BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Since three days ago, thunderous noises were echoing nonstop in the sky of the entire capital planet day and night. They were not the noises of cannons but the noises of countless starships, space shuttles, and crystal suits breaking through the clouds and marching to the battlefield, as well as the noises of them falling into broken debris.
When the sun illuminated the perilous planet, the sky that was supposed to be blue was swept by crimson tides. In the middle of the rising clouds, the enormous and fuzzy shadows of countless starships could be vaguely seen. It was a natural phenomenon caused by the radiation released by the starships when their spiritual shields were activated to the maximum. It was like some sort of artificial, cruel, and fatal rainbow.
After only three days, the tentacles of the Fuxi fleet broke through the defense lines at the periphery of the Empyreal Terminus Sector and broke into the orbit of the capital planet.
The worst outcome of a fierce battle in the orbit was that, after the two parties were blown apart, the remnants of the starships that had lost all their impetus could easily be captured by the gravity of the planet and fall into the planet like headless flies.
Both on the enemy's side and on their side, the remnants of the starships were mostly made of super alloys and special ceramics that could resist high temperatures and pressure. It was very difficult for them to be burnt in the high-speed friction in the atmosphere. They often fell as fast as lightning as burning stars, becoming the most troublesome threat for the cities and military bases of the Immortal Cultivators on the ground.
Falling from the atmosphere, and even in all kinds of chaotic collisions, with a very high initial speed, even the debris the size of a fist could leave a crater thousands of meters in diameter and burst out tsunamis of energy and blasts, turning the dozens of square kilometers around into a purgatory.
Every second, thousands of such remnants would invade the surface of the planet and become the main targets of the anti-air firepower on the ground of the capital planet.
At this moment, an arsenal warship of the Holy League that was more than three kilometers long even broke through the orbit defense of the Imperial Guards miraculously like a heavily wounded bull and broke into the atmosphere. Under the high-speed friction, a bright, arc-shaped wall of fire was formed around the warship.
The arsenal warship had completely lost control and momentum. All the crew members inside had been killed by the blast and the powerful radiation.
However, it did not stop it from transforming its enormous mass and momentum into the most terrifying damage.
Countless starships, space shuttles, and Crystal Suits of the Imperium rushed close in a hurry and poured firepower on it like a storm, trying to completely disintegrate it in the atmosphere.
However, its size and mass were so enormous that it did not show any sign of disintegration or obliteration even though it was riddled with holes.
However, due to the different degrees of damage and mass, the bow and stern of the spaceship were subjected to different stresses. Under the increasing acceleration, the spaceship finally burst into two halves with a cracking sound.
The remains of the warship moved faster and faster until they finally crashed into the coast of the Black Star, raising tides almost a hundred meters high, which swallowed a few towns on the coast. The residents in the towns, unable to escape, and they were all killed countless times over.
The remains of the tail of the warship, on the other hand, were crashing at the royal palace precisely.
Inside and outside the royal palace, the dense fire net made of countless lines of fire could not stop the gargantuan debris at all. It was about to hit the downtown area not far away from the royal palace brutally, raising a crater dozens of kilometers in diameter and a blast a thousand kilometers in radius. A lot of important places of the military, including the Council of Elders, were also destroyed. A streak of golden brilliance suddenly dashed out of the royal palace and pierced the remains of the starship in midair. After only one slash, the remains of the starship were cut into halves. Then, after a hundred consecutive slashes that were as fast as lightning and invisible to the naked eye, the remains of the starship were all dissected into pieces more than ten meters in diameter. Finally, they were completely destroyed by the anti-air fire net and turned into brilliant fireworks.
In the middle of the fireworks, the golden brilliance was gradually condensed into the image of a magnificent Colossus and a gold lion in the eyes of the billions of residents of the capital.
"It's … His Majesty!"
"His Majesty has taken action in person for our safety!"
"His Majesty has slashed the enormous remains of the starship into pieces with only one slash. Impressive. Absolutely impressive!"
"Long live His Majesty! Long live the Imperium!"
Regardless of whether they were Immortal Cultivators or "hominoids", the billions of people were all cheering. Their desperation a moment ago was completely forgotten. His Majesty, or Li Jialing, had become the greatest hero and hope in their hearts.
Li Jialing flew the Colossus in a circle in midair so that more people in the capital could see his magnificence, before he swaggered back to the royal palace.
However, when he crawled out of the Colossus, the little emperor couldn't have looked more ghastly, as if he were in the middle of an urgent battle.
That was only natural.
The debris in the sky was falling more and more frequently and at a higher and higher speed.
It meant that the battle area was gradually approaching the orbit of the capital planet from the periphery of the space zone. It was even possible that the Holy League had grasped the initiative of the battle and could intentionally launch tremendous debris at the capital planet.
Right now, they were still regular debris, but chances were that they would become crystal bombs with fuses and fragments tomorrow or assault squads with a large batch of paratroopers.
Without the dominance of the air, the anti-air firepower on the ground wouldn't help at all however dense it was.
When a general battle reached such a point, it meant that the defenders had completely lost the strategic initiative and could only stay on the planet and be bombarded by the enemy for nothing.
It was exactly because Li Jialing realized that the morale and the situation on his side were on the verge of collapse that he had to make such a performance in person to boost the morale of the soldiers.
However, such a performance could only be done once or twice at best. He couldn't circle around the capital planet all day long without doing anything important but blowing up the debris from the sky.
The little emperor dismissed the doctor who was about to examine him and returned to the command center of the command center without saying anything.
On the large communication platform of the command center, hundreds of glittering light beams were popping up, which were connected to the command centers at the periphery of the space zone, the nearby planets, the satellites, the orbit, and the ground, allowing the little emperor and the leadership of the reformists to learn the latest situation in the most intuitive way.
At this moment, most of the light beams were seriously jammed, with frost and serious distortions. Some of the commanders in the frontline were even roaring in the pictures before they were swallowed by darkness and completely lost.
"Reporting to the command center, the Sixth B Fleet of the Imperial Guards has used up the last round of ammunition. We are truly out of ammunition. Please send reinforcements immediately, even if it's just a supply starship! Otherwise, we will completely abandon the current defense line in three hours! "
"Reporting to the command center, the No. 101 space fortress has been attacked by a small infiltration troop of the enemy. The enemy is not large in number, but they have a Colossus that is savaging our army. Not good. The enemy is attacking our warehouse of crystals. Those lunatics, do they want to trade a Colossus for a space fortress and completely break our defense line? Ah! "
"Your Majesty, the enemy's firepower is too fierce, and their attack is too determined. We are all determined to die for our cause, but — but —"
One light beam after another fell into the swirls of fire or the abyss of darkness after being highly twisted. The Imperial Guards in the pictures only had time to scream miserably, adding insignificant footnotes to the gory defense battle.
Li Jialing's face was gloomy. His sharp canines pierced his lips deeply, but there was not the slightest blood flowing out of his pale lips.
Perhaps, the veins and nerves all over his body had been burnt by the fire of war.
At this moment, bad news came from deep below the ground, too. It couldn't have been worse.
"Uncle Emperor, not good!"
Xiaoming and Wenwen appeared on the mottled light beam in anxiety and said in shock, "Our network has been attacked by the Holy League on a large scale. Not just the battle network in space, even the network connected to the command center and all the mainframe crystal processors on the ground have been attacked on a large scale at the same time.
"Such fierce attacks and such delicate algorithms are almost unheard of. Even the two of us have never seen anything like it before.
"Somewhere deep inside the enemy's fleet, there must be one or more super crystal processors whose computational ability is far higher than ours, as well as some unimaginably terrifying algorithms that have combined all the super crystal processors into an immaculate whole.
"We — we don't know how the enemy did it, either. All in all, we can resist for a while longer at best. The defense line of the Spiritual Nexus will certainly be broken by the enemy. By then, not only will a lot of starships, military bases, and towns with a population of ten million will be paralyzed, even the two of us may be corrupted by the enemy. It's too dreadful. Do something now!"
For the first time, the feelings known as "fear" appeared on the two little fellows' faces. After stuttering, they sat back in the control cabin and closed their eyes and gritted their teeth to resist the scourge of the Spiritual Nexus from the Fuxi fleet.
Li Jialing grunted. His face, which was pale in the first place, seemed to have been smeared with a layer of arsenic, making it even paler than before.
Xiaoming and Wenwen, the two unbelievable information lives, were supposed to be Li Jialing's greatest trump cards. He had thought that the two little fellows could hack the starships of the Holy League and paralyze the enemy on a large scale like a virus when the starships of the two parties were completely entangled and their Spiritual Nexus was seriously jammed and torn apart!
It never occurred to him that even Xiaoming and Wenwen could do nothing about it and might even be corrupted and paralyzed by the enemy.
Damn the people of the Covenant Alliance. What are their real faces?
"Your Majesty, there's nothing we can do. The Imperial Guards have tried their best. After all, this is a second-rate troop that hasn't really fought for hundreds of years. It is almost a miracle that it has persisted to this moment under the bombardment of the main force of the Holy League. The battlefield on the east front is dead silent, too. There's no news about Marquis Liaohai at all. I don't think that he can get out of the swamp anytime soon. Therefore …"
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