Little Raven, who was best at finding doors, and Little Bubble, who was best at picking locks, had combined into one and galloped around the universe for half a day. Now, they were only two hundred thousand light-years away from their base. That was one of the last anomalous spaces that had not been eliminated. Obviously, the two girls did not have a plan for their work. They did not sweep through the anomalous spaces in order, but as they pleased. But in any case, the two girls were amazingly efficient. In just a few hours, they had completed a job that would have taken a normal soldier days or even half a month to complete. The encrypted anomalous spaces were like an exposed and defenseless public square to them. While the Imperial Army was preparing for battle, and the huge Hessian fleet was mobilized, the two girls had already rushed to the last unexplored airspace. I felt that Little Raven and Little Bubble were a little too excited. They did not seem to realize how dangerous it would be to suddenly bump into Halland's fleet. Naughty brats would be naughty brats. Even if they occasionally did something serious, they would forget everything else. Fortunately, Asida and Asidora had gone to meet them. The two sisters were the only ones who could barely keep up with Little Raven's speed. Other than them, the other dimensional soldiers had almost thrown up last year's New Year's Eve dinner.
I have to say, Halland's luck was really good. We had eliminated eighty percent of the anomalous spaces in this universe and still could not find him. His luck was definitely maxed out. Of course, it could also be said that his bad luck had finally turned a little. Look, ever since the war with the New Empire, Halland had lost a lot of things. He was about to go bankrupt.
"A large-scale spatial signal has been detected! A sealed space is opening on its own! " Asida and Asidora's report suddenly interrupted my thoughts. Then, I heard Medivh excitedly shouting, "Caw! Found it! Master found the bad guy! "
… Silly Bird's incoherent way of talking would not fit in with the Carlo brothers. Do you believe that she could drive them crazy?
"Retreat immediately. Prepare the fleet's firepower. When the enemy comes out, launch a space-time attack!" I immediately ordered. Then, I felt a sense of imbalance caused by the distorted gravity. The imbalance came from my side. An unstable space door opened on the military platform, and the Asidora sisters rushed out. Asidora was carrying a little girl in a white dress. It was Bubbles, who had just been very active. When the little girl saw me, she easily broke free from Asidora's hand and climbed up my leg. In the blink of an eye, she had almost reached my chest. "Chirp! Daddy, praise me! "
I could say a few more words. It was not easy at all. I patted Little Bubble's head, finally feeling at ease. It seemed that it was time to add the words "mature and steady" to Little Bubble's daily education. However, I soon noticed that someone was missing. "Asida, where's that bird?"
"Oh, it's stuck on the upper armor of the transverse arm." The two sisters said in unison. I quickly turned on the external monitor and saw the silly bird stuck outside the spaceship. There was a small black dot on the Imperial Admiral's transverse arm that was flapping its wings. When I zoomed in, it was the little crow. She was still in her Raven God form and her sharp beak was almost completely stuck in between the two armor plates of the spaceship. In a panic, the silly bird flapped its body and its wings left afterimages behind. The sturdy armor of the spaceship was scratched by the Raven God's sharp claws. A large group of autonomous robots emerged from the nearby launch ports to deal with the accident, but no one could get close. When the little crow flapped its wings, it stirred up an arcane hurricane with a radius of several kilometers. Within the hurricane's range, not even the gods and ghosts could survive.
"We moved in a hurry." The Asida sisters nodded apologetically. "Medivh was still in her God form. We realized that we couldn't bring her in here, so we dropped her outside the spaceship. Maybe she was a little dazed, so she crashed into the deck."
Shallow Shallow said something that made a lot of sense. "Wouldn't it be better if she turned into a human now?"
"If she knew that she would turn into a human, would she still be a silly bird?" I knocked on Shallow Shallow's head. Almost at the same time, the warning mainframe let out a shrill whistle. "Alert! Detected a large number of Fallen Apostles! Target confirmed to be Halland's fleet … The enemy is escaping from the alternate dimension! "
"Keep the cannons charged. Wait for all of them to come out before we attack," Sandora said. At the same time, all of us shifted our attention to the images from the warning radar and the deep space probes. In the airspace where Little Crow and Little Raven were preparing to scout, a dark cloud of dust was stirring violently like a liquid. The cooled cosmic dust happened to cover the exit of the distorted dimension. When the alternate dimension opened, violent and chaotic gravitational waves began to generate near the portal. It was as if a dozen massive stars had suddenly barged into the dust cloud. Under the chaotic gravitational force that appeared out of nowhere, the thin dust cloud was quickly compressed and stretched into slender strips like noodles. Gradually, it was stirred into a huge cloud vortex. At the center of the vortex, a large black fleet was slowly poking its head out. The first to emerge was the King's Landing fleet!
"Yes, that's the fleet!" Prahan's voice came from the communicator. "Their paint and appearance are exactly the same as the general's fleet recorded in the data!"
Weska silently turned her head away. She had been living among a group of normal people for several years and finally realized that there was something wrong with her sense of beauty back then. In the public channel of the spiritual connection, the silly bird was still panicking and crying for help. "Help! Caw! Caw! Help me! "She was still stuck outside the spaceship.
She probably couldn't remember that she could turn into a human. Icetis took out two star gold crowbars from her dimensional pocket (don't ask why a goddess would carry crowbars with her) and held them in front of Ellson and Lin. "You two, go and pry that bird out!"
Ellson was warming up and preparing to help in the battle. He was stunned when he heard that. "Why should I go?"
"Stop talking nonsense." Icetis poked Ellson's armor with the crowbar. "You can take a beating. Silly girl is strong. Can you find me another clown who dares to jump into the energy storm of that silly bird?"
Elson still wanted to say something, but after being glared at by Bryndis, he didn't even dare to breathe. He hurriedly pulled Lin and ran out to save the bird. Lin was the most obedient, hugging the crowbar like an obedient wife. I reckon that if I gave her a mop, pointed at the end of the world and said, "Go, go save the world." As long as the person who said that wasn't Elson, she would rush forward without hesitation.
While the little crow was busy with the problem, Halland's fleet had almost completely left the dimension. Sandora was waiting for the best opportunity to attack: when the enemy had completely left the dimensional door and was not stable, Halland would not be able to retreat back into the dimension and make an effective defense. Now, the opportunity was coming.
"All forces, focus fire on the enemy King's Landing Formation! Attack in echelons, don't stop firing! "
Following his command, the Imperial Army's position was completely enveloped by a continuous warped screen of light. Every warship cannon with warp ability tore open a dimensional door around the warships. These rippling dimensional doors covered a radius of tens of millions of kilometers like a ball of dirty water. The cannons covered the sky and covered the earth through the dimensional doors, spanning a distance of 245,000 light years, bombarding Halland's King's Landing Formation. As the enemy's joint shield had not been fully deployed, the first round of attacks easily penetrated the enemy's shield net. Most of the firepower accurately pasted onto the enormous body of King's Landing Formation. But regrettably, the accurate firepower only triggered a dense grey mist on the surface of the three-ring starships. The gospel had been activated, and King's Landing Formation's immunity to conventional firepower had reached its peak. The damage from a galactic cannon would probably not exceed that of a rifle.
"Maintain the firepower. Don't stop. Covert Strike Formation, continue laying spatial mines." Seeing that the first wave of attacks was almost unscathed by the gospel, Sives was not surprised at all and continued to issue orders calmly.
The gospel was indeed an unprecedentedly powerful defensive device. It was the ultimate damage definition system, able to lock onto any damage apart from Void attacks to its lowest value. It was also completely immune to low-level damage such as kinetic energy, heat, and radiation (in fact, apart from 'special attacks' such as psionic energy, holy light, divine arts, and mathematical probability, all other forms of damage were ignored by the gospel). As long as the attack was not Void, there was no upper limit to how much damage it could lock onto. That was what made the gospel so terrifying. However, it consumed a lot of energy. The longer the attacks lasted and the more attacks there were, the greater the burden on the Gospel's energy core and damage control system. The only way to destroy the Gospel was to rely on overwhelming numbers and suppressive firepower for a long period of time. Shadora had once explained to me how to destroy the Gospel in such a way: It was an indestructible shield, but the hand holding the shield would always get tired. The Lord Descendant's damage control system or core energy core would then go offline, and the Gospel would naturally shut down. And now, Sives was working towards that direction.
At the same time, the Covert Strike Formation warships that we had brought with us began to lay spatial mines in certain 'strange places'. The areas they laid seemed to have no pattern. In the two hundred thousand light-years between the Halland army and the Imperial Army, they had laid hundreds of randomly distributed minefields, some of which were even thousands of light-years away from the line between the Imperial Army and Halland's army. But when the Halland army began to warp towards the Imperial Army's base, everything became clear.
Every time the enemy warped, they would fall into an encirclement of spatial mines, with not a single minefield 'wasted'. After repeating this a dozen times, it was as if Halland's navigators were coordinating with the Imperial Army to step on landmines. They appeared to be trying to avoid the ubiquitous mines, such as changing warp points to warp thousands of light-years in another direction — but they were still hit in the face. And so, the enemy finally realized what was going on. They simply gave up on avoiding the minefields, and began to charge towards the Imperial Army step by step through the spatial mines. They had to think of a way to get close, because the 'Genesis' system on King's Landing was a thing whose power would plummet after being released through warp. Disassembling the Genesis would greatly interfere with the warp device, and unless it was absolutely necessary, the Genesis device would fire directly from a distance of several light-minutes. That was why Halland had no choice but to brace herself and tread on the mines so that her King's Landing team could fight.
The scene looked heroic and valiant, but of course, it was more of a bitter one. I believe that this was definitely not Halland's intention. Think about it, when you charge on the battlefield, the number displayed on the pedometer at your waist is the number of times you stepped on the mines. Anyway, Xiaoxue had been smirking on the side for more than ten minutes. The coordinates of the minefields were all deduced by her prophetic ability. The enemy could not avoid the traps laid by the prophets, and I guess they knew it themselves. Otherwise, they would not have given up on the detour and charged all the way through the mines.
But that was where the Empire's advantage of the element of surprise stopped. After a brief suppression, Halland's fleet quickly regained order. They braved the intense bombardment to stabilize the fleet's joint shield, and began to counterattack before the next wave of firepower from the Imperial Army arrived. Hundreds of spatial distortions appeared around our position in an instant. These distorted spatial belts were formed by a series of small, distorted vortexes. The vortexes were like water ripples that reflected the images of ferocious cannons and dark warships from a dozen light-years away. After a short delay, the torrential psionic torrent and huge warp warheads began to bombard the joint shield. As the fleet's mainframe, Bubble began to issue a loud warning. "Third Frontier Column, pay attention to your shield fluctuations. Your shield fluctuations are too large! Fourth Frontier Column, provide additional damage to Third Frontier Column. Attention, the first wave of disassembly is coming! "
In the brief exchange of fire, Halland's King's Landing fleet had completed over a hundred warps. While many corvettes had been destroyed by the spatial bolts along the way, all of her King's Landing ships were unscathed. Now, the colossal monsters were within direct firing range, and the gray 'rays' instantly traversed the space between both sides. In an instant, the Imperial Army's joint shield was on the verge of collapse, and the frontmost Borderland-class fortress ships began to show damage due to overload.
"Adjust shield frequency to mathematical disturbance mode." She clenched her silver-white fingers and swung her sword, slamming it hard on the ground as the Storm Commander's power spread across the entire fleet. "War Premonition!"
War Premonition — an ability that came into effect based on the Storm Commander's special innate ability. Through mathematical conversion, it greatly strengthens one's own defense and fleet mobility, while also effectively countering guided weapons. But in the current situation, War Premonition was mainly used to counter Genesis's disassembly effect. According to the principle of the disassembly effect, it destroyed the target by destroying the information structure of the target. Therefore, the more "complex" the target was in terms of information, the more "information shells" it had on it. The Genesis would consume more energy to disassemble the target, and the slower its speed would be. Sives's response to the Genesis was to increase the complexity of his fleet's information. He adjusted the frequency of the shield, used the special properties of psionic energy, fused the interference outside the shield, and added additional mathematical protection for his own units. This was the most effective way to protect themselves against the Genesis, and while it could not guarantee that they would be unscathed under the attack of the Genesis, it would allow them to live as long as possible. Perhaps they could live until the Genesis ran out of energy, or until it was killed by their allies.
There was no helping it. As one of the most insane mass-produced weapons the Empire had ever created, you could not hope for a way to be completely immune to Genesis's damage — even a Superior Protoss like Icetis would not dare to take that thing head on.
"I noticed something," Sandora looked at me worriedly, "Halland has recovered."
I also noticed that Halland's army was now in high spirits, and their response was fast. Facing the sudden attack of the Imperial Army, their response was effective, and they quickly displayed the powerful combat power of King's Landing Formation. Now, the Revelation system had not been activated because most of Halland's ships had not reached the optimal combat distance, but I believed that Halland would soon order for Revelation to be activated. By the time that troublesome thing was activated, we would be facing an army of Lunatics with dozens of long-lasting buffs and thick skin.
Halland's frontline army seemed to have finally ended their long-lasting state of sleepwalking. Now, they fully displayed the strength that they should have as fallen apostles, and the pressure on the frontline increased sharply.
"Well, it doesn't affect much. I like to fight hard battles, it gives me a greater sense of accomplishment." Sandora suddenly revealed a cold and arrogant smile. "Halland, if you continue to sleepwalk like this, you will disappoint me instead … Prepare the Seventh Army. Let the Glow Circle give them a big gift."
The Seventh Fleet, the Magic Legion, or the old Royal Fleet, is our trump card in this battle. Now they are still hiding in the Concealment Force Field and have not entered the battle so far. The reason why we did this was that we wanted to wait for the moment when some of Halan's spaceships' shields were exhausted. The Seventh Fleet had more than two hundred Glow Circles. Their terrifying mirror system could ignore the combined shield and directly destroy ships that were smaller than them without the protection of an independent shield. Halland probably wouldn't have thought that we were carrying such a dangerous thing because he was still following his usual habits when facing the Imperial Army in the past, allowing the small and medium-sized ships whose shields were almost depleted to continue fighting on the periphery of the formation. In the past, this tactic was very correct because the allied forces' combined shield could continue to provide protection to those ships. The latter's continued fighting would mean continuous damage output. But this time, the Glow Circle probably wouldn't disappoint.
"Speaking of which … before that, we still have to think of a way to get rid of those ring battleships."
I said worriedly as I felt a violent tremor under my feet.
The second wave of dismantling effect had just ended. It had almost pierced through our frontline combined shield. The three borderline battleships, which had suffered the most severe losses, were in a state of emergency. Their individual shields had been hit to the critical value of ten percent and were no longer able to provide additional damage to the combined shield.
Icetis glanced at me. "You intend to do it yourself?"
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