The guards' twisted faces and the foam on their lips made them seem to be enshrouded in weird and fanatical flames, making them lose their rationality.
Something brand-new seemed to have been injected into their brains, giving them a different vibe from the common Immortal Cultivators of the Li family.
The manager of the control center of the No. 3 space gate subconsciously aimed his mini storm bolter at the guards and stammered, "What — What are you doing?"
Before he pulled the trigger, the attack magical equipment of almost five Crystal Suit on his opposite side emanated weird brilliance at the same time. Almost five mystic rays that contained immense spiritual energy of fire hit his right hand that was holding the gun at the same time.
The immense spiritual energy of fire dashed into the mini storm bolter immediately, triggering an uncontrollable explosion of the crystal ammunition. The manager of the space gate's right hand and below his elbow were all turned into a cluster of magma.
"Ahhh!"
Looking at his own flesh that was quickly melting and falling to the ground like orange mud, the manager of the space gate screamed in excruciating pain.
He was not a battle-type Immortal Cultivator in the first place. Under the excruciating pain and the intimidating pressure of the almost thirty Crystal Suit, he completely lost the will to resist. He simply fell on one of his knees, holding his right arm that had been completely melted and had nothing but blackened bones left. He was sweating in pain and cramping nonstop, almost going into shock.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! There were two guards on duty in the control center, too. They did not seem to be on the same side as the guards who had barged in. Hardly had they drawn their storm bolters and were about to counterattack, only to be blown back by the stormy attacks. The pieces of the Crystal Suit spluttered nonstop until they crashed into the operation panel of the space gate heavily, turning into two dazzling sparks.
All the navigators, dispatchers, and operators were so scared that their faces were pale. The control center was not spacious, and there was nowhere for them to run. They could only raise their hands and surrender obediently.
The leader of the guards, the only one who was not wearing a Crystal Suit, strode forward to the manager of the space gate who was shivering nonstop with a pale face. He looked down at him coldly from the high stance.
"How — how dare you —"
The manager of the space gate had seen through the guy's cold eyes, but he found it hard to believe what had just happened. His question was more of a confusion than a reprimand.
"For the future of the new Imperium, we have abandoned our honor and disgrace. There is nothing that we dare not do!"
The leader of the guards drew his saber and raised it high. With a roar, the saber aura cut into the manager's left shoulder and went all the way down to his right abdomen, cutting the manager in half!
His head was still connected to a lot of organs. The manager of the space gate was not dead yet, but he saw everything on the surveillance light beam while his head was spinning.
The traitorous guards brought in a dozen mysterious people he had never seen before, replacing the original dispatchers and operators of the No. 3 stargate.
Those people were all well-trained experts. They guided the jump of the unknown starship smoothly. Their efficiency was even higher than that of the original staff of the No. 3 space gate.
Under their smooth operation, more and more unknown starships jumped out of the void. The jump points were so delicate that they were neither too close to each other to cause interference or even overlap with each other, nor were they too far away to be divided and destroyed by the enemy. They were neither too close nor too far away. The moment they got rid of the space ripples, they would be able to establish the most solemn battle formation!
At first, they were all the stealthy models with black paint that minimized the space ripples, like the swamp crocodiles that were covered in mud.
As more and more "swamp crocodiles" were gathered into an indestructible battle formation, more and more large arsenal warships and super enormous cruising carriers rushed out in a race against time, not covering their existence at all. They were like killer whales weighing tens of thousands of tons leaping out of the surface of the ocean.
Before he was caught in the infinite darkness, the last picture that the manager of the space gate saw was that the crocodiles, swordfish, sharks, and whales launched colorful streaks of brilliance at the garrison fleet of the Divine Rain Sector at the same time.
The dozens of streaks of brilliance were flat and long, like the curves of his soul waves and his heartbeat.
Then, his soul completely dispersed in the vast sea of stars, and he did not know anything anymore.
…
At this moment, the Divine Rain Fleet was as messy as the No. 3 space gate just now.
As one of the most resourceful Sectors in the Li family's dominion, the defense of the Divine Rain Sector was naturally the top priority of the Li family's strategy.
The equipment and personnel of the Divine Rain Fleet were among the best in the hundred fleets of the Imperium.
What was critical was that, in order to strengthen the defense of the capital, the Divine Rain Fleet had just mobilized one third of its fleet to reinforce the capital twelve hours ago. The reinforcement took away tremendous ammunition and fuel and caused some insignificant loopholes in the local defense system of the Divine Rain Sector that could be fixed in twenty-four hours.
Who could've foreseen that the rebels would suddenly march out at such an awkward moment?
The strength of the Divine Rain Fleet had been reduced by at least one third, but the rebels had gathered the elites of the dozens of small Sectors at the edge of the Imperium and were commanded by Lei Chenghu, the most famous "God of War" of the Imperium!
Besides, a war was not a game of numbers. The outcome of a war was not decided by the dry numbers on the books.
In the past decade or even a hundred years, in the war between the Imperium and the Holy League, in order to preserve their own strength as much as possible, the four Kurfürst families often asked the bumpkins and miscellaneous troops at the edge of the Imperium to charge in the vanguard as cannon fodder. After the cannon fodder had bitten the tough bones after countless sacrifices, their own troops would swagger out and claim the fruits of victory easily.
It raised a paradox.
Fleets were built by fighting, and strong soldiers were built by killing. If they kept their strength and asked the cannon fodder to charge in the vanguard, they would never be tested by real iron and fire. The elites of the four Kurfürst families often boasted the most advanced starships, but they lacked the fighting will and abundant battle experience to fight to the end. They were nothing more than decorations.
In the meantime, of a hundred fleets of cannon fodder, perhaps ninety of them had been crushed and crippled, and their designations had been canceled.
But there were always ten fleets of cannon fodder that were relatively lucky. They would slowly polish their claws, teeth, and horns with the enemy's sabers and swords in the cruel hellish battles, swallow the enemy's bodies, and strengthen their flesh and bones, growing from cannon fodder into ferocious fiends without a sound!
Unfortunately, the Divine Rain Fleet was a typical example of the former, and the coalition fleet of the Third Battle Area of the expedition army centered on the Thunder Fleet was out-and-out the latter.
The Divine Rain Fleet was equipped with the most advanced and powerful starships of the Imperium, but they had been stationed in the Divine Rain Sector in the past decades. Nominally, they were responsible for the heavy responsibility of defending the sailing routes and the jump points, but in fact, which space pirate, extraterrestrial devil, or any random monster was bold enough to get killed in the heartland of the Li family?
Other than the routine drills that were getting more and more perfunctory, the most advanced crystal cannons, mystic ray cannons, and Vulcan cannons of the Imperium that those starships were equipped with and produced at tremendous cost and infinite resources had never been stained with blood at all.
In the meantime, the commanders of the Divine Rain Fleet were almost all members of the Li family. Many of the commanders were of a very high level. Even the captain of a tiny destroyer was often as strong as Jin Dan.
However, the Core Formation Stage Cultivators, Jin Dan Cultivators, and even Yuanying Cultivators were often piled up with infinite Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and high-purity crystals. They had never been through real tests at all. However fierce the internal conflicts within the family were, and however realistic the trial fields such as the Land of Sins were, how could they compare to the frontline where the entire universe was burning and everybody's blood was boiling?
The Thunder Fleet was exactly their opposite.
It was a fleet of destruction that had carried out the creed of the Immortal Cultivators, "survival of the fittest", to the maximum.
Every starship in the fleet had been surrounded by at least ten starships of the Holy League before they broke out of the enemy's siege by brute force with their heavily wounded bodies.
Every person on those starships knew very well that they did not have any force that they could count on. The only things that they could count on were their fists, teeth, and blades.
Their Building Foundation Stage Cultivators, Core Formation Stage Cultivators, and even Yuanying Cultivators were not built up in the training bases of their own families that had complete facilities, an excellent environment, and a medical team on standby at any time. Instead, they made the breakthrough in the most difficult environment on the battlefield while eating the flesh of the people of the Holy League and drinking the blood of the people of the Holy League.
Of the hundred Immortal Cultivators who had joined the fleet, ninety-nine of them had died on the arduous, cruel battlefields. However, their haunting will and ferocious desires had all turned into dark blessings that enshrouded the last survivor, allowing the last survivor to crawl back from the gate of hell miraculously and swallow the whole world!
Such a Divine Rain Fleet simply watched such a Thunder Fleet show up aggressively in bewilderment.
"Enemy incoming!"
"Enemy incoming!"
"Enemy incoming!"
Such meaningless nonsense was echoing on every starship of the Divine Rain Fleet. Mixed with the earsplitting alarms of the surveillance magical equipment, they were even more noisy and panicked.
The natural reaction of the flagship was to ask for help from other Sectors and even the capital, but all the external communications were heavily jammed immediately. All the signals for help were involved in the chaotic turbulence. There was no telling whether or not they had really been sent to the outside world.
Experienced as he was, Lei Chenghu certainly would not allow the garrison of the Divine Rain Sector to send out signals for help easily. A lot of interferential warships had been mixed in the first batch of troops that had jumped to this place.
Li Linghai had also infiltrated a lot of signal bases of the Divine Rain Sector and relayed the precise coordinates of those bases to Lei Chenghu through Li Yao. As a result, the first wave of interferential attacks was highly efficient and cut off the communication between the Divine Rain Sector and the outside world almost immediately.
When the Divine Rain Fleet finally put on a battle formation in a hurry and marched toward the Thunder Fleet, all of the starships in the fleet had been fully recovered.
A quarter of the starships of the Thunder Fleet had recovered from the turbulence of space ripples, a quarter of them had slowly passed through the gaps of the four-dimensional space, and the other half of the starships were on their way.
Even the most idiotic commander knew that it was the best, if not the only, opportunity to annihilate the Thunder Fleet.
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