyrin was leaning against her big crate, directing her troops with most of her energy to continuously impact the universe around the Peace Core, but she still had enough strength to talk with others: "They are charging the Startup Terminal, that set of equipnt consus massive energy and can’t pre-charge, can only be started when ready for activation... I always thought it was a drawback, didn’t expect now it’s actually buying you and more ti."
"How long is the charging?" Sandora asked.
"A day, but I’ll try to disrupt them, their energy wells for charging are placed in Shadow Space, in the Peace Core the two troops are trying to pull the Shadow Space to the Outer World, this process generates strong information chaos, making the charging process difficult."
"The Life Force of your two troops is really tenacious..." Even under such circumstances, I couldn’t help but to exclaim, when the Old Army raided the Peace Core, several troops under Abyss Xyrin were stationed locally, although they didn’t hold the defense line, two troops survived the fierce battle and persisted fighting until now, not only haven’t they completely collapsed, they even have strength to attack the enemy’s Shadow Space... are these two troops Abyss Xyrin’s aces?
"Ivanova is the defense officer of Peace Core, since the network divided months ago, I’ve had her maintain her Glory Form constantly, thus the two troops under her protection weren’t defeated," Abyss Xyrin still carried that eternally unchanging serene smile, seems the current situation didn’t bring her down emotionally, "her Glory Form is exceedingly strong in defense, unlike Visca, who can only enhance her own starship’s defense, she’s adept at providing protection for the entire troop... probably can hold on for two or three more days before her power runs dry, but we have only one day. The preparations really aren’t ample enough... didn’t expect the New Army would start bridge-building under Ivanova’s harassnt, are they not afraid of the precious Startup Terminal being destroyed in an accident?"
"You yourself said, the New Army from top down is insane, how much can a madman weigh gain and loss."
I casually said, then shifted my attention back to the battlefield before us once again.
Still not enough, need higher firepower, need more armies, need stronger offensives... The New Army has gone mad, a group of madn will extract all their strength to fulfill their obsession, and to defeat these madn, one must deploy far exceeding power. I looked down at my hands, these hands are gradually losing their tactile sense, slowly transforming into an indescribable pitch-black form, Void power is slowly spreading, but another slender hand ca up, stopping my Voidification.
Qianqian seed a bit worried in her eyes, but her expression still maintained calmness, after all these years, the personality switch caused by her ability activation has beco less and less obvious, the previously uncontrollable "transformations" are now more expressed as "calmness", now she is very calm, and she calms down too: "Ah Jun, don’t rush, you need to conserve your strength."
"The problem is that the enemies here are too troubleso." I frowned at the holographic projection, the infiltrating Imperial Fleet was only the Royal Fleet and the Second Fleet, yet the New Army is massive, and they are directing more and more Super Space-Ti Firepower this way. Of course, to ensure the defense strength of fortresses everywhere, they haven’t concentrated all the firepower of the universe together, yet even the focused firepower now is almost exceeding the capacity of the Imperial Fleet to withstand. The enemy commander of this universe seems to be a calculating fellow, he uses perfectly asured firepower against the enemy, not wasting energy despite being in nurical advantage, thus he can hold out longer when more invaders penetrate...
Qianqian thought seriously for a mont, then her eyes suddenly lit up: "Then let think of a tactic..."
Even before she finished speaking, everyone on site imdiately pretended to look up at the scenery...
Just when I steeled myself, with a ntality akin to severing my own wrist, planning to hear what idea Qianqian might have, Harlan’s voice suddenly ca through the communicator: "Does anyone need support?"
Accompanied by this slightly teasing call, a vast swirling vortex suddenly appeared 0.3 astronomical units beside the Imperial Fleet, black and red painted warships slowly erged from it: the Abyss Independent Army under Harlan exceeded other troops in speed, infiltrating this world ahead of schedule.
Because he needs to command his own army, and the main battle line isn’t with the Imperial main force, Harlan is not on the Imperial Admiral, but on the flagship of the Abyss Independent Army. Now this old fellow has finally led the fleet to join the main force!
After long-term developnt, the Abyss Independent Army has now grown into a super-large Group Army exceeding typical Regular Armies in size, Harlan is even considering redividing the Independent Army according to the standard army composition, forming the Abyss First Fleet and Abyss Second Fleet, showing how large this army is. This powerful fleet imdiately turned the tide upon entering the battlefield, catching the New Army off guard, their Super Space-Ti Firepower was quickly disrupted by the massive Gravity Traps deployed by the Abyss Independent Army, while the "close-range" forces within several astronomical units faced the Imperial Fleet’s raid. Sandora seized the montary chaos of the enemy, thousands of Assault Ships and even larger numbers of Single Soldier Fighter Jets crossed space barriers, rushing into the enemy formations for a frenzy of bombing raids.
anwhile, the Servant Army fighting alongside the Imperial Army also finally got their chance to play a role: in the previous firefight, they were almost unable to leave the Joint Shield, relying on the continuously unleashed unmanned carrier aircraft from the General Carrier to intercept the enemy’s Jumping Warheads, acting as Near Defense Gun. But now the enemy’s attack is temporarily distracted by the Abyss Independent Army, those huge General Carriers seized the chance to engage in counterattacks against the enemy. Especially the fleet of the Heisen Tribe... they rushed out with a mindset akin to a carnival.
And just as the situation slightly improved, a strange feeling suddenly spread in my heart.
It’s indescribable what this feeling is, to say the least, it’s similar to when I "return to the Void", but much weaker. I looked around and found that others seed unaware of any anomalies, but when I turned back to look at the space scene, a clear anomaly appeared in outer space.
This was originally a very barren universe, with few celestial bodies, energy and matter extrely sparse, in the pitch-black outer space there were only a limited number of stars and cooling star clouds so dim that they were almost undetectable, but just now, a giant "Lightning" streaked across the entire universe. Yes, the entire universe, not just a few kiloters, not a few light years, not even a streak across a star cloud, but the entire universe was suddenly pierced by a twisted bright line!
Although the external monitor could not possibly display the entire universe’s image, normal "vision" couldn’t be vast enough to see the entire world at a glance, but at that instant, not observing with eyes, but through the "Illusion" of "returning to the Void", I directly scanned the universe’s "information snapshot" from an informational level, so it is certain that just now a twisted flash pierced the whole world.
But this seems unrealistic... There’s no way a lightning that can pierce through the entire universe could exist; normal natural phenona absolutely cannot produce sothing exceeding the speed of light by such a great margin. If it’s a universe with a diater of hundreds of billions of light-years, then even if a lightning bolt were infinitely powerful, it would still take hundreds of billions of years to extend from one end of the world to the other, so I first ruled out the possibility of "natural lightning."
What’s more, it’s impossible for lightning to occur in outer space.
It might be so kind of Ghost Energy Spark, or perhaps an Arcane energy released by Bellavilla—if a strike from the Raven Emperor were to pierce the entire universe in the form of a "lightning bolt," it wouldn’t be unimaginable. But I didn’t sense any energy fluctuations from that flash just now that matched it; logically, its energy reaction should be astonishing at such a large scale.
I don’t know what that flash was just now, but it’s clearly so kind of "extraordinary phenonon," transcending the speed of light, piercing the universe, and in an instant "synchronously" spreading across the entire world. And this ti, it’s not just noticing the abnormality; others also saw the strange spectacle in outer space. Perhaps others can’t "snapshot" the entire universe like a Void Creature does and can’t imdiately determine that this flash pierced the world, but they could surely notice the flash’s unusual nature.
"What was that just now?" Qianqian was the first to jump up, anyway she always jumps up first whenever encountering strange things.
Sandora was also very surprised: "Lightning? Ghost Energy Spark? But how could it be so large... and without an energy reaction."
While everyone was still baffled by the flash just now, the voice of Abyss Xyrin suddenly ca from the side: "It’s the Startup Terminal! The New Army may be forcefully activating it! It emits a powerful information radiation as it awakens, causing abnormalities in the surrounding universe!"
"Wasn’t there supposed to be a day left to charge?!" I exclaid, and at the sa ti, the second "lightning" again illuminated the universe.
This ti, I finally saw that there were other things within the flash: the device displayed it as tens of thousands of kiloters wide, and within that tens of thousands of kiloters of bright white light were faint images—so of a distorted starry sky, so of an elongated sun, and even so bizarrely colored things that resembled space clouds. It felt like a severely deford mirage.
"God knows how they solved the energy issue..." The voice of Abyss Xyrin was urgent as she rapidly mobilized the fleet while distractedly speaking with us, "The Startup Terminal requires an astonishing amount of energy to activate. Although it can connect to an external Energy Pool, even at the maximum power of a Ghost Energy Well, it would still take at least a day to fill the Energy Pool... Where did they find the energy?! Could they have built sothing else right under my nose?!"
"Boom!"
A thunderous sound suddenly echoed in the command hall of the Imperial Admiral, causing the alloy floor under our feet to tremble slightly. The external monitors quickly locked onto the source of the impact: several super-heavy Fortress Missiles struck the Joint Shield, and the Shield overload caused an adjacent Shield Broadcast Tower to explode, with the shockwave from the explosion affecting the Flagship.
It seed that the flash in the universe gave the New Army imnse motivation, and their offensive, which had just been suppressed, suddenly beca unprecedentedly fierce, with the attacks on the Imperial Fleet intensifying several tis instantly!
"Continue fighting, don’t think about anything else!" Sandora ordered loudly in the command hall, "All firepower, lock onto the Sovereignty Hub!"
We can only carve out a hole in the interference barrier leading to the Peace Core by destroying the Sovereignty Hub here; otherwise, we can’t even open up the Void Route. Regardless of how many sudden events occur, the urgent priority now is to eliminate the defensive forces of this world!
And I turned to Abyss Xyrin: "Just tell how much ti is left!"
"Ten hours, the exact ti is uncertain," Abyss Xyrin’s voice for the first ti was no longer so confident, "I’ve never activated the Startup Terminal either, all signs of its operation are my hypotheses... Including how long it’ll take for that thing to reach its energy peak—these are all theoretical values."
"I hope your theoretical values are reliable," I stared intently at the central projection, "Ten hours... maybe it’ll be enough."
The outer space was filled with the flashes of explosions, the ripples from the Joint Shield made the entire fleet seem as if it was soaked in so kind of eerie "ocean," but within visual range, only the Imperial Fleet could be seen, with the nearest enemy several astronomical units away, and others possibly at the edge of the universe. This was a super space-ti firepower clash, the devastating energies drilling holes everywhere in space, causing the stability of the entire universe to begin decreasing... The stability of the universe decreasing?
"Why not destroy this world?"
I suddenly ca up with a major idea, but it seed really feasible!
In a battlefield of this level, destroying an entire universe to turn the tide is not unimaginably difficult; although it would be a huge commotion, we aren’t strangers to doing such a thing.
Now, the main reason we cannot access the Peace Core is interference. The New Army has established extrely powerful information interference sources in several universes surrounding the Peace Core, which prevents the World Gate from opening and keeps the fleet’s Void Engine from functioning properly. So whether by teleportation or cruising, approaching the Peace Core is difficult. To solve this issue in the shortest ti, the optimal thod is, of course, to destroy the interference sources!
Originally, we considered using conventional warfare to take out the enemy’s Sovereignty Hub, which would at least preserve so results. But now...
Fighting a war with madn, you really can’t expect to gain too much advantage.
"Destroy this world?" Abyss Xyrin was montarily taken aback, then understood my thought, "Indeed, this could shut down the Sovereignty Hub in the shortest ti, which would create gaps in the interference around the Peace Core, allowing us to rush there using the Void Route... But the New Army must have reinforced this universe; conventional apocalyptic weapons are unlikely to be effective."
The voice of Father God suddenly ca through the communicator: "If conventional doesn’t work, use the unconventional." (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you’re welco to vote for it on Qidian (qidian), your votes and support are my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.)
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