When the rebel army entered the range of the Imperial Army's firepower, all that was left for us was a head-on battle.
Everything that could be done in advance, we had already done it when the enemy was on their way here. For example, traps, ambushes, ambushes, and ambushes. Now that both sides were swords against swords and spears against spears, the only thing that could be used to compete was physical strength. The enemy outnumbered us by a third, and as the signal was released in the next half an hour, there would probably be a large number of rebel soldiers that would be Taunted over. In terms of military strength, the ratio between the enemy and us should be two to one, and in terms of the quality of the warships, both sides were the same. In other words, if we were to compete with the regular army, we would definitely be at a disadvantage.
Right now, our advantage was a bunch of powerful weapons of mass destruction.
"Saduira Floating Cannons!"
"Abyss Infecting Floating Cannons!"
The moment Pandora and Visca entered the battlefield, they summoned all of their floating cannons before they even saw the enemy. Tens of thousands of armored cannons filled with blue psionic energy or dark red corrosive psionic energy formed a small fleet, surrounding us within a radius of several thousand kilometers. There was still a short period of time before the enemy entered our field of vision. This was the perfect time for our party to use buffs, drink potions, sharpen their swords, go to the toilet, and answer a phone. Pandora and Visca summoned an overwhelming number of their pets, while the big sister focused her attention on adding a curse effect to each floating cannon. Thieves called it poison, while warriors used it as sharpening their swords. There weren't many types of curses that could be effective on Empire warships. Curses like diarrhea, frequent urination at night, and lifelong impotence were all for humans. The only curses that could cause a warship to have bad luck in mass production were likely to be forever hit or forever critical. However, looking at the big sister's appearance, which was already shrouded in black mist, these curses were probably just the appetizer. Shallow Shallow, on the other hand, was busy speeding up the enormous fleet behind us. Through the increase in her skill proficiency, she was now able to make her own time acceleration effect go out of her control and remain on the target for a certain period of time. This meant that our fleet would have extremely high charging speed and mobility in the next half hour or so. This was a buff that Shallow Shallow wouldn't need to worry about controlling. The only regretful thing was that this kind of one-sided acceleration would interfere with the timeline. The units that were affected by this buff would need an extremely long cooldown before they could accelerate again. The aura named "Shallow Shallow Brand Bloodthirsty Perpetual Motion Machine" was still something that could be imagined.
Beside a group of killing machines that were ready to go stood the Space Gemini sisters, Asida and Asidora, who had just been sent from the City of Shadows. Dressed in silver-white commander uniforms, two distinct pairs of eyes burning with energy flames that left a deep impression. The pair of beautiful sisters did not lose their military bearing even after living as ordinary people for a while. Staring at the pitch-black space, there was only a raging will to fight on their faces.
They were glad that they could finally get their rent and utilities for this month …
It was then that the bright cannon fire pierced through the darkness of space and passed over us.
It was the first salvo of the Imperial Army's Galaxy Main Cannons. After a long period of charging, the Galaxy Main Cannons' shooting range could be extended. It was a great advantage for the defending army against the invading enemy. The rebel fleet had just reached their maximum shooting range and had yet to open fire. I wasn't sure if the first salvo would be able to destroy the shield of their vanguard fleet.
Of course, we couldn't see the enemy from this distance. They were at least a million kilometers away from us. The dark space made it hard for our modified eyes to adapt. However, we still looked in the direction where the Galaxy Current was surging in, hoping to see a few sparks in the distance. "We only destroyed twenty battleships.
The shields of the other hundred expeditionary battleships collapsed. It looks like the generators are overloaded. "Visca looked into the distance with us. Her blood-red cat eyes blinked twice, and the little lass began to accurately report the enemy's battle losses." Ah, there's also an unlucky Eternal-level battleship that was heavily targeted. Its defense system collapsed, and it has left the headquarters with smoke rising from it. This is all the results of the first salvo. At this distance, it's not good, but it's not bad either. "
Alright, I forgot that there were creatures in this world that had a bunch of radars installed in their eyeballs …
"Your Majesty, we have engaged the enemy head-on, and the situation of the enemy fleet has been confirmed. You and the leaders have a total of two targets, a modified Eternal-class mothership and a modified Borderal-class fortress ship. They are the command units of the enemy fleet, and the second battleship is more important. Although it uses the Borderal-class hull, the entire spaceship has been modified, and now it is almost a pure fire control tower. Please be sure to destroy it as soon as possible."
"Understood. Elite monsters, right? Just send me the enemy's information. Maintain cover fire and leave the rest to us."
Commander-class apostles were certainly powerful, but their individual power would forever be limited in a clash of massive fleets. Powerful individual power was a joke when faced against numbers of a million — except for the second generation rich men like the Protoss, who could single-handedly destroy worlds.
A hundred Eternal-level main cannons firing in unison would be impossible to stop even if we huddled together. Such was the power of an army.
Moreover, even a master like Pandora, whose attack power could easily destroy a conventional warship, could deal with one or two, but with an enemy formation that stretched for tens of millions of kilometers, how many years and months would it take for the few of us to kill each and every one of them like dogs paddling through the universe? Even if it was my Void Domain, a skill with unlimited attack power, its effective range was only a few dozen kilometers!
That was why I had led a bunch of weapons of mass destruction out here not to reduce the enemy's numbers as an effective force — in that aspect, the few of us couldn't even compare to Xi Wei, whose aura boosted the combat ability of the entire army. Our mission was to kill the enemy's leader, the two special warships that had been scanned.
That was what Xi Wei had discovered after so many clashes with the rebels. Once the enemy's forces exceeded a hundred warships, there would definitely be one or two special ships. Just like how the Imperial Army would definitely have a platoon commander with more than a hundred men, the autonomous unmanned warships also had 'commanders'. The special ships were similar in size to their brethren, but sturdier, more powerful firepower and faster. More importantly, their electronic and signal transmission systems were more powerful, and repeated scans of such warships showed that they played a role similar to fire-control towers and tactical links in the fleet. Although they couldn't be considered commanders (those warships still lacked the ability to think), destroying them would doubtlessly greatly weaken the rebels' combat ability.
We still didn't know how those autonomous unmanned warships evolved into such 'squad leader mechs', but they certainly made up for the rebels' lack of command and thinking ability to a certain extent. Moreover, due to their thick armor, diverse defensive measures and energy resistances, we would only destroy them when the entire army was wiped out, which always made one's teeth itch. And today, our mission was to act as an absolute force and directly teleport to the rear of the enemy's formation to destroy those two special warships.
Damn, no matter how thick their armor was, could it withstand the heavy focus of a group of Legend-class Apostles?
When the blinding white torrent streaked past our heads for the second time, the enemy's attack arrived. It was the same powerful Milky Way main cannon. The brilliant light almost covered the sky as it charged into the Imperial Army's formation from the faraway space, triggering a huge shockwave that could only be described as boundless. This was the first time I had witnessed the majestic scene of a giant shield being hit by a Milky Way main cannon from outer space. This scene was on a completely different level compared to what I usually saw on the bridge's holographic projection!
However, I didn't have much time to exclaim. Under Shallow Shallow's acceleration, the Imperial Army's warships began to charge for the third round of cannon fire. Asida and Asidora activated the Army Teleportation. The Lily Sisters, who specialized in spatial powers and had already come into contact with the natural order, instantly ignored the countless gravity traps and spatial hindrance generators that both sides had set up on the battlefield. They accurately teleported the few of us and the tens of thousands of floating cannons that the two of them had summoned for ten thousand years to the rear of the enemy's formation.
"Stay hidden and wait for orders."
I instructed the Lily Sisters to enter the dimensional folds and wait for orders. I quickly found my target.
The two massive warships were right in front of me, only about twenty kilometers away from each other. Their obviously more complicated external accessories and extravagant paint were so eye-catching that I didn't even need to compare them with the information that Sives had given me.
The Eternal-tier Galaxy Cannons were powerful, but due to the limited energy slots, this type of warship itself lacked sufficient close-range attack and defense capabilities. It didn't have enough anti-air turrets and its mobility was also weak. Like most motherships, they could only rely on a large number of aircrafts to counterattack when they were attacked at close range. Pandora and Visca's massive floating cannons that could ignore almost any anti-air firepower could easily toy with these large warships to death, even if the latter was a modified warship that was several times stronger. Coupled with the enhancement of my sister's curse, the three of them were tasked to deal with the coffin-shaped warship that was as large as a space fortress.
Shallow Shallow and I, on the other hand, had to think of a way to destroy the round, two-kilometer-long Borderland-class fortress warship. The latter had an all-attribute energy shield that was stronger than that of an aircraft carrier, as well as multiple layers of armor with astonishing resistances. Its entire body was filled with anti-air cannons and mobility cannons. Its main cannons were only at the level of a frigate, but its defense surpassed that of a mothership. These defense-type warships that were as slow as a turtle's crawl would become the most reliable fire control platform when equipped with an advanced command system. Even Pandora's floating cannons would have a hard time breaking through its defense in a short period of time.
However, Shallow Shallow and I just so happened to be able to ignore this thing's defenses.
The two of us swiftly approached the warship. The warship's radar system hadn't yet detected our enemies that were as tiny as two meteors, and it continued to hover calmly in the air. However, when we were about a kilometer away from it, I noticed that three anti-air cannons on the warship's hull suddenly began to turn and aim at us.
"Sands of Time, Vanish with the Wind."
I didn't need to remind her. Shallow Shallow, who was constantly at full power, froze the warship's defense system in the shortest amount of time possible. Meanwhile, I suddenly accelerated in the final kilometer and charged right into the warship's gigantic energy shield.
The psionic energy shield surged and furiously burned away the foreign objects on its surface. However, it only flashed for an instant before collapsing under my control.
"High-frequency Void Edge!"
In order to be absolutely safe, I intentionally charged so close to the warship before launching my attack. It was as if I was engaging in close-quarters combat with a warship. I was doing this even in an era where cannons and cannons were clashing against each other. I would only feel reassured if I personally witnessed this warship explode. A void tunnel was directly carved into the Borderland-class warship's super-strong atomic armor. After that, a terrifying amount of energy was released from the other side of the tunnel. Even though this warship had incredibly high defense, it was unable to withstand the impact of the void energy after losing its energy shield. A large hole that was several hundred meters wide instantly appeared on its surface, but … was that all?
It didn't explode! This warship's core defense system was specially made. After being pierced through, it actually didn't suffer any damage at all?
But no matter, I could handle this situation … Cough, cough, I still had other techniques up my sleeves.
"Combat satellite connected. Launch code skipped. Attack!"
The satellite from another dimension tore through space and crashed into the battleship that had its door wide open. A blinding white pillar of light pierced through the hundred-meter-wide hole and injected an unparalleled amount of burning energy into the warship's body. Without any defensive capabilities whatsoever, even a Borderland-class warship's interior would be incredibly fragile.
A scorching fireball silently exploded in front of us. This commanding warship of a million-strong army was born nameless and died a wronged death. It had only worked for twelve minutes before being killed by two people.
A violent shockwave came right after us. Shallow Shallow and I just happened to forget about this, and were instantly blown away. Although we didn't receive any damage due to our energy shields, we were still blown several dozen kilometers away by our own explosion … We were basically walking the path of natural idiots.
Almost at the same time, another flash of light exploded from several dozen kilometers away. The modified Eternal-class warship finally ran out of energy shields after being bombarded by tens of thousands of floating cannons, and it exploded without any suspense.
Thinking back to the past in the World of Azeroth, a single Eternal-class warship was enough to make us so nervous. But now, Pandora, Visca, and Big Sis had all single-handedly taken care of a modified warship that was even more powerful. This clearly showed one thing: the older sister was scary, while the loli was fierce.
Cough, cough … I should credit this to Big Sis's growing power.
The mission was completed without any incident. For a group of Apostles, destroying two battleships amidst a million-strong army was a piece of cake for them as long as they didn't get discovered. Shallow Shallow and I hurriedly regrouped with Big Sis and prepared to return. But at this moment, Pandora and Visca suddenly had stunned expressions as they simultaneously turned around to look behind us.
Several hundred kilometers away, several dozen gigantic black shadows appeared under the light of their ship's bow. That brilliant energy wave told us a very exciting piece of news: we were being focused on by fifty-seven Eternal-class motherships.
We had been discovered! And we had been discovered by a group of Eternal-class motherships!
Although our ambush was still a success, they had also successfully locked onto our position. Now that fifty-seven Galaxy Cannons were charging at us, that thing definitely wouldn't be able to survive!
My heart was in my throat. Normal defensive methods seemed to be ineffective. No matter how fast we were, we wouldn't be able to dodge an Eternal-class firepower aiming system at such a distance. No matter how strong our personal shields were, they wouldn't be able to withstand the concentrated bombardment of dozens of Galaxy Cannons. Right now, the only solution was probably the Void Domain — but it had to be maintained for a short period of time. Shallow Shallow and the others definitely wouldn't be able to last long in the Void, even with my protection.
But before I could do anything, Qian Qian had already spread her arms wide open. She faced the enemy as if she was welcoming the Milky Way's main cannon. At the same time, I heard her voice in everyone's mental connection, "Second difference."
In the next second, a surging torrent of light engulfed everything.
My body couldn't move, and only my consciousness existed. In that brief instant, I thought I had fallen into a very strange state. The normal world had left me, and my 'self' had become something independent of everything else. The searing energy wave was clearly surging around me, but I felt like I was watching it coldly from the sidelines, as if I was watching a documentary.
In that brief instant, I had become a 'person' that had never appeared in this world. I was independent of time.
But that feeling was only for an instant. When everything returned to normal, I even thought that I had been hallucinating, that the enemy had never attacked, and that mysterious feeling of being separated from time had never happened. It was all a delusion that occurred in an infinitely short period of time. But …
That attack was real, and it had ended.
We were unharmed. Dozens of the enemy's Eternal-class motherships were eerily still in the distance. Even further away, the flashes of the explosion were as still as a low-budget scene. Everything had stopped, the entire world.
Then, they slowly returned to normal time. The flashes of the explosion dimmed or re-intensified frame by frame. The Eternal-class motherships gradually moved their positions at a slow pace. When Asida and Asidora teleported to our side, there was a momentary pause like a stuck video. The next moment, time returned to normal.
The dazzling feeling of teleportation disappeared in a flash, and before our eyes, we were back in the familiar passageway of the Admiral of the Empire. The twin sisters were holding hands, panting heavily.
There was a rush of metal screeching from afar. Vega, in his armored scorpion form, had almost charged in front of us. His six mechanical limbs screeched as he braked, leaving a long scratch on the ground. "Sir! Are you all right? "
"Err, I'm fine." I was still a little dazed, but I was generally awake.
"That's great," the little scorpion did not hide the relief on his face. "You suddenly lost your mental connection with the flagship. We couldn't find your signal on any frequency, but fortunately, it only lasted for a few seconds …"
"Wait, wait," I quickly waved for Vega to stop. Then, I looked at Shallow Shallow, who was snickering. "You found the missing six seconds?"
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