The battle had already reached its climax.
Sandora had once said that space wars were vast and empty. In order to avoid friendly fire, spaceships with high mobility and astonishing firepower would usually do their best to distance themselves from each other. As war technology advanced, the battlefield became increasingly "thin," but this was only the surface. Looking at the entire battlefield from a higher vantage point, you would realize that this world was even more brutal and shocking than the bloody battles of the primordial era.
When the battlefield reached a certain scale and you were deeply immersed in it, you would feel as if the entire world was filled with flames and explosions. The holographic projection in the bridge was broadcasting the scenes of the outside world in real time. The intense flashes of spaceships exploding and the splattering blood and guts of the insectoids as they died made me dizzy. It even gave me the illusion that the entire world would forever burn like this. The girls who had come to the school district were excited at first, but now they gradually began to feel fear. Perhaps it was because Liliana's words were still echoing in my head:
"This is a battlefield. Every flame here is the harvest of millions of lives."
Now, they could more or less make the same connection.
Tears and Mikoto grabbed my arm tightly on each side. I could clearly feel the former's body trembling. It was said that all new recruits who participated in space battles for the first time would have such a fear: You were surrounded by a violent sea of fire and death. Every inch of space was filled with deadly cannonballs and beams of light over and over again. The only thing that allowed you to survive and experience this fear was a layer of armor and shield that wasn't too sturdy against cannon fire. This feeling would grip your heart tightly. No matter how thick the armor around you was, it wouldn't give you any sense of security.
Of course, the veterans would also think of this. Such fear would never disappear from the hearts of those who fought on the battlefield. However, they had already learned to be numb to it.
Apart from this, the tense atmosphere in the command center made the girls feel even more pressured since it was their first time coming to such a place.
How could you expect these little girls who grew up in the school district to remain calm in the face of such a war?
"Seven billion. That's an iconic number."
Liliana smirked evilly. She suddenly moved closer to me and spoke in a voice that everyone could hear.
"What?" I didn't understand. This girl's way of thinking was always unexpected. From a perverted point of view, Shirai Kuroko could be compared to her.
Mikoto, Tears, and the other people who were completely stunned also turned their attention to Liliana and waited for her to continue.
"At present, the number of hostile lifeforms appearing in the crossfire zone has historically exceeded seven billion." A green light flashed in his eyes. "It has exceeded the population of Earth. I'm afraid none of them will survive. And this is just the beginning. There are still enemies entering the battlefield continuously. This number may even reach several times the current number."
I now had sufficient reason to believe that this girl was a psychopath! Speaking of which, aren't you a priest of the Goddess of Life? At least don't go against the teachings in this aspect, okay?
Stimulated by Liliana's words, the group of tourists became even more nervous. Seven billion lives, the entire population of Earth, were about to perish on the battlefield in a short two to three days. A feeling of insignificance and powerlessness made them feel uncomfortable. The things that they had experienced in the past, the fights in the school district, the darkness of society, the selfish desires and internal strife of humans, everything they cherished, everything they hated, and even everything they knew, all added up wouldn't be enough to burn for even one day …
"This place isn't suitable for you."
Liliana finally spoke in a strange tone. "Go back and rest. Leave the cruel reality here. We will settle everything. Your peaceful life won't be disturbed. There is a nice playground in the Empire Admiral. Have a good time there and then go home to enjoy peace …"
"Brother Chen Jun …" Teardrop glanced at me one last time before letting go of my hand. "I'm sorry … I want to go back and rest …"
I patted the black-haired girl's small head. I also knew that it wasn't suitable for them to continue staying in the command center. I nodded and then called out to Fang Tong, who was not far away. "What about you? It's not a good idea to let your loli experience the flames of war. "
"Tsk …" Fang Tong's nanny turned her head away. "Let's go, little brat!"
After these "unrelated people" left, I finally had the time to deal with Liliana. "Alright, girl, what's going on? Don't tell me that you're revising your psychology lessons. "
"There are some things that shouldn't be revealed to them. Do you think that you can use normal methods to persuade these overly curious fellows to return?"
Liliana shrugged and faced my displeased expression calmly.
Although I still felt that this girl's methods were a little strange, my attention was successfully diverted.
"My connection with the Goddess suddenly weakened a little not long ago," Liliana said with a serious expression. "And the Goddess just informed me that she hasn't been feeling well since the day before yesterday."
"This world is in the midst of a disease."
Looking at our confused expression at the beginning, this Chief Priestess who would occasionally be more dedicated to her work slowly said.
Under normal circumstances, a perfect world would definitely not have a disease. Even if there were serious disputes between the lives within it, it should be considered as a "normal evolution" within the world. Even if the three races in the Keplu Star District all died in battle, to Jingle, it was equivalent to a normal chemical reaction. There was usually only one reason that could cause a disease in a world: the invasion of pathogens.
Only when an external force tried to disrupt the order of the world would a "disease" occur. And the first person to react to this would naturally be the world's management God. That was the reason why we had to worry about apostles invading New Tokyo even if Jingle sneezed.
"The situation has yet to be clarified. There is no damage on the world barrier. The Goddess has searched through the records of the existence of the Keplu Star District and found no abnormal information. However, the changing color of the branches in the Tree of Life is indeed this star system. So, I'm afraid that we still have to investigate the situation. After all, the Goddess is an idiot."
… Did you just call me an idiot? Speaking of which, what is your piety based on, you bastard!!
"If that's the case, it's fine to let Osaka and the others hear it. They won't understand anyway," Shallow Shallow said unhappily. How should I put it …
It was kind of like this girl rarely found a few children that she could play with. Her mentality was really inexperienced to the point of speechlessness.
Liliana glanced at the Time Master who was clearly much taller than her but had the opposite mentality. She shrugged and said, "The problem lies in the solution. If we can't solve the disease here in two months, we have to completely destroy the entire Keplu Star District. Any life in this star district, even an ant or a bacterium, will not be spared. The number of innocent people who died because of this could be as high as a hundred billion. Although due to special circumstances, the Goddess can bear the heavy responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of billions of innocent people, but … do you think that Osaka and the others will know about this … Wait!"
While we were still reeling from the sudden urgency of the situation, Lina frowned and whipped her head around to look in one direction.
"There, a very powerful lifeform has appeared, and it's approaching Pandora at high speed!"
The sudden appearance of a powerful energy reaction had naturally been detected by Pandora's energy radar. The strength of this enemy made the little girl, a leader class apostle, become serious. She slightly adjusted the formation of her troops and quietly separated herself from the firepower group that she and Visca had formed together.
"What are you doing!?" Weska's rude voice immediately sounded in the spiritual link. "Don't tell me this little warm-up exercise has drained all your energy?"
What an impolite little sister …
Pandora sighed slightly. She would only show such an emotional action in a few situations, such as when her awkward little sister spoke rudely.
"Brother, I've already completed my preparations."
Pandora completed her preparations, and then her eyes moved past the layers of enemies and crisscrossing artillery fire. Due to the leader class apostle's terrifying destructive power, the enemy troops within a range of several tens of thousands of kilometers all stayed far away from this curtain of death. However, there was a powerful existence that set its sights on the most dangerous place on this battlefield.
The conventional anti-ship turrets had long been retracted into the alternate space. Right now, around Pandora's body was a large expanse of eyeball-shaped floating cannons. Several hundred strange large eyes stared fixedly at every corner of the battlefield, as vigilant as the hundred-eyed giants from legends.
Then, a certain 'eyeball' suddenly erupted with dazzling sparks. A translucent energy field with a radius of close to half a kilometer suddenly covered the floating cannons that were on alert. The violent chaotic energy frantically tore at this mechanical sphere's psionic shield and outer armor. In just a few seconds, the latter was already covered in scars.
Pandora decisively gave up on the floating cannons that were already caught in the energy storm. The automatic ground locking system instantly locked onto the direction of the attack. Then, the front of the hundreds of 'eyeballs' simultaneously erupted with gray energy beams, erupting out a destructive web that covered the entire area in front of her.
A large group of enemy soldiers in the distance tragically turned into fragments under this indiscriminate attack. However, the high-energy reaction did not dissipate. It was obvious that although they were injured under this kind of attack that had no blind spots, their powerful energy control allowed them to survive.
"A very powerful … race!"
A voice suddenly rang out. This greatly surprised Pandora and us who were watching the battle on the bridge. It was impossible to transmit sound in a vacuum. The enemy …
"It's spiritual power." Bubble's voice sounded in the broadcast, answering our doubts. "The enemy is using spiritual power to broadcast. I've reverse-locked the enemy's position … The enemy's invisibility field frequency is slightly unique. I'm trying to decipher it … Decipher complete, data transmission!"
The latest anti-invisibility energy frequency was transmitted to the core of Pandora's mind. The latter then released anti-invisibility energy interference. Only a few kilometers in front of her, a figure gradually became clear.
It was a woman — or at least the shape looked like a woman. She had a female face and body, but her whole body was covered with something that looked like an insect's carapace. Even her hair was an arthropod that had morphed from a large number of antennae. A pair of bone wings that were about three to four meters long were emitting sizzling energy sparks.
This' woman 'standing in the vacuum of the universe was of course not human, but she could not be simply classified as a member of the Zerg either. She was Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades, the most powerful human Ghost Agent in the past, and the supreme ruler of the Zerg today.
She was the most powerful carbon-based creature in the Keplu Star District. Some even speculated that her power had reached the level where she could destroy the entire human fleet by herself.
Hmm … This was a tragedy. The human fleet had become a unit of combat power. For example, killing a Viking would increase one's combat power by 5 …
At the same time, my mental connection quickly interfered with the little lunatic Pandora's mind. "Girl! Don't kill her! Capture her alive … Where's Reynolds? Bring her back! Get the makeup artist, sound system, costumes and props ready! Get him ready to pick up girls … "
What an idiot … brother …
Pandora sighed slightly again. She felt even more troubled than when she was facing her rude sister.
After that, she ordered her subordinates to return to their respective positions and clear the battlefield.
A large part of the Queen of Blades' carapace was charred and black. Her psionic energy did not allow her to escape unscathed under Pandora's attack, but she did not seem to care. The charred 'skin' was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Within a few seconds, it was as smooth as new. Kerrigan tilted her head slightly to look at the energy sparks on her bone wings and smiled sarcastically.
"I've said it before." We received the mental power broadcast again. "The amplification devices developed by the Proteans are useless … They rely too much on their own technology. Even now, they still don't realize that their technology is not even comparable to a baby in front of the enemy."
Pandora ignored the other party's nonsense. She raised her right hand gently, and a huge blue-white laser beam shot out from the psionic cannon. Although it was not charged, the beam still had considerable attack power. Halfway through, it hit a translucent energy cloud. After a very short period of violent reaction, both dissipated in the vacuum.
"What an impatient little girl." The Queen of Blades had a solemn expression on her face, but her tone sounded very relaxed. "Then let me see how powerful this powerful invader who suddenly appeared in this sector is."
A violent psionic storm erupted from the void again. The target was still the floating cannons next to Pandora. This strange weapon had annihilated thousands of battlecruisers and Protoss carriers in the previous battle. The number of Zerg units that had died under the highly polluted energy was even more astonishing. The Queen of Blades, of course, regarded them as the most threatening target. In her view, the little girl's combat power was completely reflected in these huge turrets. As long as she could destroy them, she would have a firm chance of winning.
As the most powerful creature in the entire Kepru Sector, possessing psychic power unimaginable to the Proteans and the physical strength of the Zerg that had evolved to the extreme, the Queen of Blades was almost regarded as a perfect life form. Although she still could not compete with the Seely people, her tactics had still achieved great results.
Several mechanical eyeballs were shattered by the sudden psionic storm. Although they had the ability to warp, the Queen of Blades' psionic attacks seemed to be instant attacks that ignored space. At the very least, Pandora's radar system could not accurately predict the energy trajectory of the opponent's attacks. However, facing the situation where her floating cannons were constantly being knocked down, Pandora did not seem to care at all. She was just having a headache.
Her brother's request was to capture the enemy alive …
This request seemed unimaginable to Pandora. The only tactic the little girl knew was to bombard the enemy with multiple turrets and completely tear them to pieces. She had never considered the option of letting the enemy live. No matter how weak the enemy was, Pandora's mind would never come up with a tactic that would make the enemy unable to resist and not die. Her brother really knew how to make things difficult for her.
Forget it, it's fine as long as they don't die, right?
The little girl thought hard for a long time to no avail. In the end, she gave up and thought so.
At this time, under Pandora's passive response, more than half of the 300 mechanical eyeballs had been destroyed by the Queen of Blades' attacks. The opponent's psychic power was so strong that she could use such a powerful psionic storm continuously with ease. Although the few random counterattacks launched by Pandora had hit the target, she did not dare to attack with full force, and there was always a layer of psionic storm around the opponent as a shield. The Queen of Blades only suffered minor injuries. With the latter's powerful regeneration ability, these superficial wounds were healing at an alarming rate.
"So that's all you've got."
The Queen of Blades could not help but say contemptuously as she looked at the number of floating cannons around the little girl in the distance. The little girl did not seem to have many effective means of attack. But as soon as her voice trailed off, the scene that appeared in the next second almost made the Zerg ruler lose her composure and curse.
Without hesitation, Pandora recalled all the floating cannons and summoned …
More than 3,000 Vector Shock Cannons …
Compared to the "Satuella" Pan-Energy Cannons, which could only be used at the same time, the only advantage of these conventional Vector Shock Cannons was that they had a large number. Low-level primitive Vector Shock Cannons did not require too many energy channeling modules. The processing bandwidth of a hundred of these things added up was not even comparable to that of a single mechanical "eyeball". But the Queen of Blades did not know this. She only knew that she had spent a lot of effort and almost got injured to destroy more than a hundred of the enemy's "Eyeball Cannons". In the end, the enemy did not even bat an eyelid and summoned 3,000 bigger ones with a wave of her hand!
"Are you messing with me?!"
The Queen of Blades spread her hands angrily. Energy ripples visible to the naked eye surged in the void. Then, a scene that left everyone speechless appeared.
Three thousand huge metal blocks made of superalloy, with their tails erupting with a strong flame, smashed towards the Queen of Blades like a meteor.
If I can knock her out, I should be able to capture her alive, the little loli general thought with very simple logic.
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