Beep! Beep! Beep!
Beep! The command from Burning Prairie was transmitted to the cockpit of Draconic Phoenix through the top-secret channel. Bai Kaixin's voice echoed in Ding Ling Dong's ears. "Representative Ding, the highest command center has detected that your physical condition and the performance parameters of your Colossus are not good. You are now ordered to retreat from the battlefield under the cover of the affiliated Crystal Suit Legion and return to the No. 9 space fortress for rest. The route of retreat will be sent to your crystal processor later. Burning Prairie will provide fire cover for you, too!"
As the Chief of Staff of the Burning Prairie Fleet and the general commander of the first attack group, Bai Kaixin was also the highest spokesperson of the ground command center on the space battlefield.
Even though Ding Ling Dong was the pilot of the strongest Colossus in the Federation, she had to listen to Bai Kaixin's command now that she was in the battle sequence.
Ding Ling Dong narrowed her eyes. A mouthful of sweet blood flowed out of her throat, but she swallowed it back. "I will not retreat. Draconic Phoenix can still fight, and so can I. Please reset the battle mission for me, Chief of Staff Bai!"
"Representative Ding!"
Bai Kaixin raised his voice. "This is not the time to be reckless. You know how important your identity is to the Federation! Your astonishing performance just now has attracted the attention of everybody on both sides. A large batch of enemies, including three Colossi, are coming at you. We cannot afford to lose you. Retreat now! "
"I — I'm not being reckless!"
Ding Ling Dong gritted her teeth and breathed heavily, searching for every drop of strength inside her every cell. "As you said, my identity is of paramount importance to the Federation. But isn't my identity 'Blazing Tyrannosaur, the God of War of the Federation, the invincible legend'? Right now — huhu. Right now, everybody is looking at me. Everybody is looking at Blazing Tyrannosaur! If I retreat at such a moment, what a heavy blow to their morale will be!
"If it were any other time, I would've retreated without any hesitation for rest and replenishment. But this is the most critical moment. The space gate of the Black Wind Fleet is being assembled quickly! By the time I was fully rested, the space gate of the Immortal Cultivators had been assembled and summoned a large batch of main troops! By then, even if Draconic Phoenix had fully recovered its combat ability, so what? Would it be able to resist the crazy march of thousands of starships?
"I have to persist. Even if the so-called 'invincible legend' is just propaganda, as long as one soldier of the Federation believes it, I will certainly do my best and live up to their trust!"
Bai Kaixin fell silent. Noises could be heard on the bridge of Burning Prairie.
"Don't worry."
Ding Ling Dong laughed. "I won't die. I still have an agreement with Li Yao. So many wonderful things have happened in the past hundred years, but I haven't seen his dumbfounded expression yet. How can I die?"
"Understood."
Taking a deep breath, Bai Kaixin said, "The mission of Draconic Phoenix and its affiliated Crystal Suit Legions is being reconfigured. The brief of the mission and the direction of attack will be sent to your crystal processors soon.
"You're right. Time is of the essence. We have to destroy the enemy's space gate before it is assembled. There is no time for us to take a detour. We can only attack the arc-shaped defense net centered on Black Swirl from the front!
"However, we have our own trump card, too — Moth, which carries the 'wormhole bomb'!
"In the next moment, the main warships including Burning Prairie will attack Black Swirl. But it will only be a feint. It will be Moth that will deal a fatal blow to Black Swirl and rip a super breach on the enemy's defense net!
"Both Burning Prairie and your attack group of Draconic Phoenix have only one mission, which is to protect Moth so that it can approach Black Swirl within thirty kilometers of it unscathed. Do you understand?"
Thirty kilometers was a long distance on the ground, but it was only a short distance in space and could be breached in the blink of an eye.
As the flagship of the Black Wind Fleet, Black Swirl naturally would not allow any starship of the Federation to approach within thirty kilometers of it easily.
Moth, which carried the wormhole bomb, was just a common carrier. It was not capable of resisting the concentrated fire of Black Swirl and the other starships of the Imperium at all. Before the violent space-time ripples swallowed Black Swirl, Moth would be completely obliterated in a series of enormous fireballs.
The only solution was to let the main-force warships of the Federation's fleet, including Burning Prairie, as bait and attack the Black Wind Fleet. They would attract most of the firepower to themselves and create an opportunity for Moth!
"Masteress!"
Jin Xinyue's voice cut into the top-secret channel, too. She had arrived at the space battlefield. "I was the one who came up with the Dim Moon Plan. I will be responsible for it until the end no matter what! The demon race is a member of the new Federation, too. Please do not doubt the courage and loyalty of all the dare-to-die members of the demon race on Moth! As long as you can ensure that Moth is within thirty kilometers of Black Swirl, we will certainly give the Imperium a hard time! "
Ding Ling Dong smiled.
She liked the plan because it was straightforward, simple, and clear-cut. All they needed to do was to march forward.
The battle formation of the Black Wind Fleet had been completely stabilized. It was like a hideous space beast, and Black Swirl was the enormous heart embedded on the chest of the beast.
Not far away behind Ding Ling Dong, the main-force warships of the Burning Prairie Fleet, led by Burning Prairie, drew close without bothering about anything and congregated into an enormous cone-shaped battle formation. Although it was hard to tell their relative speed with the naked eye, judging from the furious exhaust flames at the rear of every starship, they were accelerating nonstop!
Further away, the remaining forces of the Great White Fleet took a big detour and rushed over, joining the assault on Black Swirl.
Shua! Shua! Shua!
The brand-new brief of the mission, including the map of the attack, the target of the operation, and the information of the cooperating troops, was all sent to Ding Ling Dong's crystal processor.
"Wu Mayan, and everybody in the 'Iron Plateau Legion', can you hear me?"
Ding Ling Dong turned on the internal communication channel. "Right now, the critical moment of the war has come. Do you see the space gate behind the enemy's fleet? Once the space gate is assembled, the Xing Yao Federation's hundred years of preparation and six hundred years of pride will all be gone!
"However, there is still time. We can stop it. The outcome of the war is in the hands of every one of us. Every one of us!
"Clarify your mission and target. Black Swirl, the enemy's flagship. The Union Army, march forward!"
Bright flames spurted out of Draconic Phoenix's heavily damaged plate armor again. The nine exhausted dragons of spiritual energy were reborn and roared in the most furious way again!
Ding Ling Dong was the center of attention on the entire frontline. As the 'Blazing Tyrannosaur' and the 'God of War' of the Federation, she was the spiritual pillar for countless soldiers of the Union Army.
It was not just her affiliated legions that were affected by her but also the other few Colossi, the Crystal Suit, the space shuttles, and even all the starships of the Federation nearby!
Charge at the place where the enemy's barrage was the fiercest!
Charge at the hardest point of the arc-shaped battle formation!
Charge at Black Swirl, the flagship of the Black Wind Fleet!
The destructive pillars of light on the battlefield were immediately multiplied by ten times. Both on the enemy's side and on the enemy's side, the attack magical equipment of all the starships was overloaded, pouring out whatever ammunition and crystals they had left.
Some of the starships, in order to unleash the highest attack of the mystic ray cannons, even voluntarily lowered the defense of their spiritual shields. When they blew up the enemy's starships, they were often blown up by the enemy's starships. The enormous fireballs expanded abruptly, illuminating the dark space in paleness, as if the reflections of billions of stars were spreading out!
The main-force warships of the Burning Prairie Fleet accelerated nonstop, like enormous shining hedgehogs.
Such main-force warships boasted the best damage control system and liquid metal maintenance magical equipment. In the most extreme cases, half of the entire starship could be filled up without affecting its high-speed flight in the vacuum.
Therefore, no matter how many bullets of spiritual energy it was hit by and how many hostile Exos invaded it, it would not be easy to change its direction or explode easily.
Under the cover of such behemoths, 'Moth' was as inconspicuous as a supply starship that could be seen everywhere on the battlefield.
It was close to the rear of one of the main-force warships, like a small fish that was stuck to a blue whale.
The main-force warships could help it block most of the firepower. Also, in such an environment where space behemoths were raging, few people would care about such a 'small fish'.
Behind Black Swirl, more and more star beacons were connected to each other by the spirit energy magnetic field, showing the embryonic form of the space gate. Before long, it would emit the most dangerous light in the depths of the brown dwarf dozens of lightyears away.
Right now, all hopes were placed on 'Moth'.
"Boom, boom boom boom boom!"
BOOM! BOOM! After a series of fierce battles, Draconic Phoenix had been weakened to such an extent that even a group of common Crystal Suit could deal some damage to it.
However, what Ding Ling Dong was most concerned about was neither the performance of Draconic Phoenix nor her own safety but Moth.
She saw that the shield starships deployed at the outermost layer of the cone-shaped battle formation of the Burning Prairie Fleet were blown up one after another or lost their momentum. They flew further and further away from the main troop after deviating slightly from the sailing route.
She saw that some of the arsenal warships accelerated forward. After running out of crystals and ammunition, they set their sailing route to the sailing route of the enemy's starships and crashed into them brutally. Even if they did not hit the enemy, or were completely disintegrated before the collision, the enemy's sailing route, battle formation, and fire net were seriously disrupted.
She saw that countless Crystal Suit and space shuttles congregated into a glittering nebula and threw themselves into the swirl of the competition between the two flagships without hesitation even if they would be shattered in 0.1 seconds.
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