The nerves of the valiant Exos and the pilots of the space shuttles became sensitive and vulnerable. The bizarre nightmare creatures and the illusions of their deceased friends corrupted their retina and brain cells. The fire control officers, the analysts, and the magical equipment specialists in the engine compartments on the starships became panicked, too. Their ears were ringing, and their eyes were dizzy. They all had symptoms similar to 'claustrophobia'.
The vastness and darkness of the universe were magnified countless times. They were no longer the warriors who were piloting the most powerful starships of mankind but ants that had been caged in metal matchboxes.
Some of the ordinary warriors curled up like babies and wept quietly. Some of them even had bloodshot eyes and pale faces. Wisps of black air were running all over their faces and bodies. Sticky black liquid was flowing out of their mouths, noses, eyes, and ears. Then, they started screaming, scratching, and biting crazily without any regard for their own family.
The previously unstoppable charge became hesitant and sluggish. The neat battle formation of the starships became uneven, too. Some of them even retreated to other people's sailing routes in fear. When the starships maintained a high speed above 1% of the speed of light, it was barely possible for them to change their sailing routes instantly. Therefore, a lot of the starships of the Federation crashed into each other or accidentally entered the area where their own firepower was savaging.
The bullets of spiritual energy could turn, but the high-energy mystic rays could not. To make matters worse, while the starships were trying to dodge in an ugly way, the firepower of the Black Wind Fleet, which was ten times more violent and intense than before, swept close like a tornado.
The entire fleet of the Federation seemed to have been tied up by an enormous' halo of fear '. If one observed with special transparent chips, they would see countless devils that looked like jellyfish, ghosts, and shooting stars raging on the battlefield, wreaking havoc everywhere. They tied up the Crystal Suits and space shuttles of the Federation and crawled into the gaps that the Federation's starships were torn apart by the barrage in a hurry.
As the situation changed, the situation was reversed again.
The 'arrival of extraterrestrial devils' that Lu Qingchen created was only a momentary outburst, and the tenebrum energy level of those devils was so low that they could not even be counted as real 'energy lives'. They could only slightly trigger the fear and negative feelings in the bottom of one's heart and create minor chaos.
However, on a battlefield where both sides were evenly matched and in a stalemate, such chaos was sufficient to determine victory, defeat, and even life and death.
The overall capability of the Black Wind Fleet was no lower than that of the Federation's fleet in the first place. It was only because they had been caught in the Federation's rhythm and had to consider the defenseless star beacon troops behind them that they had been stalled and suppressed all the time.
The chaos caused by the arrival of the extraterrestrial devils, however, gave them precious breathing space and tore abyss-like gaps in the Federation's fleet.
The experienced Heiye Ming did not let go of such a great opportunity.
The Immortal Cultivators, whose every brain cell was filled by the desire for destruction, destruction, and slaughter, carried out the order of the highest commander dutifully and swarmed toward the gaps crazily.
Countless Crystal Suits and space shuttles of the Federation were destroyed instantly. Without their close-range protection, the Federation's starships, which were clumsy in the first place, immediately became the most delicious meat.
Like swarms of locusts, the Exos of the Imperium passed through the sparse firepower of the Federation fearlessly and stuck to the shell of the Federation's starships. Fireballs expanded without a sound, and the composite plate armor that was several meters thick blossomed into the shape of orange petals.
The Exos of the Imperium swarmed in. The cruel boarding battle began!
Do not let a war break out on your own territory. It was a maxim that had been passed on for tens of thousands of years. In the context of a space war, it was to never engage in a boarding battle on your own starships. No matter what the outcome of the boarding battle was, your own starships would certainly be wrecked.
The performance of the Crystal Suit of the Imperium was better than that of the Federation's in the first place. The madness, brutality, and fearlessness of the Immortal Cultivators were among the best in the entire universe, too. Even if they were all annihilated inside the starships of the Federation, they would still detonate all the crystal bombs on their bodies, the super-compressed crystal reactors of their Crystal Suits, and even themselves before they were killed.
'Self-detonation of Jin Dan' was a standard tactic among the middle-level and high-level officers of the Imperium. The real Immortal Cultivators were not a synonym for cowardice!
An irreversible chain reaction began.
The two parties were already deeply entangled. It was impossible for them to leave the battlefield and regroup. They could only grit their teeth and fight to the end in the ugliest way.
A large batch of Crystal Suit and space shuttles of the Federation were destroyed. Without their protection, it was barely possible to stop the Crystal Suit clusters of the Imperium from invading the starships of the Federation.
As the starships of the Federation were sabotaged from the inside one after another, the firepower that they could provide to the Crystal Suit and space shuttles in the front was even less than before. It was even more difficult for them to stop the massacre.
Later, even though the influence of the extraterrestrial devils gradually faded and the Union Army broke free from the aura of fear, the general trend was already on the Black Wind Fleet's side!
"How did this happen?"
Ding Ling Dong, who was driving Draconic Phoenix as the spearhead of the assault team of the Federation's Colossi, Bai Xingjian, who was commanding the battle on Burning Prairie, and even Jin Xinyue, who had just arrived in space with a lot of ground reinforcements, were all caught in a momentary daze.
With their cultivation bases and Dao hearts, the large-scale attacks of these fiends would not be able to cause any substantial damage to them.
However, the appearance of the devils and the obvious selective attacks only negatively affected the fleet of the Federation, implying a dreadful fact.
"The Black Wind Fleet has joined hands with the extraterrestrial devils!"
Ding Ling Dong, Jin Xinyue, Bai Kaixin, Bai Xingjian, and even everybody in the highest command center on the ground felt that their hearts had fallen into a bottomless hole.
Extraterrestrial devils were not rare in the universe. Most of the time, they were only minor disturbances. Even though the Flying Star Sector had suffered a lot from the arrival of extraterrestrial devils in the past, the foundation of human beings' reign in the Flying Star Sector had never been shaken.
In the other worlds, they were also monotonous incidents that happened occasionally. They were not much of a threat.
Ever since the arrival of extraterrestrial devils on the tenth space ring of Heavenly Saints City in the Flying Star Sector more than a hundred years ago, there had never been a large-scale arrival of extraterrestrial devils. Everybody thought that it was because the proactive, optimistic, and progressive society after the new Federation was established that the soil where the extraterrestrial devils existed was completely gone, and the extraterrestrial devils had left the bright land.
Nobody expected that the extraterrestrial devils would choose such a critical moment to appear.
Although the devils were not very strong themselves, and the weapons of mystic rays and the interference magical equipment could easily tear them apart, the momentary chaos was enough to doom the entire Federation!
"Look, the rear of the Black Wind Fleet!"
On the bridges of Burning Prairie and Infinite Fire, in the highest command center on the ground, and in the communication channels of Ding Ling Dong, Jin Xinyue, and the rest of them, desperate cries were echoing at the same time.
On their opposite side, taking advantage of the chaos just now and the vacuum caused by the destruction of the Federation's starships, the most elite forces of the Black Wind Fleet, led by Black Swirl, finally formed a solid battle formation. Like dozens of glittering tusks, they bit each other slowly from all directions.
Behind the 'tusks', the star beacons spurted out bright exhaust flames and absorbed and combined with each other as if they were attracted by invisible hands.
The enormous force field expanded nonstop and enshrouded all the star beacons. The star beacons were flashing in a rhythmic way, and they were soon adjusted to the same rhythm.
The space gate of the Black Wind Fleet began to be assembled.
Once it was assembled, it would send out instructions to the depths of the brown dwarf dozens of lightyears away, and the main troops of the Black Wind Fleet would arrive!
Before, the Great White Fleet had been engaged in fierce battles to stop the space gate from being assembled.
However, the Great White Fleet had suffered the scourge of tremendous devils, too. It had also been crushed by the Crystal Suit and the space shuttles of the Imperium that came one after another. It would be better to say that they were fleeing than to say that they were still attacking and harassing.
The Great White Fleet had been fighting the enemy for too long and was exhausted in every aspect. However brilliant Bai Xingjian's commanding skills were, it was impossible for him to conjure more starships, crystals, and ammunition out of thin air, and it was impossible for him to heal the wounds and fatigue of the soldiers instantly. It was also impossible for him to restore the starships that were shaking and riddled with holes!
"We cannot allow the space gate of the Black Wind Fleet to be assembled!"
From the soldiers to the generals, all the people of the Federation realized that.
However, right now, Black Swirl, the flagship of the enemy, and the few strongest warships were all blocking the space gate in an arc-shaped defense formation.
The fleet of the Federation was at the periphery. If they were to detour, they would have to travel multiple times further than the commander of the Imperium's army. Also, their vulnerable flanks would be exposed!
"Whatever the cost is, we must break the defense of 'Black Swirl' and blow up the space gate!"
Ding Ling Dong gritted her teeth and held back the magma flowing inside her brain while she stared at Black Swirl far away.
Under her scorching gaze, the super warship of the Imperium, which was made of hundreds of geometrical objects that looked like black crystals, seemed to be gradually turning transparent, allowing her eyes to penetrate it and look at the gate of space that was deeper inside!
"Chi —"
An earsplitting explosion echoed deep inside Draconic Phoenix, and the body of the warship trembled unnaturally. On the light beam of the crystal processor that was blinking rapidly, another few runes dimmed, and a lot of parameters fell to the bottom, turning into rigid lines.
Even her brain nerves received a series of excruciating feedback, which meant that another three critical units had been completely wrecked.
Ding Ling Dong grinned.
After blowing up an enemy Colossus, heavily wounding another two, and taking down four starships and hundreds of enemy Crystal Suit directly, Draconic Phoenix had only paid the price of a fifty percent decrease in combat ability, and she could still move her fingers, which was already far beyond her expectations.
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