The servant fleet didn't have much room to play on this battlefield because they mainly relied on their large numbers and all sorts of roundabout harassment to assist the imperial army. However, in the Order Field where space was limited, they were no match for the new army in a head-on battle.
In normal space, the servant army would often disrupt the enemy from all sides of the battlefield, or attack from the enemy's flank in an overwhelming formation. This was a very effective method of combat. Although the Admiral Class Aircraft Carrier and other servant army warships were not as powerful as the Empire's warships, they could still cause great damage to the Xi Ling warships when they came in numbers. This way, the enemy had no choice but to divert a considerable amount of energy to deal with the servant army's harassing forces. No matter how much attention they were distracted, the gains did not make up for the losses.
But now they were in the Orderly Field, and space was limited. Once everyone left the protection of the Joint Shield, they would be within the range of the enemy's close-range cannons. The Admiral Class Carriers had no chance of winning against the New Army's fire control system. Their movement speed was close to that of a target. Although their shields were also psionic shields, this kind of shield that was downgraded to take into account the physique of mortals would not be able to withstand much bombardment.
Looking at the Admiral Class Carriers leaving the formation, everyone in the command hall was confused. Sandora immediately contacted their commander. "Roland Gale, what are you doing?"
Roland Gale appeared on the communicator. "We're luring the enemy away!"
"Come back immediately. It's meaningless." Sandora frowned. "This is not the time to be a hero. The New Army will not fall for this!"
"We can adjust our Orderly Field to be very close to the Empire fleet's Orderly Field. We can even make the two Orderly Fields so close to each other that the enemy wandering in the void will not be able to accurately locate the two Orderly Fields, so there's a 50% chance that they will directly come for us." Roland Gale analyzed methodically. "This is quite feasible. The Army's technical advisor has confirmed that the enemy's void navigation will not be able to distinguish such a small difference. Normal fleets will not split into two groups and let the Orderly Fields move close to each other. Once they take the bait, we'll cut off the Orderly Field. That way, we'll be able to lure away at least half of the enemies … The remaining ones should have very little effect. The main force will be able to shake them off. "
As Roland Gale said that, a portion of the Admiral's Carriers had completely left the fleet and left the protection of the Combined Shield. These ships were immediately attacked by the enemy. Although the new army did not know what these ships were up to, they would not let the Empire's servants go. Like a swarm of insects, carrier-based aircrafts and guard gunships swarmed out of the ejection ports on both sides of the General's aircraft carrier. Against the enemy's artillery fire, hundreds of carrier-based aircrafts and gunships were blasted into pieces every second, but under the suppression of huge numbers, the New Army's corrupting troops also suffered casualties — but in any case, the casualty ratio was not proportional!
"Cover!" Sives immediately gave the order to the guards on the flanks of the fleet, and all the close-range cannons began to fire wildly. The Ravens outside also did their best to clean up the new army that was swarming in like a swarm of locusts, and the enemy's offensive was once again suppressed.
I pounced at the communicator, "Do you want to die?! This is a suicidal tactic! "
"We wouldn't join the battle if we wanted to." Roland Gale snickered, before his expression turned serious. "We're soldiers, not weaklings who are protected by the Empire's fleet everywhere we go. Soldiers have to be useful on the battlefield. Further ahead is the Heart of Tranquility, and there's no place for the servant army to fight, so it's better to be of use here. As for life and death … the enemy wouldn't waste time on a bunch of fake targets. As long as we lure them away, our chances of survival would be higher. I've been dealing with death most of my life, and I know how to survive, so there's no need to worry. "
I knew that I shouldn't let personal feelings affect the bigger picture on the battlefield, but I couldn't help but say after seeing the image from the external monitor, "You have to know that you're going up against the craziest of the Fallen Apostles. This should be the battlefield of the Imperial Army, not yours."
"This is our battlefield!" Roland Gale suddenly raised his voice. "The Imperial Army's battlefield is at the Heart of Tranquility! You should be going there, we should be staying here! "
There was nothing more to say. I smiled and waved at the Old Lion in the communicator, "Alright, leave the Heart of Tranquility to me. Your mission is to survive, and the bastards from the Dark Forest tribe and New Eden. Acting without permission is a huge crime, so be prepared to come back alive to receive your punishment."
The General's aircraft carrier formed a new formation and separated from the main formation, swiftly merging into the Chaos barrier around the Orderly Field. The enemy launched a fierce attack on them, but after realizing that they were just 'miscellaneous soldiers', they refocused their attention on the Imperial Army. The enemy that had already invaded the Orderly Field wouldn't be lured away by the servant army.
However, it was different outside the Orderly Field. Because the Void Engine's information displacement jump was non-linear, it had the concept of minimum recognition. If two Orderly Fields were close to each other, then when the Void Engine approached these two Orderly Fields, it would be a matter of probability as to which one would come into contact first. Once the servant army left the Imperial Army's main formation, the invasion of the Orderly Field weakened significantly.
Taking advantage of this moment, the main force suddenly accelerated, and the two adjacent Orderly Fields split apart. The servant army purposely increased the strength of their signal to make themselves look more like a threatening fleet, while the Empire's fleet no longer had any qualms and charged towards the Heart of Tranquility at full speed!
The swarm of enemies also split into two groups, and for a moment, they couldn't tell which of the two Orderly Fields was real and which was fake. So half of the enemies headed towards the fake target, and when they realized that the main force of the Empire was charging towards the Heart of Tranquility, they couldn't catch up at all.
Our main force was still being chased and invaded by the remaining half of the enemies. Black and red abyss battleships could still be seen on the border of Chaos, and the explosions on the flanks of the Imperial Army didn't stop for a moment. However, the invasion was far slower than the self-recovery speed of the Orderly Field, and the enemy's obstruction was no longer effective. The signal of the Heart of Tranquility was incomparably clear on the navigation radar … Approaching, breakthrough!
The World Barrier of the Heart of Tranquility was actually open?
The moment we crossed the World Barrier, we suddenly discovered something inconceivable: the World Barrier of this universe actually didn't have any defensive power! The Empire's fleet didn't engage in a difficult mathematical battle, and they didn't decipher a bunch of interference codes either. They actually charged directly into the material plane, and we didn't even discover a single Void Disruptor!
But before I could express my surprise at this "good news", I saw Abyss Schilling's expression change. "The activation port is about to awaken!"
"What?!" I exclaimed in shock, and everyone around me was stunned at the same time. Dozens of incredulous gazes landed on Abyss Schilling, as if they wanted to directly see the answer from her.
"The information disturbance of the activation port will cause the World Barrier to appear in such an open state. Its power is so great that it can overload all the Void Disruptors," Abyss Schilling quickly explained. "The specific time should be a few minutes ago, and the activation port just showed signs of awakening … Just where did they find this energy?! This has already exceeded the instantaneous output of any kind of psionic well! "
I could no longer care about listening to Abyss Schilling's continuous bad news. Instead, my attention was attracted by the strange scene in this universe. Why was the space of this universe so … distorted?
The Heart of Tranquility seemed to be a rich world, a place rarely seen in the Abyss Zone. It had a large number of material enrichment zones, many celestial bodies, and it seemed to have no out-of-control energy environment or collapsing cosmic laws. But it gave off such a … strange and dazzling feeling.
Space was filled with strange bands of light that had no source but lingered for a long time. These bright bands of light were like spreading auroras that filled the universe, ranging from hundreds of kilometers to millions of kilometers. Most of the light bands weren't very bright, but there were extremely bright areas mixed in. These indescribable things were everywhere, but there was no energy reaction, and even their electromagnetic radiation was no different from the surrounding space. Apart from looking at them with the naked eye, you couldn't find any other evidence of the existence of these bands of light. Apart from these indescribable lights, the starlight in space also showed signs of severe distortion. The stars were not small bright spots, but all of them had turned into bright lines, like an inaccurate time-lapse photography. Every star dragged a long curved trajectory behind it, and the galaxy formed by the stars became a large blurry halo, mixed with the surrounding nebulae, making it difficult to distinguish.
And further away in space, an extremely bright milky white pillar of light seemed to pierce through the entire universe. It was the only thing that wasn't distorted, and it looked striking and … strange.
This was obviously a distorted world … Could it be caused by the activation port?
In any case, the scene in space wasn't a natural phenomenon. Although there were all kinds of strange worlds in the void, and many of them looked bizarre, such as a world filled with white light, a world of chaotic energy, and even a high-density pure liquid world, no matter how bizarre the above 'strange universe' looked, it would conform to its own basic rules, and was a world system formed on the basis of self-consistency. But the universe before us with distorted light and shadow, and distorted stars, had basic rules similar to the capital world. Various equipment on the starship had already examined several key data of the Tranquility Core, so we were completely sure that the scene before us was not a natural phenomenon, not even a phenomenon that should appear in this universe.
"That is the activation port …" Abyssal Schilling looked at the white light in the distant space in surprise. Even she saw what it looked like when it was activated for the first time. "I never thought … that it would be like this?"
"Now isn't the time to be amazed …" I only said half a sentence when I felt a violent tremor coming from all directions. The starship had received a powerful external attack, and the resonance of the structure caused a low rumble to echo in the command hall.
The starship's mainframe's alarm instantly rang in the hall. "High-energy reactions detected … from all directions!"
Faced with the sudden onslaught of enemy firepower, the starship's warning system couldn't determine how to distribute the shields, but fortunately, we had brought a "radar" that was even more excellent than the warning system. Lin Xue had been concentrating from the very beginning, but the interference of the activation port made it impossible for her to give an early warning from outside the world barrier. Still, it wasn't too late to make a prediction now!
"Gather the shields at the rear, fortress battleships in the second echelon, relieve the pressure on the shield generator twelve seconds after being attacked, otherwise you'll be overloaded and destroyed. Silvers, turn off the warning radar, I'll replace it. Xiaoxue, come and help. "
Milady was already completely familiar with this kind of battlefield. She quickly passed down a few orders, and then she and Xiaoxue sat in their respective seats and closed their eyes as if they were in a state of doze. At the same time, a dozen crystal hexagonal prisms that were one foot long appeared out of thin air next to their seats. These crystal prisms emitted a gentle blue halo, hovering next to the two prophets without doing anything else.
This was the "connecting device" that Tawil had improved. It could connect the prophets to other equipment, so that Lin Xue could directly replace the position of the warning radar. She could even use her thoughts to directly control all the anti-air firepower and shield systems of the entire fleet like the mainframe Schilling did, without wasting time in transmitting orders. However, this system consumed a lot of energy for the user. Even if Lin Xue and Xiaoxue shared the computing load, they wouldn't be able to last long, which was why they only activated the "connecting device" now.
However, I felt that the biggest improvement of this device was that it was finally not a coffin.
After Lin Xue connected to the warning system, the Empire's fleet's reaction speed had obviously increased, and the way they responded to all kinds of incoming fire was almost 'strange'. The defense system no longer waited for the enemy to attack before organizing the defense, but when the enemy didn't know what they were going to do next, the Empire's fleet would already take action, and the pressure on our army was greatly reduced.
However, this was only to allow the fleet to better deal with the incoming fire. The real threat … was that white light in space.
It was so huge that it seemed to connect heaven and earth, as if it could penetrate the entire universe. No energy reaction in the white light could be sensed by any means of observation, but it could be detected that a large amount of energy was gathering in the direction of the white light. The energy seemed to disappear the moment it came into contact with the white light, which clearly consumed a lot of energy to activate. What was even stranger was that we couldn't determine how far the white light was from the Empire's fleet, and when we used conventional devices to measure the distance, we got a lot of bizarre data … It seemed to be in a bizarre dimensional state, and normal spatial positioning methods were completely ineffective against the white light.
The distortion of the Tranquility Core and the changes in the surrounding world were all thanks to it, and I couldn't believe how Abyssal Schilling had created such a strange thing.
"Ignore the harassment, all forces, advance to the activation point!" Sandora's voice resounded throughout the command hall, and her power spread across the entire Empire's fleet at the same time. Even the Protoss forces that had followed us into this world were enveloped by the Soul Snatcher's power. Sandora was using this method to improve the Combined Fleet's teamwork, and she was using her own unique ability to share the burden of the mental network. Although it wouldn't result in a huge boost, under the current emergency, even a little boost was necessary!
The entire fleet accelerated, and a commander immediately reported, "The target has been enveloped by a gravitational trap! The warp engine is being disrupted! "
"Then do your best to get close!" Sandora's tone was urgent. "Don't be held back by the intercepting firepower … Xi Weiss! Deploy the beacons, a third … no, half of them! "
The giant carrier at the edge of the fleet opened up two launch ports on both sides, and large amounts of metallic and crystalline shuttle-shaped devices entered space. These shuttle-shaped devices were about a hundred meters long, and their crystalline quality was clearly different from normal psionic crystals. Furthermore, a blurry image floated in front of each crystal: it was a slender woman with a silver-white mask and three pairs of crystalline wings on her back. It was the new generation of beacons controlled by the Queen Bee — although I forgot what they were called.
The Queen Bees were not around the beacons, but their power enveloped the devices, and the beacons rapidly warped away from the Empire's fleet, before forming a large projection that was no different from the Empire's fleet.
It was the exact same scale, quality, and even the energy reaction and information radiation were identical. There was nothing that could tell the difference between the projection and the actual body, and it was only after receiving a certain amount of firepower that the projection would reveal its frailty.
There were a total of three groups of projections, and after they split up with the Empire's fleet, they all headed towards the activation point — that way, the New Army would not be able to tell which was real and which was fake.
"Energy … Energy … So that's it?!" Abyss Schilling had been muttering to herself for a while, and it was only now that I had the time to listen to her. I could not help but be curious. "What are you mumbling about?"
The activation point had been activated, but it seemed that it would still take some time for it to fully 'awaken'. This was a moment of life and death, or even the life and death of all worlds of Order in the Void, and yet Abyss Schilling was actually daydreaming at such a critical moment?
"I'm having my remaining troops check the energy source of the activation point." Abyss Schilling suddenly snapped out of her daze and grabbed my arm. "I really want to know where they got the energy from!"
"Where?"
"World Annihilation!" Abyss Schilling's words attracted everyone's attention. "They're in the universe of the Abyss of Annihilation! Drawing power from the end of the world! "
"Are you sure?" Shadora frowned. This piece of news that could shock mortals sounded like a "slightly crazy plan" to her. It was something unexpected but still negotiable.
"They've been secretly doing this in their own zone of absolute control. It was only when a part of my troops recovered the lost land at the periphery and prepared to go deeper into the New Army's zone that they realized that many worlds had disappeared, leaving only empty noises after a large amount of information had been annihilated." Abyss Schilling's figure flickered, indicating that she was unusually agitated. "The New Army's zone of absolute control is completely sealed, and no one knows what's happening inside … They've detonated their entire territory to quickly charge the activation point!"
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