To be fair, I thought of myself as a pacifist.
Yup, it would be more appropriate to say that I was a good person.
Even though I came to this Star Zone with the intention of starting a war, my original intention was to build a good relationship with the local residents. However, from the looks of it now, I had obviously underestimated the vigilance and arrogance of a dictator who relied on unscrupulous means to obtain great power. He actually sent a battlecruiser squadron to express his' welcome 'to me?!
Are you really forcing me to steal money, food, and territory?!
Of course, it was also possible that the military officer named Denton had messed things up. Due to the invisibility of the Imperial Army, he had misjudged our strength. I was willing to bet that if the 'Empire General' was standing in front of him, he would definitely have a different attitude.
This situation was rather strange. Based on my understanding, humans in Starcraft had always been in a weak position. They didn't have strong physical strength, nor did they have advanced technology that allowed them to look down on the universe. Their entire race could even be described as struggling in the struggle between the three races. Logically speaking, a race that survived in such a situation should have developed an extremely cautious attitude, especially when facing a group of aliens with unknown strength. However, from the looks of it now — — the attitude of the other party was rather overbearing.
The only explanation was that we had revealed too little combat power on the surface, and the other party obviously had no idea about the individual combat power of the Shiring Apostles.
"If there's a chance, I might consider meeting with your Emperor Mengsk." I also spoke in a bureaucratic tone without any sincerity. "However, our only goal in coming here is to exterminate the Zerg, not to seize benefits or anything else. You and your Emperor Mengsk can be at ease about this."
Denton revealed a surprised expression. Then, he smiled stiffly due to the impoliteness in my tone. "Looks like I should report this good news to my Emperor. If you are really here to exterminate the Zerg, then the Independent Federation will be more than happy to accept you as an ally."
I was slightly surprised. From the looks of it, this military officer named Denton should have quite a high position in the Independent Federation. There were some things that not just anyone could say on their own. From what he said, I also obtained a piece of information: The Zergs in this Star Zone had already reached a rather serious level.
However, I wasn't interested in the alliance that he had mentioned.
Being familiar with the storyline, I knew that Mengsk was a person who would do anything for his own benefit. When he was still the leader of the Sons of Korhar, he had lured the Zerg to human territory more than once in order to attack the Federation government at that time. He didn't even let the Federation government's agricultural planet go. The current Queen of Blades, the former Ghost Agent Kerrigan, also became a victim of his schemes and cruelty. Only a mammoth would step on one's head to ally with a person who would stab you in the back at any time!
Even if I didn't know the storyline, I knew what kind of person those politicians were. They were always chasing after greater power and benefits. Any ally in their eyes was just a bargaining chip of unequal weight. If we weren't strong enough, we might need a group of such 'allies'. However, to the Xiling Empire, who never worried about the issue of strength, these fellows were of little value. Instead of allying with them, I might as well establish diplomatic relations with the stubborn Proteus Protoss. The pseudo-psionic energy that they possessed had piqued my interest.
After pondering for a few seconds, I raised my head and shrugged. "If we are talking about allies in this Star Zone, I think I have already found one. I'm not sure if you know who he is."
As I said that, I moved slightly to the side and revealed Renault.
Denton's attention was originally focused on me. Only then did he realize that there was another person standing in the shadows beside me. When he saw the other person's face clearly, his expression instantly changed.
Hey, Uncle Renault. It seems that your appearance left a deep impression in the Independent Federation's military department.
"Your Majesty of the Xiling Empire," Denton said with a stern expression. "Do you understand the human standing beside you? Perhaps he used some despicable means to gain your trust, but I have to say that this man named Renault is definitely not a good person. "
"Oh?" I pretended to be confused and turned to look at Renault. The latter's expression was rather gloomy. Tykes, who was standing not far away, had already tensed up his muscles. "To be honest, I don't really understand this human named Renault. However, I saved his life, that's all."
"Saved his life?" Denton narrowed his eyes. "Our Emperor Mengsk has saved this man's life countless times. However, this man named James Renault is the most notorious terrorist leader of the Independent Federation and the most dangerous interstellar pirate. Recently, he has even built his own army and used those thugs to harm countless soldiers and civilians who have sacrificed their lives for the peace of the Federation. If he can betray his own people, then he can betray anyone. Of course, this is only my side of the story. The choice is yours, Your Majesty."
This guy must have been the president of the student council before he joined the army. Look at his eloquence! If I didn't know the plot, I would have believed him!
But then again, is the Renault of this interstellar world really that powerful? Is the miscellaneous army that he has built already at the level of an army? Could it be that even the information projection in this world will cause the same plot breakdown as the World of Azeroth?
Or could it be that … some unscrupulous author intends to destroy the original work again … Cough cough, pretend that I didn't say anything …
The words of the Federation commander on the holographic projection caused the expression on Renault's face to change rapidly. He suddenly turned around and said to me, "Emperor Chen Jun, this is just his …"
"I understand." I waved my hand to interrupt Renault's speech. Then, I faced Denton. "I have heard everything you have to say, but it is meaningless to me. I have no interest in your Independent Federation, and I don't care what grudges James Renault has with your Emperor. So, you can go back and report to your commanding officer. Tell him not to disturb us."
Denton's expression darkened. "In other words, you will be helping the enemies of the Independent Federation. Unfortunately, we could have communicated in a better way."
As soon as the other party finished speaking, the communication between both parties was cut off. From our surveillance, the Federation fleet in the near-Earth orbit slowly spread out their formation and assumed an attacking stance.
We have been underestimated … Do they think that we don't have the strength to resist since we have just arrived? It seems that the humans haven't learned their lesson from the battle with Proteus yet.
I frowned. Then, I turned around and ordered in a low voice, "Temporarily suspend the Independent Federation's Human Rights Act. Open the space lock and release Pandora … Cough cough, I mean, let Pandora and Visca go and have a good talk with them."
The two little fellows had been holding it in for a long time. Now that they had finally gotten my permission, they were extremely excited. Pandora was slightly better off, but Visca cheered and jumped. Even Renault was dumbfounded.
Accompanied by the speechless sound of something breaking through the air, the two little war maniacs broke through the sound barrier in the command room and disappeared before our eyes.
"Wait a minute! Emperor Chen Jun! "Renault finally reacted." Let the two little girls go and fight the enemy? You … "
"Don't worry, I will ask them to hold back." I waved my hand nonchalantly.
"No, I mean …"
"This is a good chance for you to understand us." I smiled and pointed at the holographic projection in front of us. "The biggest difference between us and humans."
On the holographic projection, the two little girls had completed a series of short-range warps and entered space, facing off against the enemy fleet.
I knew that the two of them would definitely choose such a brainless close-range attack. Your personal fleet is crying, idiot!
Denton definitely didn't expect that the enemies he would encounter would be two little lolis who looked to be no taller than a cannonball. So much so that he couldn't react in time. Even his entire fleet froze on the spot, forgetting to attack. Even though the two little girls who could survive in space made Denton slightly concerned, he felt anger from being looked down upon the very next second.
However, before he could react, the two little girls in front of him suddenly disappeared on the spot. Then, a piercing alarm resounded throughout the bridge. "Serious warning! Serious warning! Detected psionic reaction exceeding the upper limit! Detected psionic reaction exceeding the upper limit! All energy sensing radars are destroyed! All energy sensing radars are destroyed! "
Just as the Federation fleet was in a mess due to the sudden alarm and abnormal situation, the two little girls who disappeared reappeared. They each chose a fierce-looking battlecruiser and hovered less than two kilometers in front of the latter. This distance allowed the latter's observation equipment to clearly see every strand of their hair fluttering in the wind.
"Pandora 1000mm anti-ship psionic cannon."
"Visca 1000mm abyss cannon."
The two little girls said the same thing almost at the same second. Then, a huge weapon appeared before everyone's eyes.
Pandora's right arm instantly dismembered into countless complex energy pipelines, combining with complex mechanical parts that appeared in the void to form a four-meter-long, half-man-tall, rectangular cannon. The little girl's entire right half was fused with the huge weapon that floated with energy flow, and the various energy pipelines that extended out from her back even appeared to have a nearly solid texture.
The weapon that Veska had summoned seemed to be similar to Pandora, but it had evidently undergone some sort of external transformation. It was like a mutated organism that was exposed to radiation, displaying a twisted and sickly feeling. Large amounts of black-red light flickered on its pitch-black metallic outer shell, and the red crystal-like core on Veska's back shone as if it was breathing. The former's crimson cat pupils had already turned turbid, as the energy of the Abyss unceasingly pounded against those ruby-like pupils, ready to gush out.
Being locked on by the two extremely strange weapons, the captains of the two battlecruisers instinctively issued the most sensible order to evade and counterattack, but the charging speed of the Commander-class apostles turned their decision into delusion. Almost in a breath's time, the floating light balls in front of the anti-ship psionic cannon and abyss cannon had turned into fatal light beams, piercing through the thick front armor of the two battlecruisers like sharp swords.
At this moment, I didn't know why, but I could feel a sigh in Pandora's heart: Great, anti-ship psionic cannons can finally be used to attack battlecruisers …
While I was sighing senselessly, the human battlecruisers that were pierced by the powerful energy beams had already begun a series of explosions. The energy beams that were completely unable to be resisted by conventional human defensive methods penetrated through the layers of armor without any hindrance, turning everything within the battlecruisers into ultra-high temperature steam and lava. All sorts of materials reached their respective burning points, and then, scrambling to be the first to explode. The long hull of the battlecruisers erupted with continuous flashes from head to tail, as if firecrackers wrapped in rags. A laser beam with a diameter of 1000 mm. Perhaps its scale doesn't seem to be comparable to the light emitted by the main cannons of certain human battlecruisers with outrageous caliber (If a certain pair of 10,000-year-old girls could grow a little taller, I reckon that they would be more than happy to switch to the 3000 mm heavy shaped wave cannons that the Empire soldiers affectionately referred to as the KKK), but the effects of this bright light beam undoubtedly shocked the commanders of every single human battlecruiser. Strategic battlecruisers, the most terrifying war weapons that the humans could create. The Yamato cannon installed on them could even blast down a small spaceship of Proteus, and the armor of the battlecruiser was enough to give the insectoid Wyvern a huge headache. In the end, in front of the two little girls sent out by the mysterious Xiling Empire, who weren't much taller than the shell of a cannonball, they were turned into brilliant fireworks in the universe in just 10 seconds.
They didn't even have the time to launch a final struggle that could be called a counterattack.
After completing this lightning-quick attack, Pandora and Visca seemed to have instantly regained the feeling of being war maniacs. In consecutive short-range space warps, the two little girls turned into a series of afterimages in space. They used their high mobility to place huge floating cannons everywhere in space. As sisters, they had the same preference for the floating cannons that were good for killing and looting. Almost every time they fought, the death cannons formed by the floating cannons would become their repertoire.
The floating cannons that suddenly appeared in space were of a type that I had never seen before. They looked like blue or crimson eyeballs with a radius of at least five meters. The pupils of these mechanical "eyeballs" were sunken bowl-shaped, which was obviously some kind of energy gathering device. Just by feeling, I was certain that these things were more powerful than any floating cannons that I had seen before.
Bubble had a proud expression on her face as she said to me as if she was asking for praise, "Those are the 'Saduela's' modified energy cannons, directional weapons with astonishing penetrative power. They are the most effective weapon against battleships, but due to the extremely powerful energy pollution produced by their attacks, it will cause a series of terrible chain reactions in the atmosphere, which can easily destroy the nearby ecosystem or even cause the entire atmosphere to be completely paralyzed. Since this violates the Empire's' Lower Life Protection Law ', we have never used these things before. But when I had nothing to do, I helped Pandora and the others to improve the computing link of these high-level cannons, increasing the maximum number of these cannons on the battlefield from two hundred to three hundred!"
After hearing this, I decisively decided to leave Little Bubble's childhood education to me alone.
Following the theory of maximizing violence, Pandora and Visca unsurprisingly deployed a total of six hundred of these high-level floating cannons on the battlefield. With the help of their spatial warp, these powerful weapons of mass destruction spread over a radius of several hundred kilometers in less than five seconds, interweaving into an extremely dangerous web of death. Even though the scale was much smaller than the one thousand floating cannons that they could control at the same time, these things seemed to be even more immoral than a thousand cannon turrets …
From the moment the two enemy battleships attacked to the formation of the encirclement, it took less than twenty seconds for the human battleships to react and launch a chaotic counterattack.
As the elite forces of the Independent Federation, even though these battleships were far weaker than the Commander-class Shiring Apostles, their combat awareness was still passable. After a moment of panic, the chaotic counterattack gradually became orderly. The small battleships and assault ships pushed their mobility to the limit and rushed forward in a suicidal manner to interfere with the mechanical eyeballs that were harvesting their allies with the gray energy beams. Bubble's description was indeed not exaggerated. The energy beams fired by these things had astonishing penetrative power and energy pollution. The small battleships that were hit by them were all cut in half without exception. Even the larger battleships were pierced through without any resistance. Even if such a hole was not fatal to a large battleship that was nearly a thousand meters long, the latter would lose its combat effectiveness in an instant. The crew inside the battleship would have already died from the strong radiation caused by the surging energy pollution.
From the enemy's communications that we monitored, we could hear a cacophony of screams and commands. Exposing the human body to the uncontrollable psionic energy was definitely more painful than swimming naked in the cooling tank of a nuclear reactor. At this moment, I finally understood what Sandora meant when she told me, "Only when the Shiring Apostles leave the shackles of the earth can they be called absolute weapons."
She meant that once they left the shackles of humanitarianism, they could use all kinds of disharmonious weapons …
"Viking battleships, cover! Hold off those mechanical eyeballs! All battleships, fire at full power, attack the two enemies! Cover the flagship to break through! "
In the intercepted enemy channel, even though Denton was in a hurry, he still didn't lose his composure as he issued orders. From this aspect, one could see that he was indeed a pretty good commander. Meanwhile, his choice could also be said to be the most effective method of resistance for the human race's frail spaceship when facing two leader apostles whose combat strength reached army level. Even though this type of resistance could only delay their destruction.
Under the crushing firepower of Pandora and Visca, Denton's thousands of battleships had been destroyed by nearly half. The battleships that were responsible for the suicidal charge were almost completely wiped out. The only result of the battle was the destruction of a double-digit number of floating cannons. To Pandora and Visca, they could have as many of those cannons as they wanted.
Playing a space battle with Schilling's people, your sister's death omen was flashing brightly above your head!
At this moment, our sensor equipment suddenly sounded a high-energy alarm. The two battleships that were furthest away from us had secretly turned their heads towards Pandora's position. The orange glow in the energy pipeline that connected the entire battleship was growing brighter. However, Pandora, who was being targeted, seemed to not have noticed anything. She was still excitedly commanding the floating cannons to bombard the enemy's battleships.
Yamato Cannon!
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