Everybody on the battlefield saw an unbelievable scene.
The Colossus "Heavenly Crystal", which was translucent and natural as if it had been carved out of a whole piece of crystal, danced the most splendid dance of death, involving the other three Colossi in its own rhythm.
The three Colossi were like marionettes under its control. Following the rhythm of "Heavenly Crystal", they were cramping and crashing into each other.
Countless giant iron balls darted close from all directions and were attached to the three Colossi. Other than locking the Colossi with magnetic fields, they also spurted out a lot of sticky glue from the inside, sticking themselves to the Colossi, as if countless burdens weighing a thousand kilograms had been added to the Colossi.
Those burdens were also spurting out exhaust flames to all directions, making the Colossi completely lose control at the mercy of the iron balls.
In the end, their spiritual residences were pried open by the "Heavenly Crystal" and blown into smithereens all the users inside without any mercy!
A moment ago, the battlefield was still in full swing, but in an instant, it fell into a despairing silence.
Of course, it was Song Changlie, Marquess Hushan, who was desperate.
"You … You … You … You …"
Song Changlie stepped back and fell on his command chair. His lips were still shivering, and he could not utter a complete sentence.
"Boss Bai, what do you want exactly?"
His voice full of confusion and desperation, he howled, "I am Marquess Hushan of the Imperium. How dare you do this? You … You can't kill me. If you kill me, you will be killed too. You won't be able to explain yourself to the four families!"
"Idiot, with everything coming to this point, do you still not understand?"
Boss Bai's holographic projection put on a smile of disdain and mockery. "Everything is under the instruction of 'Commander Yun'. Do you think that the fleets of a hundred Sectors have jumped to this tiny Seven Seas Space Zone at the cost of tremendous manpower and resources just to annihilate a bunch of insignificant rebels of the reformists?
"Hehe. The reformists are nothing more than insignificant cockroaches and rats. If you want to annihilate them, all you need to do is to sneeze, and they will be obliterated instantly!
"Commander Yun's real purpose, on the other hand, is to take the great opportunity to completely control the 'coalition army of a million starships' and condense it into a loyal, indestructible, and obedient force that only obeys his and the Yun family's orders!"
"Ah!"
Song Changlie bulged his eyes and blurted out, "How dare Yun Xuefeng! How dare the Yun family!"
"If you don't take it, you will be punished. With such a great opportunity in front of you, why don't you dare?"
Boss Bai grinned hideously. "After the battle, while the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors will be gone, the sixteen Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships and millions of starships will belong to Commander Yun and the Yun family. By then, who in the entire universe can compete with Commander Yun and the Yun family?
"Haha, this commander has made such great contributions for Commander Yun and the Yun family. I am qualified to be conferred the title of Marquis. What else can't I explain?"
"You're crazy!"
Song Changlie pointed at the light beam, his hair rising. There was no telling whether he was angry or shocked. "You, Yun Xuefeng, and everybody in the Yun family are crazy. You … You don't care about the big picture at all!"
"The big picture? Hehe, if the Song family really cares about the big picture, why are you competing with the Yun family for the new emperor? If the Song family really cares about the big picture, why are your fleets wandering at the edge of the space zone without the slightest intention to attack the Seven Seas Grand Market? Aren't you waiting for Commander Yun's fleet to crash into the market first so that the Song family can clean up the mess? Or rather, if Commander Yun's head is not broken, you may even stab him in the back! "
Boss Bai spat and said with a smile, "Alright, stop trying to change the topic and stop wasting my time. I know that you are secretly preparing escape capsules. It's useless. You know too much. Go to hell right now!"
A hundred starships that belonged to the "Coalition Fleet of Pyromaniacs" opened fire at the same time. Thousands of rays of destruction illuminated the dark space again. The powerful spiritual waves tore ripples in the vacuum, as if it were an ocean that was caught in a storm!
Under the barrage of thousands of pillars of light, the spiritual shield of "Tiger Roar" only persisted for half a minute before it turned from green to orange and then from orange to crimson, before it broke apart like glass that was full of cracks.
Without the protection of the spiritual shield, the plate armor that was made of super alloys embedded with reflective ceramics could not resist the burning of almost ten thousand degrees when the temperature was concentrated on one point at all.
Besides, at this moment, all kinds of real weapons, such as the high-energy metal ions, the explosive bombs launched from the rails, and the space torpedoes, hit the target too.
The fireball exploded like a supernova. At first, it was just an insignificant spot of light, but in the blink of an eye, it expanded into a gargantuan object hundreds of meters in diameter and enshrouded the entire "Tiger Roar". The plate armor that was several meters thick was torn apart easily. Tremendous materials, fuel, and even crew members inside the cabin were sucked out, congregating into an overwhelming torrent of debris that sprayed to the depths of space, making "Tiger Roar" look like a heavily wounded tiger that had lost too much blood.
The paralysis of "Tiger Roar" meant that the brief battle was not over yet.
Most of the starships chose to surrender to Boss Bai. They did not care who their commander was in the first place, as long as the commander was strong and brutal enough to bring them greater hope of survival and more trophies.
Therefore, the commanders of those starships were almost cheering and jumping to join Boss Bai's side.
Of course, Boss Bai's brutality enough to kill a marquess of the Imperium gave them more or less concerns.
But concerns aside, Boss Bai was bold enough to kill Marquess Hushan, not to mention the insignificant shrimps like them. Who was willing to die together with Song Changlie?
Only part of the starships that belonged to the Song family, after witnessing the destruction of "Tiger Roar", fled to the periphery of the Seven Seas Space Zone without caring about their lives.
Most of their starships were rapid attack starships that were fast and stealthy. After the two parties were more than a million kilometers away from each other, it was very difficult to catch up with them.
Boss Bai did not intend to annihilate all of them. While those starships were fleeing, he seized the time to reorganize the loose soldiers that he had just subdued.
But he did not know that, although Song Changlie failed to escape from the vortex of destruction of "Tiger Roar" in time, he had sent the record of his conversation with Boss Bai to a few other starships of the Song family at the last moment, asking those starships to take him away from the battlefield.
Or maybe, he had known it a long time ago but did not care at all.
"Alright, the number of our fleets has reached the limit. If they expand any further, they will be beyond our control and command."
Boss Bai said to Xiao Lishui, his chief of staff, with a smile, "Give my order. Ask all the starships that have just surrendered to us to clean the battlefield. Ask them to blow up the debris of" Tiger Roar "into smithereens. Make sure that everybody's hands are stained with blood.
"Whoever dilly-dallied and did not dare to take action, ask the rest of them to blow up their starships too.
"In three hours, I'm going to finish the most thorough regrouping. Then, we'll set off to find our dear 'Commander Yun'!"
…
On "Landslide", the flagship of the "coalition fleet of a million starships" …
Yun Xuefeng paced back and forth anxiously along the diagonal of the bridge, making the 10,037 steps in twenty-four hours.
At the center of the bridge, the holographic projection of the Seven Seas Space Zone was still covered in the confusing fog, making it impossible to tell the outcome of the battle.
A real war was entirely different from a game.
In the game, the commander could see everything on the battlefield like the omnipresent gods and demons. Even if he could not see the number and movement of the enemy, he could at least see his own strength clearly. Every order could be instantly transmitted to the combat units at the forefront, and these combat units would definitely be loyal and complete the order without any discount. They would 100% "go through water and tread on fire without hesitation".
A real war, however, was far from that.
The universe was too vast. The diameter of the battlefield was even billions of kilometers, and there were too many combat units scattered in it. Under the incessant interference of the enemy, it was very difficult for two combat units to reach out to each other, not to mention the cross-communication between Yun Xuefeng's flagship and many combat units.
As a matter of fact, Yun Xuefeng failed to reach out to all the starships under his command after thirty hours.
On the status icons that represented every starship that was connected to the command chain, about 70% of the starships were still in the gray state, which meant that they were not connected to the battle network yet. There was no telling which point in the dark universe they were struggling at, or if they had been sunk by the defenders.
Yun Xuefeng felt that he was sitting in the middle of a black fog all by himself, waiting for the hazy stars to shine around him. Every star was a warship under his command, and there was no telling how long it would take for him to gather enough forces to attack the Seven Seas Grand Market.
The good news was that "Landslide", his flagship, had finally found a peaceful rendezvous point that had not been discovered by the defenders yet. He could continue summoning more starships there.
Also, only two Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships had been discovered by the defenders and were caught in a hard battle. Of the other fourteen Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships, ten had been contacted, and they were all intact. Also, they were summoning the shield warships, arsenal warships, and comprehensive supply warships nearby to form powerful Adamantine fleets.
Yun Xuefeng estimated that, as long as three to four Adamantine fleets were gathered, they would be able to march toward the Seven Seas Grand Market and suppress the defenders.
The bad news was that, although he had reached out to the ten Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships, the commanders of those ultimate warships were even more demoralized than he expected. Almost all of them complained that tremendous fleets of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors had appeared around them and that they were about to be engaged in a tough battle. They were trying their best to escape and were unable to cooperate with the commander's next action.
At first, Yun Xuefeng thought that the Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships had really encountered accidents.
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