After a fierce battle, Halland's army finally began to turn the tables. They obviously switched from offense to defense, and began to give up on the various special warfare and auxiliary ships that were not of much use in this battle, concentrating their limited shield resources on the main force.
I admit that this battle was a little unexpected. We did not expect the Halland army to suddenly wake up from that sleepwalking state, nor did we expect the Fallen Apostle Royal Fleet and King's Landing Fleet to have a combat strength that was more than twice what we had expected. We had underestimated the enemy to a certain extent, and the enemy's astonishing combat strength made this battle that should not have had many variables added to the difficulty. The elite troops that Xi Wei had organized and the remnants of Halland's troops had actually fought bitterly for such a long time. Of course, no one could deny the fighting spirit of the Imperial Army and the combat strength of the troops that we had brought with us. However, we were also facing a trump card: the Fallen Emperor's Royal Fleet and more than ten King's Landing Fleet (a single King's Landing Fleet meant a core mothership and tens of thousands of escort ships). Under normal circumstances, this was definitely the trump card of trump cards, especially the latter, whose combat strength was not inferior to that of three armies.
This time, the other side was still performing extraordinarily well …
However, after a fierce battle, in addition to the valiant attacks of the Dark Forest Tribe that could be considered to have entered the fray, Halland's weakened troops were almost destroyed by us. For the time being, their main force had not suffered any fatal losses. This was because Halland had an excellent commander: the Fallen Apostle General Zadom was obviously excellent. His battle tactics were cautious yet bold, and he was adaptable without losing sight of the details. Even a layman like me could notice that all of the Fallen Apostle's spaceships were coordinating with each other in a very precise manner, almost evenly sharing the damage of the Imperial Army. Other than a small number of shield ships that voluntarily sacrificed themselves and were destroyed in a short period of time when faced with the superior firepower of the Imperial Army, the other spaceships were controlled to the critical line where they could continue fighting. Sandora frankly said that this was the kind of enemy she was most unwilling to face. Their tactics were bold enough, and they were unusually stubborn. Even in the face of a great disadvantage, they could still make their limited troops last until the last moment. Zadom was the kind of person who could squeeze out the last bit of combat power to allow his fleet to continue fighting even when they were on the verge of death. Last time, he used cunning tactics to 'kill' Sandora, and this time, he used steady and ever-changing commands to last for such a long time in the face of the Imperial Army who had the advantage.
If possible, we must capture this guy alive. This was the tacit understanding that Sandora and I had reached.
Now, the battle was about to end. In all fairness, if the current pace of the battle had continued, Zadom's powerful commanding ability would have allowed Halland's fleet to last for a long time. However, when the Seventh Fleet was exposed from its hidden state, he would realize that he had made a mistake when the information was not on the same level. He had lowered the critical value of his fleet's shields too low, and now those spaceships were defenseless. Their thick, rechargeable armor was nothing in front of the Radiant Halo.
The Imperial Army's fleet quickly adjusted its formation through short-distance warp, clearing out a large empty space in the middle of the fleet. Hundreds of 'doors' that looked like ripples slowly opened, and 'things' that were different from all the spaceships on the battlefield slowly emerged from within.
A huge halo, dozens of kilometers in diameter and seemingly cast out of light, first appeared in space. These halos were radiant and majestic as they slowly emerged from the dark space. Looking at them gave the illusion that the gates of heaven were slowly opening. I believe that if you find a primitive planet and put a Radiant Halo around it twice, the religious system of the planet would basically be fixed. This thing was definitely a magic weapon to play the role of God, and much more useful than hanging a light bulb behind your head. Around the Radiant Halo, the Throne of Judgement and the lower-level support and frigates appeared. They were responsible for providing additional firepower and protection for the Radiant Halo. While the Horrifying Mirror System was powerful, it took up a large amount of mana quota, causing the Radiant Halo to be a little stretched in terms of conventional attack power. Therefore, it had to fight together with other ships, and in terms of its reliance on battle groups, the Radiant Halo was comparable to an Eternal class.
This was the inevitable shortcoming of a mothership, or a super-heavy core battleship (Sandora liked to categorize it that way).
Halland's reaction was not slow. I believe that the appearance of the Seventh Fleet startled them, but they did not panic. Instead, they focused all their firepower on the Imperial Army, trying to reduce the number of Radiant Halos as much as possible. The enemy commander did not withdraw the ships whose shields had fallen to the bottom, because they knew that it was too late. When the Radiant Halo appeared on the battlefield, it had already formed a symbolic link with all enemy ships, and as long as you appeared in the center of the halo, there was no way to escape. Zadom and Halland should be aware of this, so they wanted the ships that were about to be destroyed to fire one last wave of firepower, and for this goal, they even ignored the Hessians' mud attack for a moment.
But it was already too late. The Seventh Fleet not only had powerful offensive capabilities, they also had a strange defensive ability: the Throne of Judgement instantly entered a state of absorption, and the slanted cube surface absorbed most of the incoming firepower like a black hole, and the rest of the attack could barely touch the Imperial Army's combined shield. After that brief exchange of fire, the surface of the Radiant Halo began to ripple with energy, and a large number of energy arrays appeared around them as they began to fire conventional firepower at the enemy. At the same time, the mirror area at the inner edge of the halo gradually brightened, reflecting the distant starry sky. In a way that did not conform to photometry, every Radiant Halo reflected an enemy warship, and all ships below the Eternal class could not escape this reflection.
After a one-second delay, these reflections were compressed into a small dot, and the corresponding enemy became a small spark in space with a radius of no more than a centimeter. There was no need for any exchange of fire, and after the target lost its psionic shield, even the thickest armor was no defense, and the Radiant Halo's ultimate attack transcended the physical plane.
In just a few seconds, the next round of attack was ready.
The Radiant Halo's main target now was the expeditionary and borderline class of medium-sized warships. In a large-scale melee, the expeditionary class Corona often bore more than half of the firepower output. The Eternal-class Galaxy Cannon was powerful, but due to the limitation of numbers, the Galaxy Cannon was only used to destroy the enemy's most solid line of defense. The protagonists who were active for the longest time in the melee were still the medium-sized gunships with large numbers and quick reactions, and the Radiant Halo happened to be able to destroy such gunships in batches. As for destroying the borderline class, it was even easier to understand: as long as the shield ships were destroyed, the enemy's defense would be useless.
A large number of enemy warships began to turn into ashes under the mirror-image attack of the Glow Ring. Although their combined shield was still there, the combined shield did not have a symbolic 'attribution', which meant that it did not belong to any single spaceship. This conceptual deviation caused the combined shield to be useless against the mirror-image system, and the situation of the battle instantly tilted in the favor of the Imperial Army. The Radiant Halo sparkled, and every time the mirror image flashed, more than two hundred enemy warships were destroyed. At the same time, our other warships began to focus on weakening the enemy's shields, because the Terrifying Mirror System was only effective against unshielded targets.
The overall situation was like this: friendly ships were responsible for crippling the enemy ships, and the Radiant Halo would send a mirror over to finish them off.
"So this is what they call a human-headed dog," Bubble suddenly muttered through the internal broadcast. "Snatching kills, recruiting minions, and not participating in the team battle. But seeing that they're on the same side, they'll … Ah, I'm broadcasting."
Everyone: "…"
Sandora coughed dryly to cover up the collective awkwardness caused by Bubble, and ordered Sives with a cheerful expression. "Adjust the firing chain and prepare for the final wave of attack. Also, inform the Hessians to retreat. Halland's final counterattack might be unprecedentedly frenzied, so let the Imperial Army handle it alone."
The command hall was brimming with a relaxed atmosphere. The battle seemed to be coming to an end. As a group of defeated soldiers, Halan and his army were already impressive. However, I didn't think that it was possible for the other party to make a comeback. My sister stood up and took a few deep breaths, preparing to act. She was getting more and more proficient in using her ability to capture the enemy, because the accumulation of probability was the only thing that could stop the Shiring Apostles from self-destructing in this situation. My sister had been conserving her energy since a while ago. Her mission was very important: Think of a way to capture Zadom alive, and if possible, even consider capturing Halland alive.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Sives saluted Sandora on the command deck, and then turned to the command terminal in front of her. But just as the command for the final attack was about to be given, a piercing alarm suddenly rang throughout the warship, and Bubble loudly warned through the broadcast. "Attention! There are signs of a dimensional door opening in the center of the enemy's camp! A dimensional door has appeared in the center of the enemy's camp! High-energy reaction confirmed! High-energy reaction confirmed! "
"What's that?!" Everyone was stunned by the sudden turn of events, and Sandora was the first to react. She stared at the holographic image before her, which showed the core of the Fallen Apostles' army: an empty area with a radius of tens of thousands of kilometers. That should have been the location of the flagship, but now it was empty, save for a huge vortex that was rapidly expanding. An arc slowly emerged from the vortex, and the arc was covered in spiderweb-like cracks in the dark red. Within the rift, blood-red light surged like a ferocious beast desperately trying to break free. Based on the arc's curvature, the assistant mainframe quickly calculated that its size was about the same as Earth — if it happened to be spherical.
"A planetary warship?" Shallow Shallow thought for a moment. "Halland still has a planetary warship hidden, and he only took this out now?"
"… It's even worse. I can feel that this world is distorting, and that's not just a planetary warship …" Sandora's brows furrowed. "It's distorting the definition of this world to make itself appear, and that's a glorious starship!"
Everyone was silent in an instant. Bryndis, who was lying on his seat and begging for care as a wounded person, also shut his mouth at this time. After a long time, he muttered, "… You Xi Ling apostles are really good at creating surprises from top to bottom."
The black planet was still squeezing out of the dimensional rift bit by bit. It seemed slow but was actually fast, and its size was determined to be about the size of Mars and Earth. The dark red canyons on its surface were actually mutated psionic circuits. It was a physical planet, and its outer shell was scorching black crystal and metal. But like most of the glorious starships, the material that made up it was many times stronger than theory — it was meaningless to analyze the structure of the thing. When the huge thing slowly squeezed out, I instinctively felt that something was happening on the battlefield. Although I couldn't explain it clearly, I was sure that Halland's special power was spreading. The Hessian fleet stopped attacking for the first time. They were confused by what was happening before them. Although the Hessian tribe also had a planetary 'warship', the thing in front of them was obviously not the same thing as the giant stone ball they created. Visca immediately ran to the communicator and said, "You there, tell your people to retreat immediately!"
She didn't remember their names, but she now remembered that the Hessian tribe was her people.
Sandora immediately started searching for information about Halland, the Emperor of the Old Empire, especially the attributes of his glorious starship. There was indeed a record of it, but it wasn't detailed. "Halland? Croix? Levalette, the glorious form is called Levalette's Ring of Return. The specific combat nature is unknown, but it isn't a glorious starship used directly for combat, and it isn't the type that specializes in defense. Levalette's Ring of Return takes about 14 to 27 days to activate, depending on the extent of the activation … "
Seeing this, Sandora thought for a while. "If that's the case, Halland was already preparing for his glorious form after coming to this world. But he should still be in a 'sleepwalking' state at that time, and he wouldn't have known that the Imperial Army would come, so …"
"So we're in luck?" Xiaoxue sighed with a sad face. "I didn't see anything."
"Things of this level aren't that easy to predict. Your mother can't either." I patted Xiaoxue's hair as I checked my condition. I could still go out to fight. If I rested for a while, I would be in better shape.
Now, we had to use our top military force. Halland had appeared in his glorious starship form, and we would probably suffer heavy losses if we used our regular troops. We could only win if we had the same combat power as him. I suddenly regretted going out to fight to the death with the King's Landing army. I should have conserved some energy to deal with this big guy …
"Your Majesty! Our regular firepower has been greatly weakened! "
Sylvis reported loudly. Of course, the Imperial Army wouldn't just stand by and watch as the enemy boss activated his Ring of Return. When Halland's huge body appeared, we had already sent all our heavy firepower over. However, the glory starship's defense was no joke. Although the glory starship's shield wasn't as difficult to deal with as the Gospel's due to its positioning problem, it was still stronger than a normal planet's battleship. In addition, the Fallen Apostle was protecting Levalette at all costs near the Ring of Return. The Imperial Army's fierce attacks were almost ineffective.
"Speaking of which, this is clearly a ball. Why is it called the Ring of Return?" Shallow Shallow suddenly asked a strange question.
I looked at her in surprise. Qian Qian was definitely a weirdo, as she was still thinking about how to name someone else in such a situation.
However, before anyone could answer her question, the glory starship used its own power to explain everything to Shallow Shallow.
The dark starship had completely jumped out of the dimensional door. The blood-red energy veins on its surface instantly dimmed. It almost made people think that the starship had come out for a while and then extinguished. However, the next moment, the entire surface of the starship burst into flames. A blood-red energy halo spurted out from the cracks on the surface of the planet. The planet seemed to have turned into a red dwarf. When the blood-red mutated psionic energy swam across the surface of the planet, a ring of stars really appeared around Levalette's Ring of Return!
This was a dark red energy halo. It stagnated around the planet for a moment before instantly expanding. The halo swept across the entire position of the Fallen Apostle. What happened next made many people feel that it was a nightmare when they thought about it after the battle ended.
All the enemy starships appeared before our eyes again!
Icetis almost jumped on the spot. "That bastard reset … his own army?"
"It's not time reversal. There are no signs of timeline distortion." Shallow Shallow instantly entered combat mode. She said confidently after examining the flow of time in the entire space. Then, a look of surprise flashed across her face. "Wait, that halo is still expanding … It's coming into contact with the Hessians' fleet. The Hessians' fleet has also been reset!"
"Attention, the halo is coming into contact with the formation … Your Majesty! Our fleet has also been reset! The equipment shows that all information in this space is being restored to the state before the battle! " While she was reporting, the halo that spread out from the Ring of Return was still expanding at a speed faster than the speed of light. It only stopped when it was hundreds of light years away. When the halo finally ended, everything had returned to the state before the battle. The destroyed starships were as good as new, the dead soldiers rejoined the battle, and the Hessians' fleet had also retreated back to where they started their assault.
After a short pause, the flames of war engulfed the entire space once again.
Icetis was stunned for a moment before she suddenly transformed into her God form. She spread open her huge black wings, and I noticed that there were scorch marks on the edges of her wings. "F * ck, why haven't my injuries recovered? And they're even racist?! "
So, the injury that she was talking about was that her feathers had been scorched!
"My stamina hasn't recovered either." I entered my Void form, and a feeling of weakness engulfed my entire body. "That thing definitely can't be reset on the Void Stairs. Something that's too high-level … F * ck, this is going to be troublesome."
Halland's power instantly complicated the situation. He could reset all the battles that he had experienced!
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