Hoffman, who was in the command post, was shocked when he saw the pope's action. "What is the pope doing?"
"I don't know …" A high-ranking bishop was also at a loss. "The pope has been meditating on the changes in the iconostasis. He should be in the sacred chamber …"
At this time, the pope had stepped out of the pillar of light. He had a calm expression on his face as he walked toward the light in the distance step by step, like an ordinary old man out for a walk after a meal. The charging electric light of the black battleship and the light of the Hodeceus Grand Shield plated him with a layer of light, and the airflow caused by the explosion in the sky made his coarse robe flutter. The pope looked down at the holy book in his hand and let out a long sigh. "I see."
Then, his figure turned into a stream of light and rushed straight toward the black spaceship.
Suddenly, there was an uproar in the Hodeceus floating city.
Although it was just a small human rushing toward it, the black spaceship seemed to have sensed some kind of special threat. Layers of lightning suddenly appeared on its surface, trying to stop the old man who was rushing straight at it. The Pope's protective divine spells continued to shatter and reform under the electric arcs. His forward speed was slowed down, but he did not stop moving forward. In the end, he could almost touch the shell of the black spaceship, but his speed was also suppressed to the point where he could only move an inch at a time.
However, even under such circumstances, the old man's figure did not shake at all. He still maintained a calm expression, slowly moving forward in the frenzied lightning storm, slowly but firmly facing the lightning. Just as his hands were about to touch the outer shell of the black spaceship, the Pope felt a sonorous voice ringing in his mind. A powerful and angry will had forcefully broken into his spiritual world. Although he could not hear it clearly, the voice was angrily questioning the Pope's intentions.
The pope looked up, and the wrinkles on his face deepened at a speed visible to the naked eye. In a flash, he looked like he was about to die. "I'm here to repent."
Thunder surged in all directions, and the endless lightning seemed to tear the whole world apart. The pope sensed a rage that had been accumulated for tens of thousands of years in the lightning. He stood quietly in the lightning, trying his best to negotiate with the will in his mind. In the end, he let go of his hands and faced the light as if he was a prophet welcoming the end of the world. "Then take me away."
An unprecedentedly bright light burst out from the surface of the black spaceship, and the charging section of the rear half of the spaceship dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye. When all the light dissipated, the figure of the pope could no longer be seen in the sky.
A high-ranking bishop stood on the tower of Hodeceus and saw this scene. He shouted in horror, "The Pope has been martyred!"
The soldiers of the Hodeceus Fortress were silent for a few seconds, and then the cannons fired in unison. Countless magic bullets and crossbow bolts bombarded the black battleship in the air, but the latter had no interest in fighting back. The spaceship hovered quietly in the air for a while, then suddenly began to accelerate and flew into the sky.
After all, the Hodeceus floating city was only a crude aviation tool. In the face of the alien spacecraft that set off for outer space, it could only lament its inadequacy.
In the vast space, the Petrachelys was quietly waiting for the black battleship. What happened on the surface of the planet fell into the eyes of everyone on the bridge. Hao Ren did not understand how the pope finally let the black battleship cancel the global electromagnetic storm. He guessed that the pope may have understood some secrets related to the goddess before he died. But now that the pope was dead, the only way to uncover the secret was to find the owner of the black battleship.
After the black battleship left the planet's atmosphere, it directly encountered the Petrachelys. The two spaceships faced each other across a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers. The small silver-white spaceship was insignificant compared to the black battleship, but the latter's energy response made it impossible for anyone to ignore its threat.
The black battleship hesitated for a moment, and suddenly a twisted vortex opened in front of it. It seemed that it was trying to open a dimensional door to escape, but the vortex only lasted for less than a second before it suddenly collapsed.
The gravitational trap generator sent a signal that the interference was successful. Hao Ren turned on the communicator and shouted to the black spaceship in the public channel. "Attention, spaceship in front. The gravitational trap generator has been deployed in this airspace. Now any mode of superluminal navigation is blocked. I'm now — "
Before he could finish, the front half of the black spaceship suddenly flashed. Hundreds of the enemy's main and secondary cannons fired at the Petrachelys at the same time.
The black battleship's cannons bombarded the Petrachelys' shield, causing a ripple. The hull of the Petrachelys shook slightly. The MDT whistled. "Whoosh — it's more powerful than expected. It seems that technology is really the number one combat power."
"Anyway, I've followed the instructions in the manual for early communication and warning." Hao Ren frowned and threw the captain's manual on the console. "Activate high-speed maneuver, counterattack with the secondary cannons, and turn on all interference devices. Anyway, we can't let that thing get away!"
The MDT said as it injected the command, "Do you want to kill it or leave it half-dead?"
"Of course not!" Hao Ren put his hands on the console. "If possible … I want to capture it alive."
"Roger that!"
The surface of the Petrachelys suddenly glowed, and then the whole spaceship flashed like a phantom in space. It relied on continuous teleportation to evade the black spaceship's lock-on. At the same time, several secondary cannons protruded from the waist of the spaceship and began to counterattack.
The black battleship had the most advanced technology in the universe. Just one of its spaceships could cause a devastating blow to an entire planet. Even a civilization like Io, which had developed space technology, could not resist it. Therefore, it was a threat to the Petrachelys, a civilian-class inspector's ship. Even so, the Petrachelys was powered by psionic energy, and each of its attacks contained psionic energy. This was an energy that could be used in all dimensions, and each attack would cause equal damage to everything in the area of effect, including matter, energy, space, laws, and even everything else in the world. This was a qualitative difference that could not be made up for. Even though the black battleship was huge, it could not stand a chance against this kind of 'cannon'.
The black spaceship could not dodge the psionic cannons. Its surface burst into a large bright flash, and the spacecraft's shield began to crumble after a few rounds of bombardment. Then the black crystal plates on the spacecraft began to emit bright sparks as they entered a state of overload. A series of small explosions spread on the hull of the spacecraft, and the most serious damage was identified as the engine and the hyperspace device. A series of dazzling flashes crossed the waist of the black spaceship, blowing up two sets of hyperspace generators and cutting off most of the spacecraft's power supply. But until all the systems were destroyed, the black spaceship did not stop fighting back.
Hao Ren pressed his hands on the console and stared at the enemy ship on the holographic projection. "I can't do anything to you on the ground, but in space —"
The MDT said loudly, "That's my turf!"
The short and intense bombardment lasted for a few minutes, and the black spaceship soon came to a standstill. The MDT had done a good job this time. It had accurately found a weak point that could disable the enemy ship without completely blowing it up. After the bombardment stopped, the black battleship floated silently in space. Most of the black crystal plates on its surface had cracked due to overload, and there were many terrible burn holes on the body of the battleship. From time to time, bolts of lightning burst out from these holes.
The MDT used the shipboard radar to detect the energy reaction inside the enemy ship to prevent the latter from 'playing dead' to save its life. After confirming again and again, it breathed a sigh of relief. "The target has lost the ability to move, and there are signs of life inside."
Lily was stunned for a moment before she said, "That was so exciting!"
Everyone else on the bridge had the same reaction: this was the first time these guys had experienced such a battle.
Like everyone else, Hao Ren was a little immersed in the excitement of the first space exchange with a hostile spacecraft. But he did not have time to indulge in it for too long. After confirming that the Petrachelys was only slightly damaged, he immediately ordered to approach the black battleship of the brain monster.
A sense of anticipation that a secret was about to be revealed came out of nowhere.
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