Two huge fleets confronted each other in the cold space. Although the two sides were hundreds of thousands of kilometers apart, the tense atmosphere had seeped into everyone's bones.
"Zeratul, are these your tribesmen?"
Although I had a basic understanding of the situation, I still asked the Dark Templar beside me.
"From the perspective of Proteus, they are my tribesmen." Zeratul's voice sounded low and slow. "But perhaps Tadalim is unwilling to recognize us, the exiled heretics, as their own."
What a pain in the ass xenophobic spirit. After listening to Zeratul's words, I sighed in my heart.
The internal division of Proteus had long been repaired under the joint efforts of Zeratul and Tassada, but the branch tribe of Tadalim still seemed to be unable to accept the return of the Dark Templars, who were regarded as' heretics', into the embrace of the tribe. These secrets that were difficult to find out in the original 'plot' were really eye-opening. It was like a saying I heard a long time ago, the people who hate you the most are often your own people.
"What are your demands?"
I had already made a decision in my heart, so I only spoke politely to the other party calmly. However, Proteus took such a question as a sign of weakness and immediately raised his voice. "Immediately leave our sacred land and hand over our divine artifact. And you, as the leader of this fleet, must personally come to our warship and repent for your reckless behavior!"
"Ground troops, continue your work."
I shrugged and ordered with an indifferent expression. Immediately, the few inspection ships that had stopped their operation began to scan and analyze the Proteus temples again.
Naturally, I wasn't the kind of person who would casually desecrate the beliefs and treasures of others. Therefore, even if Tadalim didn't appear, I wouldn't rashly destroy the ruins of Proteus. Instead, I just carried out as careful an exploration of these mysterious buildings as possible. Even Zeratul himself didn't have any objections to our harmless investigation. However, in the eyes of the fanatical and xenophobic Tadalim, perhaps it was already a great blasphemy for us, the 'outsiders', to just stand on the sacred land of their ancestors. For such an unreasonable theory, I felt that ignoring it was the best way to deal with it.
Damn it! If it wasn't for Uncle Z, I would have ordered a unilateral freeze on the Human Rights Act. It wouldn't take long for his entire family to be exterminated!
The actions of our ground forces immediately angered the Tadalim fleet that was hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from the Empire's fleet. The enemy commander named Pross used a stern tone to issue an ultimatum to us, "Foolish and barbaric aliens! You must pay for your ignorance! Your fragile spaceship will turn into a flame of atonement for the sins of Ancestor Proteus in order to cleanse the sins you have committed! "
After Pross issued his ultimatum, our mothership's mainframe immediately issued a high-energy response alert. I didn't expect the other party to be even more impatient than I had imagined. After only two or three sentences of the video, he decisively logged off and started fighting!
As a powerful race that mastered the most advanced technology in this sector, the fleet of Proteos was naturally incomparable to those human spaceships, not to mention the number of the other party's spaceships totaling up to nearly ten thousand. The moment the other party's main cannon was charged, the mothership's mainframe issued an urgent alarm.
"Warning! Warning! There was a high energy reaction ahead! There was a high energy reaction ahead! Warship shield power increased! Prepare to receive incoming fire. "
As I expected, the thousands of shuttle-shaped battleships that followed behind the 'Protoss' mothership were the famous Void Ships. Of course, there was another name for them, the Curved Light Ship. I felt that the second name was more appropriate because after knowing the true meaning of the word 'Void', I felt that the name 'Void' didn't really live up to its name.
Through the holographic projection in front of me, I could see the mechanical arms at the front of the shuttle-shaped battleships slowly opening up. A series of focusing prisms on the inside were floating with bright blue and white light. They had begun charging hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, and the energy had yet to be fired. This proved that in the real world, the Curved Light Ship didn't need to continuously attack a specific target in the early stages of charging. This huge difference from the game's settings made the concentrated photon cannon, which could multiply the power of the attack, even more frightening. Just like the Zerg who could create mobile incubators and disposable flying dragons on the frontlines, it seemed that the existence in the real world would always be more than a level stronger than the information projection on Earth.
"Zeratul, I'm sorry. It seems that I have no choice but to fight with your compatriots."
The sudden change in the situation made this battle-hardened warrior feel a little conflicted. Having some contact with the Empire warriors, he more or less had some understanding of our strength, especially after Liliana's two stunning attacks, which made him revere our mysterious power. Although this understanding was still very superficial, it was enough for him to understand that the Protoss fleet hundreds of thousands of kilometers away might not necessarily have any advantage in this confrontation. Once the battle started, the outcome would probably be terrible. But in the end, he still let out a long sigh.
Now that the situation had developed to this stage, no one could stop the outbreak of the battle.
"The Empire fleet, phase reverse! Subordinate units, enter the mothership's protective field! Charge the warship's main cannon. Target the energy plundering device, all the enemy's energy attack equipment! "
After obtaining my permission to fight, the mothership's captain immediately issued a series of precise orders with great proficiency. The Empire fleet, which had always been quiet like a beast lurking in the shadows, finally revealed its terrifying fangs in the face of Tadalim's provocation.
Strictly speaking, although we had already exchanged fire with the Independent Federation fleet once, that was only a one-sided game between Pandora and Visca. Thousands of human warships weren't even considered as toys to the two strategic-level lasses. Today was the true confrontation between the Empire fleet and the alien fleet. Thus, I didn't hold back from the start and ordered all kinds of equipment that sounded incomparably awesome to be activated.
An astonishing amount of energy flowed through every pipe of the huge warship. The sound of the energy flow rose abruptly like the whistle of a rapidly approaching train. With the flagship, the Eternal-class battlecruiser at the lead, the heat dissipation grids under the rear of every Schilling spaceship instantly turned from dark red to a blinding white. The Galaxy main cannon at the bow of the Eternal-class battlecruiser gradually lit up with dazzling sparks under the combined power of three psionic wells in different dimensions. This unprecedentedly powerful energy cannon even caused the bridge where we were at to tremble slightly. Or perhaps this was just my imagination. To be honest, even if it was just a holographic projection, the process of the Galaxy charging was too intense.
There was a complicated glint in Zeratul's eyes. On one hand, Tadalim and the other fanatical pagans were the enemies of the Dark Templars. They had even launched unreasonable attacks against the Proteans of Shakuras more than once. On the other hand, they would always' purify 'every Dark Templar they encountered as a heretic. But on the other hand, even if they were enemies, the current situation was that a group of unknown' Imperial Army 'was firing at their own kind. Thus, Uncle Z was very conflicted.
At this moment, the charging of the enemy's thousand-odd Warships had finally ended. Our undodging response might have made Pross a little suspicious, but it didn't stop him from attacking us.
A distance of hundreds of thousands of kilometers could be covered in the blink of an eye for the energy cannon at the speed of light. But the Eternal-class battlecruiser was equipped with a core computer that could be considered insane in any kind of Empire battleship. Just as the thousand-odd huge photon jets were about to reach the vanguard of the Empire fleet, a synthetic female voice resounded throughout the bridge, "Begin anti-phasing!"
Like a reflection in the water that was suddenly disturbed, the huge Empire fleet instantly trembled unrealistically, as though it had become an insubstantial image.
The thousand photon torrents that the opponent had spent a great deal of effort to produce penetrated through the Imperial fleet that had already turned into an image. Not even a single maintenance robot that was responsible for polishing and oiling the army's flagship was harmed.
But this was only the beginning of the Tadalim fleet's panic.
"Activate the energy plundering device."
I nodded at the captain beside me.
Let me see how powerful Tawil's latest product was — the energy plundering device. Tawil had researched and developed it based on my special ability. It was the first generation of experimental energy attack equipment that Tawil had created after spending a huge amount of manpower and resources. Although it couldn't completely imitate my ability, it was enough to render all conventional energy attacks useless.
The Empire fleet that had entered an insubstantial state adjusted their formation slightly. Not only did they not avoid the enormous photon torrent, they even faced the enemy's attack head-on. Then, they gradually returned to their physical form.
"The anti-phasing effect is about to end. The energy plundering device has been successfully activated. Target's energy sample has been obtained … Establishing energy channel … Channel established … Increasing energy plundering device's power … Preparing to record experimental data."
A blue halo streaked across every Schilling spaceship that was attacked by the Curved Light Battleships. The entire Empire fleet also returned to its insubstantial state at the same time. Thousands of photon torrents that had been charged to the extreme finally hit their physical target. In an instant, a blinding white flame surged on our spaceships. The Tadalim fleet that was still in shock saw that their attack was effective and immediately increased the output of the Curved Light Battleships even more — until they realized that all of the spaceships' energy had gone out of control.
The light beam connecting the Curved Light Battleship's energy crystal to the Schilling spaceship grew at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a few seconds, it had exceeded the maximum power that a normal Curved Light Battleship could release. Dazzling blue and white energy sparks began to burst from the energy crystal on the bow of the Curved Light Battleship, and then gradually spread to their entire hull. Due to the loss of control from the inside out, the plasma shield that the Proteans were so proud of did not have any effect at all. In less than ten seconds, the plasma shields on the Curved Light Battleships were already on the verge of collapse. Their last remaining energy was being siphoned by the energy plundering device.
The captains of the Curved Light Battleships tried to cut off the energy supply of the focusing crystal, but the energy channels built by the energy plundering device had spread throughout their entire hull. As long as it was a channel that could conduct energy, it had been accurately categorized into the energy channels by the Eternal-class mainframe. Their resistance was completely futile.
Soon, the thousand Curved Light Battleships that had been floating in a pale blue halo gradually dimmed. Dense energy sparks covered their streamlined hulls, and these Protean warships that had been completely drained began to distort and deform. It was the energy plundering device that was squeezing the crystal energy out of their structure. Proteus tried to contact the warriors in the warships, but all he heard was a series of screams. Thirteen seconds later, the energy plundering device had begun to absorb the spiritual energy of the Proteans.
Finally, when the soul of the last Curved Light Battleship captain was completely drained, and not a single trace of chemical energy was left in his cells. The energy plundering device finally completed its feast, releasing more than a thousand Curved Light Battleships that had turned into dim and twisted metal wreckages from the force field, allowing them to fall askew onto the surface of Planet Warts.
"Energy plundering device charging complete. Energy conversion in progress … Galactic Main Cannon's first attack …"
Accompanied by such a flat, robotic female voice, the "Galactic" main cannon that had completed an unprecedented charge of three times released a huge energy torrent with a diameter of several kilometers. Under my command, it avoided the three Tadalim carriers and instead made an "S" -shaped cut in the formation of thousands of frigates.
Faced with this reinforced version of the "Galactic" that could cut a small planet in half, the plasma shield seemed to be non-existent. In the formation of Tadalim, a series of explosions illuminated the dark and cold starry sky.
Just as the first attack was completed, the robotic female voice resounded in the bridge again, "… Energy conversion in progress … Galactic Main Cannon's second attack …"
"… Galactic Main Cannon's third attack …"
"… Galactic Main Cannon's fourth attack …"
The huge light cut through the enemy's fleet, one moment it was an S, the next moment it was a B …
Until all the energy pipes of the Galactic Main Cannon were severely overloaded. Such a strategic-level weapon was used to fire like a machine gun. Fortunately, we had installed a second buffer system on it in advance.
After our attack began, the Proteus fleet, which had fallen into a temporary state of chaos due to the one thousand Warships being sucked dry and crashed within twenty seconds, quickly organized an effective counterattack. However, such a counterattack seemed a little weak in our eyes. Perhaps they were already used to bullying humans in this Sector with their powerful technology. When faced with the unfamiliar army of the Xi Ling Empire, they suffered such a heavy blow for the first time, causing the other party to hesitate for a moment. It was this moment of hesitation that allowed our assault ships and the gravitational trap ship to successfully seal off the entire battlefield through teleportation, completely preventing the other party from using the teleportation technique that they were most proficient in to escape. Even though I was not sure how advanced their teleportation technology had reached, the other party seemed to hesitate for a moment.
The counterattack from the Tadalim fleet finally landed on the Empire's fleet. At first, it was just some tentative attacks. It was obvious that they still had lingering fears from the scene of the energy plundering device sucking dry a thousand Curved Light Warships. They were afraid that they would become the next victim of such a terrifying weapon. However, they soon realized that such a vicious weapon was no longer effective.
After all, it was a test product. It absorbed such a huge amount of energy in one go, and then gathered all of it into the main cannon of the mothership through void conduction. It was inevitable that it needed to cool down.
"The third formation's shield strength is decreasing … Space jump … Formation adjustment completed … Mothership, full firepower …"
The electronically synthesized female voice reported the battle situation unhurriedly. Although the attacks of these Proteus warships could cause some damage to the Empire's fleet, unless they could surround us with numbers, it would be a miracle if they could destroy our shield with such firepower. In a space battle, the Empire's fleet had the most headache-inducing tactic, and that was the "warp maneuver." Every unit of the entire Empire's fleet, even an automatic robot responsible for changing the filter mesh of the engine, had the ability to warp. In an interstellar battlefield, our entire fleet could use warp to change the entire formation in an instant. The troops that were under concentrated enemy firepower could swap positions with the intact units at the rear within a millisecond. We had always been fighting the enemy with warships in peak condition. And this was also based on the premise that our warships were far more powerful than the opponent.
Bright laser beams crisscrossed in space. Every flash meant an energy explosion that was enough to kill countless people. The Empire's fleet formed a huge joint shield, blocking most of the enemy's attacks outside the shield. Except for some fragile unmanned ships and cannon fodder units piloted by battle puppets that were destroyed while blocking the enemy's most lethal attacks, the losses we suffered were almost negligible. On the other hand, the Proteus warships began to suffer massive losses after their plasma shields were used up.
In fact, I was already very surprised that their plasma shields could withstand the first salvo of the Empire's fleet.
"What are their motherships doing?"
Just as we were flirting … cough cough, facing the enemy, Liliana suddenly reminded me. It was then that I suddenly realized that the three Proteus motherships that had not shown any intention of attacking since the beginning of the battle were too suspicious. Were they calmly watching their own fleet set off fireworks?
"Those rings of light have just appeared." Shallow Shallow frowned as she pointed at the holographic projection that showed the layers of rings that suddenly appeared under the enemy's motherships. She, who had yet to deactivate her superpower, analyzed the situation in her unique cold way. "They still haven't attacked. They might be accumulating energy to launch a surprise attack. The Galaxy cannon can fire again in a few minutes. We'd better take out one of their motherships to calm them down."
However, it seemed that the enemy did not intend to wait for a few more minutes. As the mothership's mainframe suddenly sounded an alarm, we instantly detected a large-scale anomaly in the gravitational field around us.
In the next second, the main cannon of the Eternal-class mothership was surrounded by thousands of small fighter jets that suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
The Proteus' mothership … actually relied on space warp to deploy carrier-based fighter jets?!
I had not thought of this at all. This was too different from the "setting data" that I had in mind. If I knew that the enemy had such a trick, I would have kept a gravitational trap effect ship near the Eternal-class mothership!
Just as I was in shock, the thousands of fighter jets that had used space technology to directly teleport to the position of our main cannon were already emitting electric sparks as they fiercely crashed into the "Galaxy" that had just begun to recharge!
They wanted to detonate our main cannon!
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